MEXICO, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — Academics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Mexico analyzed at a seminar in the Mexican capital on Wednesday the distinctive features and achievements of Chinese modernization, as well as its potential lessons for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Entitled “Modernization with Chinese style: exchange and mutual learning between Latin America, the Caribbean and China”, the international seminar was organized by the National High-end Think Tank Council and the CASS Institute of Latin American Studies, together with the China-Mexico Studies Center (Cechimex) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), whose headquarters in the Mexican capital hosted the meeting.
The international seminar featured the participation of prominent speakers from the CASS, who presented their perspectives on different aspects of China’s development, its modernization process and its global implications.
The secretary general of the National High-end Think Tank Council of the CASS, Zhang Guanzi, highlighted that to understand China it is necessary to understand its modernization process, which has profoundly transformed the country.
According to Zhang, “modernization changed China in multiple dimensions” and with key differences compared to Western modernizations, such as the importance of harmony between man and nature, and the Chinese vision that combines human development with that of animals. material resources.
“China has managed to be the second largest economy in the world, based on social stability that allowed its rapid economic development,” Zhang explained, while adding that the country has undergone a historical process of transformation since the times of oppression by of the Western powers.
Meanwhile, the director of the CASS Institute of Economics, Li Xuesong, focused on how Chinese modernization offers a sustained boost to global economic growth, highlighting the relevance of this model for the developing world.
For her part, the director of the Institute of Latin American Studies of the CASS, Chai Yu, spoke about the economic and commercial cooperation between China and Latin America, with emphasis on how this relationship has favored the modern development of both regions and has before yes numerous opportunities for further mutually beneficial exchange.
The seminar also allowed us to reflect on China’s achievements in poverty reduction, presented by Du Zhixiong, director of the CASS Rural Development Institute, highlighting that “China has managed to transform its social and economic structure, bringing millions of people out of poverty”, an achievement that can serve as an example for other developing countries.
In the comments panel after the presentations, the analyst and member of the Mexico-China Chamber of Commerce and Technology, Amapola Grijalva, pondered the concept of “modestly prosperous society”, to the construction of which China directs its efforts as a holistic integrative model of the development policies of the Asian nation.
Grijalva indicated that Latin America should pay more attention to understanding these aspects of Chinese development to achieve more effective cooperation.
“This concept not only implies economic development, but also political, social and environmental development,” he noted.
The analyst also suggested exploring new forms of cooperation that include technological advances and innovation, which would allow Mexico and Latin America to face their social and economic challenges.
In turn, the UNAM academic, member of Cechimex and the ALC-China Network, Ignacio Martínez, highlighted the importance of China’s technological power in the framework of its modernization.
“China’s new development paradigm is based on its technological power,” said Martínez, who also pointed out that there is a new space for cooperation between Mexico and China, especially in the field of the green economy.
Likewise, the coordinator of Cechimex and the ALC-China Network, Enrique Dussel, highlighted in his participation the relevance of Chinese modernization in the global and Latin American context.
Dussel highlighted that in terms of the Mexico-China relationship, it is essential to constantly update and evaluate the bilateral cooperation agenda.
“From an external, Latin American and Mexican perspective, it is truly spectacular how a country like China, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, with all the social and domestic challenges it has, the constant demand is not to fall asleep and continue with a dynamic of modernization, reforms, openings,” said the Cechimex coordinator.
“I believe that this concept of modernization is a political, economic, and cultural requirement as well, at all levels, which as a foreigner is very impressive,” Dussel added.
The participants in the seminar agreed that analysis and debate exercises like this reinforce the importance of academic dialogue and international cooperation to understand the development models of countries like China and the potential applicability of some of its elements in Latin America.
This, by opening new perspectives for a shared future and promoting collaboration and exchange that transcends specific projects that allow greater innovation, technological advances and advanced solutions for all parties, so that they can better face the challenges of their respective societies. . End
