China's progress over the last 40 years since the country's late leader Deng Xiaoping initiated the reform and opening up policy is "phenomenal" and "extraordinary," according to leaders of top British universities.
China's record in poverty reduction since reform and opening-up is without parallel in human history, a UK expert has said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.
The UK government welcomes China's ongoing efforts to increase imports and improve its business environment, Britain's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said on Tuesday.
China's reform and opening-up over the past 40 years has transformed the country into the world's second largest economy and provided valuable lessons for other developing countries to achieve economic success and alleviate poverty, World Bank Group (WBG) President Jim Yong Kim has said.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy that has brought about huge changes to the country as well as the world. The Global Times recently interviewed several consuls general in Shanghai about their knowledge and understanding of the policy and their opinions toward the influence that the policy has had on the world.
China's expanding diplomatic influence calls for continued academic support of China's diplomacy. As the Chinese government pledges major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, what is its significance to China and the world? More than 80 Chinese scholars from key universities and institutes offered their insights at a forum themed "Major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in new era," organized by Shanxi University and China Foreign Affairs University on Monday.
Successfully lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty is the most remarkable achievement China made during its 40 years' reform and opening-up, Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said.
The achievements made by China in the past few decades through the policy of reform and opening-up are so important to Africa because they give African people hope that such development can be realized, a senior Kenyan official has said.