Foreigners reflect on Party's success over past century

Path to cooperation

Over the past 100 years, the CPC has worked diligently for the well-being of the Chinese people and rejuvenation of the nation. In today's world, China's solutions are an important contribution to improving global governance.

Michael Lindsay, a British national, helped the CPC in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression by upgrading radio equipment and building radio stations for the Chinese army in the 1930s and 1940s.

In 1944, he helped launch an English-language broadcasting service for Xinhua News Agency in Yan'an, which meant that news about the Party could be heard across the Pacific.

Today, the voices and visions of the CPC are transmitted more widely across the globe, and have won more positive responses and support.

Jim Lindsay, Michael Lindsay's son, said China plays an important role in world affairs. Other big countries must cooperate with China to solve global problems such as climate change, biodiversity conservation and pandemics.

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 3.9 million lives worldwide. While making strategic achievements in its own measures to prevent and control the disease, China has provided aid to other countries. It has exported large quantities of medical supplies and helped other nations fight the pandemic, with the country's COVID-19 vaccines becoming global public goods.

Such efforts fit with the CPC's vision of "a community with a shared future for humanity", which has gained wider recognition and support in the global fight against the pandemic.

A total of 140 countries and 32 international organizations have signed cooperation agreements with China on the Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to achieve policy, infrastructure, trade, financial and people-to-people connectivity along and beyond the ancient Silk Road trade routes. The BRI has become the world's largest international cooperation platform and a vital public product.

David Ferguson, a British national, traveled to China in 2006. Now a senior English editor with the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, he was involved in editing the English-language version of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China and several government white papers.

After translating a compilation of President Xi Jinping's discourses on the BRI, Ferguson said he believes the initiative has provided a major channel for the world to strive for globalization, peace and stability, prosperity and development.

Mustafa noted that "a community with a shared future for humanity" is also rooted in traditional Chinese culture. China not only pursues its own development but also deeply integrates itself into the international community and shares its gains with others, he said.

In 2019, the movie Red Star Over China was screened in the nation, and Snow's books remain popular in China and worldwide.

China has come a long way from Snow's depiction in the 1937 book. While leading the people toward the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the CPC is also writing a new chapter on the joint construction of a community with a shared future for humanity.

Xuan Liqi, Cao Yi, Zhao Xu, Zhang Wenjing, Hong Zehua, Miao Xiaojuan, Bai Xu, Song Rui and Fang Anran contributed to this story.