Empower young talents toward common prosperity
China has been progressing from a moderately well-off society to common prosperity. If it realizes common prosperity, China can narrow the development and income gaps between coastal and inland regions, and urban and rural residents, respectively, as well as give voice to underrepresented groups and make China's governance system more inclusive and responsive to local needs. And by building a unified national market, China can ensure the smooth flow of goods and services across provinces and regions.
The Communist Party of China's economic policy seeks to promote innovations in technology, accelerate dual circulation, boost consumer confidence and enhance self-reliance. By utilizing the highly developed computer skills of the unemployed and underemployed university graduates, China can bolster the development of new quality productive forces, upgrade industries, increase mobility of workers, and make the economy more balanced, coordinated and sustainable.
Also, China can pursue its domestic and international development goals by encouraging more highly educated and IT-competent youth to work in rural areas. And other countries related with BRICS or Belt and Road Initiative can strengthen cooperation on such digital economy and young talents exchanges to boost their economies.
The Chinese top leader has been encouraging young Party members, including highly educated individuals, to work in rural areas to promote rural development, learn life skills and gain life experiences.
US president John F. Kennedy established the "Peace Corps" in the 1960s to promote altruism and inculcate cultural values among people across the world. In the six decades since its establishment, the Peace Corps has had about 200,000 participants from more than 100 countries. In the spirit of the Peace Corps, the United States should re-energize Kennedy's vision and uphold peace instead of triggering wars.
In his famous Peace Speech on June 6, 1963, Kennedy asserted that the US abandon its Cold War mentality, because war between nuclear powers will destroy the world. In line with Kennedy's peace call, China and the US, two of the world's largest military superpowers which follow very different economic development models, need to urgently change their approach to each other and learn to compete and coexist peacefully.
The roles of the US and China in the fast-changing world will be determined by their success or failure in competing for economic, political and military support from other countries. And the two sides should realize that the economic and military superpower that creates more opportunities for, and raises the living standards of, people both at home and abroad, and garners the support of more countries will achieve more success on all fronts.
China can strengthen its socialist and altruistic values by encouraging more young competent people to begin their careers as well as hone their skills by facilitating the socioeconomic development of people in the country's rural areas, and boosting exchanges with other countries.
Teaching young people to help themselves by helping others to promote peaceful economic development is how China can enable young people worldwide to pursue viable careers against the backdrop of AI's severe impact on the job market. In this regard, youths with leadership and teaching skills, greater cultural awareness, and the required knowledge to achieve success can build successful careers.
The author is chairman of the America-China Partnership Foundation. The views don't necessarily represent those of China Daily.
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