“WE HAVE THE SAYING ‘ROLLING A BOULDER UP TO THE MOUNTAIN.’ IT’S VERY HARD AND TIRING TO ROLL IT UP, BUT WE CAN’T LET GO OR IT WILL ROLL BACK DOWN AND WASTE OUR PREVIOUS EFFORTS.”
Jing Quan, an envoy at the Chinese Embassy in the US, talking about Sino-US relations in a recent interview with Yuyuan Tantian, a social media-based news outlet affiliated with China Central Television
“Market-oriented reform has to grasp two bulls by the horns. First, we must get rid of ‘zombie enterprises’ as soon as possible and not always turn to local governments for help, otherwise risk will keep increasing and possibly cause ethical issues... Second, the government must try to reduce the compulsory and policy-oriented tasks it imposes on financial institutions and enterprises, and draw a clear line between government and market.”
Huang Yiping, deputy dean of the National School of Development, Peking University, at the 7th National Development Forum held at the school on December 18, 2022
“We should correctly understand capital’s profit-driven nature, which should be acknowledged and protected by society within the legal range. We should prevent improper government intervention and excessive public criticism of this feature of capital.”
Chen Wenhui, deputy director of China’s National Council for Social Security Fund, at the 2022 annual conference of the China Wealth Management 50 Forum held in Beijing on December 25, 2022
“We should note the insulated bubbles that algorithmic recommendations create. When used on children, algorithms can have a strong insular effect. Kids should be exposed to diverse information.”
Yuan Zhijie, law professor at Beijing Normal University, commenting on a recent survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that showed the influence that short-video platforms have on children’s values in an interview with newspaper Legal Daily
“The highest aim of this period is to do our best to reduce the number of deaths and ride out the spike [of Covid-19 infections]. Only when Omicron becomes a regional epidemic in China could we say officially that the global pandemic has ended.”
Jin Dongyan, professor at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine,in Hong Kong, writing for ifeng news about China’s first surge of Covid-19 infections after the government lifted its pandemic controls at the end of 2022
“China may see a drop in exports in 2023 amid the decline in global trade and international demand. But the adjustment in types of export products and cross-border e-commerce may provide fresh growth to drive China’s exports.”
Pang Chaoran, deputy researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce, at the China Cross Border E-commerce Ecological Innovation Summit held in Beijing on December 27, 2022
“We are in an international tug of war. On one end is the tiny minority of extremists who want to decouple with China, and on the other end is the majority that seeks cooperation. These extremists are trying every means to combat China by pushing international enterprises in China to bring manufacturing home (re-industrialization in the US and Europe), to near-shore manufacturing (shifting to Mexico, Central and Eastern Europe, India and Vietnam) or to friend-shore (moving to countries sharing the same values) .”
Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, in an interview with news portal guancha.cn
“If people choose to see the world from a ‘democracy vs. authoritarianism’ perspective, they will very likely usher in a world of division, competition and conflict; but if they view the world as a community with a shared future, then openness, cooperation and win-win outcomes will be the fruits of their choice.”
Former Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang in an article “How China Sees the World” for US magazine The National Interest on December 26, 2022