The Real China
Xi Jinping’s book on governance gives a better understanding of the country By Charles Onunaiju
The writer is director of the Center for China Studies, Abuja, Nigeria
The book Xi Jinping: The Governance of China , a great work by President Xi, also General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), fl ows from thoughts, concepts, ideas and practical work that have shaped the vital governance landmarks of China and the strategic insight of the country’s top leadership to the vital issues of global governance.
Xi’s thought, as refl ected in his speeches and written works contained in the two volumes, traverses a range of important topics. These include profound theoretical clarifications and elaborations, practical governance issues of policy making and implementation, key strands of insight on the emerging global architecture and China’s role on the world stage.
夏津县北城水系生态水土保持工程地处黄河故道风沙区，土质以细沙沙土为主；地处温带半湿润季风气候区，春季风速高、降水量少。这些地理条件就构成了沙荒地或季节性风沙化土地的自然基础。沙化土地多开辟为中低产田，没有实现林网化，每到冬春季节特别是春播季节，连片的大面积耕作地面暴露于强风之下，构成了沙化和荒漠化的社会基础。
Volume I, first published in 2014, is a 515-page tome that offers readers outside China a firsthand understanding of Xi’s thinking on deepening reforms as the strategic driver of the country’s modernization efforts and features an elaborate explanation of the CPC’s core values. This includes discipline, wholehearted devotion to serving the people and maintaining unalloyed fi delity to theoretical innovation and exploration as the lifeblood of the Party, through which it will consistently reinvent itself to remain on top of current issues and even anticipate the future with confidence. Xi has boldly raised the task of reinvigorating China through the pursuit of the Chinese dream.
The CPC is the main social force and political formation leading modern China, in close collaboration with other noncommunist parties and social forces. In his book, Xi makes it clear that the Party’s work is far from complete, despite universal accolades for its achievements. He writes in Volume I, “Having been pushed ahead for more than 30 years, China’s reform has entered a deep-water zone. It can be said that the easy part of the job has been done to the satisfaction of all. What is left are tough bones that are hard to chew. This requires us to act boldly and progress steadily. To act boldly means to advance reform despite difficulties and be eager to take on challenges, chew tough bones, and wade through dangerous shoals.”
The book sheds light on China’s framework of state governance, which, in the past several decades, has shaped the meteoric development of modern China. It provides fi rsthand information on the original thought and particular China-nuanced policy context that have driven the world’s most astounding reform and modernization efforts.
3.合作型智能交通是系统发展的新热点。城市交通是由人、车、路和环境四要素集合而成的系统。从系统的角度而言，各个要素之间协同发展，各个系统界面之间友好互通是系统有效运作的关键。美国和日本等发达国家2009年便提出了 “合作系统 （Cooperative System in the Field of ITS）”的观点，并开始了合作型智能交通的开发工作。我国提出的“车联网”概念也是合作型智能交通理念的体现。纵观国内外智能交通管理系统发展现状，将新一代信息技术应用于人、车、路和环境的系统界面互联中，实现更加智能化、安全化、高效化、经济化以及绿色的合作型交通管理系统是未来发展的新热点。
The book sheds light on China’s framework of state governance, which, in the past several decades, has shaped the meteoric development of modern China
Xi’s work clarifies this subtly woven ambiguity, which has impaired a clear understanding of the core issues of the governance of modern China. It underscores the foremost theoretical foundation of Marxism-Leninism and the integration of China’s specifi c national conditions, historical context and social reality as the crucial factor driving its trajectory.
The book disperses the vague interpretative ambiguity that has been the bane of contemporary Western scholars, where China is maliciously depicted as having abandoned the theoretical foundation of Marxism-Leninism, or at best paying lip service to it, while allegedly honing its economic modernization in the context of Western liberalism.
瘢痕子宫是产科临床常见的问题，我国人口政策的调整（二胎政策的放开），我国剖宫产率逐年增加，美国数据也显示剖宫产率增加，疤痕子宫再次妊娠的阴道分娩问题受到产科届特别的关注和重视[1-4]。疤痕子宫因盆腔粘连再次行剖宫产术的困难及复杂程度明显升高，容易引发凶险型前置胎盘甚至胎盘植入导致产后大出血、新生儿窒息、产褥感染等并发症[5-7]。本课题通过建立适合我国国情的疤痕子宫再次妊娠经阴道分娩的风险评分制表，评估VBAC的分娩结局，做好VBAC管理和规范。
The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, otherwise known as the Belt and Road Initiative, a new framework of international cooperation tailored to drive development, are explained as part of a new type of international relations that is open, participatory and inclusive.
The second volume continues the clarifications of fundamental issues in the governance of modern China and puts forward clear, fundamental elements of China’s foreign policy and international relations.
Through several elaborations in his book, Xi presents China as a responsible country that will shoulder more responsibility in global governance. However, as is traditional to the People’s Republic of China’s foreign policy since its founding, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which are the motivating force of its diplomatic engagement, are consistently enriched to meet the changing international arena.
Xi’s two volumes are an invaluable resource material for vital insight into the governance of China and understanding the critical issues of contemporary China.
It is a foundational work for anyone seeking to understand fi rsthand how modern China works and highly recommended for anyone who wants to gain an insight into the unique nature and structure of governance in modern China.
(1)改善管理思维，实现政企分离。在国有平台运营阶段，为了更好的实行现代企业管理制度，应该真正的实现政企分离，减少行政的干预，真正让地方国有平台公司在承担社会责任的同时可以独立自主开展经营活动，政府将治理者角色转变，仅作为出资人的角色依法享有权利，将国有平台彻底放给市场，让国有平台自主经营、自我发展、自负盈亏同时在经营阶段开展自我约束，使企业充实利益最大化的目标，最大限度利用市场资源来优化企业的资源配置，健全国有平台的法人治理结构，让政府退居到股东的位置。
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