Turning blueprints into reality

Nation and people are more confident and capable than ever of achieving the Chinese Dream of great renewal

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, struck a chord with the nation when he talked passionately about the Chinese Dream during his visit with the other six members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to The Road Toward Rejuvenation exhibition.

The road toward rejuvenation is the road the people want to follow and the Chinese Dream is the dream of all the people. They feel it has become clearer, and it will come true. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has put forward eight measures to improve official work by reducing bureaucracy and extravagance, and Xi has elaborated on China's opening-up and foreign policy.

The new leadership has given voice to people's thoughts and mapped out a path of hope that shows the Party's determination to lead the country in a pragmatic and efficient manner.

"Empty talk harms the country, hard work prospers the nation." Xi's latest admonishment against empty talk and his appeal for hard work have naturally reminded us of the lesson of the former Soviet Union. Several decades ago, the leaders of the former Soviet Union had the ambition to make the country prosperous and improve people's lives. However, they embarked down the wrong road and instead of working together they indulged in the empty talk of the "new political thinking" and boasted of their humane, democratic socialism. As a result, they not only failed to revive the nation, but fell into the abyss of complete failure.

An overturned cart in front is a warning for those behind. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Soviet Communist Party, many observers delighting in schadenfreude predicted that China would follow suit.

However, when the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were on the eve of dramatic political upheaval, Chinese leaders chose to "calmly observe the situation, secure our footing, cope with changes with confidence, skillfully keep a low profile and do something to revive the nation", while the Chinese people engaged in unostentatious hard work.

China's recent achievements are astonishing: the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the Expo 2010 Shanghai, the Shenzhou manned spacecraft, the world's second-largest economy. And China's peaceful development has shattered those prophets of war with a very plausible tongue.

"All comrades have to keep in mind that the path decides the destiny, which indicates how difficult it is for us to choose the right road, and that we have to stick to it unswervingly," Xi said.