Syed Ali Nawaz Gilani
Today July Ist 2021, The Communist Party of China (CPC) is celebrating its 100th birthday.
CPC rightly called itself “great, glorious and correct” and will start its second century; no
doubt CPC has good cause to be proud of. As not only has it survived far quite longer than its many critics predicted; it also appears to be on the up. After the USSR imploded in 1991, many pundits thought that China being a great communist power would be the next. But, we see how wrong they were, as US President Joe Biden, felt the need to declare not only that America was at odds with China, but also that much of the world doubted “whether or not democracies can compete”.
This shows the strength of CPC at its 100th Anniversary of its founding. And, it is a
great appreciation and compliment by the US and G-7. CPC as one party has ruled China for more than seven decades with success bearing criticism from the West since long. China was under Mao Zedong, the world’s second-largest economy, whose cutting-edge technology and infrastructure has sent a signal to the world’s biggest economies like US. This is fact that CPC is the world’s most successful authoritarian government.
The Communist Party of China’s media dealing and handling across the globe has
recently come under fire, as it happens always. Western media and the US politicians,
especially since COVID-19, did not hesitate to criticize China on different grounds including
socio-economic and political factors truth is that the CPC is the driving force behind China’s
socio-economic miracles and political advancement. Needless to say that the consistently
rising progress and growth of China is taken as a threat by the world’s biggest economies that have been carrying this mantle for decades.
Undoubtedly, the CPC has proven to be unique and distinguished since its inception as
of July 192 when it combined Marxist-Leninist principles blending those with Chinese
characteristics, thus creating a new model suiting its country, people and environment.
Its eventual victory over the Kuomintang party led to the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Despite market reforms introduced in the late 1970s, modern Chinese
state remains a basically socialist system maintained by the CPC’s functioning, leading role
and unflinching strength.
As the Party prepares for the 100th anniversary, it has brought about China’s rapid economic growth and rise as a global power, despite facing many formidable challenges
at home and abroad. It was the strong will of the CPC and Chinese people that led
to its victory in the War to resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53). The CPC
applied its collective wisdom to launch the five-year plan system in 1953. Next year will
mark the 14th five-year period in this progressive series of growth and development.
Each of the past 13 plans has projected the nation’s social, economic and political goals
according to its actual situations and needs.
The CPC’s decision-making is based on democratic centralism. It has succeeded in caring
for 1.4 billion Chinese people and considerably improving their living standards. The 18th
CPC National Congress in 2012 marked the peaceful transition from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping
as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Xi is also President of the country and
the Head of its military. Under Xi’s leadership, the CPC has revamped its anti-corruption
supervision, tapped domestic vitality and pushed through ambitious plans, including the Belt and Road Initiative, to expand trade by building ports, railways and other connecting
infrastructure.
The BRI principles of consultation and cooperation for shared benefits, and
its aim for open, green and
clean cooperation and development, showcase the CPC’s vision for better lives for all of
the world’s people. Today, the CPC’s people-centered policy is a guide to the world’s largest poverty-relief campaign. China this year is making a great stride in its final battles to
eliminate extreme poverty. The country’s success in containing COVID-19 in a comparatively short period has again proved that it puts people’s life and interests first.
To be concluded.
(Writer is Secretary-General Pakistan-China Friendship Association Khyber Chapter & President Radio China Listener’s Club and can be approached at [email protected])