How can i be proud of my china if

China is the only major developing country which has attained both goals of halving the illiterate population and halving the number of people in poverty. We have set the target of lifting all the remaining poor population out of poverty within next year.

By that time, the Chinese people will have eliminated poverty in their country once and for all. I feel proud of the contributions my country has made to the world.

Today's China is the world's largest trader in goods, the second largest trader in services, and the biggest trading partner of more than countries and regions. Recent years have seen China become a major engine driving the world economy, contributing some 30 percent to global growth each year. China has actively fulfilled its international responsibilities. We are the second largest contributor both to UN regular budget and its peacekeeping budget.

And among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, we are the largest troop contributing country to UN peacekeeping operations. China has played an active part in the global effort of fighting terrorism, combating piracy and safeguarding international maritime routes.

China supports the Paris Agreement and is an active participant in the international cooperation on tackling climate change. China has been working for peaceful settlement of regional and international hotspot issues, concerning the Korean Peninsula, Iran, the Middle East, Syria and Afghanistan. China has been actively involved in the making of global governance rules. China is firm in upholding the international system with the United Nations at the core and governed by international law.

China is firm in upholding the rules-based multilateral trading system with the WTO at it center. And China is a strong advocate of multilateralism and free trade. China is committed to reform and opening-up. Since President Xi Jinping put forward the Belt and Road Initiative in , more than countries, including Malta, and international organizations have participated in this initiative.

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He pointed out that selfishness is the most serious shortcoming of the Chinese. He offered the example of how the Chinese of that period threw rubbish out of their windows without the slightest public concern.

Things are much the same today. Under Mao, citizens were forced to behave themselves in both public and private spheres. Every March, people were obliged to go into the street to do good deeds: cleaning buses, fixing bicycles and offering haircuts.

Now relaxed social control and commercialisation over the past three decades have led people to behave more selfishly again. People are enjoying, and sometimes abusing, the vast personal freedoms that didn't exist before. To start with, it is now safe to be "naughty". Back in the early s, when I worked at a rocket factory in Nanjing, one of my colleagues, a married man, was caught having an affair with an unmarried woman. He was given a three-year sentence in a labour camp and the girl was disgraced.

In today's society, having extramarital affairs or keeping an ernai — second wife or concubine — is as common as "cow hair", as the Chinese would say. For a novel I am writing on prostitution, I have interviewed many prostitutes and ernai.

Many see their profession as a way to gather wealth quickly, feeling few moral qualms. China's moral crisis doesn't just manifest itself in personal life but also in business practice and many other areas.

The high-profile "poisoned milk powder" case and the scandal of using "gutter oil" as cooking oil have shocked and disgusted people around the world. Last year an article, "Why have Chinese lost their sense of morality?

He reasoned that China has introduced the concept of a market economy from the west but failed to import the corresponding ethics, while the traditional moral principles of China no longer fit the market economy model. There's a lot of sense in that.

I believe that the lack of a value system is also deepening the moral crisis. Before Mao, the indifference towards others once so accurately described by Fei existed but was mitigated by a traditional moral and religious system.

That system was then almost destroyed by the communists, especially during the 10 mad years of the Cultural Revolution from to Nowadays communism, the ideology that dominated Chinese people's lives like a religion, has also more or less collapsed.

As a result, there's a spiritual vacuum that cannot be filled by the mere opportunity of money-making. To drag China out of its moral crisis will be a long battle. The pressing question is how to make people act in cases of emergency and the solution is law. After the "Nanjing case", there have been discussions about introducing a law that imposes a "duty of rescue" as exists in many European countries.

I am all for it, because that's probably the only way to propel action for a people who do not see a moral obligation in rescuing others.