India, it is the world's second largest country in terms of population, but India has not experienced such a long process of demographic integration as our Chinese nation, India's huge population is far from the Chinese kind of high degree of, what we call "cultural homogeneity", there is no such thing as the same language, the same values, the same way of life, we are much more cohesive than he is. We call it "cultural homogeneity", without the same language, the same values, the same way of life, which we can not be compared to, we are much more cohesive than him. In India's history, there was an ancient Harata civilization, which was later interrupted. And then you see that India's history has been one of turmoil and turmoil, and the longer period of unity was the period of British colonial rule starting in the 19th century, when English, the foreign language, became the main official language of the country as it is today. But the number of people who can actually speak, understand and master English today is actually less than 10% of the Indian population. The West as a whole has 14% of the world's population and China has 20% of the world's population, and with the establishment of the modern state, and especially with the establishment of the modern education system, the educated and trained people are the greatest asset of our "civilized nation". China now trains more engineers each year than the United States, Europe, and Japan combined, and the rapid development of China's manufacturing, e-commerce, domestic and international tourism, the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, the logistics industry, urbanization, high-speed railroads, and artificial intelligence actually reflects this scale effect.
In a broader sense, because of the demographic effect, once China changes itself, it can often have a world-changing effect, and even lead the world's development, and lead the change of relevant standards and rules.
Now that the world has entered the era of big data, China's population size and education level mean that we have far more big data than any other country. There is a saying that the most important resource in the age of industrial civilization is oil, then the most important resource in the age of information civilization is big data, China's population is more than four times that of the United States, China's mobile payment is now more than 70 times that of the United States, and the Chinese people are creating big data every day, whether it's in depth, breadth, or thickness, it's incomparable to the United States and other countries. What does this mean for 5G, for cloud computing, for artificial intelligence, for a new generation of new industrial revolution, for a new technological revolution? What does it mean for the establishment of standards for many of the world's industries in the future? What does it mean for the world and the future impact of mankind? You know!
The second is the ultra-expansive territory of the country, China's vast territory is also in the long history of the gradual formation of the "Hundred countries and" hundreds of countries slowly integrated, today's world map of Russia's territory than China, Canada's territory is also bigger than China's. The country's territory is also bigger than China's, the country's territory is also bigger than China's, but the country's territory is also bigger than China's, the country's territory is also bigger than China's. On the world map today, Russia's land area is larger than China's, and Canada's land area is also larger than China's. However, these two countries have never experienced this kind of integration process in the sense of "civilized countries" as we have in China. The former Soviet Union tried to create a "Soviet nation", but it was lost in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Minority-dominated **** and countries quickly became independent, if not Putin came to power to reverse the trend of Russia's continued collapse, according to the Western model, then I'm sorry, Russia will continue to continue to disintegrate, in this regard, the Russians are still very respectful of Putin.
India is also a large country in terms of population, but its land area is actually only 1/3 of China's, and the degree of integration within its borders is far less than China's, with rebel forces far from being pacified in many places, and a caste system that is a big problem, impeding the flow of population and social vitality in India.
Chinese scholar Qian Mu once compared ancient China with ancient Greece and later with ancient Rome, saying that ancient Greece had "a people without a country" and that ancient Rome had "a country without a people", while ancient China had "a country with a people". He said that ancient Greece had "a people but no state", ancient Rome had "a state but no people", and ancient China had "a state but a people". Ancient Greece did not form a unified state, but by a large number of relatively small, medium-sized city states, some of the population is thousands of people even if a city state, some of them are 100,000 people, less than the population size of any county in China during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and there has never been a real, unified central government. The Roman Empire was "a country without people", the empire was always on the warpath, the strongest time when the territory was more than 3.5 million square kilometers, and China's Western Han Dynasty, but in the country's governance, Ancient Rome has never formed the kind of Qin and Han Dynasty, the integration of the internal population. In China, there was already a household system, a county system, and a household system, but the Roman empire was in the end disintegrated and destroyed due to economic decline, political turmoil, and the invasion of Germanic nomadic barbarians.
After the Eastern Roman Empire is generally said to be not considered a European country, the Roman Empire after the collapse of most historians believe that Europe entered a thousand years into the medieval "Dark Ages", is generally believed to be the 16th century, "Renaissance" Europe. Renaissance" in the 16th century, Europe began to please the long "Dark Ages". China's situation is very different, Qin Shi Huang unified China in 221 BC, implemented the "books with the same text, cars with the same track", unified the weights and measures, the implementation of the county system, laying the cultural and political foundation to maintain the unity of China, including North Korea at that time was also united by China. Although China has experienced many divisions since then, the mainstream politics of successive generations has always been to seek unification. Almost all the political systems of successive generations can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. As Mao Zedong said, "Qin politics has been practiced for a hundred generations", and the tradition of "great unity" has been carried on since the Qin agreed to it.
The vast unified territory of China has given China a geographic advantage and strategic depth that is difficult for most countries to match, and China's strong central government and powerful national defense capabilities have enabled us to completely solve the problem of "taking a beating," which has plagued the Chinese nation for more than a hundred years. China can carry out strategic layout in the super large-scale country, can realize the line of west to east, can realize the high-speed rail "eight vertical and eight horizontal", etc., rare in the history of mankind's modern engineering.
For the vast majority of countries, industrial upgrading often means relocating industries to foreign countries, while within China's own can realize large-scale gradient transfer of industries, the general manufacturing industry can be transferred from the developed plate to the emerging plate but still remain in China, which prolongs the life cycle of China's manufacturing industry.
"Civilized country" formed by the geographic advantage also makes us have other countries can hardly reach a "geo-radiation power", China to promote the open policy is very wonderful, from the coastal opening up to the opening up along the river to the extension of the river. The opening up policy promoted by China is very wonderful, from opening up along the coast to opening up along the rivers to opening up along the borders, to today's "One Belt, One Road" initiative, which has turned China's border provinces into frontiers of opening up to the outside world, especially the construction of Eurasian railroads, including the Yuzhou-Xinjiang-European Railway, the railroads from Lianyungang and Yiwu to Europe, and the railroads from Yunnan to Southeast Asia that are under construction. The big channel, the whole of China and Central Asia, Russia, Europe and Southeast Asia countries are connected to a piece of China this geographic advantage is Japan such as the lack of geographic advantage of the economic powers is difficult to compare.
Our economic development process we actually see the central government plays an important role, the local government also plays an important role, in fact, it is related to the size of China, such a large geographical area, so much population, so he has the central government, the local government, some economists say, China's county-level government of healthy competition is the most important reason for the rise of China. the most important reason for China's rise.
China's ultra-expansive territory, in fact, is a "continent" concept, that is, the plane flying three hours or even more time is still in their own country, in Europe for such a long time must have gone a dozen countries. So you are still in such a long time to another place is still in China, still speak Chinese, eat Chinese food, enjoy the rich Chinese culture, which is rare and wonderful. Combined with this population and geography, these two "super" challenges, once you can overcome this challenge, you create a world miracle, why our high-speed rail technology is the best in the world, it is very simple, because first of all, you have to be able to cope with China's huge population pressure, a Spring Festival of 3 billion people, you must be in the shortest possible time to move the largest number of people from one country to another, and then to the other country. In the shortest possible time, you have to transport the largest number of people from one place to another, and then you can see if you realize this breakthrough and overcome the challenges of population and geography, what does that mean? Your high-speed rail technology has to be able to adapt to the tundra in the northeast, to adapt to the dense river network in the south of the Yangtze River, and to adapt to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and if all these conditions can be adapted to, your technology is certainly more complete than that of other countries, so the general countries can't be compared to us, and we are really ahead.
The third is the ultra-long historical tradition, 5,000 years of continuous history, so that China in almost all areas of human knowledge to form their own system of knowledge and practice of the tradition, we have their own political, philosophical, religious, linguistic, educational, art, theater, literature, architecture, military, sports, medicine, food and so on. In politics, philosophy, religion, language, education, art, theater, literature, architecture, military, sports, medicine, food and so on, we have our own profound and self-contained system, and this rich tradition, originality, originality and continuity are difficult for other peoples or cultures to match. Due to the factors of large population, vast area and complex environment, the Chinese people have formed their own unique traditions of governance, one of them is the "people-centeredness". We believe in the principle of "people are the foundation of the state, the foundation is solid and the state is peaceful", we believe in the principle of "food is the sky", we believe in the principle of "governing the country first," we believe in the principle of " The concepts we often talk about, such as "a prime minister starts from the state capital, and a fierce general must start from the pawns", are in fact part of our traditional wisdom. We can see that even in the ancient times of China, many unique Chinese traditions of governance began to take shape, such as the leader should take the lead, the political organization should take the lead, the political organization should take the lead, and the political organization should take the lead. We can see that even in ancient China, many unique Chinese traditions of governance began to take shape, such as leaders taking the lead, political organizations being able to organize large-scale water projects, and the unification of China by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who pioneered a kind of institutional arrangement for the governance of mega-states.
Today we have chosen to follow the path of socialism and have achieved great success. The reason why we have chosen to follow the path of socialism today and achieved great success is that we can't get away from the important genes of the Chinese tradition that advocate equality. For example, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, we destroyed the bloodline-based land monopoly and pushed for the free flow of land, which also led to some land mergers and polarization of the rich and the poor later.
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