Zhang,Dexiang: China will eventually become a modern civilized country
张德祥(Zhang,Dexiang)
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, two thirty years have passed.
The first thirty years was the era of former Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. This was an era of political struggle. First, the external suppression of landlords, rich people, counter-revolutionaries, bad people, and rightists, and then turned to cruel internal struggle, ruthlessly criticizing and attacking opponents, until the country was impoverished and the economy was on the verge of collapse. The second thirty years can be said to be the Deng Xiaoping era. This was an era of maintaining the party-state political autocracy and encouraging economic development. The long-suppressed productivity was liberated, and the vast majority of Chinese people got rid of poverty and became rich. However, due to the lack of democracy and the rule of law, corrupt officials were rampant, the rich and the poor were sharply opposed, and social contradictions were on the verge of a volcanic eruption.
Now, the People's Republic of China is about to enter its third thirty years. Although the current leadership is clinging to the old ways, reforms have stagnated, and even regressed, the trend of historical development will not change, and it is not subject to human will.
I believe that China will eventually integrate into the common trend of global progress and become a modern civilized country.
Zhang,Dexiang
December 22, 2022
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