How China Works

Achieving common prosperity is a basic requirement of socialism and an important feature of the Chinese path to modernization.

Rural revitalization is a major strategy for bringing about our national rejuvenation.

We should press ahead with our modernization to drive forward our national rejuvenation and contribute more to humanity.

It should be emphasized that during the new era and at the new stage we must follow the new development philosophy and ensure high-quality growth.

To build a modern socialist country in all respects, we must, first and foremost, pursue high-quality development.

With an enabling market environment, we will be able to attract more international capital to our country for investment and business growth. We should support and encourage domestic capital and enterprises to go global.

We should make the "cake" of social wealth bigger through the concerted efforts of all our people; then we should properly handle the relationship between growth and distribution by institutional means so as to share the cake fairly.

National strategic capacity in science and technology is the focus of international competition among scientific and technological powers.

We should always be confident in our response strategy, pursue progress while ensuring stable performance, and promote economic and social development while containing COVID-19.

We should promote the great spirit that we have forged in the battle against COVID-19 in our society and turn it into a powerful force for building a modern socialist country and realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

As long as we continue to adapt to changing circumstances and implement precisely-targeted policies, we have all the strengths to create a new development dynamic and gain a new competitive edge.

To contain the virus and win this battle we must race against time, fight with confidence, strength and unity, and adopt a science-based approach and a targeted response.

We must make full use of the huge advantage, China's market, and steadily consolidate it to make it a strong pillar of the new development dynamic.

Working for the wellbeing of the people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the root and essence of the new development philosophy.

Having realized the First Centenary Goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, China will build on this achievement and embark on a new journey towards the Second Centenary Goal of building a modern socialist country in all respects, thus signifying the beginning of a new stage of development.

Putting the people and their lives first, China has built a strong line of defense against the virus, and…protected people's lives and health.

The country is its people, and the people are the country. As we have fought to establish and consolidate our Party's leadership over the country, we have in fact been fighting to earn and keep the people's support.

The people's support is our top political priority.

To meet their desire for a happy life is our mission.

What are your most ardent wishes in life? Better education? A stable job, more income? or to live in a safe society? Such wishes are shared by people all over the world. And how are these wishes being met in China? All on the audiobook How China works-charting the future, brought to you by CGTN.

The CPC has its foundations in the people and maintains a close bond with the people.

Though their lives have changed tremendously in the past decades, Liangjiahe villagers treasure what they have and continue to work hard to improve their lives. Knowing Xi Jinping cares much about Liangjiahe, they've also kept Xi posted on these changes.

During his seven years living and working in Liangjiahe Village, Xi Jinping's hard work and innovative thinking inspired many around him.

Before he moved on to study in Tsinghua University, Xi Jinping, with thorough understanding about government policy at the time, promoted businesses to enrich the villager's lives.

During his seven years living and working in Liangjiahe Village, Xi Jinping kept looking for ways to improve the villagers' lives. He built a dam to provide irrigation water and succeeded in building the first methane tank in Shaanxi Province.

While living and working at Liangjiahe Village in his teenage years and early adulthood, Xi Jinping worked hard both at the local construction projects and at gaining knowledge, experience and wisdom. After a few years, he became a proper farmer at home with his environment and a leader that people wanted to follow.

This episode details the challenges that Xi Jinping, then a 15-year-old teenager from Beijing, had to overcome while trying to adjust to life in Liangjiahe Village. Food, climate and even language became hurdles for the young lad to jump through.

This episode details the challenges that Xi Jinping, then a 15-year-old teenager from Beijing, had to overcome while trying to adjust to life in Liangjiahe Village. Food, climate and even language became hurdles for the young lad to jump through.

Xi Jinping visits his old friends, and together they reminisce on how he adjusted to the food, culture, and life in general in Liangjiahe Village. After more than 40 years, their friendship has endured even after Xi had left the village.

Xi Jinping meets his old friends in Liangjiahe Village, and revisits his old home in a cave house and a dam that he helped to build. As a young man, Xi spent seven years here, living and working side by side with the fellow villagers whom he has missed for 40 years.

Since 1969, Chinese President Xi Jinping had lived and worked in Liangjiahe Village for more than seven years. In 2015 after being away for 40 years, Xi came back to the village. He recognized the fellow villagers and greeted them warmly as if he never left.

​"Thanks to our efforts in the past few years, a general framework of cooperation has been put in place. It is like completing a drawing: The outline has been sketched; now we must fill in the fine details. And we need to do so with meticulous care." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/113094

"We have shared control and treatment experience with the world without reservation." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/113095

"The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major and transparent initiative with which China shares opportunities and pursues common development with the rest of the world." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/110853

"We should continue to advance the Belt and Road cooperation under the principle of delivering shared benefits through extensive consultation and joint contribution." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/110852

"No one should underestimate the resolve, the will, and the ability of the Chinese people to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit: http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/112505

"At the fundamental level, the capability of our Party and the strengths of socialism with Chinese characteristics are attributable to the fact that Marxism works." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/112503

"Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a fundamental achievement of the Party and the people, forged through innumerable hardships and great sacrifices, and it is the right path for us to achieve national rejuvenation." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/112502

"To realize national rejuvenation, the Party united and led the Chinese people in freeing the mind and forging ahead, achieving great success in reform, opening up, and socialist modernization." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/112501

"We have realized the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. This means that we have brought about a historic resolution to the problem of absolute poverty in China." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/112500

​"To realize national rejuvenation, the Party united and led the Chinese people in endeavoring to build a stronger China with a spirit of self-reliance, achieving great success in socialist revolution and construction." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/112499

"All the struggle, sacrifice, and creation through which the Party has united and led the Chinese people over the past hundred years has been tied together by one ultimate theme—bringing about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/112498