Understanding China Through Keywords

Understanding China Through Keywords

Learning keywords is one of the best ways to keep abreast of the latest developments in a country. The China Academy of Translation, a research institute affiliated with the China International Publishing Group, the country’s leading international publisher, regularly analyzes prevailing Chinese terms in various sectors and translates them into a number of foreign languages ranging from English to Arabic. In each issue, Beijing Review presents a selection of these keywords to help readers know more about China.

Building a beautiful China

Building a beautiful China is an important part of the Chinese dream. It is an initiative that calls for respecting, protecting and being in harmony with nature, and is based on a key national policy on resource conservation, environmental protection, and promotion of green, circular and low-carbon development. It underscores the need for leaving more space for nature to renew itself, keeping more land for cultivation, and bequeathing a better working and living environment to future generations so that they could be blessed with a blue sky, green fields, and clean water. The Chinese dream should not be realized at the expense of the environment. Economic development should be accompanied by strong measures of ecological protection. The initiative to build a beautiful China will benefit the country’s long-term development, promoting sustainable global development, and fulfilling the universal dream of protecting our beautiful earth.

Confidence matters

It is important to have confidence in our chosen path, our guiding theories, and our political system. In pursuing a comprehensive in-depth reform agenda, we must steadfastly continue on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, a course of action driven by historical imperatives and chosen by our people.

In parallel with the continued advances of socialism with Chinese characteristics, our political system will become further developed and our chosen path increasingly wide. Our reform has been necessary not because our system was poorly designed, but because we need to make it function better. Confidence in our system is not intended to lull us into complacency, but rather to forge ahead with an ongoing endeavor to improve its efficiency and durability by eliminating institutional and structural deficiencies.

Adherence to socialist theories with Chinese characteristics entails courage, foresight and initiative. It is crucial to encourage creative thinking on the basis of practice and continuously enrich these theories. Our commitment to socialism is unshakable.

Healthy China

“Healthy China” is a strategy that has been in the making for several years. The idea was proposed by some Chinese scholars at the beginning of the 21st century. “Building a healthy China” is listed as one of the goals China will work to realize in the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period.

The Healthy China strategy highlights the health service for the general public. In building a healthy China, the government will establish a basic medical and healthcare system, covering both urban and rural areas, by the year 2020. It will be a system of relatively complete public health and medical care, as well as a system of relatively complete medical security. It will also include a system of relatively secured drug supplies and a system of relatively scientific medical and healthcare management and operation. With the equal provision of basic public health services in both urban and rural areas, every citizen will enjoy basic health and medical care. The average life expectancy of the Chinese people will increase, and the mortality rates of infants and pregnant and lying-in women further lowered. The target is to bring major health indices up to the level of a moderately developed country.

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