Interview: CPC plays ‘vital role’ in China’s impressive development

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has played a “vital role” in China’s rapid development since the start of the Asian country’s reform and openingup process in 1978, says a Cuban expert.

In a recent interview with Xinhua, Maria Teresa Montes de Oca, director of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the University of Havana, said that over the past decades Chinese leaders and people have kept strengthening the role of the CPC as the leading force of society.

“The CPC has a very active and direct role in making economic and political decisions in the country,” the academic said.

Now China has grown into a “world power,” said Montes de Oca, attributing it to the “vital role” of the CPC and its “coherent policy.”

The Cuban academic also spoke highly of China’s tremendous efforts in reducing inequality and fighting corruption in the past five years.

She noted that the Chinese government takes the problem of social inequality seriously and the CPC is working hard to address it.

Developing countries in Latin America, she suggested, should follow China’s example and make substantial improvements in reducing poverty and social inequalities.

“China is a country worth following for everyone. Governments in Latin America should seek solutions similar to those China has achieved with such a large population in terms of poverty reduction,” she said.

The Cuban expert also noted that by combining tradition with modernity, China does not have to appeal to any foreign figure as an example for its society. The nation has thousands of years of traditional culture of which the Chinese people can feel pride, she noted.

“China has adjusted to new times and of course the CPC has led this effort. The country has been modernized and freed of old canons both politically and economically,” she said.

China always follows its “win-win” maxim in internal economic development and in international political relations.

“China’s development prospects over the next five years are superb and China will inevitably become the world’s leading economy without a doubt,” she said.