The CPC's 100 Years of “Routine Miracles”

AT a grand ceremony commemorating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square on July 1, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, solemnly declared the completion of building China into a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the country’s first centenary goal.

- WILLIAM BROWN

Almost any of China’s great achievements that Xi mentioned in his address would be considered miracles in any other country. Yet in China, they do not surprise me. With the same creativity and perseverance in which the country carried out its targeted poverty alleviation campaign and contained the COVID-19 pandemic, China now leads the world in fighting desertification, deforestation, food and water insecurity, illiteracy – virtually all of the global challenges that face every country.