Media Type: Speech
Yao Yang, dean of the National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University, identifies three near-term challenges to China’s economic development. The first two—insufficient consumer demand and declining interest in real estate purchases — have both been affected by declining consumer confidence amid the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown measures. The third challenge is the risk of recession in key export markets such as the United States and Europe, which may negatively affect Chinese exports. To address these challenges, Yao emphasizes the importance of policies designed to stabilize the real estate market, as well as measures to shore up consumer confidence (which he calls “more precious than gold”), such as direct payments to Chinese citizens. Yao suggests that Beijing should lead by example and implement a more “rational” approach to COVID-19 prevention and control. This speech was delivered to the China Economic Observation (CEO) conference just prior to the November 2022 protests across China opposing the Chinese government’s “dynamic zero-COVID” measures.
Liu Jieyi, the former director of Taiwan Affairs Office who led the office at the time of this speech, spoke at a seminar on cross-Strait relations held in the wake of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. He emphatically recounts Beijing’s efforts towards “reunification” over the last decade and reaffirms the official Party line that “reunification” is integral to China’s goal of achieving “national rejuvenation.”
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s speech at a June 2022 joint forum between Russian and Chinese think tanks, where he promotes the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, and suggests that Russia and China have the opportunity to shape a new approach to global governance.
China’s renowned international affairs scholar, Yan Xuetong, delivered this speech at the 14th Annual Meeting of Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies, where he criticized the trajectory of China’s international relations discipline towards viral content rather than in-depth study based on scientific methodology.
This Xi Jinping speech from the December 2021 Central Economic Work Conference, published in the May 2022 edition of China’s leading theoretical journal Qiushi, discusses major issues in China’s future development path and signals a renewed emphasis on common prosperity and stricter regulation of capital.
In this January 18th, 2022 speech, Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng reflects on the past year and argues that China has achieved several diplomatic successes amidst major global “crises and challenges” in 2021.
A long speech by Xi Jinping calling on all party members to learn the Party’s history in order to appreciate the CCP’s past achievements and failures.
An important speech by Xi Jinping outlining China’s goals and strategy to ensure technological dominance and self-sufficiency.
Read-out from 2013 convening of the Politburo to discuss China’s strategy for becoming a “maritime superpower.”