15、制度自信：实现中国发展的根本制度保障（英文版）

I mean I think one of the most interesting things about Chinese Communist Party historically was after Mao died, because the country was in trouble and what happened was that De Xiaoping, as he emerges as a new leader, really made a big shift in the outlook philosophy. Now, if I look around the world, it’s very unusual to see political organizations, political parties making that kind of shift, because they get, they become captured by their own prejudices and values. And it’s very difficult for them to start thinking in different ways. To make that kind of shift, it requires a lot of courage, and it requires a lot of confidence. And I think that what that shift showed was, it was an organization with deep roots in Chinese society, because you’ve got to basically rejected a lot of, the kind of ideology you’ve had. You’ve got a reach out to the people in a different kind of way. So I think that example shows you that unlike, for example, the Soviet communist party, which I think didn’t have deep roots in society, didn’t in Russian society. The Chinese communist party does have that.