CORRUPTION
"How to root out corruption effectively is one of the most thorny issues for the new Chinese cabinet," said Mahmoud Allam, former Egyptian ambassador to China.
China can build up an effective legal mechanism to prevent, supervise and punish acts of corruptions, and engage the media and the public in the fight, Allam said.
Suh Seong-hwan, a professor at South Korea's Yonsei University, lauded China's emphasis on targeting both "the tiger and the fly" in its anti-graft drive, and suggested long-term and systematic moral education to eradicate the soil that breeds corruption.
CLEARING OBSTACLES WITH COURAGE, WISDOM
Speaking of further reforms, Berger said the 30-plus years of experience has proven that socialism with Chinese characteristics is a successful and effective development path for China.
"But no matter what type of development mode you choose, it won't be efficacious forever. It should keep abreast of the times," he said.
Julio Rios, a China expert in Spain, also said China should not underestimate the difficulty of its future reforms.
"China's transformation relies on not only economic reform and technical innovation, but also a deep correction in a series of issues, including income structure, production pattern, social system and regional imbalance," he said.
Such reforms will certainly have an impact on the vested interests of different groups, Rios added.
For China, only reforms can solve such problems during its development as imbalance, discordance and unsustainability, as well as structural and institutional barriers that hamper scientific development.
In the past, some countries were caught in the middle-income trap and became bogged down in economic stagnation and setback due to a lack of steady, resolute in-depth reforms.
"Were history confined to the mechanical repetition of the past, no transformation would ever have occurred. Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality," said Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state.
History will prove that China, in the face of a bumpy road ahead, has the courage and wisdom to overcome various difficulties during its development.
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