CEVAP:

Today, the Chinese have a relatively good standard of living in the cities (where about 800 million people live), with meaningfully enhanced facilities for housing and education. The healthy Chinese economic growth is impressive; it has risen on average 8% per year in the 21st century. In some less populous regions, the improvement of the standard of living is faster. In addition, there has been a real enhancement in the status of women; the rights of senior citizens and children get steadily more protection and care. Chinese society has become more open, accommodating to technology challenges and ending up being self-sustained in these new times of the globalization and the quest for the sustainability of the world civilization. Clearly, the Chinese people want to modernize their way of living, but they do not necessarily wish to Westernize. Although the latter policy is liked by the young generation today, power still resides with an older, more traditional, “Communist Party” elite.