STORY: 102-year-old CPC leads China to achieve more miracles
DATELINE: July 1, 2023
LENGTH: 00:05:54
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of scenery of China
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): AMB JOSEPH MUTABOB, Expert in international politics and diplomacy
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): STHEMBISO BHENGU, Director, Chris Hani Institute, South Africa
5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, International relations lecturer, United States international University-Africa (USIU-Africa)
6. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
7. SOUNDBITE 6 (Spanish): CRISTIAN MEJIA, Ecuadorian international journalist
8. SOUNDBITE 7 (English): ISAAC KARANI MUTHAMIA, Founder and director, China Africa Liaison Center
9. SOUNDBITE 8 (English): AMB JOSEPH MUTABOB, Expert in international politics and diplomacy
10. SOUNDBITE 9 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
11. SOUNDBITE 10 (Turkish): DOGU PERINCEK, Chairman of the Patriotic Party of Türkiye
12. SOUNDBITE 11 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
13. SOUNDBITE 12 (Spanish): CRISTIAN MEJIA, Ecuadorian international journalist
14. SOUNDBITE 13 (English): STHEMBISO BHENGU, Director, Chris Hani Institute, South Africa
15. SOUNDBITE 14 (Turkish): AKKAN SUVE, Head of the Istanbul-based Marmara Group Strategic and Social Research Foundation

STORYLINE:

The Communist Party of China (CPC) marks its 102nd founding anniversary on July 1.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
"CPC has been associated with the people right from the very beginning."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): AMB JOSEPH MUTABOB, Expert in international politics and diplomacy
"It was created for the people and by the people."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): STHEMBISO BHENGU, Director, Chris Hani Institute, South Africa
"Long term, sustained planning and development."

SOUNDBITE 4 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, International relations lecturer, United States international University-Africa (USIU-Africa)
"The CPC is a soul of the nation. It is a soul of the people. It is a philosophy that is ingrained in the minds of all Chinese people towards social, economic development."

Seeking happiness for Chinese people is the original aspiration for the CPC.

Under the leadership of the CPC, China has eradicated absolute poverty, lifting nearly 800 million rural poor out of poverty within decades.

The country has established the world's largest education, social security, and medical and health care systems.

The CPC has led the Chinese people to achieve the First Centenary Goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
"The transformation which China has achieved in the last 40 years or 40 years plus is, I call it, no less than a human miracle. CPC got to work at the village level, at the county level, at the town level with people. And this is a regular feature of Chinese politics, whereby the CPC officials interact with the common men and ascertain their problems and issues of daily life."

SOUNDBITE 6 (Spanish): CRISTIAN MEJIA, Ecuadorian international journalist
"The defeat of extreme poverty is one of the most significant and symbolic achievements of the Party, and that is why the people continue to trust them because they achieved it. That, I repeat, is only because they realized the needs, listened to the people and made sacrifices."

SOUNDBITE 7 (English): ISAAC KARANI MUTHAMIA, Founder and director, China Africa Liaison Center
"The CPC is able to consistently lead towards a common goal and that consistency and resilience is what has led the CPC to achieve such tremendous growth and development for the country."

The CPC is leading the Chinese people to realize the Second Centenary Goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization.

SOUNDBITE 8 (English): AMB JOSEPH MUTABOB, Expert in international politics and diplomacy
"What has impressed me most is what I have noticed for China. For example, when you talk of modernization, through rejuvenation, they select precise concepts in a lot of areas: agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology."

SOUNDBITE 9 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
"And the leadership delivers because the people are with them. And people are working hard. They're following the vision of the leadership to make China a country of international reckoning."

SOUNDBITE 10 (Turkish): DOGU PERINCEK, Chairman of the Patriotic Party of Türkiye
"It is not the kind of modernization based on the exploitation of the rest of the world. China's modernization, however, was achieved hand in hand and heart to heart with the rest of the world. Therefore, Chinese modernization is peaceful modernization, shedding light on the future of humanity."

On its path toward modernization, China has also been sharing its development opportunities with the rest of the world, upholding true multilateralism and striving for a more fair and equitable global governance system, which offers Chinese solutions to pressing challenges facing humanity.

SOUNDBITE 11 (English): MASOOD KHALID, Former Pakistani ambassador to China
"China did not colonize countries to become the second-largest economy of the world. China is the second-largest contributor to the UN budget. China is engaged in international humanitarian relief efforts. China is a major contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. And China, as I said, is extending meaningful and substantive assistance to developing countries."

SOUNDBITE 12 (Spanish): CRISTIAN MEJIA, Ecuadorian international journalist
"China does not export the Chinese model. China exports -- if it can be said that way -- the notion that each country has the capacity to take the best of each system, adapt it to its internal policy, to its internal requirements and evolve from that point, always taking into account non-interference. China does not interfere. China helps."

Over the past ten years, China has proposed a number of important initiatives, including the BRI, GDI, GSI and GCI, which enriched the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Global Development Initiative (GDI)
Global Security Initiative (GSI)
Global Civilization Initiative (GCI)

SOUNDBITE 13 (English): STHEMBISO BHENGU, Director, Chris Hani Institute, South Africa
"The significance with all of these initiatives is the use of this word 'win-win.' The CPC has been taking around how they view possibilities for human development across the world, but essentially around very basic values and principles around human-centered development."

SOUNDBITE 14 (Turkish): AKKAN SUVE, Head of the Istanbul-based Marmara Group Strategic and Social Research Foundation
"The BRI is not only a project for China but also a peace and prosperity project for the future of humanity, which aims to achieve peaceful development through the bond between humans and nature. It is an important concept not only for the Chinese people but also for the future of humanity."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing.
(XHTV)