BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The inaugural event of Vision China, a series of talks organized by China Daily, was held in Beijing Monday evening, according to the paper.
U.S. specialist on China Robert Kuhn, China Daily writer Andrew Moody and China Global Television Network host Liu Xin shared their thoughts on China's new era with an audience of more than 500 from home and abroad.
The event is organized to salute, embrace, expound and communicate China's new era, Zhou Shuchun, editor-in-chief of China Daily, was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Robert Kuhn, who has studied China for nearly 30 years, said that China's new era is full of changes, opportunities and challenges, and the country has set the trajectory in all vital areas of the country's domestic development and international engagement for the next 30-plus years.
"When future historians reconstruct the long history of China, they will likely see our years as an epochal period of transition and transformation," Kuhn said.
Andrew Moody discussed his understanding of the new era's influence in the echoes he hears from other countries.
"China's entering into a new era could be a momentous turning point in world history...China's new era is a new and confident China striding forward into a world that it itself would play a large part in shaping," Moody said.
Liu Xin said "it's the confidence China has developed through knowing that our system works. The confidence about who we are as a people, as a culture. And it's the confidence about our future role in the world."
The Vision China talks will continue focusing on Chinese topics that have global significance and invite distinguished speakers for speeches and interaction with audiences, said the newspaper.
