Hu Jintao Quotes

Reform is China's second revolution.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

The duty of an American churchman in China is not simply introducing new ideas into the country, but modifying its industrial, social, and political life and institutions. Missionaries are the pioneers of trade and commerce. Civilization, learning, instruction breed new wants which commerce supplies.

China became an economic power with few equals. By 2010 China gad overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy in terms of GDP, China’s transformation consistently drew one ideas beyond it shores.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

Reform is 'the biggest dividend' for China.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

Reform is one of the priorities of the Arab world. All countries and societies want to move ahead and have their own views of how to move ahead. Reform is an item for all of us to support but we have to be cautious because of the fragility of the security situation and uncertainty on the international scene.

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

China's economic transformation began with the introduction in the 1980s of market incentives in the agricultural sector. These reforms were followed by a gradual opening to the global economy, a process that accelerated in the early 1990s.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work.

I have been to China. I noticed that wherever you went, you could ask an ordinary citizen, and he would explain, in detail, about free markets and all the other jargon of liberalisation.

North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.

You should be cautious when criticizing the liberalization of economic theory.

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.