To deepen exchanges and cooperation with the legislatures of Central Asian countries and jointly build a China-Central Asia community with a shared future, the National People’s Congress held a seminar for parliamentarians from Central Asian countries at the National People’s Congress Conference Center from October 22 to 31. On October 23, 2024, Yu Miaojie, a deputy to the National People’s Congress, fellow of the International Economic Association, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and President of Liaoning University was invited to deliver a course on ‘Win-win Cooperation and Work as Partners towards the Path to Modernization’ to 25 members of parliament and senior parliamentary officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Yu Miaojie analyzed the meaning, major achievements and significance of Chinese modernization to the world and predicted the prospect of cooperation in promoting China-Central Asia modernization. He noted that under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China had entered a new development stage from high-speed growth to high-quality growth. He elaborated on why the new development stage is new and how to understand the new development philosophy so as to sustain China’s long-term economic growth. He added that the new development philosophy included five aspects, it is fundamentally driven by innovation and featured in coordination as opening up guarantees the realization to achieve the ultimate goal of sharing, among which greenness is a defining feature. He also noted that it is vital to both build a unified domestic market and promote opening up in order to build a new development paradigm. He cited the report of the 20th CPC National Congress of the CPC by saying that Chinese modernization is reflected in a huge population, common prosperity for all, coordinated development between material civilization and spiritual civilization, harmony between man and nature as well as peaceful development. He stressed that it is also crucial to comprehensively deepening reform to promote Chinese modernization as since the 20th National Congress and the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, China has attached great importance to economic and trade cooperation with other countries. He believed that economic and trade cooperation is an important link to promote cultural exchanges between countries as a way to boost cultural prosperity and achieve unity, cooperation, openness and win-win results in countries and regions.  

Yu’s lecture received a positive response among the parliamentarians from Central Asian countries as they raised questions actively at the Q&A session, which facilitated cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and Central Asian countries. It is also believed that in the process of economic globalization featuring peaceful development, inclusiveness and mutual benefit, all countries will forge towards a better future together.