Dialogue 09/06/15 A practical China needs " Bu Zheteng "

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Immediately after President Hu Jintao used the phrase Buzheteng in his keynote speech marking the 30th anniversary of China’s opening up, participants at the Great Hall of the People laughed with a great relief. This catch phrase captured headlines the next day throughout the whole country. Literally, buzheteng means no trouble making or internal flip flop.

Partly by culture and partly by its tradition, uprisings took place for centuries to usher in new dynasties in the feudal kingdom of China before the 1911 revolution by Dr. Sun Yatsun. But many mistakes were also made after the 1949 founding of the People’s Republic of China in the shadow of the feudal and leftist ideology. The internal chaos was made even worse by the Cold War complex. The Great Leap Forward, the Anti-rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution all highlighted the devastating consequences of internal social unrest.

Mr. Deng Xiaoping, a victim of the domestic political chaos and architect of the modernization drive, urged the ruling party to put an end to the massive political movement and shift the focus of the government agenda to a more practical task of economic construction. He helped draft many government documents to shape the future of a more open China. The buzheteng sense of pragmatism has brought about the steady double-digit growth rate over the past three decades.