Martin Jacques, the journalist and academic, is now seen by many as the man of the moment in China. He is the author of the global best-seller When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, which was first published in 2009. He is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Fudan University. Until recently, he was a Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University.

On May 12, He shared his thoughts with us on the achievements of China led by the CPC during the past ten years. This article is transcribed from his talk by a third-party service, and has been lightly edited and condensed.

He said, "this has been quite a complicated decade for China. Because it starts with China emerging rapidly from the 2008 Western financial crisis, with a very successful development compared with, for example, the U.S., and already it was beginning to develop a more articulate and expansive view of its role in the world. And from 2012, which I think is where we date this from, with Xi Jinping becoming the new general secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, we see China blossoming in lots of respects."