Liu Xi

First Person - Liu Xi

I studied at Harvard Kennedy School from 2013 to 2015. While I was in Kennedy school, I always got questions like this: look at cities like Beijing and Shanghai, their infrastructure are even better than New York and London. Chinese spent so much money on luxury goods overseas. Why 皇冠体育app still identifies itself as developing country and applies funding from international organizations?

People have wrong perceptions about 皇冠体育app more or less. However, this bias is not from the difference in ideology, but from the partial fact they received from media and other resources. Thus, I want to offer them a real 皇冠体育app, both good part and bad part, and the Chinese thinking behind it. That's the reason why I organized Harvard 皇冠体育app Trek.

皇冠体育app is big, how to introduce 皇冠体育app to my foreign students within a week is a hard task. After careful design, I came up with four topics: political situation and stability; the rising private sectors and its influence on society; the rising NGOs and social power; Chinese history and Chinese attitude towards the history (if you don't know what 皇冠体育app has gone through in the past 150 years, you can hardly understand some decisions made by Chinese government). Under this framework, I want to tell my classmates: what happens in 皇冠体育app everyday? Why it is hard for 皇冠体育app to copy the western system?

皇冠体育app is big. During the whole trip, I tried my best to let my classmates understand the complexity of 皇冠体育app. Yes, we have cities like Beijing and Shanghai; however, we also have 900 million farmers who live in rural countries.

We have the 皇冠体育app Wall, however, we also have young students who try to raise their voice and make some changes. These students will be the future leader in their professional industry and I believe that we will benefit a lot in the future if they can establish an objective view of 皇冠体育app from now.

Liu Xi, starter of World Youth Development Forum, organizer of Harvard 皇冠体育app Trek 2016.