Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 21, Title: From "Mysterious East" to "Character China"

Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Wencheng

"Nezha 2" rushed to the top five in the global box office list, DeepSeek set off a "technology storm", and foreign tourists "crowd" the streets and alleys of China... In recent times, with the diversity of China's charm and "new" in new China, foreign polls have given China a high score, foreign institutions favor Chinese assets, and overseas tourists share their new understanding of China on social media. From the "Mysterious East" to the "charming China", the traditional charm of Chinese culture, the spillover effect of China's development, and the global resonance of Chinese ideas have jointly created China's "new gravity".

In the past, if the world's understanding of China was mostly based on symbolic impressions such as "Great Wall" and "Kung Fu"; now, with the continuous deepening of interaction and the continuous enrichment of experience, the image of China is more acquainted and cute. "China Travel" continues to heat up, from a simple "broadcast" short-term tourism to a more personalized "in-depth experience" tourism. Foreign friends said that China was a mystery before coming, but after coming, it became a Chinese fan. During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Snake, foreign friends wore Hanfu, visited temple fairs, wrote Spring Festival couplets, learned to sing operas, and immersively experienced the charm of Chinese traditional culture; foreign journalists who came to China to participate in media exchanges wrote articles pointing out: "China is far more than political influence, but also culture, history, science and technology, and natural landscapes..." "China's 'openness' allows more people to see the true face of China with their own eyes." A large number of foreign users settled in Chinese social platforms such as Xiaohongshu, gained first-hand materials for the impression of China and interacted enthusiastically with Chinese netizens, sighing : "We see a different China."

The large language model DeepSeek emerged, breaking the inherent cognition of "high investment and long cycle" in artificial intelligence research and development; the humanoid robot wore a flower jacket and held flower silk, and played yangko on the Spring Festival Gala stage, attracting the attention of global media; BYD announced that it had realized the technology of charging for a few minutes and a range of hundreds of kilometers on electric vehicles, shocking the industry... Chinese technology companies are surging vitality, showing the world an innovation-driven China. The 2024 Global Innovation Index Report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that China is one of the economies with the fastest increase in innovation in the past 10 years, and it is also the country with the largest number of top 100 scientific and technological innovation clusters. It has strong momentum for innovation and development and broad prospects. Local innovation efficiency and super-large-scale markets have a multiplier effect. China has achieved a gorgeous turn from "world factory" to "innovation engine", attracting more and more foreign-invested enterprises to invest and start businesses.

China's charm also comes from an open market and shared opportunities. Not long ago, the "world supermarket" Yiwu International Trade City opened in the new year, with 75,000 merchants opening their doors to welcome Chinese and foreign merchants, and 2.1 million products iteratively increased; at present, overseas investment institutions such as the Middle East Sovereign Fund and European Pension Management Company intensively investigated innovation corridors in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and other places to reassess the value of China's assets. International investment institutions have reached a consensus: investing in China is investing in the future. This "confidence" in China's economy stems from China's continued release of policy dividends. With the introduction of a package of incremental policies, China's economy has rebounded significantly and improved, and domestic and foreign confidence has been effectively boosted. In addition, measures such as expanding high-level opening up to the outside world and increasing efforts to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment have been continuously introduced. A number of major foreign investment projects have been implemented in China one after another, and foreign companies are increasing their investment in the Chinese market with practical actions. After the "Special Action Plan to Boost Consumption" was officially released to the public recently, the Spanish Economist commented that China is "making the economic engine roar", which has injected strong momentum into the world's second largest economy.

The sublimation of China's "attraction" lies in the huge appeal of China's actions and ideas. The "Small and Beautiful" project builds a happy picture of improving people's livelihood - Chinese mushroom cultivation technology improves the livelihood of farmers in Lesotho, Burkina Fa Index introduced China's hybrid rice to achieve food independence, and the "Egg Road" built by China helped Madagascar open up the industrial artery. These concrete achievements made the warmth of the Chinese solution reach people's hearts; the cooperation to jointly build the "Belt and Road" covers three-quarters of the world's countries, the "three major global initiatives" have been responded to by more than 100 countries, and the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind has been written into the United Nations documents many times. Chinese modernization is promoting the reshaping of the world's development paradigm with its peaceful and win-win civilization characteristics. This new development philosophy that teaches people how to teach people how to fish and breaks through the logic of colonial expansion continues the spiritual gene of Chinese civilization to make the world public, making China an important constructive force in the reform of the global governance system.

China's "attraction" continues to advance, and the world better understands "why China" through diversified interactions. This is a symphony of hard power and soft power, a resonance of historical heritage and modern innovation, an exterior of the transformation of modernity of Chinese civilization, and an inevitable necessity for the new path of Chinese modernization to become wider and wider. Looking to the future, China will share more "charming new products" with the world with a more open and inclusive attitude, and work together to write a new chapter of human civilization in the new era.