On March 30, the People’s Daily published “Tell Stories of China with World Significance” by Pro. Li Youmei, the First Deputy President of Shanghai Academy, evoking wide attention in academic circles.

The article points out that in 2013, President Xi Jinping came up with the vision of a “community of shared future for mankind” for the first time. To date, it has become a world consensus and is included in a UN Security Council resolution. Why can it produce such a significant impact? On the one hand, oriental wisdom points to a new road of development in place of the law of the jungle; one the other, it is consistent with the persistent efforts that President Xi and other Chinese leaders have made in telling stories of China.

Chinese concepts, wisdom and propositions reflect how Chinese people think about the international order and the future of mankind, and helps to bring about a change in the global governance system. Stories of China is a public asset belonging to the world. The world significance of stories of China is just the ideological resources we need to create a community of shared future for mankind.

How to tell stories of China well? The article points out that we should have a profound understanding of both China and the world. We must construct a discourse system that can embrace cultures of different kinds and build a bridge of communication in different contexts to spread the world significance of stories of China. Therefore, we to need to cultivate talents committed to telling the world stories of China and guide Chinese ideological resources to go global.

President Xi points out that telling stories of China is a theme of the era and telling stories of China well is a mission of the age. The article reflects Professor Li’s profound thinking on how to tell stories of China with world significance very well and to construct a scientific social science discourse system on the basis of the essence of President Xi’s speech. It is an important breakthrough in terms of the way we tell stories of China, its mode of transmission and theoretical level, and therefore worth due attention from both intellectual circles and the theory publicity industry.

By Shi Leilei