Whether it is a dream or a hunch. In the near future, China will regain its leading position in the global system, and show it to the world in the face it has always maintained: a central country where technology and culture are all leaps and bounds.

Chinese society is one of the countries that are most optimistic about its own future, and the Chinese government is the government that has the most legislation, supervision and governance for the future in the world. Not only because, according to World Bank data, this Asian country contributes more than one-third of global economic growth, but also because of the formulation of policies and many official policy documents that set mid- and long-term goals. Perhaps, in many fields, the Chinese have reason to be so optimistic about the 21st century.

From 2011 to 2013, China consumed more concrete than the United States consumed in the entire 20th century; at the same time, China has built the world's most widely distributed high-speed rail network, and the total number of highway mileage also ranks first in the world. While changing the landscape of mountains and rivers, society is also changing. According to estimates by the World Bank, 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the past 40 years. According to a report compiled by the Pew Research Center in 2016, about 90% of Chinese people are optimistic about the future.

"The first time I took a bath in my house was 15 years old." Tang Xiaoli, who was sitting in a cafe on Nanjing Road, recalled. She was less than 40 years old and was born in a coastal city near Shanghai. She completed her PhD in Latin American History in Shanghai and became one of the most well-known Spanish translators in the city.

Her story is shared by many Chinese. In two generations, they left the compound where all the staff shared a toilet, moved into their own house, went to university, and even went abroad more than once.

Although people know more or less about China's economic results, they do not know the magnitude of the challenges it faces. China overnight transformed from a rural society to the country with the largest number of urban residents in the world. And it also paid a high environmental cost for this, so that pollution once dyed the sky in cities such as Beijing or Xi'an gray. The income gap is also widening.　　

During this period, the social structure has undergone fundamental changes: the large-scale migration of population from rural to urban areas, the different habits of young people and elders, and differences in consumption, clothing, and even payment methods of different genders and family roles. In the past 20 years, China has experienced the changes experienced by Western developed countries in the past two centuries. These people who have experienced material changes that their ancestors could not imagine now dream of tomorrow.

In this tomorrow, China will be built into a society with economic prosperity, technological progress, military and geopolitical strength, and the realization of this dream has a deadline: 2049 when the People's Republic of China is established for a hundred years. Flower beds with roses and other flowers can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys and parks. They depict three words: "Chinese Dream".

These three words appear repeatedly in every public space. These three words combine China's vision of the future with the interpretation of China's modern history, merging the past, present and future. In Chinese, "Chinese Dream" can also be translated as "Chinese Dream". This formula connects the individual to the entire country.Editor/XuNing