Editorial Extract:

On 24 October 2017, the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress concluded in Beijing. Held every five years, this historical and highly anticipated event has not only ushered in leadership and policy changes, but has also sent a strong message to the outside world that China is eager to assume greater world leadership. Today, no country can attain leadership without strengthening its economic development and technological capacity. Although China was backward when it was re-opened to the outside world in the late 1970s, the past three decades have seen the country making breathtaking progress.