China’s Economic Development Will Inject New Vitality into Global Economic Recovery

 ABOVE: Shanghai's Yangshan deep-water port at nightfall. (PHOTO: Chuyu, iStock) By Cong Peiwu, Chinese Ambassador to Canada Those who are familiar with China might know that the Shanghai Port is one of the largest ports worldwide, with an annual container throughput of over 47 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), ranking first for

There are many ways to be democratic.

 ABOVE: Shanghai is a key world financial hub. (RIGHT) Chinese Ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu. By Cong Peiwu, Ambassador of China to Canada I have been in Canada for more than two years now, and I have come to realise that we need to explain China's political system more clearly to our

China recalibrates as the Communist  Party of China celebrates its 100th Anniversary

 ABOVE: Images from the "An Internationnal Exhibition of the Centennial History of Communist Party of China. Ottawa Life Magazine has been publishing a Canada-China Series since 2013. The series focuses on bi-lateral interests, business affairs, people-to-people relations, Chinese culture, and the Chinese diaspora in Canada. Since 2018 there has been

Some key words in Chinese politics

 ABOVE: Commuters on Beijing subway. The system consists of 24 lines and 727 km of tracks that serve both urban and suburban areas. (PHOTO: Zhang Kaiyv) by Cong Peiwu, Chinese Ambassador to Canada After working in Canada for some time, I feel a lot of Canadian friends, despite their great interest in Chinese

Understanding the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China from a non-Western perspective

 Ottawa Life Magazine has been publishing a Canada-China Series since 2013. The series focuses on bi-lateral interests, business affairs, people-to-people relations, Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora in Canada. Since 2018 there has been tension in the Canada Chinese political relationship. Ottawa Life Magazine has continued and will continue to publish

Canada’s approach to China is based on misguided superiority complex and bad reporting

 ABOVE: CIC President Ben Roswell practices censorship based on his own personal ‘comfort level.’    A train wreck is an apt descriptive for Canada’s bilateral relationship with China under the Trudeau government. Given the current path of the government, it does not appear that this will change soon. Even worse is