"To get rich is glorious" and "Let some people get rich first", China's late leader Deng Xiaoping said 35 years ago when the country began to abandon its planned economy and adopt market-oriented reform and opening up.
Liam Byrne believes China is set to be at the center of a new Age of the Enlightenment over the next 20 years.
Retirement has given 80-year-old entrepreneur Henri Lederhandler a new lease of life and a new avenue for developing Sino-Belgian relations.
China's rapid economic growth is creating exciting leadership opportunities for Chinese women, says Gayle Peterson, an expert on women and business issues.
Hugh White believes the United States risks a major confrontation with China by trying to reassert its dominance in Asia.
Apragmatic, hands-on approach based on trust will help smoothen the wrinkles in China-European Union relations, says Shada Islam, a researcher and expert on European affairs.
Ugandan Agriculture Minister Tress Bucyanayandi says he has no problem with China growing food in Africa to tackle its own growing food deficit.
African countries need to ask themselves the question of what kind of exports to China they will have over the next 20, 30, 40 or 50 years when oil and other things have ceased to be there.
Sharing benefits with the local communities and being more involved in local activities are the best strategies for Chinese companies to ensure sustained gains in Africa, says a former Chinese diplomat and leading expert on African affairs.
Accusations in the West that China is a new colonial power in Africa are a form of racism, a South African expert says.
Patricia Thornton believes many make the mistake of viewing China through a Western prism.
With debts at local-government level mounting, China has to curb easy credit and open up the financial services sector to private and foreign enterprises, says S. P. Kothari, deputy dean of MIT Sloan School of Management.