"Opening brings progress while closure leads to backwardness," Xi said. "Every step of reform and opening up is not easy. "There is no text book that can provide a golden rule, and there is no instructor who can boss around the Chinese people. "Grain coupons, cloth coupons, meat coupons, fish coupons, oil coupons, tofu coupons, food ticket books, product coupons and other documents people once could not be without have now been consigned to the museum of history," he said. "He is talking about the need for a strong government, big and powerful state-owned enterprises and large-scale investment.

Source: Egypt Today December 18, 2018 06:22 UTC