Chapter 873 The confrontation between two cultures
Seeing Lu Xiaobin deep in thought, Li Tianyi did not disturb him, but stood beside him silently, waiting quietly.
At this time, the woman's cell phone rang, and she quickly answered the call.
Lu Xiaobin saw the woman's excited and happy expression when she answered the phone. At that moment, he seemed to have a judgment in his heart, but he did not say it out loud.
Later, Lu Xiaobin followed Li Tianyi and wandered aimlessly around the town for more than two hours before getting in the car.
After getting on the bus, Lu Xiaobin asked: "Li Tianyi, where should we go next?"
Li Tianyi said: "Go to Zhuhai and visit the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge."
Lu Xiaobin was stunned and asked in surprise: "Why do you want to visit the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge?"
Li Tianyi smiled slightly and said, "I'll tell you after you finish visiting."
The plane shuttled through the air and arrived in Zhuhai a few hours later. After coordinating the resources of all parties, Li Tianyi finally found a sightseeing bus. The two took the sightseeing bus and set off from Zhuhai to Macau and Hong Kong.
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While visiting, Li Tianyi introduced: "The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is a super-large cross-sea passage connecting Hong Kong, Zhuhai, and Macao, with a total length of 55 kilometers, of which the main project "Undersea Bridge and Tunnel" is 35.578 kilometers long, and the undersea tunnel is about 6.75 kilometers long.
km, it will become the world's longest cross-sea bridge upon completion. At the same time, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is part of the national highway network's G4-Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway and G94-Pearl River Delta Ring Expressway.
The immersed tunnel of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is the longest highway immersed tunnel in the world and the only deep-buried immersed tunnel in the world. It has a series of innovations in production and installation technology, providing a unique sample for the world's submarine tunnel engineering technology."
If Lu Xiaobin's visit to Huangtu Town made him start to rethink and define the concept of poverty, then at this moment, after he visited the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, his eyes were filled with strong shock.
Later, Li Tianyi took Lu Xiaobin to visit the Three Gorges Dam and the fast telescope in Guizhou.
After seeing these three unparalleled achievements, Lu Xiaobin fell into silence again, and from beginning to end, Li Tianyi never told him why he took him to visit these three places.
On the Fuxing high-speed train heading to Nanjing, Lu Xiaobin could no longer hold his temper. He looked at Li Tianyi and asked: "Li Tianyi, why do you want to take me to visit these three places?"
Li Tianyi was not eager to answer Lu Xiaobin's question, but asked instead: "Lu Xiaobin, do you think such a project will appear in the United States today?"
Lu Xiaobin fell into thinking again. After a long time, he slowly raised his head and said: "Such a large-scale project is almost impossible to occur in the United States, because the American political system determines that such a project cannot go smoothly.
Let’s go on smoothly.”
Li Tianyi smiled and asked: "So, do you know why such projects appear one after another in China?"
Lu Xiaobin shook his head and said, "I'm also curious about this. Why? India's population is not much worse than yours in China. They spend a lot of money when buying arms. Why don't they have such a project?"
Li Tianyi said with a smile: "This is because we have a socialist system with Chinese characteristics. This is the foundation. Our Chinese decision-making mechanism can ensure that the whole country can play a game of chess and concentrate on doing big things. You are in the fields of science and technology and infrastructure construction.
, by using state power to quickly integrate the economic and social resources of the whole society, it has effectively promoted the process of industrialization and achieved remarkable results.
Deng Gong pointed out: "Compared with capitalism, the superiority of socialism lies in its ability to play a game of chess across the country, concentrate its efforts, and ensure key points." There are many such examples, such as China's military research and development project, which was an extremely difficult task for the central government.
A typical example of success in concentrating efforts on major tasks under such circumstances. Another example is that in the Three Gorges construction, the state used centralized investment as the main method and used mandatory plans and administrative means to provide the huge human, material and financial resources required for the Three Gorges construction.
Strong support has enabled the construction of the Three Gorges Project to achieve major achievements.
The successful implementation of these projects has laid a solid foundation for China's economic development, social progress and improvement of its international status, and fully demonstrates the advantages of China's decision-making mechanism in concentrating its efforts on big things.
Concentrating efforts to accomplish big things not only works under a highly centralized planned economic system, but also applies to the socialist market economic system.
The leader once pointed out: Our greatest advantage is that our country’s socialist system can concentrate our efforts on doing big things, and we must form a new mechanism for concentrating our efforts on doing big things under the conditions of the socialist market economy.”
Speaking of this, Li Tianyi said in a deep voice: "Lu Xiaobin, do you know that with the continuous advancement of the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the advantage of concentrating on big things in China's decision-making mechanism can still play a greater role. In some matters related to the national economy and people's livelihood,
In important areas and key industries, as well as projects and projects that require very large investments, it is difficult to rely solely on the strength of a certain region or department, and must be promoted through the efforts of the whole country."
Lu Xiaobin pondered for a moment and said: "Although concentrating efforts on big things has its advantages, it is also possible to do wrong things and bad things. Such examples are not uncommon in China, and various unfinished projects are also common."
Li Tianyi nodded and said: "What you said is indeed true. Our Chinese decision-makers have also noticed the issues you mentioned. Because of this, we will emphasize that in the decision-making process of major matters
, we must promote democratic decision-making, scientific decision-making and decision-making in accordance with the law, and avoid decision-making errors, especially on major matters.
The most important thing is that we have now introduced a lifelong accountability system for civil servants. Lifelong accountability will be held for general work matters, so life-long accountability is indispensable when it comes to decision-making on major matters.
In this case, with the lifelong accountability system, who would dare to act recklessly?"
When Li Tianyi said this, Lu Xiaobin frowned and thought for a while. He wanted to refute but seemed to be unable to find any reason to refute.
At this time, Li Tianyi continued: "Lu Xiaobin, do you know that our decision-making mechanism in China is completely different from that in the United States. In the United States, after Trump became the leader, he went his own way in so many things, even
The United States has completely lost its credibility in the world by going back on its word in international affairs.
But this will not happen in China, because our decision-making mechanism can integrate the advantages of elite decision-making and democratic decision-making, thereby ensuring high efficiency and representativeness of decision-making.
I can give you another simplest example. Take the high-speed rail we are riding now. 20 years ago, in terms of railway technology, whether it was the United States, Germany, or Japan, their technology was far higher.
For China, but you are looking at it now, 20 years have passed. Based on China’s correct decision-making and concentrated efforts on scientific research, our China’s high-speed rail has become a business card of China. Some people even call high-speed rail
One of China's four new inventions, and this advantage is not possessed by countries such as the United States, Germany, and Japan.
The reason why I take you to visit these three great projects is to tell you that you should not really think that the so-called democracies in the United States and Europe are so superior in their systems. In fact, their systems have many problems, and their
The system is only suitable for their unique cultural background. If they use their system to measure other countries, this is not only unscientific, but also very bad.
Lu Xiaobin, if you are a little sensitive to politics, you will find that whether it is the United States or Europe, they have been doing three things.
The first thing is to continuously send missionaries abroad to spread their teachings and doctrines, and to widely recruit believers who recognize their civilization."
Lu Xiaobin frowned and said: "There is nothing wrong with their approach. The world has not declared this behavior to be illegal?"
Li Tianyi sneered and said: "Although what they did is not illegal, in fact, what they carried out was a very powerful act of aggression. The essence of this act is ideological aggression and ideological aggression.
Through this mode of aggression, they spread their unique culture and civilization to other countries and regions in the world, thereby creating a favorable ideological basis for promoting their so-called democracy and systems.
And this kind of ideological aggression and ideological aggression is also reflected in the cultural aggression spread by Hollywood blockbusters.
Are Hollywood blockbusters good-looking? There is no doubt that they are good-looking, but if you study and think deeply, you will find that almost all Hollywood blockbusters are spreading American and Western ideology and civilization.
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Lu Xiaobin recalled it carefully and felt that what Li Tianyi said was quite reliable, so he then asked: "Then what are the second and third things you said?"
Li Tianyi said: "The second thing the United States and Europe have done is to export their political ideas and political systems, and even engage in all kinds of **** for this purpose. In the end, it is for the third thing, which is to cause chaos.
The development process of other countries may even directly use force to invade this country, thereby gaining economic and geopolitical benefits.
Western civilization is a civilization based on the law of the jungle. It is a civilization full of predatory nature.
Our Chinese civilization is based on Confucianism and developed by integrating various schools of thought, and one of the core of Confucian civilization is the word "harmony"."
When Li Tianyi said this, he had noticed that although Lu Xiaobin was listening to his words, he also began to think in his heart.
Li Tianyi continued: "Lu Xiaobin, I can give you another example. What is Trump in the United States doing now? He is an enemy of the whole world. He is promoting his so-called America First concept all over the world.
His principle of doing things is to put interests first, and he even goes back on his words and breaks his promises. This is the so-called American and Western civilization and culture.
At this moment, what are we in China doing? We are engaged in the Belt and Road Initiative. We are engaged in win-win cooperation. Cooperation leads to harmony.
Lu Xiaobin, which of these two methods do you think is more capable of winning the recognition of people around the world and winning the future?"