CGTN Europe's Juliet Mann spoke to Xue Lan, Dean of Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University.
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00:00Great to see you, Xu Lang, from the, well, you're the Chun Kong Chair at Xinhua University.
00:06So let's start with Vice Premier Ding's speech, which talked about China as a key engine for growth
00:12and the need to build a just world for common economic development.
00:16What stood out to you from what he had to say?
00:19I think the first thing is that his confidence is still in the economic globalization.
00:26So he talked about how that actually can bring the benefits to the world and the people.
00:31But at the same time, he acknowledged that, indeed, there might be some people and countries left behind.
00:39So he talked about how can we actually not only make the pie larger, but how to share the pie better.
00:46I think that's where he talked about how actually we can work together to build capacity in developing countries
00:55and to get them also up to the speed in the economic development.
01:00And maybe to give the global south a louder voice?
01:03A louder voice as well, exactly. So that's probably the first thing.
01:06The second thing, I think, he talked about China as the engine of the global economic growth.
01:10And he also acknowledged that China is facing some difficulties in making the transition,
01:16particularly to a high-quality economic growth.
01:19And he's very confident that the innovation capacity in China will help China and with the world
01:26to move to the high-quality growth.
01:30And the third thing I think is interesting.
01:32He talked about the AI, how AI can bring benefits, but also, at the same time,
01:39you have to watch about the potential risks.
01:41So he talked about China's approach to AI development.
01:45It's basically development and safety and security, two wheels to drive that development.
01:53At the same time, he also mentioned that China will not blindly compete for big models.
02:03China will try to use AI for the benefit of people rather than competing for big models.
02:09Let's talk about China's relationship with the U.S. quickly.
02:12The second-largest economy faces the possibility of tariffs now
02:18with the freshly inaugurated Trump in the White House.
02:21Having heard what Ding had to say, how do you see the relationship between China and the U.S. moving forward?
02:27I think Ding didn't really mention the U.S. directly.
02:31Indeed, he mentioned that China has been very much trying to keep the economy open.
02:39I think China's tariff on average is about 7.3, which is actually much lower than what people expect.
02:47So I think China wanted to continue in that.
02:50I think that's a tacit response to the trade threat, to the tariff threat.
02:58So I think that also, given the current interactions between the U.S. and China,
03:04we have the Vice President Han Zheng in the inaugural meeting.
03:09So I think, hopefully, that this might bring a new chapter of the U.S.-China relationship.