Xi Jinping > Quotes

“While tackling the refugee crisis, we should also get to its roots. Why would anyone want to be displaced if they had a home to return to?”
― Xi Jinping

“If the people merely have the right to vote, but no right of extensive participation, in other words, if they are awakened only at election time but go into hibernation afterwards, this is token democracy. Reviewing our experience with people's democracy since the founding of the PRC, we have made it clear that in such a vast and populous socialist country, extensive deliberation under the leadership of the CPC on major issues affecting the economy and the people's quality of life embodies the unity of democracy and centralism. Chinese socialist democracy takes two important forms: in one the people exercise their right to vote in elections, and in the other, people from all sectors of society undertake extensive deliberations before major decisions are made. In China, these two forms do not cancel one another out, nor are they contradictory; they are complimentary. They constitute institutional features and strengths of Chinese socialist democracy.”
― Xi Jinping, The Governance of China: Volume 2

“Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room: Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.”
― Xi Jinping

“We cannot make everyone wealthy at the
same time, nor bring all regions to the same
level of wealth simultaneously. There will be
different levels of prosperity among different
groups of people and different regions,
realized on a different time scale. It should be
a dynamic process where consistent efforts
result in steady progress.”
― Xi Jinping, The Governance of China