Promote people-first image to the world

With both Chinese and English subtitles, the three-minute-long video "The CPC is on the Way Together with You", which was shot in 2013 and first released at the beginning of last year, has become popular again since People's Daily posted it on its official WeChat account on Sunday.

With picturesque rivers and villages south of the Yangtze River, the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, working farmers, high-speed trains, skyscrapers, as well as fuming chimneys, rubbish disposal stations, traffic jams and dense crowds, the video reveals a full picture of China; from some symbolic cultural architects the country has inherited from ancient times, to its contemporary economic and scientific development fruits as well as social problems that have emerged during its modernization drive.

Despite the country's widely recognized economic and social progress over the past decades, the video does not choose to promote just China's achievements to the outside world. It also faces up to the problems that have arisen in the process of the country's development, such as the widening wealth gap, traffic and environmental problems. Such an objective portrayal of China and its current circumstances shows the ruling Party's down-to-earth spirit. Any exaggeration of one side of the coin while ignoring the other side would inevitably have created a distorted view of China.