Call for champions to promote global health

Earlier this year at the World Economic Forum, President Xi Jinping delivered a hearty defense of globalization. To people following world affairs for the last few decades this should not have come as a surprise. It is well known that China is the world's second-largest economy and a global force in manufacturing and trade. What is less well known is that China has taken on increasingly critical roles in global healthcare and development, which it views as necessary to sustain and accelerate global economic growth.

This week, as leaders converge on Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, globalism needs another kind of Chinese champion - its private sector innovators.

China is in the midst of a technology revolution. Home to more electric cars than anywhere in the world, its enterprises are driven by the energy of its enormous market and a fierce competition to innovate products. China started the shared-bike revolution that is transforming urban transportation in cities.