"The fundamental reason for my corrupt behavior is that I lost faith and disregarded Party principles, I failed to be alert, and I committed a crime."
Liangjiahe village, a community of 120 homes scattered along a dry riverbed on the Loess Plateau in Yan'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, looks no different from the other valley hamlets in the region, except for the visitors lined up waiting to board electric minibuses to visit its cave dwellings and crofts.
Editor's Note: The Communist Party of China will hold its 19th National Congress from Wednesday. In the runup to the meeting, China Daily asked two prominent experts for their views on developments in China and the country's global leadership.
Margit Molnar, head of the China Desk of the economics department of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Jean-Paul Agon is the chairman and CEO of L'Oreal, the largest cosmetics group in the world.
Steve Mollenkopf is the CEO of Qualcomm Inc, a multinational semiconductor and telecoms group based in the United States.
China's continued economic growth and its efforts to ramp up international relations will bring "even bigger benefits" to the United States economy and its people, according to Beijing's top envoy to Washington.
The upcoming 19th CPC National Congress will set the direction for further facilitating China's economic reforms for sustained growth, a renowned expert from the United States has said.
In the southern suburbs of Huaibei, a city in the eastern province of Anhui, there are large areas of water, which resemble natural lakes and serve as wetland parks.
More than half of the 800 households in Liuyuan, in Huaibei, Anhui province, have annual incomes of more than 100,000 yuan ($15,000), making it the richest village in the city.
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