Roland Berger: China needs global champions to export influence

Please use three words to describe China's changes in the past 40 years.

Daring: because it was daring in the late 1970s to plan the transformation of the Chinese society and economy, to invent socialism with Chinese characteristics and create the unique combination of a strong State and vibrant market segments with intense competition, within a planned economy. Today, this remains daring.

Determination: because very few countries have succeeded in delivering the expectations of long-term planning in the same fashion as China. I first lived in China 25 years ago, working then in the nuclear sector. Some infrastructure planned in the energy or transportation sectors back then have materialized today.