40 years of reform, opening-up prove it is way forward

Editor's note: The process of reform and opening-up over the past 40 years has never been plain sailing, rather it has been sailing against the current, comments columnist Zhuo Ji in a recent post. Excerpts:

Over the past 40 years, China's gross domestic product has increased from 8 percent that of the United States to 63 percent. But behind this remarkable statistic has been the liberation of people's minds.

A public debate in mid 1977 concluded that we should seek the truth through practice, which later became a social consensus inspiring the people to cross the river by feeling the stones.