Aspiring tales about aspirations

A new book presents stories linking ordinary people and the Chinese dream, Wang Ru reports.

The China Development Research Foundation has begun a project called the Chinese Dream of Ordinary People to chronicle ordinary people's ideas of the Chinese dream. The results have been published in a namesake book.

"When we held this year's China Development Forum, we considered what theme we could discuss with foreign delegates there, and the Chinese dream occurred to us," says Lu Mai, vice-chairman of the board of directors of the CDRF, who is also the chief editor of the new book that was launched in Beijing on July 27.