This July 1, 2021 file photo shows a flag-raising ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. XINHUA PHOTO
Editor's Note: When it comes to rapid domestic development and global ascendance, there is hardly any parallel to what China has achieved over the past decade. In a poll conducted by the Global Times Research Center in 2012, over half of foreign respondents viewed China as a "world power." But Chinese people were humbler, with only 34.9 percent of Chinese respondents to a 2014 survey seeing their country as a world power, despite China's rise to become the world's second-largest economy.