French students are taking to the streets in search of teachers for quality education, the UK’s National Health Service is nearly defunct due to internal privatisation for profit, while young people are suffering from unemployment, low wages, marginalisation and exploitation. Democratic protests are met with legal threats of imprisonment and barbaric, police-led authoritarianism. Street protests and riots are growing across the so-called democratic, developed Western capitalist world, where democratic deficits, economic alienation, rising living costs and the marginalisation of the working masses define the failures of capitalism and its structural inability to address the needs and desires of people. Meanwhile, propaganda against socialism as a potential alternative is growing.

As part of this concocted anti-socialist campaign, China has become a target to conceal the success of the socialist alternative in China and its achievements over nearly eight decades. The anti-China campaign is ideologically driven propaganda designed to hide and undermine the achievements of the Chinese people and their revolutionary politics. Sinophobia is neither an alternative nor a successful ideological and political propaganda strategy capable of concealing the achievements of the highly committed, creative and hardworking Chinese people under the revolutionary leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

What has China achieved over nearly eight decades?

Under the leadership of the CPC, China has not only eliminated extreme poverty and made significant progress in overcoming underdevelopment and impoverishment but has also designed monitoring processes within its 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) to prevent households from slipping back into poverty by institutionalising poverty-prevention mechanisms. Data from the Chinese Ministry of Education reveal that the population with higher education qualifications reached 270 million in China as of September 2026. Higher education enrolment has reached 61.3%, with 48.73 million students enrolled in tertiary education. The expansion of access to education has led to a preschool enrolment rate of 92.9%, while enrolment in nine-year compulsory education has reached 96.1%. The Chinese government allocates 10.5% of its total expenditure directly to education, equivalent to approximately 3.4% of Chinese GDP.

The 15th Five-Year Plan for Educational Development (2026–2030) focuses on further expanding quality education, integrating technology and aligning education with industry. Such an integrated educational system creates the foundation for developing a creative and skilled workforce that fuels China's growth and development. The 15th Five-Year Plan will add more than 100,000 undergraduate places between 2026 and 2030, with 24,000 added in 2026 and a further 76,000 planned between 2027 and 2030. The Chinese government considers educational expenditure as social investment.

At a time when Western capitalist countries are debating the right to die in the name of dying with dignity or personal choice, the Chinese government is ensuring that elderly care is a collective responsibility while investing in integrated healthcare systems to increase life expectancy from 79.25 years in 2026 to 80 years by 2030 under the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). Illness rates are declining, maternal mortality has fallen to 13.4 deaths per 100,000 live births, and infant mortality has declined to 3.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. These are not accidental outcomes but the results of systematic interventions by the Chinese government, which operates more than 1.1 million healthcare institutions and employs a medical workforce of 16.12 million people. The Chinese government considers public health expenditure an investment in people's health.

From poverty eradication and rising disposable incomes among the Chinese population to the development of modern communications, roads and transportation, advances in science and technology, space and underwater exploration, cutting-edge technologies, strides in artificial intelligence, world-class research and innovation, alternative global banking arrangements and integrated trading systems, modern China has been shaped by the CPC and its unwavering commitment to the Chinese people and beyond.

How did China, the Chinese people and the CPC build such a successful economy, society, culture and political system, in which the Chinese people not only overcame acute poverty and underdevelopment but also continued to advance their prosperity?

Comrade Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, addresses this question by defining the goals of the CPC, the Chinese state and the government. As he puts it, “the sole aims of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in governance are to meet the needs of the people.” He further states, “By making their priorities our own and putting their wishes into action, we will continue working to realize their aspirations for a better life.” He further calls on Party members, Party organisations and leaders “to stay true to our Party's founding mission and stand firm in your ideals and convictions” to carry forward the revolutionary missions and vision of the CPC as “the vanguard of the Chinese working class” and uphold its founding spirit of serving the people.

These ideals are further reinforced by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which adopted the revised Constitution of the CPC on 22 October 2022 to address the changing needs of the times and help young Chinese people understand the scientific approach to socialist modernisation and development in China. The central objective of revising the CPC Constitution is to communicate the centrality and significance of building a “modern socialist country in all respects” by strengthening and expanding the CPC through ideological discipline and political accountability, based on the principle of democratic centralism. Under this principle, primary-level Party branches are as important to the Party's organisational structure as its central leadership. The CPC is a party that not only represents the interests of the people but also acts on their needs, desires and views.

Western states, governments and their bourgeois democracies work for the expansion of capital, while ordinary people continue to suffer in their everyday life. In contrast, the Chinese state and government work for the people. This is the fundamental difference. Therefore, the world can learn from a state and government led by a revolutionary communist party that pursues socialist modernisation across every sphere of society in China in the interests of the Chinese people. China shows that socialism works efficiently and offers the best available alternative.