On April 5, 2024, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng gave an exclusive interview to Senior Foreign Policy Writer Tom O'Connor from Newsweek on “new quality productive forces” and the Chinese economy. 

Ambassador Xie said that new quality productive forces will not only invigorate China's high-quality growth but also provide impetus for global sustainable development. High-standard opening-up is the path China must take to achieve greater development, and will also bring dividends to the world. China's ever-expanding, upgrading supersize market is both a solid foundation for its own growth and a historical opportunity for win-win cooperation among countries.

What people should worry about is not whether China's growth would peak, but whether they would miss the opportunities in China. And rather than speculating about whether the Chinese economy would collapse, what should truly alarm people is how decoupling could drag down global recovery and how geopolitical conflicts could end the eight-decade-long world peace.