Western ideas of governance are not only path to development, official says

China's social governance and its socialist system with Chinese characteristics - which have been increasingly valued by the rest of the world - are of global significance and offer a reference for nations pursuing independent rapid development, said a senior official.

"China's social system and governance are effective and successful," Jiang Jianguo, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said at an international forum featuring the significance of China's governance to the world, held in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Monday.

"Take the poverty alleviation work as an example. In the past 70 years, we've carried out a continuous mission of lifting our people out of poverty, which has helped over 800 million people shake off poverty."

He said that the remaining 6 million impoverished people will be lifted out poverty next year, building the nation into a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

"The extreme poverty that has beset the nation for thousands of years will be solved, showing that our social system is effective and of great success," he added.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC earlier this month adopted a decision on how to uphold and improve the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advance the modernization of China's system and capacity for governance. It pointed out that the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and China's system of governance are systems of strong vitality and strength as proven by practice.