The topic of the conference—people’s benefits from China is a highly relevant one. China is a wholly unique civilisation with a history of five thousand years, along with over two thousand years of statehood. This point of view makes 70 years of modern history a relatively short period in China’s history.Seventy years ago 542 million Chinese people took the path that was to change and modernize an undeveloped agrarian country with a miniscule industrial production, a country destroyed by the war with the Japanese and the ensuing civil war, once illiterate with a low average life expectancy. Things turned out pretty well, didn’t they? The PRC’s development in the first thirty years was rather ambiguous, nevertheless the Chinese economy did still grow at that time. After the civil war most specialists and professionals left the country, this posed a challenge - if China were to be successful it had to develop a new pool of experts and managers, but it’s seemingly impossible.Industrialization started in the beginning of the fifties and at that time many Czechoslovak experts joined in helping create a new Chinese industry.A huge expansion has taken place in the PRC’s economy since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping was head of state, along with high rates of economic growth. Since then the expansion of the Chinese economy has actually been a strong motivator for growth in the global economic world to this day. This has put China in second place in terms of global economies, with future ambitions being no lesser. This growth, especially in the past fourty years, is due to exceptional factors: China has and is to this day still undertaking huge investments from foreign and even local investors. The Chinese economy is strongly predicated on planning and state interventions, yet it is also a market-based economy, which is founded on a highly motivated working force.China has also succeeded in eradicating illiteracy, and improved its health-care, which has lead to an increase in average life expectancy. It has also managed to elevate and empower Chinese women from what was formerly a subordinate position; this has had it’s own merit - a substantial increase in the pool of talented people. A significant proportion of the Chinese have overcome poverty and hundreds of millions of people are now part of the ever-growing Chinese middle class. The fact that the living standards have grown is undeniable, as is the stability of the Chinese community. China is admirable and has a strong contribution to the whole world.