CHINA DAILY Tuesday, January 23, 2018 C VISION CHINA 7 Ob ffer fresh insight fe ° - - Intellectual hails progress . t ° . - made in past while warning ; VISION CHINA - of challenges that lie ahead New, ew Thinking = es mS “= a “RATT A 1H | [email protected] a el ~ l —_— = > m Robert Lawrence Kuhn has many y ©} 5) = ze sy . + titles, ranging from investment \y ~s \ x. AB a = iy -~ ~; 7) banker to anatomy researcher. But — = *~ wy —s ow ~ oa . ates he is better known in Chinaasa spe- LS wall 4 wy ~ —~) a, = W cialist who knows the country «4 ae Wy : s ii’) q ) ; inside out. % << ‘ « * a Over the past 29 years, he has 4 » \ ‘ 3S >) visited almost every provincial 66 =a N ° q region and spoken with people from. = a | ae ‘ all walks of life, including some who . ES \ 7 i &\ } have gone on to become State lead- Jike to understand = q ers. ‘ “Tt’s been a great gift to my lifeto new era mn two catego- a be able to learn so much about Chi- . . eae na’s rich civilization, political theo- Ties: its characteristics | i \ | | | A ries and the whole development,” he ee Pment'he at home and abroad, | | Mt j i = = Kuhn, who is from the United = * le ” ; States, learns as an outsider but and Its timeline: communicates as an insider. In his F talk show Closer to China with R.L. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, investment : ; Kuhn on the China Global Televi. anker and anatomy researcher a : sion Network, he presents China’s complex story to the world through From left: Zhao Jianguo, head of the international communication bureau of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee; Jiang candid, intimate discussions with Q&A | ROBERT Qingzhe, Party chief of the University of International Business and Economics; China Daily reporter Andrew Moody; Guo Weimin, vice-minister of the Information the country’s decision-makers. LAWRENCE KUHN Office of the State Council; speakers Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Liu Xin; Zhou Shuchun, publisher and editor-in-chief of Ch