At times of globalization, socialization of information and relatively more abundance of material products in the world, cultural and intellectual construction has now become ever more important and urgent mission in the history of mankind. The world is attaching increasing importance to China for its “core values”. However, what has been less noticed is the aspect of China’s interaction with other countries on the “core value”.

1. China has already had both material and non-material conditions for more active international interaction on the “core values”.

Firstly, China has converged to identify the “core values” after 60 plus years of practice, exploration and conceptualization. Since November 2012 China has launched a great drive of building up a set of “core values” emphasizing on the three “advocating”: Advocating prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony to link the core value with the cause of Chinese people from the national level, advocating freedom, equality, justice and rules of law to inspire social vitality with the core value from the social level and advocating patriotism, dedication, integrity and kindness to inject the core value into the education from the personal level.

Secondly, there are many ways and means of the communication of “core values” between China and other countries. China boasts one of the most and best facilities of internet, iphone, weibo, and wechat both at national and individual levels. Moreover, the Chinese people are among the most in the world who like these modern and advanced means to communicate. According to the relevant statistics, there are 590 million netizens in China, 51% of the whole Chinese population and 1.2 billion cell-phones.

Thirdly, there is much in common between China and other countries in the way of thinking. The current Chinese social existence showed profound changes in economic system, social structure, different interest groups and ideas of people, as well as increasingly strengthened independence, selectivity, diversification and differentiation of people's mind activity. These provide great bases for global interchanges in an increasingly diversified and pluralistic world.

2. China’s core-value-building has benefited from its learning from other countries, past and present, and developing and developed countries alike.

President Xi Jinping pointed out: “We should intensify our publicity of and report on the changes and developments worldwide, and the new thoughts, ideas and discoveries in other countries, so as to help draw on the achievements of other civilizations.”  In its modernization drive, China has mainly learnt in the following three aspects of values from abroad:

The first are those values representing the then progressive ideas and thoughts. China learnt a great deal from the developed and developing regions of community ideas, common prosperity and interdependence and combined them into its own values such as “the same boat spirit” and Community of Common Destinies. One good example is, while keeping to its fine tradition of collectivism, China gives more attention and thoughts to respecting individual freedom and choices.

The second is that China has been trying to build up common or shared values with its neighbors at various regional organizations. In the 1980s and 1990s China supported the concept of Asian Values advocated by the then Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. This concept aimed at unifying people for their economic and social good according to the principle of collectivism, hard working and thrift. In 1995 China put forward the New Security Concept based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination. In 2001 China and other members of the “Shanghai Five” advanced the “Shanghai Spirit” entered on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respecting diversified civilization and seeking for common development. In May 2014 China initiated the New Asian Security Concept at the Fourth Summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Shanghai. The New Asian Security Concept has four main aspects of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable securities.

The third is that China adopts a realistic and pragmatic approach in learning from the other values. China stresses that there are a great deal of commonalities or similarities in terms of values and core values. For instance, all the nations and peoples pursue for secured, predictable and happy lives. Therefore, China attaches great importance to build up, expand and improve the concept of Chinese Dreams by interacting positively with the similar ones in the world.

3. China needs to continue its efforts in international exchanges and convergence on the issue of core values.

China is a country with 5,000 years of uninterrupted civilization, the world’s largest population and ongoing reform and opening-up. Sometimes the length and size will confine China to its own “world” instead of deepening its integration with the real world on the core values.

Firstly, China must recognize the limits of its own core values and hold a broader and deeper sense of visions and missions. China’s past was great. China’s present is gorgeous. But China’s future will be even more magnificent. Therefore, China needs to improve its core values to the extent that they do not only reflect China’s best but also shed lights on the whole mankind.

Secondly, China needs to translate its characteristic values into more widely understood and accepted ones in the world. For instance, the present core values are comprehensive enough to embrace all the basics. However, they are not crystallized and condensed enough, which could not reach out extensively into the masses of the Chinese people, let alone the world peoples at large.

Last but not least, China needs to restructure and modernize its apparatus and institutions of international interflows on core values. The present Chinese institutions are not fully up to the changing situation of globalization and socialization of information. Therefore, China needs to lay a solider foundation of summarizing its own traditional values, learning form other values and endeavoring for a new set of core values with both Chinese characteristics and global implications.

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