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Indonesia's prominent university holds seminar on Chinese Dream

Xinhua, November 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Indonesia University (UI) held a seminar Tuesday on China's national rejuvenation drive of Chinese Dream and its role in promoting world peace and global welfare.

The seminar was co-organized by Chinese Studies program at UI's Cultural Science Faculty (FIB) and the Confucius Institute, with a keynote speaker of China's Tsing Hua University Professor Chen Lai.

In his speech to open the seminar, UI Rector Mohammad Anis said that China's success in developing the nation and its huge economic scale cannot be neglected by any nation in the world.

"It (the Chinese Dream) has a pivotal role in global economy as it may affect nations establishing trade with China," Anis said, adding that Indonesia and China should forge closer ties in the future after the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations.

In his speech, Professor Chen said in China's history particularly during the modern era, Confucianism is still relevant and is adhered as China's cultural symbol.

Confucianism, which upholds rationality in its philosophy, gives China the moral and spiritual power that underlines the Chinese culture.

"The moral power becomes China's soft power prominently recognized from its civilization. It originally came from the creation of moral power by Confucius with his teachings," Chen said in his speech delivered on the UI campus in Depok, West Java.

At the seminar attended by Indonesian and Chinese scholars and students eager to undertake Chinese Studies, Dean of UI FIB Adrianus Waworuntu said Confucianism holds a centralistic role in China.

Adrianus said the Chinese people have fostered the philosophy that commends personal and administrator morality, compliance to social relationship, fair and just values for thousands of years.

"The Chinese Dream was aimed at revitalizing China in terms of state, nation and civilization on a sustainable basis so as to create a wealthy and powerful China. Efforts to reach those goals were based on Confucianism and China's splendid cultural values," he said.

The students were enthusiastic about Confucianism conveyed by the experts.

"Confucianism was a new compulsory subject in our study program. We hope there will be more student exchange programs to further study the philosophy," Emilia Kurniasari, a student at the UI FIB, told Xinhua.

The Chinese Dream was initiated by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2012, who said the fate and future of every people in China are closely related to the state and the nation. Endit