On the 120th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 2069, Chinese taikonauts could salute Tiananmen Square from the moon, says Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin.

What's in store for the next 60 years may be uncertain, but many scholars and experts agree on the country's 60th National Day anniversary that China will become more harmonious and developed, and probably the world's biggest economy.

Liu, China's most popular science fiction author, says the world will see the rise of a technologically and economically stronger China. "The moon will no longer be far from Beijing," says the 46-year-old.

The rise of China will help Chinese to be more confident with their own traditional culture and values, which will introduce modern values and form a new Chinese value system, Liu says.

The dominant Western value system stresses the individual over the collective, and encourages consumption but not frugality, while Chinese traditional values seek a balance between individual and collective, and encourages frugality, but not consumption, Liu says.

He advocates a new value system which acquires a balance between individuality and collectivity, and comprises the concept of sustainable development.

"It's not a process of abandoning western values, but a process of amalgamation of two value systems," Liu says.

He believes the new values will influence Chinese people's lives, economy, diplomacy, technological development and even the world.

(Xinhua News Agency September 29, 2009)