China celebrates because it has the cult of past and recent history. And China plans, because its technocracy has only one undisputed merit: it knows how to plan in the medium and long term. So this December 18 in Beijing is commemorated the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Grand opening of the market, the project with which Deng Xiaoping transformed the Middle Kingdom Empire from underdeveloped country into the World Factory and today the second global economic power.
But in the celebratory speech of Xi Jinping new signals and proposals are awaited, because China is also in the ford of a commercial and technological war with the United States and in the urgency of re-launching the reforms.