Sharing the story of China’s development miracle: A UN resident coordinator’s blog

Sharing the story of China’s development miracle: A UN resident coordinator’s blog

UN News, United Nations, 20 March 2021

Arriving in Guangzhou as a first-time visitor to China, I could not help but think of former U.S Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s description of what he saw as an underdeveloped provincial city in the 1980s.

As I gazed at the city’s architecture and infrastructure from the airport and hotel during my 21-day quarantine period, I felt amazed as if my plane had taken me back to Dubai, which is another city that represents another iconic demonstration of dramatic transformation.

Looking at this city from this lens as I spent three weeks in isolation gave me a unique perspective through which to view this city’s history while considering China’s meteoric rise in recent decades.

Read the blog in full here.