Indonesia, April 20 -- Beijing (ANTARA/PRNewswire)- A report from People's Daily:

John Ross, British economist and former director for economic and business policy for the mayor of London, recently received an exclusive interview with People's Daily.

From the perspective of a Western scholar, Ross, also a senior fellow at Renmin University of China's Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, examined the historical logic and global significance of China's pursuit of high-standard opening up, noting that China's continued opening up is not only essential to its own development but also a rare source of certainty in a turbulent world.

Ross has observed and studied China's economy since 1978, when China started its reform and opening up ...