Editor's note: Ten years ago, when China had just become the second-largest economy in the world for three years, the world was still cautiously observing whether China could develop sustainably and some from the West were even predicting that the story of China's rise would end up with its collapse. But today, China has already become a major world power with undoubted strength and influence able to reshape the global order. Through reviewing the surveys and questionnaires done by the Global Times Research Center involving participants from around the globe in the past decade, we find that the world's recognition of China's development has increased in the past 10 years and that the world has generally recognized the strength of China. Now the world has entered another stage, which holds mixed views on how a powerful China with ambition and confidence will change the world.