Editor's note: During the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of 'the East is rising while the West is declining' in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, particularly the US, plagued by internal woes, have sought the old path of passing the buck and instigating turmoil elsewhere to ease their own pressure. China, representative of the emerging countries, is proposing new solutions to global problems. By advocating win-win development, facilitating consultation and reconciliation and proposing a balanced and effective security mechanism, China is striving to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

In this article, Mikhail Delyagin, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, talked to Global Times (GT) reporter Wang Wenwen on how he understands China's development in the past decade.