Beijing Interpreting the ChinAfrica Dream

2012, " is a vision for the nation’s future. Two weeks before announcing the concept openly, Xi Jinping expressed the intent of the would-be notion in his first public address after being elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), # which reflects Chinese peoples ’ desires for ‘better schooling, more stable jobs, more satisfying incomes, more reliable social security, better health care, better housing conditions and a more beautiful environment’.1 Being the important guiding ideology and governing philosophy of the fifth generation Chinese leadership, the Chinese Dream inspires hopes and sets expectations in China. Internationally, it draws attentions but at the same time it provokes questions and elicits concerns: Western anxiety is rooted in the fear that for China to fulfill the Chinese Dream, China will become more assertive, more aggressive and more expansionist in foreign affairs, especially when dealing with smaller neighbors.2 In a highly globalized context, the intensive interdependency and interplay of nations and powers reveal that the implementation of Chinese Dream as a new political discourse relies highly on the perception and attitudes of the global society. One can find the representative views of scholars and opinion leaders on Chinese Dream on media and publications, but the ideas of publics are hardly known and seen anywhere