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On 25 October 2026, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Wenhua Zongheng jointly convened in Beijing to discuss ‘China’s Socialist Modernisation and Perspectives from the Global South’.

The event marked the launch of two major publications: Volume 4, Issue 1 of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng, Building a New Development Theory from the Global South, and the Tricontinental dossier, Walking on Two Legs: The Socialism of Chinese Modernisation.

The discussion explored how China’s path of socialist modernisation resonates with the developmental aspirations of the Global South.