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The book "Successful China" by Robert Fitzthum presents facts about poverty alleviation, green transformation, and human-friendly cities of the future. The book includes an interview with Zhang Weiwei, a professor of International Relations and Dean of the China Institute at Fudan University in Shanghai. Zhang emphasizes that China wants to learn from the West while preserving its own identity. The book provides a detailed account of the measures and fields of work that China has taken to lift millions of people out of poverty. It is a contribution to promoting an unbiased understanding of China and creating a sustainable German-Chinese policy. [Extracted from the article]

The example of China's anti-poverty policy is used to show how more complex governance mechanisms become active in place of the state, incorporating on the institutional level multilateral development organizations as well as Chinese and international NGOs. These development trajectories in the field of anti-poverty policy can be interpreted along the lines of three different future scenarios, namely a neo-liberal scenario, in which the state abdicates its social responsibility in favor of (national and international) society; a state-centered scenario, in which new (participatory and internationalized) forms of governance serve primarily to strengthen the Chinese state; a scenario of globalizing social policy, in which the third sector, in cooperation with the state and the market, acts to promote socially and environmentally compatible globalization processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]