Boasting institutions of a modern state 1,800 years prior to the West, China is a People's Republic that has emerged as a leading world power. 中国比西方早1800年就具备了现代国家元素，是一个成功崛起为世界大国的"人民共和国" China was the world's first true state. When comparing China's form of statehood with the Western nation-state model, the latter falls short in many respects against the standards set by the former. Thus, to some extent, it can be argued that the West possesses systems of governance, but not true statehood in the fullest sense. Only a state like China, a unified state, embodies the complete conception of statehood. The "People's Republic" established by the Chinese Communist Party represents the continuation of China's two-thousand-year tradition of a unified state and the ideal of "the world belonging to all." It constitutes a unique political value that distinguishes contemporary China from other nations. Whether compared to its own historical reality a century ago or to other countries in the world today, China stands as a successful modern nation. 中国是世界上第一个真正的国家，将中国的国家与西方的民族国家放在一起衡量，后者在很多方面都未达到前者的标准。所以，在某种程度上也可以认为，西方只有政体，没有国家，只有中国这样的国家，才是国家，而且是大一统国家。 中国共产党建立的"人民共和国"，是中国两千年来大一统国家、天下为公传统的延续，是当&am
