Experts highlight traditional culture's role for Global South modernization

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Experts and scholars attending a high-level forum on Friday stressed the pivotal role of traditional culture in the modernization of Global South countries.

"The modern society that we are living in did not emerge out of nowhere. Instead, it grew from the deep soil of our traditional culture," said Jin Minqing, director of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies at the Chinese Ac