CP Group China Specially Invites Professor Chen Lai to Give a Lecture on the Modern Value of Confucian Thought

On April 22nd, CP Group China invited Professor Chen Lai, Dean of the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning and a renowned philosopher, to deliver a lecture on the modern value of Confucian thought, providing a platform for intellectual exchange across time among CP Group China's executives and young talents.

Professor Chen Lai, the first PhD in Philosophy after the founding of the People's Republic of China, had dedicated himself to Confucian studies for many years. He possessed unique and profound academic insights into the modern transformation and value reconstruction of Confucian thought and had long been committed to the inheritance and innovation of Confucianism, enjoying a high reputation in the field of Chinese Learning both domestically and internationally. In his lecture, he provided an in-depth interpretation of the core concepts of Confucianism, abandoning obscure academic expressions and using accessible language and rigorous logic to explain the core threads of Confucian thought, and systematically explaining the profound influence of Confucian thought on the moral systems of China and the world. He fully demonstrated the value and vitality of traditional Confucian wisdom in contemporary society, deeply inspiring every listener, both on-site and online.

▲Professor Chen Lai gave the lecture.

Following the lecture, Mr. Yang Xiaoping, Senior Vice Chairman of CP Group and CEO of CP Group China, shared his profound insights on the development of civilization, corporate strategy, and the global landscape, elaborating on the theme of "Building a Shared Future Through Harmony in Diversity of Civilization." Mr. Yang Xiaoping stated that Professor Chen Lai's lecture gave everyone a profound understanding that Confucianism, with its core principle of harmony in diversity, respected civilizational differences and embraced pluralistic coexistence, forming the foundation of our firm cultural confidence. We must uphold our cultural confidence while also absorbing the achievements of Western civilization. His book, The Theory of Public-Private Balance, co-authored with Professor Han Lixin of Tsinghua University, was a valuable exploration of the balance between the individual and the whole, and between the public and the private, seeking solutions to the issue of civilization development.

Mr. Yang Xiaoping pointed out that we should uphold the wisdom of "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you," abandoning confrontation and seeking a path of coexistence. He proposed building alliances of electricity, computing power, and intelligence, constructing global partnerships, and leveraging the successful "four-in-one" model of CP Group to promote the reform of our multinational corporations' international financial system. He emphasized the need to convey the balance principles of economic laws pursuing economies of scale and social laws advocating the dispersion of wealth, to use AI to reconstruct productivity and production relations, and to contribute to building a community with a shared future for humanity. He also stressed that CP Group China’s cadres at all levels and young talents should continue to practice the CP Group's core values ​​of "benefit the country, benefit the people, benefit the company," using culture to unite forces and thoughts to clarify direction, injecting momentum into the high-quality development of CP Group China, and contributing to the coexistence and development of human civilization.

▲Mr. Yang Xiaoping delivered a speech.

▲The main venue at the headquarters of CP Group China.