Welcome to another week of the Transformation Leadership Series. For some weeks now, we have been discussing the importance of a leader’s value system and morality in precipitating transformation that is sustainable.

We extrapolated and analyzed the parting words of world leaders such as Jian Zemin of China and George Washington of the USA. With respect to China’s development in recent years, we traced their developmental success to the bible, Christian values and morality citing the works of Max Weber, Niall Fergusson, David Aikman and Marc Nuttle.

Many trace China’s success to economic policies but their own leaders and their scientists trace it to Christianity and its value system. It is for this reason that the Chinese state set up a government ministry to promote Christianity and build churches. For more on this, see BBC article below. Much of this information is not reported in the media. But this is the source of their strength. What’s even more perplexing for some is how a self-professed atheistic nation can leverage of Christianity to rise to prominence in world affairs.

This week, I will show you a video and a news article the proves, buttresses and accentuates the following past TLS’ on understanding the Rise of China phenomenon:

• TLS 20 Leadership and Values 6 – China 3
• TLS 19 Leadership and Values 5 – China 2
• TLS 18 Leadership and Values 4 – China 1

ALJAZEERA VIDEO

Transcript Of Al Jazeera Video:

Adrian Brown of Al Jazeera: There was once a time when China’s Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung’s little red book was the only bestseller here [in China] but now there’s another one and it’s been around a lot longer. More than a hundred and thirty million copies of the Bible have rolled off this production line, thirteen million last year alone—many exported but the majority were for the domestic market, purchased for churches sanctioned by China’s atheist government.

Qui Zhonghui (Amity Bible Printing Chairman): first principle is, serve our churches, serve our brothers and sisters [in China], then if we still have the capacity we will serve their overseas churches.

Adrian Brown of Al Jazeera: The factory publishes Bibles in 90 languages from Arabic to Russian. Such is demand for the holy book, [that] it [printing the bibles] remains around the clock operation. According to official figures, around 30 million people are Christian. Unofficially, it’s a hundred million. That’s more members than the Communist Party has. And while religion is tolerated, the government is wary of its growing popularity, a popularity reflected here [in the factory]. The factory began publishing Bibles in 1987, just a few years before the Communist Party ended, its campaign to try to wipe out religion. Today, it’s proof that there is money in religion, a contradiction that is perhaps only possible in today’s China. And in today’s China, more people are seeking meaning and spiritual comfort that neither communism nor capitalism seem to have supplied.

Qui Zhonghui (Amity Bible Printing Chairman): The material is not enough before because we are human beings not animals. So when we have in our kettle enough food, we’re always thinking, what’s the value of life?

Adrian Brown of Al Jazeera: He (Qui Zhonghui) believes that 20 years from now, there could be up to a hundred and sixty million Chinese Christians and of course they’ll all need a Bible made here.

Adrian Brown Al Jazeera, Nanjing

NEWS ARTICLES

The Article lends credence to what has been discussed so far about China’s rise in previous TLS’.

http://www.chinachristiandaily.com/news/ministry/2018-12-15/how-world-s-largest-bible-printing-press-was-established-in-china_8098