When Chinese youth in the 1980s encountered reform and opening-up and got the chance to see the outside world, they were shocked by the gap between China and other countries, and many middle-aged Chinese people share this feeling. Song Luzheng, 50, a research fellow at the China Institute of Fudan University, said that the most fundamental reason why the youth today is much more confident is the firm economic or material foundation that the CPC has laid in the past three decades. China’s immunity from peaceful evolution and ideological offensive launched by the West was weak in the late 1980s, but today its immunity is getting much stronger.