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"I don't think the Chinese dream is unique to China. It is a people's dream. It is similar to any other country's dream - American dream, European dream. People are always pursuing happiness and better living conditions or whatever, wherever they happen to be."
Wang Yiwei, director of China-Europe Academic Network and professor at the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China.
"It is a unitary dream. It is a dream for the country and all the people are united around that purpose. So you do see - in a crude sense at least - a difference between it and the American dream, which is inseparable from an individualistic spirit, dating back to the 19th century, of the self-made man."
John Delury, co-author of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century, and assistant professor of East Asian Studies at Yonsei University.
"By using the term, Xi is announcing that China has entered a new phase and that we have reached a point where we have to think differently about the future. I think the Chinese dream sums up that position in a very powerful way."
Martin Jacques, British academic and author of When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order.
"Working together for the greater common good is still a dream and ideal but the problem is that it has proved very difficult. You now have all these people on the other side, the so-called Euroskeptics - including Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party in Britain and Marine Le Penn of the National Front in France - who regard greater European convergence as a nightmare rather than a dream."
Jonathan Fenby, China commentator and author of Will China Dominate the 21st Century?, on the concept of a Europe dream.
"I would say a century or so ago there was something similar to a dream, although the British would never have called it that. I think at the height of empire there was a spread of ideas that generated from Britain across the world."
Rana Mitter, director-designate of the new China Centre at Oxford University on the British dream.
"There is much more of a bigger imperative about the Chinese Dream (than recent leaders' mission statements for China). It is about public mobilization and the vocabulary is richer, talking about people's aspirations and emotions."
Kerry Brown, professor of Chinese politics and director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
(China Daily 04/20/2014 page21)
