China, however stressed that for Nigeria to tap from its tested wisdom in nation building, it must struggle hard to tackle what it described as four evils which it reckoned has been bedevilling Nigeria and most African countries for long.
It gave the four evils as feudalism which it stressed promotes indiscipline, extravagance and corruption, poor leadership and party system as well as weak institutions.
A top official of the Chinese government, Mr Ai Ping, disclosed this to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, during the latter's visit to the Foreign Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing, China.
The Vice Minister, International Department of CPC Central Committee, told the PDP chairman that the ability of China to conquer the four evils with capacity to limit the progress of any country was the reason his country has risen from poverty to prosperity, all within a period of 40 years.
He also disclosed that the success of China as the world's second best economy was mainly rooted in the priority attention successive governments had placed on growth of national economy and the need to be self reliant in many respects.
According to him, China was able to evolve a strong system of governance with the aid of the CPC which he stressed has been promoting discipline among members, while deriving its strength from the grassroots.
Ping said China never joked with the idea of constant reforms, noting that Nigeria too can imbibe the tradition of fashioning out home grown reforms to change its governing system through democracy.
The minister urged Nigeria to take a cue from a sister African country, Ethiopia, which, according to him, now tends a single digit economy, through the progress oriented reforms it adopted about half a decade ago.
Ethiopia, he stressed, was one of the least developed parts of Africa, when it suddenly began to tend one of Africa's fastest growing economy on a single digit base having demonstrated understanding of the basic rules of economic development.
He said within a few years, Ethiopia was able to evolve a market driven economy, with attendant encouraging infrastructural development, adding that the East African country complemented its new consciousness for growth by focussing attention on human developments.
He said Nigeria should not shy away from recruiting experts from relevant quarters to train its youths on acquisition of skills, which, according to him, is vital to national growth.
He said, "In China, we always have more solutions than problems. All the changes we have had in China came through reforms and reforms should be an ongoing process. So, China and Nigeria can forge strong partnership while exploring areas of cooperation which would be beneficial to the two."
Tukur, in response, told the minister that he and other members of the PDP were in China to learn from the country's model of development and party system.
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