MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- "In the last three decades of economic reform and opening-up, the Chinese people have achieved remarkable success under the leadership of the Communist Party of China," said a venerable Russian scholar in a recent interview with Xinhua.

    The Chinese government has been taking a steady, sure and gradual manner in popularizing and carrying out reform-related policies to ensure most of the Chinese people can understand and accept them, said Michael Titarenko, director of the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Science.

    The Chinese government has taken into full account of tolerance limit of the general public over change and reform and assured them that the difficulties brought on by reform policies were temporary and surmountable, said Titarenko, a leading expert on China.

    Such a steady and sure manner has been a crucial factor in helping China succeed in its reform and opening-up over the past 30 years, he added.

    Titarenk said reform and opening-up policy was taken as the old generation of Chinese leadership and the public strived to explore new road suitable to China's future development after the so-called Cultural Revolution that halted the country's economic growth in the 1970s.

    The then leader Deng Xiaoping initiated a nationwide debate on the criterion of truth, which emancipated the people's mind. "The Beijing Olympics is an excellent indication of the achievements China has made in its reform and opening-up drive," Titarenko said.

    "Innovation is a typical feature of the Communist Party of China and the government, which facilitated consistent and thorough reforms in all spheres of social life in the last three decades," he said.

    Nevertheless, China, the birthplace of Confucianism, still keeps a moderate approach on the world arena as demonstrated by its ancient philosophy, he added.