A stone taken from another mountain may serve as a tool to polish the local jade.
This is a line from Shi Jing (The Book of Songs). It implies that advice from others may help remedy one's own shortcomings. It also applies to a wider context. For instance, a country can improve itself by learning from the experience and methods of other countries. This shows the Chinese people's openness to learning from others.
Addressing the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting in December 2017, Xi Jinping said: As a Chinese saying goes, "A stone taken from another mountain may serve as a tool to polish the local jade." Advice from others may help remedy one's own shortcomings. The CPC always stresses the need to develop a global perspective. We have learned from and drawn on the achievements of other cultures and applied them in the Chinese context.
他山之石，可以攻玉
“他山之石，可以攻玉”，語(yǔ)出《詩(shī)經(jīng)》，意為別的山上的石頭，可以用來(lái)琢磨玉器。比喻借用他人的批評(píng)、幫助來(lái)改正自己的過(guò)錯(cuò)，借他人或他國(guó)的情況、經(jīng)驗(yàn)、方法等作為自己的借鑒和參考，可以更好地提升自我。這一理念充分體現(xiàn)了中國(guó)人開(kāi)放包容、虛心學(xué)習(xí)的精神。
2017年12月，習(xí)近平在中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨與世界政黨高層對(duì)話會(huì)上引用“他山之石，可以攻玉”，指出中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨歷來(lái)強(qiáng)調(diào)樹立世界眼光，積極學(xué)習(xí)借鑒世界各國(guó)人民創(chuàng)造的文明成果，并結(jié)合中國(guó)實(shí)際加以運(yùn)用。
