Over the past 70 years, China has witnessed profound changes, achieving unprecedented development and putting itself at the forefront of the world economy, with an increasingly comprehensive, profound and prolonged impact, through interactions with nations from different continents, different governance and ideologies. In this sense, this article provides a critical and analytical vision on the political and economic behavior of the Asian country in the global sphere, under the criterion of a qualitative documentary research. A retrospective was made on the ideological, historical and evolutionary aspect of China, considered today as the only economy in the world that has registered economic growth, and a solid recovery of the economy despite the COVID-19 pandemic. It is concluded that the Asian giant has stood out for its rapid economic progress, its military power and the increase of its international influence, to which a prominent power can be attributed, under its criterion of socialist country with Chinese characteristics; in tune with a program of reform and innovation, in the search for development and new opportunities.
