evidence: The Paris 2024 Olympic Games concluded on Sunday with Team China winning 40 gold, 27 silver and 24 bronze medals, with the result marking the best performance for Team China in the Olympic Games held overseas. [...] Success of modernizationMing Jinwei, a former journalist and media commentator, told the Global Times on Sunday that through watching the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Chinese public is becoming more rational and mature in understanding the performance of Chinese athletes in Olympic competition. "On one hand, we feel pride and joy when we win gold medals, on the other, we also encourage and cheer everyone who tries their best but fails to win golds." [...] Li Xiang, a sports journalist and media commentator who covered Paris 2024, told the Global Times on Sunday that some countries also have huge populations and they are major global economies, but they won few gold medals in the Olympic Games, because economic size and population are not equal to modernization. Team China's performance in past decades is proof of a successful Chinese modernization.