BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attendance at the 17th Group of 20 (G20) Summit and the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting, as well as his visit to Thailand, sends a strong signal that China will continue to promote world peace and development, and deepen opening up and cooperation, said Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Wang told the media that it is widely acknowledged at home and abroad that in the face of a complex international situation, by promoting global development and leading global governance China has demonstrated its role as a responsible major country.
During his six-day trip Xi participated in more than 30 events, promoting global development and leading global governance, and demonstrating China’s role as a rational, confident and responsible major country, Wang emphasized.
When addressing multilateral meetings and talking with leaders of other countries, Xi elaborated on the conclusions of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese modernization, win-win cooperation between China and the rest of the world, and championed the bright prospects of China’s high-quality development and high-standard opening up, sending a strong signal that China would always advance world peace and development and deepen opening up and cooperation with other countries, Wang said.
The G20 Summit brought together world and regional countries and was a platform for international economic cooperation, Wang said.
At the summit, Xi called on all countries to embrace the vision of building a human community with a shared future, and to advocate peace, development and win-win cooperation, so as to replace division with unity, confrontation with cooperation and exclusion with inclusiveness, and make global development more inclusive and beneficial to all and more resilient. Xi noted that modernization is not a privilege reserved for any single country, and frontrunners in development should help others develop, Wang said.
The Chinese president proposed building a global partnership for economic recovery and the International Cooperation Initiative on Global Food Security, and supported the African Union in joining the G20. Wang said this showed Xi cared for developing countries and remained committed to the vision that “development is real only when all countries develop together” in diplomatic actions, adding that this approach had received warm responses from developing countries. APEC is the most important platform for economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, Wang said.
Wang said that Xi wisely summarized the successful experience of Asia-Pacific economic cooperation, underlining that the Asia-Pacific is no one’s backyard and should not become an arena for a big power contest. The Chinese president said no attempt to wage a new cold war will ever be allowed by the people or by the times.
–The Daily Mail-CGTN news exchange item
