BEIJING: Over the past 10 years, many policy researchers have found that China has remained true to its word on its commitment to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
To achieve this major vision, Beijing has added to its huge toolbox, putting forward and developing a range of detailed blueprints and initiatives, such as the Belt and Road Initiative and the Global Development Initiative.
In the past decade, the BRI alone “has galvanized nearly $1 trillion of investment, established more than 3,000 cooperation projects, created 420,000 local jobs and helped lift almost 40 million people out of poverty”, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang told reporters earlier this month.
At the heart of these ambitious Chinese blueprints is the nation’s unchanged belief that countries can and should get along well with one another and the global community needs teamwork and unity, officials and scholars said.
When speaking at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in March 2013, President Xi Jinping observed that mankind, living in the same global village, has increasingly emerged as a community with a shared future in which everyone’s interests are closely entwined.
After that, he proposed the Belt and Road Initiative, also in 2013, the Global Development Initiative in 2021, the Global Security Initiative last year, and the Global Civilization Initiative on March 15. The GDI alone has won the support of more than 100 countries and international organizations, including the United Nations.
“All these have enriched our vision for a community with a shared future for mankind and provided practical pathways toward it,” Xi said in a signed article published in Russian media on Monday. “They are part of China’s response to the changes of the world, of our times, and of the historic trajectory.”
The community vision has been incorporated many times in key documents such as resolutions and joint statements focusing on global governance, including those of the United Nations and the BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Vice-Foreign Minister Xie Feng said earlier this year that “the past 10 years has witnessed this vision displaying increasing power of truth and enormous potential in practice. … Building a community with a shared future for mankind is not an empty concept, but enriched practices”.
China is working with various countries to translate the GDI into reality and stepping up efforts on the high-quality development of the Belt and Road, he noted.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
