BEIJING: A decade ago when the newly elected leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made its public debut at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the world speculated about how the most populous nation and second largest economy would reach out to the global community, and what role China would play in a world in the midst of turmoil and transformation.
During his first overseas trip as Chinese president in March 2013, Xi Jinping, also General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, introduced China’s vision of fostering a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation at the core and the notion of building a community with a shared future for humanity. In the following years, Xi proposed a host of major initiatives and proposals, including the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the upholding and promotion of the common values of humanity, the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI) and the Global Civilizations Initiative (GCI).
The core message of these initiatives is that countries are interdependent, humanity has a shared future, and the international community must become united for cooperation.
Over the years, under President Xi’s leadership, China has been committed to the path of peaceful development, and devoted itself to addressing global challenges, facilitating win-win cooperation, promoting greater democracy in international relations, and making the global governance system more just and equitable. The building of a community with a shared future for humanity has evolved into a vision with global significance, received warm response from the wider international community and has been exerting positive and far-reaching influence on contemporary international relations.
At the global governance level, initiatives to build a community with a shared future in the dimensions of cyberspace, nuclear safety, common health, life and nature, and the ocean have been proposed. At the regional level, initiatives to build a community with a shared future with China’s neighbors, as well as other Asian and Asia-Pacific countries, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Africa, the Arab world and Latin America have been well received.
–The Daily Mail-Beijing Review news exchange item
