BEIJING: China called for promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world, and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization to meet the challenges facing the world, while setting out blueprints for its foreign affairs efforts during a two-day national conference.
Addressing the Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs, which concluded on Thursday in Beijing, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, summarized the achievements and valuable experience of China’s diplomacy with distinctive features in the new era.
Xi, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, expounded on the international environment and the historic mission faced by China’s foreign affairs work in the new journey. He also made comprehensive arrangements for the country’s current and future periods of such work.
In the current and coming periods, China’s external work must follow the principles of self-confidence and self-reliance, openness and inclusiveness, fairness and justice, and win-win cooperation, and must focus on building a community with a shared future for mankind, according to a statement released after the meeting.
In building a community with a shared future for mankind, the goal is to build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world of lasting peace, universal security and shared prosperity, and the pathway is by promoting global governance that features extensive consultation and joint contribution for shared benefit, the statement said. It pointed out that to build a community with a shared future for mankind, the guiding principle is to apply the common values of humanity, and the foundation lies in building a new type of international relations.
The statement emphasized that the strategic guidance for building a community with a shared future for mankind will come from implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, while the platform for action is high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. “On this basis, we seek to bring countries together to meet challenges and achieve prosperity for all, and usher in a bright future of peace, security, prosperity and progress for our world,” the statement added.
It was noted at the meeting that amid current risks and challenges, an equal and orderly multipolar world is needed, as well as inclusive economic globalization that benefits all. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
