BEIJING: Ten years ago, the first symposium in New China’s history on neighborhood diplomacy convened in Beijing, with President Xi Jinping attending and proposing the landmark principle of China’s neighborhood diplomacy — “amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness”.
On Tuesday, Xi sent a message to an international symposium in Beijing to mark the vision’s 10th anniversary. In order to highlight Beijing’s determination to build on the principle alongside its neighbors, Xi emphasized the goal of advancing “Asia’s modernization” and “Asian values”.
At the event, which was attended by a number of leaders, officials and scholars, the Foreign Ministry released China’s first-ever policy document to systematically round up and elaborate on its neighborhood diplomacy.
Analysts said Xi’s message and the policy paper mark a major dividend unleashed for common prosperity and peace in the region and the world, and help reassure Beijing’s Asian neighbors in their joint pursuit of modernization.
In his message, Xi summarized the goals of China’s neighborhood diplomacy as “to pursue friendship and partnership with its neighbors, to build an amicable, secure and prosperous neighborhood, and to highlight the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness”. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
