BEIJING: Since its widely-anticipated establishment 20 years ago, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has grown into a significant constructive force in the Eurasian region.
At the landmark Qingdao summit of the SCO in 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for concerted efforts to build an SCO community with a shared future, which has injected fresh impetus into the Shanghai Spirit and charted the course for regional and global peace and development.
In the Qingdao Declaration, the SCO members made “building a community with a shared future for humanity” a common concept, which has become the member states’ most important political consensus and set the goal for their future efforts.
To propel the SCO towards a greater role in promoting regional and global prosperity, the Chinese president has expounded his insightful vision on building a community with a shared future for mankind on various occasions.
From 2014 to 2016, Xi repeatedly mentioned a community of common destiny and a community of common interests in his speeches at the SCO.
“All member states, old and new, should work in close coordination, deepen mutual trust and increase mutual support in their endeavor to build a community of shared future featuring equality, mutual support, solidarity and sharing of weal and woe,” Xi said at the 17th Meeting of the Council of Heads of States of the SCO in 2017. –Agencies
