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Idea of building community with shared future for mankind wins global support On Jan 18, 2017, President Xi Jinping explained his vision of
building a community with a shared future for mankind in a speech at the
Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, as China's answer to the
challenges and problems facing the world. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Xi's vision has become
increasingly significant and has been widely accepted worldwide as the
international community responded to the unprecedented public health
crisis while striving to promote socioeconomic development. In a recent letter to Xi, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said
countries should be united, respect and support each other against the
disruption caused by the pandemic and commit to building a community
with a shared future for mankind. While talking over the phone with Xi on Dec 15, Chilean President
Sebastian Pinera Echenique expressed his country's willingness to work
with China to advance the building of a community with a shared future
for mankind. He said Chile is willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with
China, jointly safeguard a fair and free trade system, and strengthen
communication and coordination on major issues such as sustainable
development and climate change. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, countries including
Pakistan, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos have agreed with China to build a
community with a shared future to strengthen bilateral ties. At the
regional level, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, African
countries, Arab states and Latin American and Caribbean nations have
reached consensuses with China on the initiative. In a telephone conversation with Xi last month, Bounnhang Vorachith,
then general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central
Committee, said his country stands ready to join with China in
implementing the action plan of the Laos-China community with a shared
future and will strive for greater development of Laos-China relations. When Xi visited the United Nations Office in Geneva on Jan 18, 2017,
he delivered a keynote speech entitled Work Together to Build a
Community with a Shared Future for Mankind. In the speech, he called for
building an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys
lasting peace, universal security and common prosperity to achieve
shared and win-win development, and he explained how countries can build
such a community. In February 2017, the phrase was incorporated into a UN resolution
for the first time by the 55th UN Commission for Social Development. It
has also been adopted by the UN Security Council, the Human Rights
Council and the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, thus turning
the Chinese concept into an international consensus. In recent years, Xi has used multilateral occasions to systematically
explain China's perspectives on development, security, cooperation,
civilizations and global governance to offer China's solutions in
dealing with global challenges. His propositions fully demonstrate the nation's firm resolve and
strong responsibility to work with the rest of the world to build a
community with a shared future for mankind, said Yang Jiechi, a member
of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of China, in an article published in Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine
of the CPC Central Committee, on Jan 1. The pandemic has reminded the world that countries share a common
destiny and need to stand together in the face of the crisis, which has
made it more important and imperative to promote the building of a
community with a shared future for mankind, said Yang, who is also
director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC
Central Committee. Pandemic response As COVID-19 hit the world with an unprecedented impact, Xi has
championed solidarity and cooperation in the global fight against the
virus. He used head-of-state diplomacy to send a clear message that the
virus respects no borders and disease does not distinguish between
races, and humankind is a community with a shared future. In 2020, Xi took part in 87 video meetings and phone calls with
foreign leaders and heads of international organizations and
participated in 22 important bilateral or multilateral events. During
these diplomatic activities, he repeatedly underlined the importance of
advancing the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The global fight against COVID-19 has fully proved that building a
community with a shared future for mankind is the right way for the
whole world to cope with global challenges and build a more prosperous
and better world, observers said. The international community is a family that shares weal and woe,
Yang said, and unilateralist and protectionist policies or the practices
of extreme pressure and blackmail are not workable and are doomed to
fail. Mutual support and win-win cooperation are the only way forward,
he added. BRI cooperation The pandemic has sped up the transformation of the international
landscape, causing a deep economic recession and affecting global
industrial and supply chains. However, the Belt and Road Initiative,
which is considered as a platform for building a community with a shared
future for mankind and a new path to improve global governance, has
demonstrated strong vitality and resilience despite these challenges. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in an interview
earlier this month that the past year witnessed BRI partners supporting
each other and forging a "bond of solidarity" to control the coronavirus
and pursue common development. The China-Europe Railway Express transported more freight in the
first 10 months of 2020 than in the whole year of 2019 and helped
countries with their COVID-19 response, according to the Foreign
Ministry. The Silk Road in the Air has enabled shipments of over 1,700
metric tons of medical supplies from China. In the first three quarters of 2020, China's nonfinancial direct
investment in countries involved in the BRI reached $13 billion, an
increase of nearly 30 percent year-on-year. "Most BRI projects have continued uninterrupted and without layoffs,
and a number of new projects have been launched as scheduled," Wang
said. "This has brought much-needed warmth to this harsh winter in the
world economy and contributed to the efforts of partner countries in
fighting COVID-19." In his message to the High-Level Video Conference on Belt and Road
International Cooperation in June, Xi proposed developing the Belt and
Road into a model of cooperation, health, recovery and growth. Addressing the Understanding China Conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong
province, in November, Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Secretary-General Vladimir Norov commended Belt and Road cooperation,
saying that it helps expand trade partnerships, promotes capital flows
and rejuvenates the ancient Silk Road.
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