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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. At the Qingdao summit in 2018, Xi elaborated on his vision on
upholding "innovative, coordinated, green, open and inclusive
development," pursuing "common, comprehensive, cooperative and
sustainable security," promoting "open and inclusive cooperation for
win-win outcomes," championing "equality, mutual learning, dialogue and
inclusiveness between civilizations," and following "the principle of
achieving shared growth through discussion and collaboration in engaging
in global governance." In June 2019, Xi called for efforts to make the SCO an example of
solidarity and mutual trust, common security, mutually beneficial
cooperation, inclusiveness and mutual learning, which has further
specified the goals and tasks of building an SCO community with a shared
future. While attending the 20th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of
the SCO in 2020 via video link, the Chinese president deepened the
concept of an SCO community with a shared future by putting forward "a
community of health for us all," "a community of security for us all,"
"a community of development for us all" and "a community of cultural
exchanges for us all." "I would like to emphasize that the China-proposed ideas of building a
community with (a) shared future for mankind and the Belt and Road
Initiative have stood test within the framework of the SCO," said former
SCO Secretary-General Bolat Nurgaliyev. In recent years, Xi has put forward a series of concepts and
propositions on SCO-related occasions, said Li Ziguo, director of the
Department for European-Central Asian Studies of the China Institute of
International Studies. All of these concepts and propositions, Li said, have not only
enriched the Shanghai Spirit, but also provided pragmatic and effective
measures for as well as added new impetus to the SCO. Enditem
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