Carry forward the spirit of Silk Road, create and share a better future
——On the Forty-Nine of the Spiritual Pedigree of the Chinese Communists
2021-12-17 15:19:20Source: People’s Daily Online-People’s Daily
The ancient Silk Road stretched for thousands of miles and lasted for thousands of years. It has accumulated the Silk Road spirit centered on peaceful cooperation, openness and tolerance, mutual learning, mutual benefit and win-win results. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has inherited and carried forward the spirit of the Silk Road in accordance with new historical conditions, and put forward the “One Belt One Road” initiative, which evokes the historical memory of countries along the route and gives the ancient Silk Road a brand new look. The connotation of the times. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “we can draw wisdom and strength from the ancient Silk Road” and emphasized that “to discuss and jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative, promote regional economic prosperity, maintain world peace and stability, follow the general trend, and respond to the people’s aspirations. We must promote The spirit of the Silk Road, create and share a better future.”
More than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors walked through the grasslands and deserts to open up the land Silk Road connecting Asia, Europe and Africa. From Zhang Qian’s mission to the Western Regions to complete the “air-cutting journey” to Zheng He’s seven ocean voyages leaving eternal stories, the ancient Silk Road condensed the ancestors’ pursuit of a better life, promoted the interconnection of countries in Asia and Europe, and promoted The exchanges and mutual learning between Eastern and Western civilizations have made significant contributions to the development and progress of human civilization. In the autumn of 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping went west to Kazakhstan and south to Indonesia, and successively proposed major initiatives to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, aiming to inherit the spirit of the Silk Road, work together to build an open cooperation platform, and provide new opportunities for cooperation and development among countries. power. Nowadays, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has achieved tangible and heavy achievements, which has aroused enthusiastic responses from more and more countries, and has become a my country that participates in global open cooperation, improves the global economic governance system, promotes global common development and prosperity, and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The program has become a popular international public product and international cooperation platform in the world today.
For thousands of years, the spirit of peaceful cooperation, openness and tolerance, mutual learning, mutual benefit and win-win carried on by the Silk Road has been passed down from generation to generation, and has been continuously carried forward in the practice of jointly building the “Belt and Road”, and has been infused with new connotations of the times. Precisely because of the insistence on peaceful cooperation, we firmly believe that “peaceful development and win-win cooperation are the right way in the world“, strive to bridge differences through dialogue, resolve disputes through negotiation, and actively develop friendly and cooperative relations with other countries on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit; It is precisely because of our adherence to openness and inclusiveness, we emphasize that “The Belt and Road Initiative is a sunny avenue for everyone to move forward hand in hand, not a private trail of one party”. We promote the docking of development strategies and interconnection plans with countries and regions, and strengthen policies, rules, and standards. Integration; it is precisely because of the insistence on mutual learning and mutual learning that we advocate “civilizations are colorful due to exchanges, and civilizations are enriched by mutual learning”, to surpass civilization barriers, civilization mutual learning surpass civilization conflicts, and civilization coexistence surpass the superiority of civilizations, and promote all countries Mutual understanding, mutual respect, and mutual trust; precisely because we insist on mutual benefit and win-win results, we uphold the principle of “building the’Belt and Road’ to pursue development, advocating win-win, and conveying hope”, and launched a large number of practical cooperation and benefit People’s projects have built a comprehensive and complex interconnection partnership and created new prospects for common development. The spirit of the Silk Road in the new era embodies the national character of the Chinese nation that loves peace, pays attention to harmony, and pursues harmony, demonstrates the Chinese Communist Party’s world sentiments, value pursuits and mission responsibility, and has become an important part of the Chinese Communists’ spiritual pedigree.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “The Chinese Dream is a dream of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win. We pursue the well-being of the Chinese people and the common well-being of all peoples.” The noble cause of peace and development of mankind is the unswerving goal of the Chinese Communist Party.” At present, a century of changes and a century of epidemics are intertwined and superimposed, the world has entered a period of turbulent change, and the uncertainty of instability has risen significantly. In the face of increasing governance deficits, trust deficits, development deficits, and peace deficits, there is still a long way to go to achieve universal security and promote common development. To answer the question of the age of “what’s wrong with the world, what shall we do”, we must carry forward the spirit of the Silk Road. Create and share a better future. We must hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win, promote the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom of all mankind, stand on the right side of history, stand on the side of human progress, and insist on cooperation and not confrontation. , Persist in openness, refrain from closure, persist in mutual benefit and win-win, refrain from zero-sum games, and oppose hegemonism and power politics. Guided by the Silk Road spirit, uphold the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, promote high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” to achieve more fruitful results, and provide new opportunities for the world with China’s new development, and make the construction of the “Belt and Road” better Benefit the people of all countries.
“Observing the trend will be clear, and the trend will be wise.” General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the third “Belt and Road” construction forum that with the goal of high standards, sustainability, and people’s livelihood, we will continue to promote the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. Quality development. On the way forward, we will vigorously promote the spirit of the Silk Road, strive to achieve a higher level of cooperation, higher investment efficiency, higher supply quality, higher development resilience, and promote the high-quality development of the “Belt and Road” to continuously achieve new results. We must It can contribute more to promoting the common development of the world and building a community with a shared future for mankind, and work with people from all over the world to push the wheel of history toward a bright future.
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