Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 16. Title: The Banner Leading the Trend of Human Civilization—Written on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of President Xi Jinping’s speech on a community with a shared future for mankind in Switzerland
History is like a giant pen, often writing exciting chapters at important time and space nodes.
On January 18, 2017, President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, systematically expounding the important concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and answered the question of the era of “what’s wrong with the world and what should we do” from a historical and philosophical height. Human beings face global challenges, achieve peaceful development, and chart the way forward for prosperity and progress.
In the past five years, the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind has integrated the spirit of the times, gathered consensus and synergy, and demonstrated its clear truth, the times and practicality, and has become a banner leading the trend of human civilization and progress.
Leading the right direction for the changing world
High votes passed! In November 2021, the “Community with a Shared Future for Mankind” was written into the “No First Deploy Weapons in Outer Space” resolution of the 76th UN General Assembly Disarmament and International Security Committee. This is the fifth consecutive year that the UN General Assembly resolution has written into the concept of “a community with a shared future for mankind”.
At present, a century of changes is accelerating, global challenges are emerging one after another, the epidemic has spread repeatedly in the century, and world history has entered a new crossroads. Cooperation or isolation, unity or division, human society is faced with a major choice, and all countries are exploring ways to deal with it.
People visit the 4th China International Import Expo in Shanghai on November 5, 2021.
“Insist on dialogue and consultation to build a world of lasting peace; adhere to joint construction and sharing to build a universally secure world; adhere to win-win cooperation and build a world of common prosperity; adhere to exchanges and mutual learning to build an open and inclusive world; adhere to green Low-carbon, building a clean and beautiful world.” Five years ago, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, President Xi Jinping’s discussion on the “five worlds” clearly outlined the aspects of partnership, security pattern, economic development, cultural exchanges, and ecological construction. The practice path provides an action guide for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
In the past five years, from writing in bilateral and multilateral cooperation documents to being included in many resolutions of the United Nations, from being listed as the theme of international forums to becoming a research topic for scholars, the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind has been enriched and perfected with the pulse of the times, and has been evergreen and ever-new after the test of time. , to gather an increasingly broad international consensus, showing strong vitality and charisma.
This is the Boao Forum for Asia International Conference Center (photo taken on April 17, 2021).
The founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, once listened to President Xi Jinping’s “historic speech”. He wrote in a book on thinking about the direction of the world in the post-epidemic era that after experiencing the epidemic, he hopes that all countries will realize more deeply, “We are a community with a shared future for mankind on the same planet. We have and should work together to create a common beautiful future.” .
Insight into the changes of the times, understand the needs of the times, and lead the times. In 2013, he proposed that today’s world “is becoming more and more a community with a shared future where you have me, and I have you.” In 2015, he elaborated on the overall path of building a “five-in-one” community with a shared future for mankind at the United Nations Headquarters in New York; The United Nations Headquarters in Geneva further proposed the overall layout of building “five worlds”, advocated the initiative to build a community of human health and health by 2020, and then proposed for the first time in 2021 at the general debate of the 76th United Nations General Assembly to build a community of shared future for global development… …The rich connotation and practical map of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind keep pace with the times and expand continuously, clearing the fog for the turbulent and changing world and pointing the way forward for global development.
Whether a theory has the power to transcend time and space and reach people’s hearts depends on whether it can scientifically answer the questions of the times, the world, and the people.
Container loading and unloading operations are taking place at the Brunei-Muara port terminal in this photo taken on January 1, 2022. The Port of Mora Brunei is operated by a joint venture between China and Brunei, the Port of Mora Limited.
“We must listen to the voices of the people, follow the trend of the times, promote coordination and cooperation among countries, unify the interests of our own people with the interests of people around the world, and move forward in the direction of building a community with a shared future for mankind.” The pure heart of serving the country and the people is the responsibility of a major country that continuously contributes to the development and progress of mankind.
“The world is good, China is good; China is good, the world is better.” The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind came into being in the time-space coordinates and historical process where the Chinese nation is moving towards great rejuvenation and the world has undergone great changes unseen in a century. . Chinese leaders pay attention to the future and destiny of mankind from a global perspective, base themselves on new practices in their own development, and learn useful experience in national governance to provide systematic solutions for promoting China’s peaceful development and world prosperity and progress.
The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind inherits and develops the Marxist idea of ”community of free people”, follows the common values of all mankind, and aims at realizing the free and all-round development of human beings and the happiness of all mankind. It contains forward-looking thinking on the form of human civilization. . This concept draws on the wisdom of traditional Chinese culture, upholds the value orientation of cultivating one’s own strength and being good to the world, adheres to the principle of governance of the road and the world for the public, and pursues the lofty ideal of harmony and symbiosis, and the world is harmonious, which helps to bridge the gap between human society and human society. The “cognitive gap” has increasingly become an important part of the zeitgeist.
Xu Bu, President of the China Institute of International Studies and Secretary-General of the Xi Jinping Center for Diplomatic Thought, said that the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind has achieved a high degree of unity between historical mission and the trend of the times, a high degree of unity between national spirit and internationalism, and a high degree of Chinese style and world sentiment. Unity shines with the light of truth of Marxism and demonstrates the ideological power that drives the times.
“Building a community with a shared future for mankind is the right direction to move forward.” Abdullah Shaheed, President of the 76th UN General Assembly, said that facing the future, seeking common ground while reserving differences, solidarity and cooperation is the right way for human survival.
Open up broad prospects for common development
Come to China, go to development. At the beginning of the new year, foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Turkey, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries, as well as the Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council of the Gulf Arab States (GCC), visited China one after another. In this round of intensive interactions between China and the Middle East countries, deepening cooperation and promoting development together have become the key words, making people feel the warmth of joining hands to the future.
Looking around at the moment, the alarm of the new crown epidemic continues, the global economic recovery is fragile and tortuous, unilateralism and protectionism are surging against the current, the global poverty reduction achievements have been severely eroded, the gap between the North and the South continues to widen, and global development is struggling. Where does globalization go? How do countries get along?
“We should persist in pursuing development through opening up, deepen exchanges and cooperation”, “adhere to ‘holding hands’ instead of ‘letting go’, insist on ‘demolition walls’ instead of ‘building walls’, and resolutely oppose protectionism and unilateralism”… President Xi Jinping has many He called on all countries to create opportunities in opening up, solve problems in cooperation, chart the course for the world economy to break through the waves, and inject confidence and strength into promoting common development.
This is the Haikong Global Boutique Duty Free City booth at the first China International Consumer Goods Expo (Consumer Expo) held in Haikou (photo taken on May 9, 2021).
From Davos to Boao, from the Service Trade Fair to the China International Import Expo, President Xi Jinping announced a series of new measures to expand opening up, with a shorter negative list, a better business environment, and a stronger institutional opening to achieve The global economic recovery provides China with opportunities and injects strong impetus. At the opening ceremony of the 4th China International Import Expo, President Xi Jinping once again declared that China is willing to work with other countries to build an open world economy and let the spring breeze of opening warm the world.
The road is simple, and hard work is the key. China not only assesses the situation and prescribes the pulse, but also pays more attention to keeping its promises and setting an example.
This is the scene of the 130th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) held in Guangzhou by exhibitors (photo taken on October 15, 2021).
The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port has been accelerated, and the reform and innovation of the Pilot Free Trade Zone has continued to advance. From the China International Import Expo, the Service Trade Fair to the Consumer Expo and the Canton Fair, from the China-CEEC cooperation mechanism, China-ASEAN dialogue relations to the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, and the China-CELAC Forum, international events have appeared one after another, and the open platform Vietnam The stronger it is, the deeper and more solid the cooperation mechanism will be, and the wider the path of common development will be.
With the efforts of China and relevant parties, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership has come into effect, and the world‘s largest free trade zone has set sail. China pushes to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, and applies to join the Digital Economy Partnership…
This is the port of Piraeus, Greece (taken on January 16, 2019, drone photo). Piraeus, the largest port in Greece operated by China COSCO Shipping Group, has become one of the fastest growing container ports in the world.
This is a panoramic view (drone photo) of Port City, Colombo, Sri Lanka, taken on December 2, 2021.
The east wind brings warmth, and the branches and leaves are flourishing. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, China-Belarus Industrial Park, Colombo Port City, Piraeus Port, Hambantota Port… A large number of key projects have stimulated the prosperity and development of the region. As an important practical platform for building a community with a shared future for mankind initiated by President Xi Jinping, over the past eight years, the “circle of friends” for jointly building the “Belt and Road” has become wider and wider, and the “landscape scroll” has become more and more detailed.
This is the China-Belarus Industrial Park taken on the outskirts of Minsk, the capital of Belarus, on October 19, 2021.
The “Steel Camel Team” China-Europe Railway Express ran against the wind and accelerated. The China-Laos Railway has realized the Lao people’s dream of connecting for many years. Vibrant, delivering development confidence to the world. Pakistani President Alvi said, “President Xi Jinping’s concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative profoundly interpret the true meaning of cooperation, peace and development, and reflect the universal aspirations of the people of the world.”
On October 15, 2021, the “Lancang” EMU passed the border between the two countries in the China-Laos Friendship Tunnel. On December 3, 2021, the entire China-Laos Railway officially opened for operation.
“On the road of mankind’s pursuit of happiness, a country and a nation cannot be neglected.” “The development of all countries is the real development, and the common prosperity of all is the real prosperity.” President Xi Jinping advocates that development should be placed at the forefront of the global macro policy framework position, propose a global development initiative, and call for the formation of international synergy to jointly create a “development engine” and build a global development community.
Promote the deepening of pragmatic cooperation in the eight key areas of the initiative, and actively implement an additional US$3 billion in international aid in the next three years… This initiative has received support from nearly 100 countries, and has taken an important step to jointly start a new journey of high-quality human development. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the global development initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping is of great positive significance for promoting global equality and balanced sustainable development.
Injecting the Momentum of the Times into Multilateralism
The U.S. “Foreign Policy” website wrote in a recent article that the world is at a “historical inflection point”, and the common future of mankind depends more than ever on effective global cooperation.
In the ebb and flow of a century of changes, the governance deficit, trust deficit, development deficit, and peace deficit faced by human society have continued unabated. Global challenges urgently require a strong global response, and global governance calls for new ideas, new concepts, and new solutions.
At a turning point in the evolution of the international landscape, President Xi Jinping, standing at the height of the shared destiny of mankind, made a major declaration, pointing out that the problems faced in this era should be solved. “The way out is to maintain and practice multilateralism and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.”
Facing the countercurrent of unilateralism and hegemonism in the world, President Xi Jinping said, “The world must be fair, not domineering.” In the face of “small circles” and provoking ideological confrontation, President Xi Jinping said that the essence of multilateralism It is that “international affairs are handled by everyone through consultation, and the future and destiny of the world are jointly controlled by all countries.” In the face of the dilemma encountered in global governance, President Xi Jinping called on all parties to uphold the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, adhere to genuine multilateralism, and promote global The governance system is moving towards a more just and reasonable direction…
“Multilateralism in the 21st century must be upright and new, and face the future. It must not only adhere to the core values and basic principles of multilateralism, but also be based on changes in the world structure, focus on the needs of responding to global challenges, and reform and Improve the global governance system.”
Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, China has adhered to and practiced true multilateralism, injected an era of openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation into multilateralism, and added valuable determination and forward-moving power to a world where risks and uncertainties are intertwined.
This is the Sinovac vaccine that has just been unloaded at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia, on March 6, 2021.
China firmly upholds the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law, and strives to promote the democratization of international relations; in the face of the ups and downs of the new crown epidemic, China and the international community are working together to bridge the “immunity gap” and help developing countries Support the “Shield of Health” and jointly build the “Great Wall of Immunity” for human health; in response to data security risks that are generally concerned by the international community, China has launched the “Global Data Security Initiative” to provide a blueprint for the formulation of international digital security rules; China is more proactive and promising Maintain international peace and security, and become the permanent member of the Security Council with the largest number of peacekeepers; China actively participates in the resolution of major regional hotspot issues such as the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the Iranian nuclear issue, and Afghanistan, and proposes solutions to hotspot issues with Chinese characteristics…
Zhang Qingmin, director of the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy at Peking University and director of the Department of Diplomacy of the School of International Relations, believes that China’s proposition and China’s plan to promote the improvement of global governance stand at the forefront of the development of the times. The progress of international political civilization brings new opportunities.
From fulfilling its WTO commitments, aligning with multilateral rules, and becoming the mainstay of the multilateral trading system, to practicing the concept of ecological civilization, and actively participating in the process of environmental governance such as global climate change and biodiversity, China has shown the world “like a big country” time and time again. Ma Kaishuo, a researcher at the Institute of Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, said that China has set a “positive example” in dealing with a series of global challenges such as the epidemic and climate change, and expects China to continue to “provide leadership” for the world.
On September 6, 2021, the Egyptian Biological Products and Vaccine Company in Giza, Egypt, used China Sinovac vaccine stock solution to produce a new crown vaccine. Egypt is the first country on the African continent to cooperate with China to produce a new crown vaccine.
Changes in the situation, do not change the right path in the world. The sea is flowing, and it is even more necessary to move forward. China has always stood on the right side of historical evolution and on the side of the common interests of the vast majority of countries. It has always been a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order. Martin Albrow, a well-known British sociologist and one of the initiators of the concept of “globalization”, believes that China will continue to make contributions to the world by adhering to multilateralism and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Explore a bright future for human civilization
This is a special “cloud summit” that spans time and space, and a sincere dialogue that transcends social systems, ideologies, and cultural differences. On the evening of July 6, 2021, Beijing time, the summit of the Communist Party of China and world political party leaders will be held.
“There is no fixed pattern for the path of modernization. The one that suits you is the best, and you can’t cut your feet to fit your feet. Every country’s efforts to independently explore a modernization path that suits its own national conditions should be respected.”
“Humanity is a whole, and the earth is a homeland. In the face of common challenges, no one or any country can survive alone. The only way out for mankind is to help each other and live in harmony.”
The powerful words convey the in-depth understanding of the modernization path and the forward-looking thinking of the development path of human civilization by a major eastern country. Representatives of more than 500 political parties and organizations in more than 160 countries in different regions and time zones looked attentively and listened carefully.
Looking around the world, the myth that modernization is Westernization has been rampant, and the “end of history conclusion” has been clamoring for a while. However, history and reality have proved that the tragedies of southern oranges and northern oranges are often staged, and even fall into the “dependency trap” by copying the Western model regardless of national conditions.
On June 4, 2021, the first China-Europe freight train from Nanjing, Jiangsu, China to Tilburg, the Netherlands arrived in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
A peaceful and developing world should carry different forms of civilization, and must be compatible with various paths towards modernization. China has successfully embarked on the path of Chinese-style modernization, leading more than 1.4 billion Chinese people into the ranks of modernization, changing the misunderstanding of “one-way convergence” in modernization, improving the overall well-being of all mankind, and writing an unprecedented miracle in the history of human development.
This is a path of peaceful development and a path of walking hand in hand. This path not only creates a new form of human civilization and a new path for the development of civilization, but also injects strong impetus into the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and paints a new picture of human civilization featuring harmony and harmony in the world.
President Xi Jinping pointed out incisively that to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, it is not about replacing one system with another, or replacing one civilization with another, but with different social systems, ideologies, histories and cultures, and different levels of development. The countries of the world have symbiotic interests, rights, and responsibilities in international affairs, forming the greatest common denominator for building a better world.
Great harmony in the world is the ideal pursuit of the Chinese people, and harmony and difference is the wisdom mind of the Chinese people. From the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, to the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom for all mankind, President Xi Jinping advocates building a community with a shared future for mankind, which embodies the dialectical unity of “difference” and “harmony”. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind rooted in Chinese civilization has provided rich civilizational inspiration for the modernization and transformation of human society.
Gao Zugui, dean and professor of the Institute of International Strategy of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), said that the essence of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind lies in harmony but difference, which reflects the philosophical wisdom of multi-dimensional symbiosis, rather than the one-way thinking of binary opposition. This concept advocates exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, coexistence and common prosperity, and paints a picture of a colorful and beautiful human society.
In the face of some people’s attempts to create prejudice and hatred and provoke ideological confrontation with the “clash of civilizations” and “racial superiority theory”, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that it is necessary to establish a civilization concept of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and tolerance, and to surpass civilizations through exchanges. The estrangement of civilizations, the mutual learning of civilizations transcends the clash of civilizations, and the coexistence of civilizations transcends the superiority of civilizations.
With a deep understanding of “harmony but difference”, President Xi Jinping promoted different civilizations to cherish and know each other, and opened up a new path for state-to-state exchanges. From hosting the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations to promoting the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, under the initiative of President Xi Jinping, China has built a new platform to promote dialogue among civilizations and promote common development, bringing together a strong synergy to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
On the top of the mountain, you can see the river rushing; on the top of the peaks, you can feel the mighty wind. “People from all over the world should uphold the concept of ‘the world is one family’, open up their arms, understand each other, seek common ground while reserving differences, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind.” From the perspective of the evolution of human civilization, building a community with a shared future for mankind is an inspiring way of system exploration and civilized practice, creating a new narrative of human civilization.
Hundreds of rivers flow into the sea, and there is so much soup. Promoting the magnificent practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and promoting the inexorability of different civilizations, mutual trust, mutual understanding, and integration, will surely write a new chapter in human civilization. China will join hands with all progressive forces in the world to make new and greater contributions to a better world and the progress of human civilization.
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