International Department of the CPC Central Committee       BEIJING REVIEW
Monday, January 30, 2017       MONTHLY
Contribute Chinese wisdom to building a better world
By Song Tao 

Song Tao, Minister of International Department, CPC Central Committee(DONG JIEXU, CHINA NEWSWEEK

In 2016, the world economy continued to be bleak with diverging trends between developed countries and emerging markets. Populism cropped up featuring anti-establishment, anti-elite and anti-globalization. The strategic contest between major countries deepened. Geopolitical hotspots became even hotter. Global challenges like terrorism and the refugee crisis stood out. Instability, uncertainty and insecurity became a normal. As the rise and fall of international forces pick up speed, and as the international pattern and the international relations undergo profound changes, the world is in face of a key choice on what course to take. "It is the common aspiration for all parties to build a better world." In face of a changeable international situation and a confusion-ridden world, General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed time and again to "actively dig out points of sympathy between positive philosophy of life in Chinese culture and the contemporary times" and to contribute more of Chinese wisdom to building a better world.
Adhering to holistic thinking in building a better world of shared future. "In the era of economic globalization, there is no island completely cut off from the rest of the world. As members of the global village, we need to cultivate the awareness of a community of shared future for mankind." This important proposition of General Secretary Xi Jinping carries forward and propagates the concept of "finding beauty in oneself, admiring the beauty of others, appreciating beauty together and achieving harmony of the world from the fine tradition of Chinese culture, making clear the direction for progress of human society. Since 2016, in promoting the construction of a community of shared future for mankind, China has successfully hosted the G20 Hangzhou Summit and, by closely centering on the key link of development, the event became the G20 summit in history with the broadest participation of developing countries, the most salient feature of development and the most distinguished outcomes on development. China has vigorously pushed forward the construction of the Belt and Road, which, supported and participated in by more than 100 countries and international organizations, becomes the most influential initiative for cooperation in today's world. Proceeding from the concept of man and nature being a unity, China sets great store by the issue of climate change and has taken the lead in signing and ratifying the Paris Agreement, promoting the building of a better world by concrete actions. We are gratified to note that more and more countries have joined hands with China on the broad road of building for mankind a community of shared future.

Adhering to openness and inclusiveness in building a better world of win-win cooperation. As the Chinese have advocated since the ancient times, "all living things are nourished without injuring one another, and all roads run parallel without interfering with one another." The history of world economic development attests to the fact that open-up leads to progress whereas lock-up leads to regress. It is based on this understanding that General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes the importance of helping "build a new type of international relations and a better world of win-win cooperation." Upholding this concept, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward for the first time his vision of global economic governance featuring equality, openness, cooperation and sharing at the G20 Hangzhou Summit and stressed the need to oppose all forms of protectionism and lead the process of economic globalization towards inclusiveness and universal benefit at the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, which witnessed that the concept of projects "being jointly built through consultation to meet the interests of all" was written into the leaders' declaration for the first time. The Belt and Road Initiative has become the largest platform for countries to achieve common development and win-win cooperation. Promoted by China, it increasingly becomes the consensus of the international community to conduct exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations and to be open and inclusive.

Adhering to addressing both the symptoms and root causes in building a better world of equity and justice. History tells us that the law of the jungle is not the way for mankind to live together and that exhausting all resources to build up military power cannot lead to a better world. At present, there are too many problems in the world, with too profound contradictions and too rampant inequity and injustice. Tackling these problems and contradictions makes it necessary to take the long perspective and to face the future. "When the case is acute, take on the symptoms and when it is not, take on the root causes." Since 2016, China has actively helped the switch over of the G20 from a mechanism of crisis management to a long-acting one, striving both to enlarge the representativeness and raise the voices of developing countries in global economic governance and to attach great importance to implementing the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030 and help fundamentally address the development concerns of developing countries, both unswervingly suppressing terrorism in all forms and committing to addressing the root causes of terrorism in political and economic terms, and both firmly upholding its sovereign rights and interests in the South China Sea and helping channel the issue back on track of dialogue and consultation. On coping with international and regional hotspot and thorny issues, China stands for tackling both the symptoms and root causes against a double standard, its principled stand being understood and accepted by more and more countries the world over.

Over the past year, China has played a positive role of political guidance in the historical process of building a better world, shedding light for all parties on the direction of world developments and helping them tell the right concepts and ideas among the clashing trends of thoughts and get out from the swamp of doubts and misgivings to approbate China's choice of its development path. More and more countries and their political parties have seen the importance of Chinese wisdom in promoting new development of the world. This year will see the convocation of the 19th CPC National Congress, and it is also a year of continuously forging ahead and promising endeavor for China's diplomacy. We will closely unite around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, going with the tide of the times, keeping self-confidence on our path, theory, institutions and culture and bringing into full play our own features and advantages in making a difference by providing political guidance in a pragmatic and innovative way. By offering Chinese wisdom and Chinese proposals, we will make positive contributions to building a better world.

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