For Pakistani journalist Saud Faisal Malik, China's remarkable surge in international exchanges, including a rich variety of diplomatic events, has offered him key opportunities to observe from close up Beijing's foreign policy priorities and domestic agenda. 

During his five-month stay in China this year, Malik traveled to 12 cities for news-gathering trips and covered several of the nation's landmark diplomatic events, including the first China-Central Asia Summit in May and the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in October. Malik, who is deputy editor-in-chief of Pakistan Observer, said it was highly rewarding for him to be part of a process that saw China welcome a historic increase in visits by global leaders, business executives, scholars and reporters in the first year of its post-pandemic era. 

"The nation's booming exchanges served the need of both the country and the rest of the world for economic revitalization and promoting peace and harmony," he said. 

Over the past year, China has ratcheted up efforts to forge partnerships for win-win cooperation, seek multilateral solutions to global challenges and build an open world economy, as part of a commitment to building a global community with a shared future, said analysts and observers. 

The most important multilateral event hosted by China this year was the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, an event in Beijing that brought together two dozen global leaders and representatives from over 100 countries and 30 international organizations. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after the event that the global forum delivered a strong appeal for solidarity, cooperation, opening-up and win-win outcomes, instead of division, confrontation, closed doors and zero-sum games.