Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
The Ukrainian Southern Port Grain Terminal Dredging Project, undertaken by China Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. and undertaken by China Communications Construction Tianjin Waterway Administration Co., Ltd., held a completion signing ceremony on January 30, 2018. The project solved the problem of years of silt blocking the port, which is of strategic significance to Ukraine's further expansion of food exports. The picture shows a group of silting units being constructed in Nanfang Port. Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Junfeng
Serbian President Vucic attended the celebration of Hegang Serbia Co., Ltd.'s official takeover of the Smederevo Steel Plant on July 5, saying that the acquisition of the Chinese company has made the factory successful and progress. The Smederevo Steel Plant was established in 1913 and once faced bankruptcy. In 2016, China Hesteel Group acquired the factory. At the end of that year, profit was achieved. The picture shows Vucic (right) inspecting Hegang Serbia Co., Ltd. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Huijuan
In the Chinese peacekeeping camp at the East Theater Super Camp of the United Nations Multi-dimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, there is a "blue music team" composed of the 5th China's peacekeeping force to Mali. The members of the "Blue Music Team" are all backbone forces on the front line of the mission. After experiencing the test of life and death, they understand the meaning of life better. The picture shows members of the "Blue Music Team" exchanged their song experience on May 12, 2018. Photo by Han Lijian (Xinhua News Agency)
sentiment: For the world's Datong
"As long as we firmly establish the sense of community with a shared future for mankind, work together, take responsibility, work together, and overcome difficulties together, we will surely make the world a better place and make the people happier."
January 17, 2017, Davos, Switzerland, on the podium of the 47th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech just ended, and the audience applauded thunderously. Zhu Ailian, a Swiss Chinese, applauded vigorously with foreign friends around her, and was so excited that she couldn't suppress her excitement.
participated in the 5th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. This is not the first time that Zhu Ailian has heard a country's leader deliver a speech on the spot, but it is the first time that all the listeners are like her, "hearing so quietly, seriously and focused, and after the speech, he took the initiative to stand up and applaud, and the applause was like thunder."
On that day, what impressed Zhu Ailian was that after President Xi Jinping's speech, she exchanged views with several Swiss and EU politicians. Speaking of the speech, several political leaders praised each other: "The Chinese leader is very charming and wise", "The Chinese leader mentioned a community with a shared future for mankind, full of global vision and international responsibility."
"Foreign political leaders sincerely admire President Xi Jinping and the international community's recognition and respect for China's wisdom make me very proud." Zhu Ailian said.
For more than 30 years of going abroad, Zhu Ailian has personally experienced the changes in the mood of overseas Chinese who have become increasingly confident because of China's increasing strength. She still remembered that her father's generation was always because of the poor and backward country and could not raise his head in front of outsiders. Now, although her child was born abroad, he knew that China was an economically prosperous, open and inclusive country, and was of great importance to the world. This importance lies not only in the huge pull of China's economy to global growth, but also in the huge contribution of China's wisdom to global development.
Moscow International Relations Institute, Russia, Boao Forum for Asia, Hainan, China, United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA... President Xi Jinping has repeatedly called for the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and provided Chinese answers to the question of the times where human society is going. A community with a shared future for mankind is to take into account the reasonable concerns of other countries when pursuing their own interests and promote the common development of all countries while seeking their own development. This is China's wisdom and ambition, China's position and ambition, and it is also the unchanging original intention of China to integrate its own development with the common development of the world over the past 40 years of reform and opening up.
Now, Chinese wisdom is reaping endless echoes in the world.
In January 2018, the 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held as scheduled, with the theme of "Building a Common Destiny in a Differentiated World". Schwab, the founder of the forum, particularly emphasized that determining this topic is to continue to follow the proposition of "building a community with a shared future for mankind" mentioned by President Xi Jinping in his speech last year, "that speech is of historical significance."
Not only that, the concept of "building a community with a shared future for mankind" has been repeatedly written into UN resolutions, demonstrating the high degree of compatibility between China's concept and the spirit of the UN Charter and the international community's general recognition of China's solution.
"A community with a shared future for mankind is a great plan, and China's efforts to achieve this goal are admirable," said Nobel Prize winner in Economics Angus Deaton. The American "Diplomatic Scholar" website published an article commenting that the "Community of Shared Destiny" describes a world of mutual cooperation, a new type of international relations strategy, which is based on win-win conditions and is not dominated by zero-sum thinking.
Initiative: For the sake of the world's connectivity, on July 9, the steel box girder between Pier No. 20 and Pier No. 21 was successfully integrated on a clear blue sea. At this point, the entire China-Malaysia Friendship Bridge has been completed and will be completed and opened to traffic soon. This means that the Maldives capital Male Island, Airport Island and Hulumale Island will achieve land connections, for the first time in the country's history.
Amira, who serves as human resources director in the bridge construction project team of the Second China Communications Construction Administration of China Construction and Construction, is particularly excited. She once studied in China and could speak Chinese. Now, she has a deeper relationship with China - China Communications Construction, which came from China to the local area to assist in the construction of the China-Malaysia Friendship Bridge, provided her with a good employment opportunity; after the bridge is opened to traffic, local traffic conditions will be significantly improved. She has purchased a house on Hulumale Island and is full of expectations for the happy life to come.
"My father is proud of me working in the project team. I chose to learn Chinese because China is becoming stronger and stronger and more popular." Amira said. Yaxin, another foreign employee of the
project team, was also very happy about the changes that happened to him. Under the teaching of a Chinese master, he started from the most basic electrical engineering and gradually grew into a "versatile" who can weld, turn on the mixer, and even become a translationist. In January this year, he was named an outstanding foreign employee for his outstanding performance and had the opportunity to receive awards in China.
Because of the Sino-Malaysia Friendship Bridge, islands and islands are no longer isolated, and people are closer. These changes stem from a Chinese initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative.
In September 2013, at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, President Xi Jinping proposed to jointly build the "Silk Road Economic Belt"; one month later, in the Indonesian Parliament Building, President Xi Jinping proposed to jointly build the "Maritime Silk Road" in the 21st century.
Since then, the "Belt and Road" initiative, this initiative from China has become an absolute hot word in the international public opinion field, and has become more specific and clear as one major cooperation project after another has been implemented in many overseas countries. The China-Malaysia Friendship Bridge is a key demonstration project of the "Belt and Road" initiative.
China proposed the "Belt and Road" initiative not on a whim. The development history of the past 40 years shows that reform and opening up is crucial to China. Nowadays, China's economic development has entered a new normal and it is even more necessary to expand opening up to the outside world. At the same time, China is also willing to continue to release development dividends to the world and participate in global governance. The initiative came into being, and over the past four years, it has been transforming from ideas to actions and vision to reality.
At present, more and more countries have expressed their willingness to support and participate in the construction of the "Belt and Road". China has signed relevant cooperation agreements with nearly 90 countries and international organizations on jointly building the "Belt and Road".
In May 2017, the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum was held in Beijing. On the beautiful Yanqi Lake, guests gather together.
"Look at the list of participants, Kenya and Ethiopia are among them. Eastern Europe and Central Europe, as important transit areas to Western Europe, also came to attend the meeting. There is no need to say much about Russia and other SCO member states. There are also Southeast Asian countries, which will also become beneficiaries of the initiative..." After calculating the list of participants, the Russian News Agency bluntly stated that China has started a "big lotto" with no losers, and each side is a winner who can benefit from it.
Why is China's initiative so "gathering fans"? The Australian Financial Review believes that the "Belt and Road" reflects China's open and inclusive development model, which is not only beneficial to China itself, but also to global and regional development.The answer to the American monthly magazine "Atlantic" is more straightforward - China's initiative will bring peace and prosperity to the world.
Development: For the prosperity of the world
A German company, once a glorious industry leader, once reached the brink of a cliff. The company is excited about the "savior" from the United States. However, the cruel reality shattered beautiful dreams. After the American "savior" declared bankruptcy, the German company could only find hope in despair. Finally, a Chinese company came, and this German company resurrected its life and regained its glory.
This is a true story. The legend of Phoenix Nirvana in Germany's Wadrich Coburg Machine Tool Factory in reality. The one who accomplished this miracle was the Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Factory from China.
Germany's Wadrich Coburg Machine Tool Factory, which has a history of nearly a hundred years, was acquired by the large American company Ingersol Machine Tool Factory in 1986. In 2003, Ingsol declared bankruptcy. In 2005, Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Factory acquired the Wadrichkoburg Machine Tool Factory.
Just four years later, the company's employees expanded from 500 to 750; the company's turnover reached 170 million euros, three times that of that time, and its profits also increased significantly. Even in 2009, when the global financial crisis was in a global financial crisis, the company achieved a growth rate of 20% despite the performance of the German machine tool production industry falling by 30%.
Moreover, this Chinese and German "mother and son" form a complementary rather than competitive relationship in the market. The different positionings located in the middle and top of the "pyramid" allow both sides not to compete for market share, but to achieve win-win results. Stories like
are not uncommon. Similar legends have been staged repeatedly in the United States, in Poland, in Serbia...
40 years, the Chinese people have always opened their minds, embraced the world, and actively made China's contributions. China pursues an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, and shares its own development opportunities with countries around the world. It welcomes all countries to ride the express train of China's development. As the world's second largest economy, China's contribution to world economic growth has long exceeded 30%, and has become the main stabilizer and source of power for world economic growth for many years.
The World Trade Organization's Global Trade Data and Outlook report shows that global trade overall performed well in 2017, with China's contribution to the total global import and export trade as high as 10.2% and 12.8%, ranking second and first in the world respectively. As the world's largest goods trading country, China has become an important engine driving the global trade giant.
Spanish China Policy Observation website published an article saying that China is currently a key factor in the world economy, plays an important role in foreign direct investment and international trade, and is also the holder of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves. China is also an important recipient of foreign direct investment, especially investments from the United States, the European Union and Japan. China is not only an important producer, but also a consumer with a huge market, consuming more than 30% of the world's coal, cotton, rice, steel, copper ore, soybean and aluminum ore.
The world is full of confidence in China's future. Aihan Gauss, director of the World Bank Development Forecasting Bureau, believes that China's economy has achieved unexpected and impressive excellent performance and is confident that China will continue to become an important engine of world economic growth.
Commitment: For the order of the world
November 10, 2001, Doha, the capital of Qatar. The fourth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization reviewed and passed China's decision to join the WTO.
A Shanghai Heroes pen, written solemnly. There was a tide of applause in the venue of nearly 2,000 people.
"Shi Guangsheng, then head of the Chinese government delegation and Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs, signed on behalf of the Chinese government. I still remember that he used a Shanghai Hero pen." Huo Jianguo, a member of the delegation at that time and now vice president of the China World Trade Organization Research Association, recalled, "That day, more than 40 people from our Chinese delegation enjoyed special treatment and were arranged to sit in the first row. Many people participated in rounds of negotiations many times, so at the moment when the decision was announced, everyone stood up excitedly and applauded hard for a long time. This naiveness was really hard-won."
15 hard negotiations, nearly 40 formal meetings of the China Working Group, countless visits and contacts and small negotiations, bilateral negotiations with more than 40 member states... After personal experience of its process and witnessing historic moments with one's own eyes, Huo Jianguo could not hide his excitement.
China's resumption of customs and the negotiations on joining the WTO, Long Yongtu, once said that joining the WTO is a new starting point for China's reform and opening up. "Adding to the WTO is also a milestone for China's deep participation in economic globalization. "Huo Jianguo said, "Practice has proved that China is not only a beneficiary of globalization, but also an active contributor. First of all, while China's exports are growing rapidly, the scale of imports is increasing, providing new development opportunities for countries around the world to expand their exports to China. Secondly, with the expansion of the Chinese market, foreign-invested enterprises' enthusiasm for investment in China has further increased. While expanding China's total economic output, these companies have also achieved good profit returns in the Chinese market and have taken the express train of China's economic development. In addition, China has also made positive contributions to the world economy. At the most difficult time in the world economy, China maintained rapid economic growth and played a prominent role in supporting global economic growth. China's highest contribution rate to world economic growth reached 36% in the year. To this day, China has not only been an active participant in the multilateral trading system, but has also developed into a firm defender and an important contributor. "
At present, the world economy is facing many complex challenges, with unilateralism and protectionism increasing, and economic globalization has emerged. For the sake of their own selfish interests, some developed countries have built high walls of trade protectionism and wantonly trampling on international order and rules. Faced with the severe situation, the world is full of concern. WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo pointed out that without a multilateral trading system, the global economy will decline by 2.4%, and 60% of global trade will disappear.
At the critical moment, China demonstrates the responsibility of a major country and bravely shoulders heavy responsibilities. The strong commitment gives the world a "peace of mind".
April 10, 2018, China, Boao, Hainan. The mountains are green and the sea is green, the sun is warm and the wind is light. The firm voice of Chinese President Xi Jinping reaches the hearts of the people.
"Comprehensively analyze the general trend of world development, economic globalization is an irreversible trend of the times. "The door to China's opening will not be closed, it will only open wider and wider! ”
Spanish "League" commented and praised: "No one, like Chinese President Xi Jinping, still defends economic globalization in such a way, in the current international situation where the sequelae of the financial crisis and social unrest. "
" If you want to think about which path you should take and where you will be in the future, then please take a look at China. "An article in the Financial Times pointed out that the West truly feels and recognizes China's sincerity in promoting economic globalization and promoting world development and prosperity, and recognizes China led by President Xi Jinping as the leading role in the world, and is full of expectations for it.
Peacekeeping: For the peace of the world
June 18, 2018. China Dragon Boat Festival.
800 hot The meat dumplings and seafood, tofu, drinks and other condolences, accompanied by the enthusiasm and blessings of the representatives of the Chinese in Germany, flocked to the German military port of Kiel. There is the "Binzhou Ship".
As the command ship of the 29th escort formation of the Navy, the "Binzhou Ship" went to Germany to participate in the "Kil Week" event at the invitation of the German side.
"There are 180 officers and soldiers on the ship, and we have prepared more than 800 meat dumplings. We made reservations in the Chinese restaurant in advance. The freshly wrapped rice dumplings the day before were cooked overnight. Early the next morning, we sent people to the ship directly. "Fan Xuan, a representative of the Chinese who boarded the ship, said, "We overseas Chinese are particularly willing to do something for our people's soldiers. It is rare to have such an opportunity, so you must seize it. "
The 29th batch of escort formations of the Chinese Navy are composed of the Binzhou ship, the Xuzhou ship and the Qiandaohu ship. They set sail from Zhoushan in early April this year and officially carried out the escort mission in the Gulf of Aden and Somalia waters on May 1; the "Binzhou ship" is a new generation of missile frigate developed and created by China, and is the new generation of main combat ship type of Chinese sailors.
"Going to Germany to participate in the 'Kir Week' is also a mission, but the officers and soldiers are relatively relaxed. Once they enter the Gulf of Aden and Somalia, they must remain highly alert at all times. They need to protect not only Chinese ships, but also all ships from all over the world entering this region." Fan Xuan said, "We have specially made a banner of the 'Supporter of Civilization' for the peace division' to give to the officers and soldiers on the ship. This is our voice."
Maintaining world peace, the iron-bending Chinese soldiers are not absent. "In the vast world, maybe I am just a feather, but I also have to carry the wish for peace in the form of a feather..." The sentence written by "peacekeeping hero" and Zhihong in their diary was quoted by President Xi Jinping at the United Nations Peacekeeping Summit in New York, moving the world.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations' peacekeeping operations and the 28th anniversary of China's participation in UN peacekeeping operations. So far, China has sent more than 37,000 peacekeeping military personnel, becoming the country with the largest number of peacekeeping troops among the five permanent members of the United Nations. 13 Chinese soldiers have died on the front line of peacekeeping. Currently, 2,507 Chinese soldiers are carrying out their missions in seven mission areas of the United Nations and the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Department.
According to statistics from the Peacekeeping Office of the Ministry of National Defense of China, the Chinese military has participated in 24 UN peacekeeping operations, built and repaired more than 14,000 kilometers of roads, eliminated more than 9,800 landmines and various unexploded substances, treated more than 200,000 patients, transported 1.35 million tons of various materials and equipment, and transported more than 13 million kilometers of total mileage. It is hailed by the international community as "a key factor and key force in peacekeeping operations."
UN Secretary-General Guterres said that China has become the second largest contributor to UN peacekeeping operations, and has given strong support to international peacekeeping operations and made good suggestions for safer and more efficient UN peacekeeping operations.
Recently, the United Nations specially produced a special video, introducing the outstanding performance of Chinese peacekeeping officers and soldiers in fulfilling their peacekeeping mission without fear of hardships and dangers, demonstrating China's international responsibility as a responsible major country.
As South Korea's Chosun Ilbo pointed out, Chinese peacekeeping forces show the image of a reliable, peaceful and responsible country.