1. Taking the diplomacy of the head of state as the strategic leadership, it will effectively lead the world pattern to develop in a positive direction. relies on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s major diplomatic agenda and important national home diplomatic activities as a basis to comprehensively lead the overall situation of foreign work. General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the 70th anniversary series of summits and 75th anniversary series of high-level meetings, G20 Leaders' Summit, BRICS Leaders' Meeting, Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, APEC Leaders' Summit, APEC Leaders' Informal Meeting, World Economic Forum Davos Annual Meeting, and other heads of state of the world governance multilateral mechanisms; presided over the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics, G20 Leaders' Hang State summit, APEC 22nd Leaders Informal Meeting , "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, Beijing Summit of China-Africa Cooperation Forum, Shanghai Asia Information Summit, China International Import Expo , Dialogue of Asian Civilizations , High-level Dialogue of the Communist Party of China and World Political Parties, China- Central and Eastern Europe National Leaders' Summit and other major home diplomatic activities. In these activities, General Secretary Xi Jinping deeply elaborated on China's propositions on topics of common concern to the international community, widely gathered consensus among all parties on promoting world peace, development and stability, and effectively led the world pattern to develop in a positive direction. From high-frequency visits and reception of visits, close bilateral and multilateral integration, to the spread of the epidemic, to the offline and online talks, telephone conversations, and telephone letters with more than 100 foreign leaders and heads of international organizations, General Secretary Xi Jinping conducted in-depth strategic communication with leaders of various countries, leading the development of China's relations with various countries in the new era, injecting strong impetus into promoting the unity of the international community against the epidemic, enhancing the international community's understanding and support for China's development, and leaving a clear China mark in international affairs.
2. Seriously implement the people's concept and the purpose of diplomacy for the people, and effectively safeguard and develop the fundamental interests of the broad masses of people. With the deepening of globalization and the expansion of opening up to the outside world, the number of Chinese citizens and enterprises overseas has grown rapidly, and the task of protecting the safety and legitimate rights and interests of overseas citizens and legal persons is becoming increasingly heavy. China's diplomacy continues to improve the overseas interest protection system, effectively protect the overseas security and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and enterprises, and continuously enhance the people's sense of happiness, gain and security in traveling overseas and doing business, so that they can enjoy the status and dignity that Chinese citizens deserve. In recent years, China has concluded mutual visa exemption agreements with 147 countries, with 73 citizens holding ordinary passports having visa-free or on-arrival visa destinations, and has handled hundreds of thousands of consular protection cases. Especially in the global situation of the epidemic, the Chinese government promptly organized the treatment of overseas citizens who were unfortunately infected with the epidemic. In 2020, more than 1.2 million "health packages" were distributed to overseas students, and various types of emergency epidemic prevention materials were sent to overseas compatriots in more than 100 countries, so as to effectively convey the warmth of the Party to overseas citizens and overseas Chinese.
3. Adhere to the spirit of struggle, enhance the ability to fight, and firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests. 10 years, the external risks and challenges China has encountered are high and rapid, sometimes even stormy.Faced with the rapid changes in the international situation, China's diplomacy has firmly maintained confidence and faced difficulties. It has firmly grasped my country's development and security initiative with correct strategic strategies, and has taken a series of powerful measures to build a solid line of defense to safeguard the core interests of the country and major interests of . It has carried out a great struggle with many new historical characteristics, opening up a new world for the development of diplomatic cause. Especially on major issues such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, sea, border, and human rights, we have shown strong will and determination, overcome one difficulty and obstacle after another, firmly defend national sovereignty and national dignity, and resolutely prevent and curb any interference and provocations of any external forces in China's internal affairs. In international relations and anti-epidemic cooperation, we will firmly oppose camp confrontation, power politics and Cold War thinking, expose and criticize all attempts to politicize, label and stigmatize the epidemic, resist all artificially creating separatist and confrontation, and fight back against any decoupling and chain breaking and extreme pressure. China's diplomacy shows the world with a firm stance and practical actions that no country should fantasize that China will trade its core interests, and do not expect China to swallow the bitter fruits that damage national sovereignty, security, and development interests, which demonstrates the confidence, self-reliance, self-reliance, ambition and backbone of the Chinese people.
4. Promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and hold high the glorious banner that leads the development of the times and the progress of mankind. Building a community with a shared future for mankind is the Chinese solution for good governance in the world, and it is also the Chinese answer given in the face of the question of the times. In the face of global risks and challenges, the Community of Shared Future for Mankind emphasizes the sharing of the overall destiny and interests of mankind, and advocates that people of all countries work together to point out the direction for building a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, inclusiveness, and clean and beautiful. China's diplomacy insists on promoting and practicing the common values of all mankind, gathering the wisdom and strength of people of all countries in the world, promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind from the bilateral and multilateral level, regional dimensions and global issues, and jointly creating a better tomorrow for mankind. Especially since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, my country has actively participated in international cooperation in the prevention and control of major infectious diseases, worked with the World Health Organization to fight the epidemic with the World Health Organization, firmly supported the World Health Organization to play a leading role, improve global public health governance, and promote the steady and long-term construction of the Human Health Community of Human Resources with practical actions.
5. Promote the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" high-quality development , and make important contributions to effectively governing the global development deficit. Faced with the increasing prominence of global development contradictions, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the "Belt and Road" initiative, providing a Chinese solution to break the global development deficit and promote global balanced development. After more than 9 years of development and joint construction, the "Belt and Road" initiative has promoted the docking of strategies, planning and mechanisms, strengthened the connectivity of policies, rules and standards, and promoted infrastructure connectivity. From vision to action, from laying the foundation, erecting columns and beams to taking root and in-depth development, it has formed a comprehensive effect of infrastructure leadership, industrial agglomeration, economic development, and improvement of people's livelihood, and has won the high attention and extensive support of the international community, becoming the world's largest international cooperation platform and a popular global public product today. Especially in the face of the continued spread of the epidemic and the accelerated evolution of the century-old major changes, the construction of the "Belt and Road" has been vigorously and courageously moving forward, adhered to the goal of high standards, sustainability and benefiting people's livelihood, consolidated the foundation of connectivity and cooperation, expanded new space for international cooperation, achieved good results for high-quality development, and created a closer "Belt and Road" cooperative partnership, which also demonstrated China's responsibility and responsibility to promote global development.
6. Firmly pursue an independent and peaceful foreign policy and fully demonstrate the image of a responsible and peaceful power. China's diplomacy has always taken "adhering to the path of peaceful development based on mutual respect and win-win cooperation" as the basic principle, insisting on starting from the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and the people of the world, and independently decide on its attitude and position on international affairs based on the right and wrong of the matter itself; respecting the right of the people of all countries to independently choose the path of development and social system, and opposing interference in the internal affairs of other countries; advocating peaceful resolution of disputes through negotiations, actively persuading peace and promoting talks, maintaining stability and preventing chaos, and adhering to a new path of state-to-state exchanges with dialogue without confrontation, and companionship without alliances; adhering to peaceful coexistence and common development with all countries, maintaining world peace through their own development, and promoting the organic integration of China's development and world peace. China's historic achievements in peaceful development have effectively responded to the erroneous arguments such as the "China threat theory" deliberately fabricated by some countries. They responded to the international doubts and concerns about China's rapid development with eloquent facts, broke the historical logic of "a strong country will lead to hegemony" in the West, and won the respect of peace-loving countries and people in the world with practical actions.
7. Promote the construction of a new type of international relations and inject strong positive energy and stability into the stability of the global order. has entered a new era. China's diplomacy has comprehensively deepened and expanded its foreign strategic layout, coordinated the promotion of the comprehensive development of relations with different types of countries, promoted the construction of a new type of international relations with mutual respect, fairness and justice, and win-win cooperation, and consolidated the all-round, multi-level and three-dimensional global partnership network. Focus on planning relations with major powers, deepen the development of China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in the new era, promote China-US relations based on coordination, cooperation and stability in accordance with the consensus of the heads of state of China and the United States, build four major partnerships between China and Europe, promote the construction of a framework for major power relations with overall stability and balanced development, and strive to provide a stable foundation and strategic guarantee for world peace and development. In accordance with the concept of friendly, sincerity, favor and inclusiveness and neighboring diplomatic policy and the neighboring diplomatic policy of being kind and companionship with neighbors, we have deepened relations with neighbors, uphold the correct view of justice and interests and the concept of true friendship and sincerity, and strengthened unity and cooperation with developing countries, and consolidated and strengthened the positive force in maintaining world peace and development. Especially in response to the United States' suppression and containment of China in recent years, China's diplomacy has always maintained strategic determination and historical rationality, and urged the United States to move forward with my country, adhere to mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, avoid confrontation, and win-win cooperation. At the same time, resolutely counter any words and deeds that harm our country's interests, and inject stability and certainty into the global order during the turbulent and change period.
8. Lead the reform and construction of the global governance system and contribute wisdom and strength to respond to global challenges. China's diplomacy adheres to the concept of fairness and justice, and has achieved a transformation from a participant in global governance to a promoter and leader in the reform of the global governance system in . It demonstrates China's determination and confidence to promote the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction, and also demonstrates the responsibility of a major power in China's diplomacy in the new era. Firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law, support the United Nations to play an important role in handling international and regional affairs, and support the expansion of the representation and voice of developing countries in international affairs. From proposing the global governance concept for consultation, joint construction and sharing to the implementation of the global development initiative and global security initiative, from initiating the establishment of new multilateral financial institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank , the BRICS New Development Bank to promoting the reform of the IMF's share and governance mechanism, from promoting the G20 to promoting the G20 to play the role of international economic cooperation and constructively participate in economic governance cooperation in the APEC, BRICS countries and other mechanisms to actively participate in the formulation of governance rules in the fields of climate, counter-terrorism, polar, network, ocean, etc., from insisting on holding the International Import Expo , supporting the development of economic globalization to advocating the real multilateralism , opposing unilateralism and protectionism, and promoting the construction of an open world economy , China's global influence and international agenda shaping power have been historicly enhanced.
[Author: Wu Zhicheng, researcher at the Research Center of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era of Central Party School (National School of Administration) and vice president of the Institute of International Strategy]