At 8 pm Beijing time on March 26th, Xi Jinping and leaders of G20 member states crossed different time zones and attended a special meeting. At the critical moment of the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, leaders of all parties urgently communicated and coordinated. President Xi proposed the "China policy" at the summit to prescribe a prescription for the global epidemic.
Two "firsts" highlight the special nature of the summit
On the evening of March 24, Saudi Arabia ’s presidency of G20 this year issued a statement that a special summit of G20 leaders will be held in a video conference in two days to deal with the new crown pneumonia epidemic. This is the first video summit of leaders in G20 history, and the first major multilateral event attended by President Xi Jinping since the outbreak.
President Xi attended the G20 Leaders Special Summit on New Pneumonia in the Great Hall of the People. (Photographed by CCTV reporters Li Xiaozhou and Shi Weiming)
Saudi King Salman chaired the summit. (Data map)
G20, covering the world's major advanced economies and emerging market economies, is a new platform for global economic governance directly inspired by the 2008 international financial crisis. The summit on the evening of the 26th was chaired by Saudi King Salman. In addition to the leaders of G20 member countries, leaders of guest countries and leaders of international organizations such as the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank attended the meeting.
All the leaders present on the big screen. (Photographed by CCTV reporter Wang Hanan)
In the General Assembly Hall, simultaneous interpreters are preparing. (Photographed by CCTV reporter Li Xiaozhou)
Prior to this "meet-in-the-screen" meeting, President Xi used "phone diplomacy" to make 26 phone calls with 22 foreign leaders and heads of international organizations, and 14 of those calls were made by G20 leaders. In a recent telephone conversation with leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Germany, both parties mentioned the need to strengthen coordination and cooperation under a multilateral framework such as the G20.
One of the keywords: strengthen unity
On the evening of March 26, President Xi delivered an important speech entitled "Joining the Epidemic and Governing the Difficult Situation" at the special summit. You can read Chairman Xi's "China policy" from three keywords. The first is "unity."
President Xi said that major infectious diseases are the enemy of all mankind. At present, what the international community needs most is firm confidence, concerted efforts, and united response.
Just the night before attending this special summit, Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on the phone that China would like to speak with all parties, including Germany, to help each other and fight against the epidemic to boost confidence in the international community.
In times of crisis, unity is strength. President Xi proposed four points at the special summit. The first point is to resolutely fight against the global crowning of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. At present, China ’s epidemic prevention and control fight has achieved important results in stages, and the spread of China ’s domestic epidemic with Wuhan as its main battlefield has been basically blocked. The epidemic is spreading globally and the situation is worrying. Taking up the most powerful weapon of solidarity and cooperation and resolutely fighting global siege is a top priority.
A batch of Chinese donated materials arrived in Europe. The same message in French, Dutch and Chinese is printed on the package: "Unity is power". (Data map)
Key word two: strengthen cooperation
On November 15, 2015, when Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the G20 Antalya Summit, he quoted a saying from ancient Chinese sages: "If you are good at the disease, you must heal the disease; if you are good at the evil, you must The root cause of its disadvantages. "In the face of New Crown Pneumonia, a rare and major infectious disease in humans, Xi Jinping proposed at a special summit on March 26: effective international joint prevention and control.
Joint defense, joint control, and group defense are one of China's winning magic weapons to win the epidemic prevention and control of people's war, general war, and siege warfare. To fight global siege warfare, "Countries must work together to build the tightest joint defense defense Control network. "
The scene before the summit. (Photographed by CCTV reporter Huang Jinghui)
Faced with this common crisis for all mankind, no country can survive alone. On the evening of the 26th, Xi Jinping also proposed the focus and direction of international epidemic prevention and control cooperation: strengthen information sharing, carry out drug, vaccine research and development, and epidemic prevention cooperation to effectively prevent cross-border spread of the epidemic; we must gather the efforts of countries to work together to accelerate medicine and vaccine Scientific research in testing, testing, etc .; we must actively support international organizations in their role.
Three days before the summit, Xi Jinping said during the third call with French President Macron since the outbreak, "Let the sunshine of cooperation dispel the haze of the epidemic." At this summit, President Xi once again stated that as long as we work together, Watching and helping each other will definitely defeat the epidemic and usher in a better tomorrow for human development.
Key word three: Strengthen coordination
The new crown pneumonia epidemic has severely affected the global economic and social development, and especially caused a global shock to global production and demand, and the world economy is facing the shadow of recession. The purpose of this special G20 summit is to promote global cooperation to respond to the epidemic and stabilize the world economy. In his speech at the summit, Xi Jinping called for strengthening coordination of international macroeconomic policies.
Coordination is for stability. Xi Jinping proposed that effective and effective fiscal and monetary policies should be implemented to promote the basically stable currency exchange rates of various countries. It is necessary to strengthen coordination of financial supervision and maintain the stability of global financial markets. It is necessary to jointly maintain the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain.
Before the summit, when talking with leaders from France, Britain and Germany, Xi Jinping mentioned the topic of maintaining the stability of the supply chain in the industrial chain. The industrial chain and the supply chain are intertwined. As long as one link is blocked, the upstream and downstream cannot operate. This is why President Xi attaches so much importance to the open, stable and secure global supply chain.
When the epidemic brought huge changes to the world, China still provided the world with definitive answers. President Xi said at the summit that China will increase its efforts to supply APIs, daily necessities and anti-epidemic products to the international market. China will, as always, contribute to world economic stability.
That night, the summit issued the "Special Statement of the Leaders of the Group of Twenty on New Coronary Pneumonia". The statement stated that no effort should be spared to protect lives, protect people's work and income, restore confidence, maintain financial stability, restore and achieve stronger growth, and minimize disruption to trade and global supply chains. Provide assistance to all countries in need and coordinate public health and fiscal measures.
"In the face of severe global challenges and the choice of where human development will go at the crossroads, all countries should have the responsibility to take the world as their own responsibility, actively act as activists and not watchers, and work together to grasp the future of humankind in their own destiny. In the hands. "This is a statement made by President Xi Jinping during his visit to France on March 26 a year ago. Today it is still a motto.