On August 30, 2020 local time, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a speech entitled "Unity and Cooperation, Openness and Inclusiveness, and Joint Maintenance of the Progressive Trend of Peace and Development of Mankind" at the French Institute of International Relations.
Wang Yi said that in the past six months, a sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic has swept the world. The epidemic is a mirror, illuminating a complex picture of the world. There are not only the warm current of mutual assistance and cooperation like China and Europe, but also the countercurrent of blame and unilateral bullying. Even more terrifying than the new coronavirus is the "political virus" that creates hatred and confrontation. Politicizing and labeling the epidemic, or even stigmatizing specific countries, not only cannot solve its own problems, but it seriously erodes the solidarity and cooperation of the international community.
Wang Yi emphasized that China's rejuvenation is to achieve national prosperity, national rejuvenation, and people's happiness, to return Chinese civilization to the forefront of human development and progress, and to open a new era of openness and integration between China and the world. Some people say that China's revival is to change or even conquer the world. This is ignorance of Chinese history and Chinese civilization. There has never been a gene of aggression in the blood of the Chinese nation. The pursuit of peace and harmony is rooted in the spiritual world of the Chinese people, and it is also the cultural origin of China's vigorous advocacy of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Wang Yi said that since the founding of New China for more than 70 years, especially the 40 years of reform and opening up, the Chinese people have achieved world-renowned achievements along the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. On this path, China has achieved leapfrog development and its overall national strength has been continuously improved. The people have truly become the masters of the country, and their living standards have continued to improve. China's development not only benefits the Chinese people, but also benefits the whole world. China has always been a builder of world peace and has continuously injected positive energy into the evolution of the international landscape. China has always been the defender of the international order and has continuously added stability factors to the global governance system. China has always been a promoter of globalization and has continuously made important contributions to building an open world. China has always been a contributor to the development of the world and has continuously provided strong impetus to global economic growth. The development path chosen by the Chinese people conforms to the wishes of the 1.4 billion Chinese people and conforms to the trend of the times of peaceful development. It is not only beneficial to China but also to the world. Of course we must continue to walk steadfastly.
Wang Yi said that facing the ever-changing international environment, China proposes to give full play to the advantages of the super-large market and the potential of domestic demand to build a new development pattern in which the domestic and international dual cycles are the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promote each other. China will further expand domestic demand, expand its opening to the outside world, share more of China's development dividend with the world, drive the world's common recovery with its own recovery, and drive the world's common development with its own development.
Wang Yi said that China will continue to adhere to peaceful development, adhere to a new path of state-to-state exchanges of "dialogue without confrontation, partnership without alliance", and build a broader global partnership. China will continue to adhere to open development, build a higher-level open economy, and form a comprehensive, multi-level, and diversified pattern of open cooperation. China will continue to adhere to cooperative development, promote security through cooperation, seek development through cooperation, and meet challenges through cooperation. China will continue to adhere to win-win development, always uphold the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, and work with other countries to continuously expand the cake of cooperation and realize the vision of common development. China will continue to adhere to inclusive development, will not export institutional models, will not engage in ideological confrontation, continue to take practical actions to maintain the diversity of world civilizations, and promote exchanges and mutual learning of development models.
Wang Yi pointed out that in the face of a century of change and the pandemic of the century, mankind is again faced with the key choices of progress or regression, unity or division, and openness or closure. China and Europe should be responsible for the future and destiny of mankind, proceed from the fundamental interests of the people of China and Europe, jointly resist the incitement of hatred and confrontation, stand firmly on the right side of history, and provide more stability to the complex and changeable world. .
First of all, we must resolutely maintain peaceful development and jointly oppose splitting the world. China opposes any "new cold war" conspiracy and will never allow any forces to deprive the Chinese people and people of all countries of their right to pursue development and achieve a better life. China is willing to make the strong voice of the times with Europe: uphold unity and oppose division; uphold progress and oppose retrogression; uphold peaceful development and oppose conflict and confrontation.
Second, we must firmly defend multilateralism and jointly oppose unilateral bullying. No matter how the international situation changes, China will firmly stand on the side of multilateralism and advocate and practice the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits. China regards the EU as an important force in the process of world multipolarization, and is willing to work with the EU to safeguard the effectiveness and authority of the multilateral system, and safeguard fairness, justice and international order.
Third, we must continue to expand mutually beneficial cooperation and jointly oppose isolation and decoupling. Today's China and the world have long been in perfect harmony. Seeking to decouple from China means to decouple from development opportunities and from the most dynamic big market. As the world's two major economies, China and Europe should adhere to free trade, jointly maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, and play a key role in promoting global development and prosperity after the epidemic.
Fourth, we must work together to tackle global challenges and jointly oppose beggar-thy neighbors. China and the EU should become models for promoting global governance, jointly strengthen the UN's coordinating role in international affairs, jointly oppose their own priority and self-interested behavior, and join hands to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Wang Yi said that this year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU. The important enlightenment that the development of China-EU relations has brought us over the past 45 years is that China and Europe have no fundamental conflicts of interest, cooperation far outweighs competition, and consensus far outweighs differences. The important experience that the development of China-EU relations has brought us over the past 45 years is that both sides can increase trust through equal dialogue, achieve win-win through mutually beneficial cooperation, resolve differences through constructive communication, and jointly address global challenges through enhanced coordination.
Wang Yi said that China always values the status and role of the EU and always supports Europe in playing a greater role in international affairs. At the critical moment of fighting the epidemic and conspiring to recover from the epidemic, China and the EU should further strengthen unity and cooperation, press the "restart button" of dialogue and cooperation, give full play to the "dual engine" role, and inject a strong impetus into the unity and cooperation of the international community, and work hard Build partnerships in four areas.
One is to build an anti-epidemic partnership. China and the EU should strengthen cooperation in the development and production of vaccines, drugs, and testing reagents, and jointly support the World Health Organization and other international institutions to play an active role. China is willing to speed up the construction of a "fast channel" that facilitates the exchange of people and a "green channel" for the exchange of goods, so as to help the EU's economic recovery.
The second is to strengthen investment partnerships. China and the EU should follow the principles of flexibility, pragmatism and reciprocity, reach a comprehensive, balanced, and high-level investment agreement within this year, carry out joint feasibility studies on the free trade agreement as soon as possible, and reach the "China-EU Cooperation 2025 Strategic Plan" as soon as possible to achieve mutual benefit. win.
The third is to create a green and digital partnership. China and the EU are highly complementary in green and digital fields, and their cooperation prospects are broad. The two sides should deepen cooperation in environmental technology, circular economy, clean energy, sustainable finance and other fields, strengthen cooperation in information and communication technology, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, big data, cloud computing and other fields, and expand new growth points for China-EU cooperation.
The fourth is to deepen multilateral partnerships. China and the EU should further strengthen dialogue and cooperation on climate change, biodiversity, and sustainable development, jointly safeguard the Iran nuclear agreement, promote political settlement of international and regional hotspot issues, and strengthen tripartite cooperation with Africa to build a more sustainable and safer The world makes a greater contribution.
Wang Yi said that at present, the historic responsibility of maintaining peace and development and promoting world progress falls on the shoulders of the two major forces of China and Europe. We sincerely look forward to the steady and far-reaching relationship between China and Europe, which will move to a higher level, add more stability factors to an unstable world, and create a better future for human society!