Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 20. The 2020 "Understanding China" International Conference (Guangzhou) opened in Guangzhou on November 20.
President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the meeting.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century.
The sudden outbreak of new coronary pneumonia once again demonstrated that mankind is a community with a shared future.
Facing all kinds of complex and severe challenges, mankind needs to strengthen cooperation more than ever to overcome the difficulties and move forward together.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China that has just concluded has made a comprehensive plan for the development of China during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
China's decisive victory in building a well-off society in all respects and a decisive battle against poverty will soon be achieved. Next year, it will embark on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and enter a new stage of development.
I hope that everyone will think deeply, actively discuss, build consensus, and contribute wisdom and strength to promoting exchanges and cooperation between China and the world and building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The "Understanding China" International Conference has been successfully held for four sessions.
The theme of this conference is "Great Changes, Great Tests, Great Cooperation-China's New Journey of Modernization and a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind". More than 600 world-renowned politicians, strategists, scholars, and entrepreneurs participated online and offline .