(A closer look at China) Davos agenda, Xi Jinping will give a China plan for the "critical year"

  China News Service, Beijing, January 25th (Liang Xiaohui and Li Jingze) The World Economic Forum "Davos Agenda" dialogue with the theme of "Grasp the critical year and rebuild the trust of all parties" will be held online from January 25. China President Xi Jinping will attend the meeting via video and deliver a special speech.

  A hundred years of changes have been superimposed on the epidemic of the century. The world economy is experiencing the worst recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Once again, mankind has come to a crossroads where to go.

At critical moments, it is even more necessary to set the right direction. In this "critical year", the world expects China to provide more wisdom and strength to get out of the haze of the epidemic and jointly promote economic development.

  Four years ago, Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2017 Annual Conference of the World Economic Forum and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Sharing the Responsibility of the Times and Promoting Global Development."

At a time when globalization was facing a counter-current and unilateralism and protectionism were on the rise, China pointed out the development direction of economic globalization and demonstrated China's firm position in promoting economic globalization.

  The current situation is similar to that then, but the challenges are even more severe.

The new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading globally, not only killing millions of people, but also causing a deep recession in the world economy. Global challenges are emerging one after another. The dispute between multilateralism and unilateralism has become more acute, and the world once again faces a key choice.

  "China has always been committed to maintaining and practicing multilateralism, promoting the construction of an open world economy, promoting economic globalization in a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win direction, and promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind." Said while looking forward to the "Davos Agenda".

Experts believe that emphasizing adherence to multilateralism, putting forward the viewpoint of strengthening global cooperation, and promoting economic globalization in the right direction may become an important aspect of Xi Jinping's speech.

  "Every effort is invincible; all wisdom does nothing is impossible." China has always adhered to multilateralism and is also regarded as one of its important initiatives to promote the improvement of global governance and support globalization.

China believes that globalization is the general trend, and despite the problems, we cannot give up on choking.

As Xi Jinping said in his "Davos speech" four years ago: "The correct choice is to make full use of all opportunities, cooperate to meet all challenges, and guide the trend of economic globalization."

  Ruan Zongze, executive vice president of the China Institute of International Studies, believes that the core of the "cooperative response" is to adhere to multilateralism, "when encountering problems, we should discuss and solve them together."

  Ruan Zongze further pointed out that globalization is the description and identification of historical trends, while multilateralism is a subjective choice that fits it.

From globalization to multilateralism, it is a process from understanding objectiveness to subjective response. The essence is to conform to the historical trend and stand on the right side of history.

  Facts also proved the correctness of this choice.

In the past four years, China has adopted a series of policy options based on this, including continuing to expand opening up, building a new development pattern, and strengthening international cooperation.

Even with the impact of the epidemic, China's GDP has exceeded one hundred billion yuan, becoming the only major economy to achieve positive growth in 2020, and its foreign trade has reached a new high, becoming the only major economy in the world to achieve positive growth in trade in goods.

  Looking at it now, Xi Jinping put forward in his "Davos speech" four years ago that "Protectiveism is like shutting oneself in a dark room", "We must unswervingly develop an open world economy", and "Humanity has become you and me. There is your community of destiny", which is more realistic and predictable, and is in line with current reality.

  According to experts, at present, multilateralism has become the consensus of many countries in crisis response.

  "Faced with the epidemic and the economic crisis it caused, solidarity and cooperation have become the common choice of most countries." Chen Fengying, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics of the China Institute of Modern International Relations, believes that this constitutes the understanding of multilateralism for countries. basis.

"Many countries look forward to finding a way out of the predicament in multilateral cooperation."

  The theme of the "Davos Agenda" dialogue meeting-"Grasp the critical year and rebuild the trust of all parties" also revealed the meaning of adhering to multilateralism.

The World Economic Forum said in a press release that the dialogue will help leaders formulate innovative and bold solutions to fight the epidemic while promoting a strong economic recovery.

  However, it is undeniable that the current world also has a tendency of "pseudo multilateralism", that is, using multilateralism as a guise to engage in closed group politics; using multilateralism as an excuse to impose rules formulated by a few countries on the international community; and multilateralism Be ideological and create a value alliance for specific countries.

Gao Fei, vice president of the China Foreign Affairs University, said that multilateralism should mean that all countries encounter common problems and challenges, negotiate and solve them together, rather than "draw small circles."

  In this regard, China recently put forward the "determination of authenticity" of multilateralism, emphasizing that the implementation of pseudo-multilateralism will only create new divisions and trigger new conflicts.

The outside world also expects Xi Jinping to clarify true multilateralism in his speech, so as to inject more certainty into economic globalization at a critical moment.

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