China News Agency, Beijing, April 23 (Huang Yuqin) On the evening of April 22, after Chinese President Xi Jinping was invited to attend the leaders’ climate summit and delivered an important speech, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a briefing for Chinese and foreign media overnight.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu presided over and introduced the main situation and important results of the summit. China’s special envoy for climate change affairs Xie Zhenhua attended the meeting via video connection to explain China’s major policy propositions in the field of climate change.

  Ma Zhaoxu said that at present, major changes unseen in a century are intertwined with the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and climate change poses severe challenges and real threats to human survival and development.

At such a major historical juncture, President Xi Jinping was invited to attend the summit and delivered an important speech, discussing with the leaders of various countries on countermeasures to the challenges of climate change, and seeking a harmonious coexistence between man and nature, once again demonstrating China’s high degree of climate change issues. Paying attention to it and assuming responsibility for a major country in global environmental governance has very important practical and far-reaching historical significance.

  Ma Zhaoxu said that in his speech, President Xi Jinping explained the rich connotations and core meanings of the concept of "community of human and natural life" for the first time in a comprehensive and systematic manner: First, we must adhere to the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.

The second is to persist in green development.

The third is to insist on systematic governance.

The fourth is to insist on putting people first.

The fifth is to uphold multilateralism.

Sixth, we must adhere to the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities".

These "six persistences" reflect President Xi Jinping's vision for mankind to deal with climate change, properly handle the relationship between man and nature, and achieve sustainable development for all mankind, and demonstrate China's broad pattern of participation in global climate and environmental governance.

President Xi Jinping started from the harmonious coexistence of man and nature and called on the international community to take responsibility and work together to build a community of life between man and nature.

This is President Xi Jinping standing at the height of the future and destiny of all mankind, upholding a sense of responsibility to the people of the world and future generations, and proposing the "Chinese plan" for strengthening global environmental governance, and pointing out the path to a clean and beautiful world for global environmental governance at a critical point Cotai Strip.

  Ma Zhaoxu said that China has never been absent in response to global climate change.

As a participant, contributor, and leader in the construction of global ecological civilization, China has made unremitting efforts to build a community of human and natural life with practical actions.

China will strive to achieve the peak of carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. It is a major strategic decision based on promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and achieving sustainable development.

China has promised that the time from carbon peak to carbon neutrality is far shorter than the time taken by developed countries.

The series of new measures that China is going to take announced by President Xi Jinping are tangible and high in value, which reflects China’s firm determination and responsibility to tackle climate change.

The important speech of President Xi Jinping opened a new journey for China to implement the concept of a community of human and natural life and promote the process of global environmental governance.

China will thoroughly implement the Jinping Ecological Civilization Thought, and work with other countries to promote the building of a community of life between man and nature.

  Xie Zhenhua said that climate change is an urgent and serious threat to the survival, development and security of mankind. It requires countries all over the world to work together and work together to deal with it. It is necessary to establish a new development concept of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness, and sharing, and promote the "green recovery of the world economy." ", bringing together sustainable development forces.

China attaches great importance to climate change work and international cooperation, and has played an important role in the process of reaching, entering into force, and implementing the Paris Agreement.

In recent years, China has implemented a national strategy to actively respond to climate change and persisted in promoting green development and low-carbon transformation, which has laid a solid foundation for the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

In 2020, the global epidemic will continue to spread, the economy will decline, and people's livelihood will encounter huge challenges.

China has proposed a carbon peak goal and a carbon neutral vision, which greatly boosted the confidence of the international community and demonstrated China's firm determination and consistent position on the issue of climate change.

At the summit, President Xi Jinping announced to the world China's ideas, goals and actions for actively responding to climate change, and proposed new measures to implement China's nationally determined contributions.

We are confident that we will fully implement our commitment to address climate change and make important contributions to promoting the multilateral process of global climate governance and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

  The briefing answered questions from reporters on the outcome of the summit, China-US climate cooperation, China's measures to address climate change challenges, the green "Belt and Road", South-South cooperation on climate change, and carbon market trading.

  Su Wei, deputy secretary-general of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, and Li Gao, director of the Department of Climate Change of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, participated in the video connection.

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