First report | President Xi has led the way in the past seven years since the establishment of a China-Latin America community with a shared future
Seven years ago, President Xi Jinping pointed out when attending the first meeting of leaders of China and Latin America in Brasilia that China and Latin America should work hard to build a community of shared destiny, which pointed out the direction for the further development of China-Latin America comprehensive cooperative partnership.
In the past seven years, President Xi Jinping’s initiative has received positive responses from Latin American countries. China-Latin America cooperation in various fields has developed vigorously, forming a comprehensive, multi-level and three-dimensional cooperation pattern, and the integration of interests between China and Latin America has further deepened.
Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic period, President Xi Jinping exchanged letters and telegrams with leaders of many Latin American countries, leading China and Latin America to fight the epidemic together and seek common development, vividly interpreting "the world is close to each other" with practical actions, enriching the connotation of the concept of a community of shared future for China and Latin America.
The tree of a China-Latin America community with a shared future is fruitful
On July 17, 2014, at the China-Latin America and Caribbean Leaders’ Meeting in Brasilia, President Xi Jinping proposed for the first time the initiative to build a China-Latin America community with a shared future, establishing a new pattern of “five in one” for China-Latin America relations And the top-level design of the "1+3+6" new frame.
Under this top-level design, China-Latin America cooperation in various fields is step by step, from high-level exchanges to inter-party exchanges, from export diversification to foreign trade upgrades, from infrastructure to green energy, from language teaching to think tank interaction, from classic mutual translation to Civilization dialogue is like nectar watering the big tree of the China-Latin America community of shared future and nurturing many fruits.
——In the past seven years, the cooperation mechanism between China and Latin America has become increasingly mature.
Under the leadership of the head of state diplomacy, the China-CELAC Forum has been established, and a dialogue and cooperation platform covering political parties, infrastructure, agriculture, enterprises, technological innovation, youth, think tanks, law, environment, and local government cooperation has been established. Projects such as the Joint Laboratory and the China-Latin America News Exchange Center have also taken root.
——In the past seven years, China-Latin America's pragmatic cooperation has been improved and upgraded.
The bilateral trade volume has grown steadily and has exceeded 300 billion U.S. dollars for three consecutive years. 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries have signed cooperation documents with China to jointly build the "Belt and Road".
The pace of China's investment in Latin America has also been accelerating. The stock of direct investment in Latin America has exceeded 450 billion U.S. dollars, and the cumulative amount of contracted projects signed by Chinese companies in Latin America has exceeded 220 billion U.S. dollars.
——In the past 7 years, China-Latin America people-to-people and cultural exchanges have been splendid.
The two parties successfully held the "China-Latin America Cultural Exchange Year" in 2016, covering nearly 30 Latin American and Caribbean countries and multiple provinces and cities in China, which not only shortened the distance between the two parties, but also further activated language teaching and academic exchange activities, and learned Chinese. The number of students from Latin America and Chinese students studying Spanish and Portuguese has grown rapidly, and relevant national and regional research institutions have also continued to emerge.
During this period, Panama, Dominica and El Salvador successively established diplomatic relations with China and participated in the construction of a China-Latin America community of shared future with new identities.
The song of the China-Latin America Community of Shared Future is moving
Under the guidance of the intensive "telephone diplomacy" and "letter diplomacy", in the face of the new crown epidemic, China and Latin America worked together to fight the epidemic and help each other, composing a touching song of a community of shared future for China and Latin America.
When it was most difficult for China to fight the new crown epidemic, the Latin American people gave China sincere help and support: Peruvian cartoonist Wan Wei’s "hot dry noodles" comics were circulated online, and the Argentine Football Association presented the football star Messi’s jersey to the son of a nurse in Hubei. Chinese and Latin American people composed the song "Hope" to cheer for Chinese friends...
With the spread of the epidemic in Latin America, China felt the same way and offered to lend a helping hand.
As of March this year, China has held more than 40 video conferences on anti-epidemic experience exchanges with Latin America and the Caribbean. It has sent anti-epidemic medical expert teams to Venezuela and Peru to go to the front line to engage in anti-epidemic work. It has also donated urgently needed medical supplies to many Latin American countries. equipment.
Chinese vaccines are continuously shipped to Latin America and the Caribbean, which has become an important guarantee for some countries to initiate large-scale vaccination.
Chilean President Pinera went to the airport three times to greet the Chinese vaccine.
He said that the Chinese vaccine is "the light at the end of the tunnel."
China-Latin America Community of Shared Future Ships Stable and Far-reaching
On November 21, 2016, in the Peruvian Congress, President Xi Jinping compared the China-Latin America Community of Destiny to a big ship, calling on both sides to hold high the banner of peaceful development and cooperation, promote the docking of development strategies, accelerate cooperation shifts, and realize the sharing of cooperation results.
In the face of the superimposed and intertwined century-old changes and the epidemic of the century, the ship of the China-Latin America community of shared destiny is cutting through the waves and advancing bravely.
Under the gloom of the epidemic, Latin America has suffered a severe economic recession.
In 2020, Latin America's exports to the United States and the European Union have fallen sharply, while exports to China have increased by 2% against the trend.
In addition, China has carried out 24 infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a total value of 17.8 billion U.S. dollars.
Entering 2021, China-Latin America economic and trade cooperation will show even more vitality.
From January to May, China-Latin America trade volume achieved a substantial increase of 45%, and China's direct investment in Latin America reached 10.38 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 40%.
The key to economic and trade cooperation is win-win, and the key to cultural exchanges is mutual understanding.
The epidemic has blocked normal personnel exchanges between China and Latin America, but it cannot stop the Chinese and Latin American people's expectations of enhancing mutual understanding.
In Argentina, in order to learn Chinese, lawyer Martina Yefiz became the first batch of students of the Confucius Institute at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, which was established during the epidemic.
She hopes that after the epidemic is over, she can go to China and experience Chinese culture immersively.
In China, in order to introduce Latin America, Peking University Press and the China-Latin America Education, Science and Culture Center plan to build a library of "Understanding Latin America". It will take about 10 years to release 50 books on the humanities and history of Latin America. A "bridge of understanding".
On the road to chasing dreams, join hands.
Simultaneous development of China-Latin America cooperation on the material and spiritual levels is the key to the stability and long-term development of the China-Latin America community of shared future.
People have reason to believe that under the guidance of the China-Latin America community of shared future, the China-Latin America comprehensive cooperative partnership will have a better tomorrow.
Producer: Zhou Zongmin
Planning: Ban Wei, Chen Zhi, Jiang Yan
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