China News Agency, Jakarta, April 15th: Why is it said that China-Indonesia anti-epidemic cooperation reflects the harmonious culture of the two countries?

  ——Interview with Huang Yuanzi, President of Indonesia Harmony Culture Foundation

  China News Agency reporter Lin Yongchuan

  On March 16 this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out in a telephone conversation with Indonesian President Joko Widodo that China and Indonesia are both representatives of major developing countries and emerging economies. Overcome the difficulties, it has built a new "four-wheel drive" pattern of political, economic, cultural and maritime cooperation in bilateral relations. A model of sincere cooperation between major developing countries.

Recently, Huang Yuanzi, president of the Indonesian Harmony Culture Foundation, said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Dongxiwen" that the sincere cooperation between China and Indonesia in the fight against the epidemic is the best embodiment of the "harmonious culture" of the two countries.

The advocacy and promotion of this harmonious culture is of great significance to today's world.

The following is a summary of the interview transcript:

China News Agency reporter: How do you evaluate the cooperation between China and Indonesia in the fight against the epidemic?

Huang Yuanzi:

Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the anti-epidemic cooperation between China and Indonesia, the anti-epidemic cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, and the anti-epidemic cooperation between China and the international community are all concrete and vivid manifestations of "harmonious culture".

  After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in China, the Indonesian government and private sector extended a helping hand as soon as possible, donating masks and other urgently needed anti-epidemic materials.

In the more than two years after the outbreak of the epidemic in Indonesia, China, from the central government to the local governments at all levels, to relevant institutions, non-governmental organizations, and Chinese-funded enterprises, have provided Indonesia with the most powerful anti-epidemic assistance. China's COVID-19 vaccine accounts for about 80% of the total number of vaccines Indonesia has received. China-Indonesia anti-epidemic cooperation has become the strongest source of confidence in Indonesia's fight against the new crown epidemic.

  Not only in Indonesia, but also in other ASEAN countries, and in the international community, China has demonstrated its responsibility as a major country to build a community of human health.

  According to official data, as of December 2021, China has provided nearly 600 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to ASEAN countries.

This year, China will provide another 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to ASEAN countries for free, and an additional US$5 million to the ASEAN Anti-epidemic Fund.

  So far, China is sharing epidemic prevention and control and diagnosis and treatment plans with 180 countries and more than 10 international and regional organizations; sending 37 medical expert teams to 34 countries; providing more than 2.1 billion doses of vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations, Become the country that provides the most vaccines to the outside world; China has successively transferred technology to 20 countries and cooperated in the production of vaccines, forming an annual production capacity of 1 billion doses of vaccines overseas.

  When the uneven distribution of vaccines causes a huge disparity in vaccination rates among countries, and when the "vaccine gap" has become the biggest obstacle to the global fight against the epidemic, China's vaccines are protecting the well-being of people in many countries. In particular, the vast majority of developing countries have felt warmth in the cold winter of the epidemic.

  It can be said that the sincere cooperation between China and Indonesia in the fight against the epidemic well reflects the "harmonious culture" that both countries follow.

Medical staff vaccinate people against the new crown in a residential apartment complex in the center of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Lin Yongchuan

China News Service reporter: How do you understand what you mean by "harmonious culture"?

Huang Yuanzi:

Harmonious culture can also be called the harmonious culture of the Chinese Way. It originates from the subtle observation of the ancient Chinese sages and sages of the universe, heaven, earth and nature and comprehends its harmonious truth. Harmonious culture originates from China and belongs to the world. Its harmony between heaven, earth and nature Truth is universal, global, and holistic.

Road trip, the world is a family.

It includes ideological concepts, value systems, behavioral norms, cultural forms, social customs, institutions and other forms of existence.

  The history of human civilization shows that the world culture is rich and colorful.

During the development of human history, different countries and different ethnic groups have created different cultures and formed different civilizations.

But no matter what kind of culture, what kind of civilization, eastern or western, there is the core content of pursuing a better life and pursuing social harmony.

They are valuable treasures for exchanges, dialogues and mutual learning among civilizations, as well as an important foundation for the construction of a harmonious culture.

China News Service: What are the harmonious cultural traditions of China and Indonesia?

Huang Yuanzi:

The thousands of years of civilization history of the Chinese nation is a history of following and advocating a harmonious culture.

From ancient sages to today's state rulers, they all aim to build a harmonious society and a harmonious world.

  Chinese cultural classics contain the great wisdom of harmonious culture everywhere.

For example, "harmony but difference" proposed in "The Analects of Confucius" can be understood as the truth of "harmony" as the foundation, respect and acceptance of multiculturalism, respect for countries and nationalities to choose the path of survival and development according to their own conditions and needs, various Civilizations learn from each other, complement each other, and make progress together.

This harmonious cultural ideology has been well inherited and carried forward in the history of the development of the Chinese nation.

Textile Collector's Edition "The Analects".

Photo by China News Agency Chu Baorui


  The joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, the idea of ​​ecological civilization, the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, and the global development initiatives proposed, advocated and practiced by China today are all in pursuit of the goal of harmony between people, people and society, and people and nature. In order to build a harmonious society and a harmonious world, we will fulfill the mission of a responsible major country of "contributing to the world".

  In Indonesia, the harmonious thought of "harmony but difference" is fully reflected in its national motto "same goal by different paths".

This concept and the five founding principles of "faith, humanity, unity, democracy and justice" have become the basic spirit of Indonesia's national constitution.

It is precisely based on the harmonious cultural concept of "same destination by different paths" that Indonesia has successfully built a harmonious society of ethnic unity, religious harmony, and racial harmony.

China News Service reporter: What is the significance of harmonious culture to the world today?

Huang Yuanzi:

After 10,000 years of evolution history and thousands of years of civilization history, human society has created a highly developed material civilization, and human beings have lived in the environment of "globalization" and "global village".

However, today's world is facing many difficulties and contradictions that need to be solved urgently, and human beings are also facing an increasingly serious existential crisis.

  The consequences of global warming have seriously threatened human survival. Extreme weather, water shortages, food crises, etc. continue to intensify. The reason is that the harmonious environment between man and nature has been destroyed; geopolitics, Cold War mentality, games of great powers... The farce of the clash of civilizations has intensified, extending from the political and military fields to the economy, culture, education, art, sports, etc.; traditional and non-traditional security factors are threatening the fate of mankind.

  At present, the new crown pneumonia epidemic is spreading around the world. All countries in the world should work together to form a joint force. However, some Western countries have politicized the epidemic and artificially created a vaccine gap, making the global anti-epidemic road "blocked and long."

  In the face of the epidemic of the century and the great changes in the world unseen in a century, and in the face of the common threat to the destiny of all mankind, will mankind continue to pull small circles and groups to engage in clashes of civilizations and eventually die together? And different” to unite to deal with difficulties and challenges?

The answer is obvious.

  "Zhongye is the great foundation of the world. Harmony is the way of the world. To achieve neutrality, the status of heaven and the cultivation of all things."

The wisdom of "harmonious culture" in Chinese traditional culture is the way for human beings to survive together, that is, the only way for human beings to survive.

Only the harmonious concept of a community with a shared future for mankind can lead the world to a brighter future.

In 2017, the "Cultural China. The Four Seas and Spring" theatrical performance was held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Lin Yongchuan

China News Service reporter: How to advocate and promote a harmonious culture in international relations?

The words of Huang Yuan:

"The Doctrine of the Mean" says: "All things grow together without harming each other, and the Tao runs in parallel without contradicting each other."

This is the harmonious wisdom of Eastern civilization.

In the West, Russell once wrote in "Comparison of Chinese and Western Civilizations": "The exchange between different civilizations has been proved many times in the past to be a milestone in the development of human civilization."

  Thousands of years of human civilization history have proved that the key to the promotion of a harmonious culture, the construction of a harmonious society and a harmonious world lies in the establishment of the concept of "harmony".

  Human civilization is a hundred gardens. Different countries and different ethnic groups have different outstanding achievements of civilization. To advocate and establish a harmonious culture, we should absorb and learn from the achievements of outstanding civilizations from all over the world while inheriting and developing our own nation. A harmonious road of "dialogue among civilizations" and "mutual learning among civilizations".

The 2019 Asian Culture Carnival of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations was held in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita

  As Chinese state leaders have said, no country is inherently dominant, and no model is destined to be superior.

In the era of globalization, it should not be that some people oppose others, but that all people benefit all people.

  We should advocate and practice multilateralism with the goal of maintaining world peace and promoting common development, maintaining fairness and justice, and promoting mutual benefit and win-win results.

To carry forward multilateralism, the core essence is that international affairs should be handled by everyone through consultation.

  If so, an ideal harmonious world can be established.

The exemplary anti-epidemic cooperation between China and Indonesia has provided answers for mankind.

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Interviewee Profile:

  Huang Yuanzi, Chairman of the Indonesian Harmony Culture Foundation, Chairman of the Riau and Riau Islands Branch of the Indonesia-China Friendship Association.

Graduated with a master's degree in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages ​​from Jinan University, China.

For more than ten years, he has focused on the research of Chinese excellent traditional culture and harmonious culture, and led the foundation to carry out a series of public welfare social services such as Chinese education, moral education, Sino-Indonesian cultural and artistic exchanges, and promotion of traditional Chinese medicine culture. Morality and Life Education.

He was invited to participate in the "Nishan World Civilization Forum" twice, and published papers such as "The Integration of Civilizations and the Community of Human Destiny", "The Concept of Dao Education and Harmonious World", and "China Dao Harmonious Culture and Harmonious World".