China News Agency, Sao Paulo, June 20th: Brazilian expert on China Luis Paulino: BRICS countries play an important role in today's world
China News Agency reporter Mo Chengxiong
"In 2022, BRICS leaders will hold the 14th meeting, which shows that the BRICS mechanism is solid, and the BRICS cooperation has broad prospects and great potential. As a new force in the development of the world economy, the BRICS countries are Today's world plays an important role," said Luis Paulino, a Brazilian expert on China and a professor at the School of Philosophy and Science at São Paulo State University in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency recently.
China is the presidency of the BRICS countries in 2022 and will host a series of events including the 14th BRICS Leaders' Meeting.
Paulino said that the theme of this year's BRICS leaders' meeting is "Building High-Quality Partnerships to Create a New Era of Global Development", which is in line with the global development initiative proposed by China, and can build consensus and strengthen multilateral cooperation mechanisms.
"This year, China once again hosted the BRICS Leaders' Meeting, which will promote BRICS cooperation in key areas such as political security, economic and trade exchanges, public health, sustainable development, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and institutional building, and open a new chapter in BRICS cooperation. This will be an important meeting, which is of great significance to promoting the quality of cooperation among BRICS countries and helping the recovery and development of the world economy," Paulino said.
Paulino believes that the BRICS countries will hold the 14th leaders' meeting in 2022, which shows that the BRICS mechanism is solid.
In recent years, the BRICS countries have maintained a good momentum of cooperation in the economic and trade field, making important contributions to improving global economic governance, promoting global economic recovery and high-quality development.
As a new force in the development of the world economy, the BRICS countries play an important role in today's world.
In the long run, the BRICS countries have broad prospects for cooperation in various fields and huge potential.
Paulino has been to China more than 20 times and is familiar with the situation in China.
He believes, "After more than 40 years of reform and opening up, China has made great achievements in economic construction and social undertakings. China's economic development has brought valuable experience to mankind, which is worth learning and learning from developing countries such as Brazil."
Talking about Brazil-China cooperation, Paulino said that over the past 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Brazil and China, the two countries have carried out practical cooperation and achieved fruitful results in trade and investment, politics, security, agriculture, environment and other fields.
Especially since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Brazil-China vaccine cooperation has helped Brazil to rapidly increase the vaccination rate.
Paulino said that China has been Brazil's largest trading partner for 13 consecutive years and is also Brazil's main source of foreign investment.
Brazil and China have strong economic complementarities and broad prospects for bilateral trade cooperation.
Paulino said that in recent years, the scum of unilateralism and protectionism has arisen, which has had a severe impact on global economic development. It has fueled world inflation, increased global hunger and food shortages, and will forever harm the world's poorest people.
The BRICS countries should adhere to the practice of multilateralism, strengthen economic cooperation among developing countries, reduce their dependence on developed economies, and promote the development of global governance in a more just and reasonable direction.
Paulino said that in addition to economic and trade cooperation, BRICS countries should strengthen cooperation and exchanges in culture and education, promote mutual learning between civilizations, promote people-to-people bonds, consolidate the public opinion foundation for BRICS cooperation, and promote the sustainable development of the BRICS cooperation mechanism.
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