(A closer look at China) Focusing on global development, why did Xi Jinping mention this small village on the Loess Plateau?
China News Agency, Beijing, June 25th: Focusing on global development, why did Xi Jinping mention this small village on the Loess Plateau?
China News Agency reporter Xing Chong Li Jingze
"In the late 1960s, when I worked as a farmer in a small village on the Loess Plateau of China, I experienced the hardships of the people's crops and food and clothing, and their desire for a better life was deeply imprinted in my mind."
On the evening of the 24th, when presiding over a high-level dialogue on global development by video, Chinese President Xi Jinping opened with a story of the past.
This small village called Liangjiahe has been mentioned many times by Xi Jinping.
At this high-level dialogue on the theme of "development", facing the leaders of 17 countries, Xi Jinping mentioned this small village again, "I deeply feel that only continuous development can realize the people's interest in living well, peace and prosperity. A dream of social tranquility."
The mountains and villages have undergone great changes, and the once poor and backward small villages in northern Shaanxi have already changed their faces. The villagers have no worries about food and clothing, and live and work in peace and contentment. It interprets that development is the door to human happiness and becomes the epitome of China’s social development and progress.
The dialogue meeting that night was the third important event that Xi Jinping attended during the BRICS meeting.
To the outside world, the BRICS "China Year" focuses on the theme of development.
First of all, development is the "golden key" of BRICS cooperation.
Those who are willing to cooperate, do not take mountains and seas as far away.
Speaking of BRICS cooperation, Xi Jinping once pointed out that we come from five countries on four continents in the world and have come together to build partnership and achieve the grand goal of common development.
If the change of the small village is a vivid practice of China's development, in the past 16 years, the BRICS cooperation has changed from conceptualization to reality, and then gradually expanded its influence. It can be said that it has stepped out of the "BRICS practice" of the development of the five countries.
From infrastructure construction such as Brazil's "Fuyu Road", India's "Green Power", South Africa's "Modern Port", to technological innovations such as aerospace, information technology, and new energy, a series of pragmatic developments show that BRICS cooperation is not a talk shop , but an action team, sticking to the main line of cooperation and development, and the quality of BRICS cooperation has been continuously improved.
Xi Jinping has always emphasized the importance of development to the BRICS.
During the BRICS leaders' meeting, Xi Jinping will talk about development at every event.
Observers believe that Xi Jinping once again mentioned the past of the small village at the opening of the Global Development Dialogue, which is also intended to arouse the original intention of the BRICS cooperation and development, "remember why the BRICS countries set out", and strive to join hands in the future.
Furthermore, under the current global situation, the great changes in this rural area of China are of great practical significance, and there are profound revelations behind the past.
Development is the eternal theme of human society. At present, the changes in the century and the epidemic of the century are superimposed. The recovery of the world economy is difficult, the development gap between the North and the South is still widening, and the economic growth of emerging market countries is generally slowing down. The implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development faces severe challenges. , and even some countries that voted "support" in the past have politicized and marginalized development issues, trying to build "small courtyards and high walls" and reshape their hegemonic advantages. Human development is facing many challenges.
When the achievements of many years of global development have been swallowed up and the Human Development Index has declined for the first time in 30 years, people are more eager for the development of small villages and call for the pace of global development.
Under the complex situation, how should we recognize the general trend of development and reproduce the changes of small villages?
In September last year, Xi Jinping solemnly proposed the "Global Development Initiative" at the 76th UN General Assembly, calling for the implementation of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
At the dialogue meeting, Xi Jinping called on everyone to "strengthen their confidence, act on their own, twist into a single rope, riveted together, and promote global development", and stressed that "development should be placed at the center of the international agenda."
Zhu Xufeng, Executive Dean of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development of Tsinghua University, believes that taking development as the central agenda and building a political consensus that everyone attaches importance to development and that all countries seek cooperation, this is a summary of China's own development experience and China's current global Constructive solutions to development problems.
"Agreeing with one heart, everything can be achieved." Taking the past of a small village as an example to call for global development, one can also understand the meaning of this ancient Chinese saying quoted by Xi Jinping at this dialogue.
In the BRICS "China Year" five years ago, Xi Jinping proposed the "BRICS+" concept.
In the past five years, the "BRICS+" cooperation model has been continuously deepened and expanded, and it has become a model for emerging market countries and developing countries to carry out South-South cooperation and achieve unity and self-improvement.
Experts believe that the reason why the BRICS mechanism can be "additive" is that it has always adhered to the BRICS spirit of openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, and is committed to drawing concentric circles of common development.
"We must seek development with sincerity, make concerted efforts to promote development, build an open world economy, and build a more just and reasonable global governance system and institutional environment." Xi Jinping said at the dialogue meeting.
Some observers pointed out that Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that the BRICS countries are not closed clubs, nor are they exclusive "small circles".
The Chinese side once again called for the "chorus" of cooperative development with the vivid practice of the great changes in the countryside, expressing its hope to build the broadest consensus on development and reflecting China's sincerity in seeking development.
Wang Lei, director of the BRICS Cooperation Research Center at Beijing Normal University, believes that the dialogue between emerging markets and developing countries was held during the BRICS leaders' meeting in Xiamen five years ago. Five representative countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America attended the dialogue. The "BRICS+" lineup has been upgraded. In addition to the BRICS, the number of participating countries has increased to 13, including the G20, APEC, ASEAN, the Commonwealth of Independent States and other rotating presidencies.
"This highlights the breadth and international influence of BRICS cooperation. The mature charm of this mechanism enables development issues to be effectively promoted and attracts more and more countries to join."
The changes of a small village reflect the eternal theme of development in human society.
Observers believe that under a century of changes, at this high-level dialogue on development, Xi Jinping shared China's development concept reflected in small villages, aiming to promote regional and global cooperation with the wisdom of development, so as to "enable cooperation." The cake is getting bigger and bigger, and the forces of progress are getting stronger and stronger.”
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