Editor's note:

At the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022, President Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must practice the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, carry forward the common values ​​of all mankind, and advocate exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations."

  Peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom are the common values ​​of all mankind.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping has expounded on the connotation and extension of the common values ​​of all mankind on many international and domestic occasions, continuously injecting impetus into the global economic development, and constantly boosting confidence in the positive development of the world situation.

  The common value of all mankind is a major theoretical innovation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and the theoretical cornerstone of promoting the building of a community of shared future for mankind.

CCTV's "Learning Every Day" column specially planned a series of "Xi Jinping's "Classics" Brightening the Common Values ​​of All Human Beings, to learn and comprehend together with you.

【Interpretation】

  "Mencius Tengwen Gongxia" records a dialogue between Mencius and Jingchun, a follower of the Zongheng family, about the "big man".

Jingchun asked Mencius: "When Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi are angry, the princes will be afraid. When they are quiet, the world will be safe. Isn't such a person a real man?" Mencius disagreed with Jingchun's point of view, and expressed his own opinion The standard of the "big man" is: "Having a broad residence in the world, establishing a right position in the world, and walking the way of the world." Zhu Xi's Annotations of the Four Books annotated as follows: "Having a broad residence means benevolence; in a right position, it is also propriety; the Dao means righteousness. "The meaning of this sentence is that a man should live in the broadest abode in the world - "benevolence", stand in the most proper position in the world - "li", and walk on the brightest road in the world - "righteousness". superior.

  Mencius believed that a real man should have a noble character, act upright, stand upright, and strive for an ideal goal.

【Interpretation】

  In a speech delivered at the headquarters of the League of Arab States in Cairo in 2016, President Xi Jinping explained China's Middle East foreign policy.

He borrowed the idea of ​​"big man" that best represents the basic spirit of Chinese culture, and told the world loud and clear that China's diplomacy in the Middle East is to stand upright and pursue the road, not to find agents, not to engage in spheres of influence, and not to seek to fill the "vacuum". To be "a builder of peace in the Middle East, a promoter of development in the Middle East, a booster of industrialization in the Middle East, a supporter of stability in the Middle East, and a partner of people's hearts in the Middle East" fully demonstrates the great power that seeks great harmony for the world and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind take responsibility.

  To move towards a community with a shared future, we must adhere to win-win cooperation and common development.

Only through win-win cooperation can we do great things, good things, and long-term things.

It is necessary to abandon the old thinking of zero-sum game, you lose and I win, and establish a new concept of win-win and win-win, take into account the interests of others when pursuing our own interests, and promote common development when seeking our own development.

  A big era requires a big pattern, and a big pattern calls for a big mind.

From the perspective of "country first", the world is small and crowded, and there is always "intense competition".

From the perspective of a shared destiny, the world is vast and there are opportunities for cooperation everywhere.

Over the years, China has adhered to the path of peaceful development, adhered to an independent foreign policy of peace, pursued an opening-up strategy of mutual benefit and win-win results, adhered to the correct concept of justice and interests, developed friendly cooperation with other countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, and always maintained A staunch force for world peace and common development, it unifies the interests of its own people with the interests of people from all over the world, and moves forward in the direction of building a community with a shared future for mankind.

  "The journey of the great road is also the world for the public." In today's world, countries are interdependent and share weal and woe. We must follow the trend, promote the building of a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation as the core, build a community with a shared future for mankind, and let peace be the fuel of peace. Passed down from generation to generation, let the power of development continue to flow, and let the light of civilization shine!

  (Author Yang Lixin)