General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out at the Central Foreign Affairs Work Conference in November 2014 that China must have its own characteristics of major-country diplomacy.
At the Central Foreign Affairs Work Conference in June 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping further emphasized that we should adhere to the mission of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and promote major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has deeply grasped the historical position of China and the international situation, coordinated the domestic and international overall situation, led my country's foreign work to overcome difficulties and forge ahead, and developed a Chinese characteristic. The new road of major-country diplomacy has created a favorable external environment for realizing the "two centenary goals" and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Develop a global partnership to expand the convergence of interests with countries
On September 15, 2022, President Xi Jinping held a bilateral meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during his attendance at the SCO Samarkand Summit in Uzbekistan.
The two heads of state decided to upgrade China-Belarus relations to an all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership, which has become the latest progress in China's development of global partnership.
"Like-minded partners are partners. Seeking common ground while reserving differences is also partners." President Xi Jinping put forward in a pioneering manner, insisting on building a global partnership based on deepening the diplomatic layout.
Adhering to dialogue rather than confrontation and partnership rather than alliance, over the past decade, China has made friends and deepened cooperation with other countries, constantly expanding the convergence of interests with other countries, and building a new type of international relations.
Promote coordination and cooperation among major countries, and build a framework for major-country relations with overall stability and balanced development; in accordance with the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness, and the neighboring diplomatic policy of friendship and partnership with neighbors, deepen relations with neighboring countries; uphold the correct concept of justice, interests and peace In the new era, China's foreign relations continue to expand and deepen, and the all-round, multi-level and three-dimensional layout of its external work is increasingly developed and improved.
On March 28, 2020, at Islamabad International Airport in Pakistan, workers unload medical supplies donated by China.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Tian
At 12:00 on December 31, 2021, the sun was shining like fire in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.
Along with the majestic "March of the Volunteers", a five-star red flag was slowly raised in the center of the courtyard of the Chinese Embassy in Nicaragua.
2016, The Gambia, Sao Tome and Principe; 2017, Panama; 2018, Dominica, Burkina Faso, El Salvador; 2019, Solomon Islands, Kiribati; 2021, Nicaragua… 18th Party Congress Since then, 9 countries have established and resumed diplomatic relations with China, and the number of countries that have established diplomatic relations with China has increased to 181.
Established the "China-Switzerland Innovative Strategic Partnership" with Switzerland, opened the "China-Russia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Coordination for a New Era" with Russia, developed the "China-Kazakhstan Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership" with Kazakhstan, and continued to promote the "China-India Closer Partnership" with India. China’s partnership for development”… China’s partnership has become more diverse in form, enriched in connotation, and improved in level.
This is a fan of the Zanatas wind farm in Kazakhstan on September 13, 2022.
Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Dmitry Vasilenko)
The partnership advocated by China insists on mutually beneficial cooperation, gives full play to their respective advantages, turns winner-take-all for win-win for all parties, and makes the cake of common interests bigger through cooperation to achieve common development and prosperity.
Promote open cooperation and open up broad space for common development
On August 31, 2022, with the sound of the whistle, a China-Laos Railway international freight train loaded with tea, fertilizer raw materials and other goods departed from Jiangyin Port in Fuzhou to Vientiane, Laos, and Fujian departed the first China-Laos Railway International. freight train.
As the flagship project of the "Belt and Road" jointly built by China and Laos, the opening of the China-Laos Railway has not only made Laos' dream of changing from a "land-locked country" to a "land-linked country" a reality, but also opened up the express route from mainland China to Laos and Southeast Asia. aisle.
In the autumn of 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed a major initiative to jointly build the "Belt and Road" during his visit.
Adhering to extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, China promotes the high-quality development of the “Belt and Road” initiative, implements a more proactive opening-up strategy, forms a pattern of opening up to the outside world in a wider range, wider field, and deeper level, and builds a mutually beneficial, win-win, diversified, balanced, and Safe and efficient open economic system.
This is an aerial photo of the Greek port of Piraeus on January 16, 2019.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Lu
On February 27, 2016, a special train stopped at the entrance of the Kamchik tunnel of the Angren-Papu railway in Uzbekistan.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shadati
In the past nine years, more than 140 countries and more than 30 international organizations have signed more than 200 cooperation documents on the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" with China; from 2013 to 2021, the cumulative trade volume of goods between China and countries along the route has reached nearly 11 trillion US dollars, two-way. The investment exceeds 230 billion US dollars; by the end of 2021, China has built 79 overseas economic and trade cooperation zones in 24 countries along the route, with a total investment of 43 billion US dollars, creating 346,000 local jobs... Across different regions, different development stages, and different civilizations , the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" will continue to deepen and deepen, and open up a path of opportunity for all countries to lead to common prosperity.
This is a fireworks display at the opening ceremony of the Peljesac Bridge built by a Chinese company, taken in Komarna, Croatia, on July 26, 2022.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xuejun
China sets the stage and the world sings.
This is the scene of the 50-day countdown to the 5th China International Import Expo and the signing ceremony of the 6th China International Import Expo, which was filmed at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) on September 16, 2022.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
September 2022, Shanghai.
As the 50-day countdown to the opening of the 5th China International Import Expo, many companies and institutions locked their booths in advance for the 6th China International Import Expo.
The “Story of the Expo” that has been pushed forward reflects the full enthusiasm of all parties involved, but also demonstrates China’s firm determination to “open the door wider and wider” and its full sincerity in sharing market opportunities with other countries in the world.
Visitors visit the comprehensive exhibition hall of the National Convention Center of the 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services (photo taken on September 5, 2022).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hao Zhao
Exhibitors at the site of the 130th Canton Fair (photo taken on October 15, 2021).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Dawei
From holding the China International Import Expo, the Service Trade Fair, the Canton Fair, and the Consumer Expo in successive years, to coordinating the promotion of the construction of 21 free trade pilot zones, and then to the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port with high quality and high standards; from actively promoting the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" " officially entered into force, to the official application to join the "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership", to the promotion of economic globalization towards a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction... China in the new era is open to the world Embrace, promote the building of an open world economy, share development opportunities and gather development forces in the opening and integration of China and the world.
This is the exterior scene of the second China International Consumer Goods Fair, taken in Haikou on July 30, 2022.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Guo Cheng
Uphold the concept of diplomacy for the people and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese citizens and legal persons
On the evening of September 25, 2021, after unremitting efforts, Ms. Meng Wanzhou, who was illegally detained by Canada for more than a thousand days, finally returned home safely.
The phrase "if belief has color, it must be China red", expresses the common aspiration of the 1.4 billion Chinese people.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's diplomacy has practiced the concept of diplomacy for the people, rooted in the people, with the people in mind, and benefited the people, and firmly safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of our overseas citizens and legal persons.
To build overseas livelihood projects, Chinese diplomacy is committed to building a safety net for Chinese citizens and enterprises going abroad, providing a safer travel environment for overseas Chinese tourists, striving for a better learning environment for Chinese students, and creating a friendlier business for Chinese businessmen. environment, bring warmer care to Chinese overseas Chinese, find a broader market for Chinese products, create better working and living conditions for Chinese workers overseas, and help them realize their dreams.
In the five years from 2012 to 2017, China successfully organized 9 overseas citizen evacuation operations, handled more than 100 cases of Chinese citizens being kidnapped or attacked overseas, and handled nearly 300,000 cases of consular protection and assistance.
On March 29, 2015, the 19th Chinese naval escort taskforce Linyi arrived at the port of Aden in Yemen. Female crew members of Linyi helped evacuated children board the ship.
Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Xiong Libing)
In 2020, as the COVID-19 epidemic spreads globally, the Party and the government are always concerned about the safety of overseas Chinese citizens, and do everything possible to ensure the health, safety, work and life of Chinese citizens, and distribute "health packs" and "Spring Festival packs" to overseas students, overseas Chinese and other groups. of Chinese citizens returned to China in an orderly manner; launched the "Spring Miao Action" to actively strive for and assist overseas Chinese citizens to get vaccinated.
The "12308" consular protection hotline running 24 hours a day, embassies and consulates all over the world, and risk assessment and early warning services carried out around the world... From the moment they step out of the country, there is always the protection of the motherland behind Chinese citizens.
Promote the reform of global governance to create more favorable conditions for my country's development and world peace
The autumn colors are beginning to dye, and the tide is surging by the Qiantang River.
In September 2016, leaders of the G20 gathered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
President Xi Jinping presided over the summit and for the first time comprehensively expounded China's global economic governance concept - based on equality, oriented by openness, driven by cooperation, and aimed at sharing.
The summit promotes the G20 to transform from short-term policies to medium- and long-term policies, and from crisis response to long-term governance mechanisms.
On January 16, 2021, in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, airport staff unload the new crown vaccine produced by China Sinopharm Group.
Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Predrag Milosavrevich)
As the international balance of power changes and global challenges increase, strengthening global governance and promoting the reform of the global governance system have become the general trend.
From the APEC Leaders Meeting in Beijing to the G20 Hangzhou Summit, from the SCO Qingdao Summit to the BRICS Summit, from the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, from the Boao Summit From the Asian Forum to the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, the Summit of the Communist Party of China and World Political Party Leaders, and the first phase of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity... A series of major home diplomacy has become the shining light of China's diplomacy in the new era The business card reflects the glorious history of China's active participation in global governance.
This is the logo of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) taken on October 25, 2021.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li He
Advocate the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, adhere to the common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, constructively participate in the political settlement of international and regional hotspot issues, constructively participate in global climate governance, and promote the strengthening of global public health governance, Initiated the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank, proposed global development initiatives, global security initiatives... A series of new concepts, new ideas, new initiatives, and concrete solutions and actions, contributing to solving various problems faced by mankind. Wisdom and action force demonstrate the responsibility of a major country in China's diplomacy in the new era.
On October 14, 2021, staff transported the Sinovac vaccine that the Chinese government assisted Cambodia at Phnom Penh International Airport in Cambodia.
Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Pilong)
On May 7, 2021, a Chinese government medical expert team inspected a new coronavirus sampling site in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, to learn about the sampling process, information collection, criteria for determining close contacts, and environmental disinfection.
Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of the Chinese Government Medical Expert Group)
On August 21, 2020, at a new coronavirus testing facility in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, members of the Chinese anti-epidemic medical expert team communicated with local medical staff.
Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in South Sudan)
On January 19, 2021, medical staff vaccinated an indigenous person against the Chinese new crown in Tabatinga, Amazonas state, Brazil.
Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Lucio Tavola)
"There are many and big problems in the world, and global challenges are on the rise. They should and can only be solved through dialogue and cooperation. International affairs should be handled through consultation, and it has become a broad consensus of the international community to help each other in the same boat." The speech at the anniversary summit showed the profound thinking of Chinese leaders on promoting the reform of the international governance system.
Facing the future, China will place its own development in the grand coordinate system of human development, and will always be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of the international order, and a provider of public goods. Forge ahead bravely towards the goal of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
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