The same Davos blizzard, different world turmoil.
After three years, guests from various countries came to the Swiss town of Davos in winter again to participate in the 2023 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum that began on the 16th local time.
After major events such as the new crown epidemic and the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, people have more deeply realized that changes in the world, times, and history are unfolding in unprecedented ways.
Fragile global economy, geopolitical tension, lack of global governance, superimposed food and energy crises, widening differences between North and South... What's wrong with the world, what should we do?
This question of the times before all mankind urgently needs to be answered.
Since 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered speeches and speeches at the Davos Forum three times. From a historical and philosophical perspective, he explained China's economic globalization proposition and the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and profoundly answered the questions of the times.
Profound thoughts travel through time and space, shining more and more light of truth, highlighting the power of leadership in the midst of major changes and changes, and arousing long-lasting echoes around the world.
In the first year of 2023, the World Bank released a new "Global Economic Prospects" report, arguing that the global economy is "dangerously close to a recession."
Looking at the world today, the risks of stagflation in many countries, the smoke of conflicts in many places, the harm of climate change, and the negative spillover of financial policies of major countries...Global focus, hot spots, and difficult issues are emerging one after another, and poverty, division, and turmoil are increasing.
What do you think?
"The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. This change is not limited to one moment, one event, one country and one domain, but a profound and grand change of the times." ——President Xi Jinping understands the changes of the times and points it out in one sentence The fundamental characteristics of the general trend of today's world.
what to do?
"The problems in the world are complex, and the way to solve them is to maintain and practice multilateralism and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind." ——President Xi Jinping grasped the laws of history, showed confidence and courage, and pointed out the direction for the world to meet challenges together.
Throughout history, human society has grown and developed through overcoming challenges one after another.
As long as we advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the trend of the development of the times, we will be able to cultivate new opportunities in crises, open new games in changing situations, and jointly gather powerful forces to overcome difficulties.
From "making full use of all opportunities and cooperating to meet all challenges", to "human beings have only one earth, and human beings have only one common future", to "all countries are not riding in more than 190 small boats, but in a big boat with a shared destiny. On board"... President Xi Jinping's vivid and sincere words at the Davos Forum conveyed a clear proposition: "Unity is strength, and division leads nowhere."
The theme of this year's Davos Forum Annual Meeting is "Strengthening Cooperation in a Divided World".
Borger Brende, President of the World Economic Forum, deeply agrees with President Xi Jinping's proposition.
He said that the way out to deal with global problems is global solutions.
"China firmly promotes free trade and has played an important role in uniting all parties."
Looking forward to the world after the epidemic, Sadia Zahidi, executive director of the World Economic Forum, is a little worried: the epidemic and geopolitical conflicts will have a profound impact on the world economy, and may wipe out the achievements of the past years.
"How to build a post-epidemic world?" President Xi Jinping's question at the 2022 World Economic Forum video conference expressed the common concerns of people of all countries.
It is the common aspiration of the people of all countries to get rid of the haze of the epidemic, work together to get out of the crisis, and achieve economic recovery.
However, the noise and noise of "decoupling" and "broken chain" around the world are still heard.
Those who are beggar-thy-neighbors and engage in zero-sum games, those who build "small courtyards and high walls" and "parallel systems", and those who build closed and exclusive "small circles" hinder the recovery of the world economy and make economic globalization encounter adverse currents and dangerous shoals.
Where does economic globalization go from here?
President Xi Jinping made a clear answer at the Davos Forum: "The ocean of the world economy, whether you want it or not, is there, and you can't avoid it. If you want to artificially cut off the capital flow, technology flow, product flow, industrial flow, It is impossible for the flow of people to make the sea of the world economy retreat to isolated small lakes and small rivers, and it does not conform to the historical trend.”
In January 2022, President Xi Jinping emphasized again at the 2022 World Economic Forum video conference: "Economic globalization is the trend of the times. When the great river rushes to the sea, there will always be countercurrents, but no countercurrents can stop the great river from going east. Power helps It moves forward, and resistance makes it strong."
The "sea" and "big river" are mighty.
The world trend of peace, development, cooperation and win-win is irreversible.
Only by tearing down walls instead of building them, opening up without isolation, integrating without decoupling, and promoting the building of an open world economy can the world economy be brought out of its slump.
From the avenue to simplicity, hard work is the key.
Whether it is the Service Trade Fair, the Canton Fair, or the Consumer Expo and the Import Expo, the venues are full of popularity and success. China actively shares development opportunities with the world. "Investing in China is investing in the future" has become a general consensus.
The negative list of foreign investment access continues to shrink, the Hainan Free Trade Port sets sail, the new land-sea channel is accelerated, and a new pattern of comprehensive opening up with internal and external linkages and east-west mutual aid is taking shape.
From Asia to Europe, from Africa to Latin America, the high-quality development of China's "Belt and Road" projects has continuously achieved new results, benefiting the people of all countries.
"Always support economic globalization", "firmly implement the basic national policy of opening up", "promote high-quality joint construction of the 'Belt and Road'", "further integrate into the regional and world economy, and strive to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results" - President Xi Jinping has repeatedly declared that an open China , always provide new opportunities for the world with its own new development, and always stand on the right side of history.
In today's world, two scenarios are happening at the same time: on the one hand, food and energy prices are rising, accelerating the "production" of billionaires, and resources and wealth continue to be concentrated in a few people; on the other hand, the global human development index has declined for two consecutive years, and hundreds of millions of people Facing survival crises such as hunger and poverty.
UN Secretary-General Guterres lamented: Humanity is increasingly divided.
The gap between the North and the South continues to widen, and problems such as development faults and technological gaps become more prominent. More and more people are beginning to think: What kind of development does the world need?
"On the road of the road, the world is for the public." President Xi Jinping emphasized at the annual meeting of the Davos Forum in 2017 that to make development more balanced, to make development opportunities more equal, and to share development results with everyone, it is necessary to improve development concepts and models , Improve the fairness, effectiveness and synergy of development.
In September 2021, President Xi Jinping proposed a global development initiative at the general debate of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, calling on the international community to pay attention to the pressing problems facing developing countries.
The global development initiative adheres to the principle of giving priority to development, adhering to the people-centered approach, adhering to inclusiveness and inclusiveness, adhering to innovation-driven, adhering to the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and adhering to action orientation.
This is another vivid practice of China's promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and it has contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to solving development problems.
"The development of all countries is the real development, and the common prosperity is the real prosperity." "Only by solving the problem of unbalanced development can we open up a broader prospect for the common development of mankind."
Those who plan for righteousness will succeed, and those who cause things for the people will succeed.
The global development initiative has received enthusiastic response from the international community.
United Nations Secretary-General Guterres said that this initiative is at the right time, and the United Nations clearly supports it and is willing to cooperate with China on this and promote its implementation with other countries.
At present, more than 100 countries and many international organizations have supported the initiative, and nearly 70 countries have joined the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative". The global forces for common development are constantly growing.
"We are a community of shared future for mankind on the same planet." Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, wrote in his book on thinking about the future of the post-pandemic era.
"Every decision we make and every action we take today will determine the future of the world." Time after time of profound expositions, time after time of sincere appeals, the voice of President Xi Jinping at the Davos Forum travels through time and space, in order to solve the problems of human beings Contribute wisdom and strength to the common problems we face, and provide valuable certainty and stability to the chaotic world.
In the new era, China will work with all progressive forces in the world to firmly uphold and practice multilateralism, move towards the right direction of building a community with a shared future for mankind, let the sun of peace and development shine on the earth, and work together to create a better future.
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