CGTN:

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as their chief representative, have offered an in-depth answer to address major questions both in theory and practice, achieving another leap forward in understanding the nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We note that several important innovative ideas and initiatives have been launched in the diplomatic field, such as building a community with a shared future for mankind. How has China implemented these ideas and initiatives in its diplomacy over the past decade? Thank you.

Ma Zhaoxu:

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, with an accurate understanding of the overarching global development trend and China's growth, has had a good understanding of China's relations with the rest of the world. The CPC Central Committee has provided answers to fundamental questions such as what a world we should build, what international relations we should develop, what diplomacy China needs, and how China carries out its diplomacy under new circumstances, making a series of major theoretical and practical innovations in the field of diplomacy.

Faced with the question of "what kind of world to build and how to build it," General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the important concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind based on in-depth thinking about the future of humanity, thus charting the course for human development and progress. Building a community with a shared future for mankind is the general goal of China's diplomacy in the new era, and it has become a glorious banner leading the trend of the times.

The core of a community with a shared future for mankind is to build an open, inclusive, clean, and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity. China is both an advocator and a practitioner of building a community with a shared future for mankind. We uphold the concept of a global community of development with a shared future, stay committed to achieving shared growth through extensive consultation and joint contribution, and keep taking forward the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). We have signed more than 200 documents on Belt and Road cooperation with 149 countries and 32 international organizations. Thanks to the BRI, East Africa has got its first expressway, the Maldives has a sea-crossing bridge, Laos has transformed itself from a landlocked to a land-linked country, and the China-Europe Railway Express has also become an important lifeline to ensure stable and smooth global logistics. Before the opening of the China-Laos Railway last year, Laotian students in China wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping to express their gratitude for the BRI.

When the once-in-a-century pandemic hit, we always stood at the forefront of international cooperation against the virus, shared epidemic prevention and control, and diagnosis and treatment plans with more than 180 countries and international organizations, sent 38 medical expert teams to 34 countries, and provided more than 2.2 billion doses of vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations. We carried out the largest global emergency humanitarian action since the founding of New China, in a bid to promote the building of a global community of health for all.

The building of a community with a shared future for mankind has been increasingly welcomed and supported by the international community. From China taking the lead to countries around the world joining the efforts, it has achieved great progress. When General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech titled "Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind" in Geneva, over 800 guests in attendance gave more than 30 bursts of warm applause within 47 minutes. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the purpose of our practice of multilateralism is to build a community with a shared future for mankind. The concept is fully demonstrated in the documents of the United Nations and other international organizations. The building of a community with a shared future between China and Africa, China and Arab countries, China and Latin American and Caribbean countries, China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and China and Central Asian countries is also being actively promoted. Since last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping has successively proposed the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, which have further enriched the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind.

At present, our world is living through accelerating changes unseen in a century and is entering a new period of volatility and transformation. Changes to the world, history, and our times are becoming more evident. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, we need to make innovation based on what has worked in the past, unremittingly promote innovation in diplomatic theory and practice through determined endeavors, and constantly break new ground for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Thank you.