President Xi Jinping attended the 2022 World Economic Forum video conference and delivered a speech on the 17th, pointing out the direction for solving the major issues of the times and condensing global strength for creating a better world in the post-epidemic era.
Recognize today's pressing issues
How to defeat the epidemic? How to build the post-pandemic world? This is a major issue of common concern to the people of the world, and it is also an urgent and important issue that we must answer.
Strain must be recognized first. "Today's world is undergoing major changes unprecedented in a century. This change is not limited to one thing at a time, one country and one domain, but a profound and magnificent change of the times. ”
President Xi Jinping pointed out that we must be good at thinking from the comparative analysis of the long cycle of history, and we must be good at insight into the changes in things from the subtleties, cultivate new opportunities in the crisis, open a new situation in the change, and gather a powerful force to overcome difficulties and challenges.
President Xi Jinping's analysis of the current crisis from a grand historical perspective has brought hope, confidence and impetus to the international community's victory over the epidemic and the stable recovery of the world economy.
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Schwab: President Xi Jinping's speech is an important milestone in promoting global cooperation
Working together to address global challenges
"Facts have shown once again that in the terrible waves of the global crisis, countries are not riding in more than 190 small boats, but on a big boat with a common destiny. Small boats can't withstand the wind and waves, and the giant ships can withstand the terrifying waves. ”
"When a river rushes to the sea, it will always encounter a countercurrent, but no countercurrent can stop the river from going east."
Insight into the questions of the times, experience the needs of the times, and lead the times. In 2017, President Xi Jinping used the "sea" as a metaphor for the reality of deepening global cooperation. In 2022, President Xi Jinping used the rushing river to illustrate the irreversible power of globalization to the world.
"We must adhere to the people-centered development concept and put the promotion of development and the protection of people's livelihood in a prominent position of global macro policies." Where is the key to revitalizing the world economy, President Xi Jinping gave a clear answer. At the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2021, President Xi Jinping proposed to put development in a prominent position in the global macro policy framework, and this time adding the people's livelihood orientation has a richer meaning.
"China is willing to work with all parties to jointly promote the implementation of the initiative and strive not to leave any country behind." At the United Nations General Assembly in 2021, President Xi Jinping's global development initiative aims to connect with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and form an international synergy to promote the construction of a global development community.
China's development brings opportunity momentum
China and the world share a common destiny. The development of the world is An opportunity for China, and China's promotion of high-quality development and opening up will also bring major benefits to the recovery of the world economy.
In 2021, China's GDP will grow by about 8%, and the fundamentals of China's strong resilience, full potential and long-term improvement will not change.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement entered into force on 1 January this year. China will also continue to advance the process of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership And the Digital Economy Partnership, further integrate into the regional and world economy, and strive to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
Green is the background color of human sustainable development. Achieve carbon neutrality as planned, build the world's largest carbon market and clean power generation system, build the world's largest national park system... China adheres to the construction of ecological civilization, strengthens international cooperation, and contributes to building a clean and beautiful world.
"Peaceful development and win-win cooperation are the right way in the world." President Xi Jinping pointed out, "We must conform to the general trend of history, strive to stabilize the international order, carry forward the common values of all mankind, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind." ”
For more information, read the press release:
Xi Jinping's Speech at the 2022 World Economic Forum Video Conference (Full Text)
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 17
Firm confidence, courage to move forward
Create a better world in the post-epidemic era
— Speech at the 2022 World Economic Forum Video Conference
(January 17, 2022)
President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping
Dear Chairman Schwab,
Ladies and gentlemen, friends,
Hello everyone! It is a pleasure to be here at the World Economic Forum video conference.
In two weeks, the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Tiger will arrive. In Chinese culture, the tiger is a symbol of bravery and strength, and Chinese often say that the dragon is alive and the tiger is alive and the dragon leaps. In the face of the severe challenges facing mankind at present, we must be like a tiger, a tiger and a tiger, bravely overcome all kinds of dangers and obstacles on the way forward, make every effort to sweep away the haze of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, make every effort to promote economic and social recovery and development, and let the sunshine of hope illuminate mankind!
Today's world is undergoing major changes unprecedented in a century. This change is not limited to one thing at a time, one country and one domain, but a profound and magnificent change of the times. The changes of the times and the epidemic of the century are superimposed on each other, and the world has entered a new period of turbulent change. How to defeat the epidemic? How to build the post-pandemic world? This is a major issue of common concern to the people of the world, and it is also an urgent and important issue that we must answer.
"If the power of the world is not prosperous, it will decline, and if the rule of the world does not advance, it will retreat." The world always develops in a movement of contradictions, and without contradictions there is no world. Throughout history, human beings have grown up in overcoming test after test and developing in overcoming crises. We must advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the tide of the development of the times.
No matter the wind and rain, human beings always have to move forward. We must be good at thinking from the long-term comparative analysis of history, and we must be good at insight into the changes in things from subtle points, cultivate new opportunities in crises, open up new situations in changes, and gather up powerful forces to overcome difficulties and challenges.
First, work together to defeat the epidemic. In the face of this century epidemic that concerns the future and destiny of mankind, the international community has launched a tenacious war of resistance. Facts have shown once again that in the midst of a global crisis, countries are not riding in more than 190 small boats, but on a big ship with a shared destiny. Small boats can't withstand the wind and waves, and the giant ships can withstand the terrifying waves. With the joint efforts of the international community, the global fight against the epidemic has made important progress, but the epidemic has been repeatedly delayed, the virus mutation has increased, and the speed of transmission has accelerated, which has brought serious threats to people's life safety and physical health, and has a profound impact on the development of the world economy.
Strengthening confidence and working together is the only correct way to defeat the epidemic. Any mutual restraint and any gratuitous "throwing of the pot" will delay the fighter plane and interfere with the overall situation. All countries in the world should strengthen international anti-epidemic cooperation, actively carry out cooperation in drug research and development, jointly build multiple anti-epidemic defense lines, and accelerate the construction of a community of human health. In particular, it is necessary to make good use of vaccines as a powerful weapon to ensure the fair distribution of vaccines, accelerate the speed of vaccination, bridge the international "immunization gap", and protect life and health and ensure people's lives.
China has delivered more than 2 billion doses of vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations. China will provide another 1 billion doses of vaccines to African countries, of which 600 million doses will be free aid, and will also provide 150 million doses of vaccines to ASEAN countries free of charge.
Second, defuse various risks and promote the stable recovery of the world economy. The world economy is coming out of its trough, but it also faces many constraints. Risks such as global industrial chain supply chain disruption, rising commodity prices, and tight energy supply are intertwined, exacerbating the uncertainty of the economic recovery process. The global low inflation environment has changed significantly, and the risk of compound inflation is emerging. If the monetary policy of major economies "brakes sharply" or "makes a sharp turn", it will produce serious negative spillover effects and bring challenges to the world economy and financial stability, and the vast number of developing countries will bear the brunt of it. We must explore new momentums for economic growth, new models of social life, and new paths for personnel exchanges under the condition of normalized epidemic prevention and control, promote cross-border trade facilitation, ensure the safety and smoothness of the industrial chain supply chain, and promote the stabilization and solidification of the world economic recovery process.
Economic globalization is the trend of the times. When the river rushes to the sea, it will always encounter a countercurrent, but any countercurrent cannot stop the river from going east. Motivation helps it move forward, and resistance makes it strong. Although there have been many counter-currents and dangerous shoals, the direction of economic globalization has never changed and will not change. All countries in the world should adhere to genuine multilateralism, persist in tearing down walls without building walls, opening up without isolation, integrating without decoupling, and promoting the construction of an open world economy. It is necessary to lead the reform of the global governance system with fairness and justice as the concept, maintain the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core, on the basis of full consultation, create universally accepted and effective rules for artificial intelligence and digital economy, create an open, just and non-discriminatory favorable environment for scientific and technological innovation, and promote economic globalization to develop in a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win direction, so that the vitality of the world economy can fully burst forth.
At present, there is a consensus that to promote the world economy out of the crisis and achieve recovery, we must strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination. Major economies should establish a sense of community, strengthen the concept of system, strengthen the transparency and sharing of policy information, coordinate the objectives, intensity and rhythm of fiscal and monetary policies, and prevent the world economy from bottoming out again. The major developed countries should adopt responsible economic policies, control the spillover effects of policies, and avoid serious impacts on developing countries. International economic and financial institutions should play a constructive role, consolidate international consensus, enhance policy coordination, and prevent systemic risks.
Third, cross the development gap and revitalize the global development cause. The global development process is suffering a serious impact, and the problems of the North-South gap, recovery differentiation, development fault line, and technological gap are becoming more prominent. The Human Development Index has declined for the first time in 30 years, more than 100 million new poor people in the world, nearly 800 million people living in hunger, and more difficulties in food security, education, employment, medicine and health and other areas of people's livelihood. Some developing countries have returned to poverty due to the epidemic and caused chaos due to the epidemic, and many people in developed countries have fallen into difficulties in their lives.
No matter what difficulties we encounter, we must adhere to the people-centered development concept, put the promotion of development and the protection of people's livelihood in a prominent position of global macro policies, implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, promote the synergy of existing development cooperation mechanisms, and promote balanced global development. We should adhere to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, advance international cooperation on climate change within the framework of development, and implement the outcome of the twenty-sixth conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Developed economies should take the lead in fulfilling their responsibilities for emission reduction, implement financial and technical support commitments, and create the necessary conditions for developing countries to cope with climate change and achieve sustainable development.
Last year, I launched the Global Development Initiative at the United Nations General Assembly, calling on the international community to pay attention to the pressing problems facing developing countries. This initiative is a public good open to the world and aims to align with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and promote global common development. China is willing to work with all parties to jointly promote the implementation of the initiative and strive not to leave any country behind.
Fourth, abandon the Cold War mentality and achieve peaceful coexistence and mutual benefit and win-win results. The world today is not at peace, and there are incessant remarks that incite hatred and prejudice, and all kinds of containment, suppression, and even confrontation that arise from it are harmful to world peace and security without any benefit. History has repeatedly proved that confrontation is not only useless, but also has disastrous consequences. If we engage in protectionism and unilateralism, no one can protect them, and in the end they will only harm others and harm themselves. Engaging in hegemony and bullying is even more contrary to the tide of history. Contradictions and differences between countries are inevitable, but engaging in a zero-sum game in which you lose and I win is useless. Any act of insisting on building a "small courtyard high wall" and "parallel system", any act of keen on engaging in exclusive "small circles", "small groups", and splitting the world, any act of generalizing the concept of national security and curbing the economic and technological development of other countries, and any act of inciting ideological confrontation and politicizing and weaponizing economic and technological issues have seriously weakened the efforts of the international community to cope with common challenges. Peaceful development and win-win cooperation are the right way in the world. Different countries and civilizations should develop together while respecting each other and cooperate for win-win results while seeking common ground while reserving differences.
We must conform to the general trend of history, strive to stabilize the international order, carry forward the common values of all mankind, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. We must adhere to dialogue rather than confrontation, tolerance without exclusivity, oppose all forms of unilateralism and protectionism, and oppose all forms of hegemonism and power politics.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends!
Last year marked the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The COMMUNIST Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to struggle hard for a long time, made world-renowned achievements in the development of national construction and the improvement of the people's living standards, achieved the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way as scheduled, won the battle against poverty on schedule, and historically solved the problem of absolute poverty, and now embarks on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
China will unswervingly promote high-quality development. China's overall economic development momentum is good, with China's gross domestic product growing by about 8% last year, achieving the dual goals of higher growth and lower inflation. Although the huge pressure brought about by changes in the economic environment at home and abroad has not changed, the fundamentals of China's strong resilience, full potential and long-term improvement have not changed, and we are full of confidence in the future of China's economic development.
"The rich of the country care about the rich." China's economy has developed by leaps and bounds, and the people's living standards have improved significantly, but we know that it will take a long and arduous effort to meet the people's yearning for a better life. China has clearly proposed to promote the all-round development of the people and the common prosperity of all the people to achieve more obvious substantive progress, and will make efforts in all aspects to this end. China wants to achieve common prosperity, but not to engage in egalitarianism, but to first make the "cake" bigger, and then divide the "cake" well through reasonable institutional arrangements, so that the tide rises and each gets its own place, so that the fruits of development can be more and more equitable and benefit all the people.
China will unswervingly promote reform and opening up. China's reform and opening up is always on the road. No matter what changes take place in the international situation, China will hold high the banner of reform and opening up. China will continue to make the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources, give better play to the role of the government, unswervingly consolidate and develop the public ownership economy, and unswervingly encourage, support and guide the development of the non-public ownership economy. China will build a unified, open, competitive and orderly market system to ensure that all enterprises have equal status before the law and equal opportunities before the market. China welcomes all kinds of capital to operate in China in accordance with laws and regulations and play an active role in China's development. China will continue to expand high-level opening up, steadily expand institutional opening up such as rules, management and standards, implement the national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises, and promote the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road". The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement came into force on 1 January this year, and China will faithfully fulfill its obligations to deepen economic and trade ties with all parties to the Agreement. China will also continue to advance the process of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership And the Digital Economy Partnership, further integrate into the regional and world economy, and strive to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
China will unswervingly promote the construction of ecological civilization. I often say that economic development cannot exhaust resources and ecological environment and fish, and ecological environmental protection is not to abandon economic development and seek fish. China adheres to the concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, promotes the integrated protection and systematic governance of grass and sand in landscapes, forests, lakes, grasses and sands, goes all out to promote the construction of ecological civilization, goes all out to strengthen pollution prevention and control, and goes all out to improve the people's production and living environment. China is building the world's largest national park system. China successfully hosted the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity last year, contributing to building a clean and beautiful world.
Achieving carbon peak carbon neutrality is an inherent requirement for China's high-quality development and a solemn commitment to the international community. China will keep its promises and firmly advance, issuing the Action Plan for Carbon Peaking by 2030, and will successively release specific implementation plans in the fields of energy, industry and construction. China has built the world's largest carbon market and clean power generation system, with an installed renewable energy capacity of more than 1 billion kilowatts, and a large wind power photovoltaic base of 100 million kilowatts has started construction in an orderly manner。 Achieving carbon peak carbon neutrality is unlikely to be completed in one battle. China will break through the law and fight steadily, gradually and orderly reduce traditional energy in the process of promoting reliable alternatives to new energy, and ensure stable economic and social development. China will actively carry out international cooperation on climate change and jointly promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
Davos is the world's ice and snow sports destination. The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games are about to open. China is confident to dedicate a simple, safe and wonderful Olympic event to the world. The theme slogan of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is "Together for the Future". Let us join hands and walk with confidence to the future together!
Thank you.
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