China's new development and new opportunities for the world

Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition

Photo (1): A Chinese-assisted radio and television tower in Moroni, the capital of Comoros. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Dong Jianghui

Photo (2): China-Sri Lanka Friendship Hospital in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Xinhua News Agency

Figure (3): On July 3, 2022, in the east of Cairo, Egypt, Egypt's first light rail railway built by a Chinese company was put into trial operation. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sui Xiankai

Figure (4): On June 25, 2021, at the Confucius Institute at Egerton University in Kenya, Chinese agronomists and Kenyan staff exchanged experimental results. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yu

Photo (5): Cambodian National Stadium built with Chinese aid. Photo by Sovara (issued by Xinhua News Agency)

China adheres to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, firmly pursues the opening strategy of mutual benefit and win-win results, constantly provides new opportunities for the world with China's new development, promotes the construction of an open world economy, and better benefits the people of all countries. China adheres to the correct direction of economic globalization, promotes trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, promotes bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation, promotes international macroeconomic policy coordination, jointly creates an international environment conducive to development, jointly cultivates new momentum for global development, opposes protectionism, "building walls and building barriers", "decoupling and breaking chains", and opposes unilateral sanctions and maximum pressure. China is willing to increase resource input in global development cooperation, strive to narrow the gap between the North and the South, and firmly support and help developing countries accelerate development.

Only when the world is good, can China be good; If China is good, the world will be better. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that China adheres to developing friendly cooperation with other countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, promotes the construction of a new type of international relations, deepens and expands the global partnership of equality, openness and cooperation, and is committed to expanding the convergence of interests with other countries.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has demonstrated its responsibility as a major country with the world in mind with practical actions, welcomed all countries to take the "express train" and "free ride" of China's development, and provided new opportunities for the world with China's new development, benefiting the world and winning praise.

"An increasingly open China is providing more market opportunities, investment opportunities and growth opportunities for enterprises from all countries"

China's development is inseparable from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China. Looking back at the opportunities brought by China's development to the world in the past decade, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China shows an excellent report card - implementing a more proactive opening strategy, accelerating the construction of the pilot free trade zone and Hainan free trade port, and jointly building the "Belt and Road" into a popular international public goods and international cooperation platform. The mainland has become a major trading partner of more than 140 countries and regions, ranking first in the world in total trade in goods, attracting foreign investment and foreign investment in the forefront of the world, and forming a pattern of opening up to the outside world on a larger scale, in a wider field and at a deeper level.

Ren Hongbin, deputy to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the party group and chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, introduced that China is currently the world's largest country in goods trade and the second largest country in service trade, and the role of major exhibition platforms such as the Expo, Canton Fair, Service Trade Fair and Consumer Fair has been continuously enlarged, and the construction of the pilot free trade zone and the Hainan free trade port has continued to advance. "An increasingly open China is providing more market opportunities, investment opportunities and growth opportunities for enterprises from all countries."

As an important practice to promote common development and prosperity and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, the "Belt and Road" has achieved a series of fruitful results after 9 years of hard work: East Africa and Cambodia have highways, Kazakhstan has "access to the sea", Maldives has a cross-sea bridge, and Laos has changed from a "land-locked country" to a "land-linked country"...

"The Belt and Road Initiative originated in China, but the opportunities and achievements belong to the world." Speaking of China's efforts to open up new space for world economic growth and make new contributions to improving the livelihood and well-being of people in all countries, Ma Qiang, director of Egypt's China Weekly, was deeply touched. "Taking Egypt as an example, under the framework of jointly building the 'Belt and Road', China and Egypt have continuously deepened cooperation in infrastructure, agriculture, electric vehicles and other fields, and China has become the most active and fastest-growing country investing in Egypt in recent years. Today, the China-Egypt Teda Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone is an industrial park with the best comprehensive environment, the largest investment density and the highest unit output in Egypt. The Sukhna Second Container Terminal hydraulic project undertaken by Chinese enterprises, Egypt's first light rail railway, and the central business district of the new administrative capital will all help Egypt improve its domestic infrastructure and improve people's livelihood. ”

Over the past decade, China has also actively promoted international cooperation and promoted win-win cooperation on global issues such as safeguarding world food security and addressing climate change.

Bai Lianyang, deputy to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, secretary of the party committee and vice president of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, introduced that China's hybrid rice has been planted in dozens of countries and regions around the world, with an annual planting area of 8 million hectares, and the average yield per hectare is about 2 tons higher than that of local excellent varieties. "Taking Madagascar as an example, in 2019, after the introduction of hybrid rice technology in the country, we set up the African branch of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center to carry out research on the breeding of localized hybrid rice varieties, high-yield cultivation and seed production technology for Africa, and have so far approved and passed 5 hybrid rice varieties, with a cumulative promotion of 65,000 hectares, and the average yield of a large area has reached 7.5 tons per hectare, exceeding the yield of local varieties by more than three times."

"China's promotion of building a new type of international relations and deepening and expanding the global partnership of equality, openness and cooperation are conducive to safeguarding world peace and promoting common development"

The right direction for world development is to build a community with a shared future for mankind. Luciana Santos, President of the Communist Party of Brazil and Deputy Governor of Pernambuco State of Brazil, said that China actively promotes the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, helps developing countries improve infrastructure and facilitate international trade exchanges by aligning with the development strategies of various countries, and proves with practical actions that the concepts of equality, mutual trust, inclusiveness and mutual learning, win-win cooperation and common development can become a reality.

The report of the 20 th CPC National Congress pointed out that we must persist in keeping the world in mind. Expand the world's vision, gain a profound insight into the trend of human development and progress, actively respond to the common concerns of the people of all countries, contribute to solving the common problems facing mankind, and draw on and absorb all the outstanding achievements of human civilization with a broad mind, so as to promote the construction of a better world.

Kenyan international affairs scholar Kavins Adhir saw the peaceful background of China's path with the world in mind. He said that China's modernization follows the path of peaceful development, provides new options for other countries to accelerate development while maintaining their independence, and makes important contributions to mankind's exploration of different paths of modernization. China's development is worth thinking about and learning from other countries in the world.

Alain Rabat, president of the Federation of Franco-Chinese Friendship Associations, believes that the 20th CPC National Congress has attracted widespread attention from the international community, not only because the conference scientifically planned the goals, tasks and major policies for China's development in the next five years or even longer, but also because in the face of a complex and severe international environment, China promotes the construction of a new type of international relations and deepens and expands the global partnership of equality, openness and cooperation, which is conducive to safeguarding world peace and promoting common development.

In September 2021, China launched a global development initiative. So far, this initiative has received positive response and support from more than 100 countries and many international organizations, including the United Nations. In June this year, President Xi Jinping chaired the High-level Dialogue on Global Development and announced 32 practical cooperation measures for China to promote the implementation of global development initiatives.

Sun Li, editor-in-chief of Japan's "Chōri Shimbun" news agency, noted that General Secretary Xi Jinping said in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that China has put forward a global development initiative and a global security initiative, and is willing to work together with the international community to implement it. The report also calls on all countries to promote the common values of peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom for all mankind.

Sun Li said: "This is the common aspiration of the people of the world. In the face of major changes unprecedented in the world in a century, China has injected stability and positive energy into the world. ”

Benjamin Pogosyan, director of the Center for Strategic Studies of Political Economy and Economy of Armenia, also believes that the report of the 20th CPC National Congress reaffirms the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, which reflects China's sincere desire for mutual benefit and common development with other countries, and is a major contribution to solving various crises and challenges facing mankind and promoting the progress of human civilization.

"There is no doubt that Chinese-style modernization is not only China, but other countries, including Kenya, are also benefiting"

Standing at a new historical starting point, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that China adheres to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, firmly pursues the strategy of opening up for mutual benefit and win-win, constantly provides new opportunities for the world with China's new development, promotes the construction of an open world economy, and better benefits the people of all countries.

Sergei Lukonin, director of the Department of Chinese Politics and Economics at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that China's acceleration of the construction of a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international dual circulation promoting each other means that China is constantly deepening foreign cooperation while expanding domestic consumption. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasizes that promoting high-level opening up will bring new opportunities to other countries and regions.

Development is the common cause of all mankind. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that China is willing to increase resource input in global development cooperation, strive to narrow the gap between the North and the South, and firmly support and help the vast number of developing countries accelerate development.

In November 2021, President Xi Jinping pledged at the 8th FOCAC Ministerial Conference that China would assist Africa in implementing 10 poverty reduction and agricultural projects, send 500 agricultural experts to Africa, and set up a number of China-Africa joint centers for modern agricultural technology exchange, demonstration and training.

Bai Lianyang said: "In the future, with the help of the national agricultural aid cooperation project, the China-Africa Fund and other resources, we will give full play to the advantages of technology and varieties, and provide a 'demonstration model' for promoting the planting of hybrid rice in all countries in the world through the project." In addition, we will vigorously carry out international training of hybrid rice professional and technical personnel, and cultivate a group of high-quality hybrid rice professional and technical personnel for all countries in the world, especially developing countries. ”

"There is no doubt that China-style modernization is not only China, but other countries, including Kenya, are also benefiting." Bernard Momani, editor-in-chief of FM in Kenya's capital, said.

Eugene McAtan General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland said that China has always promoted the construction of a multipolar world of mutual respect, and the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will help build a better new world. (Our reporter Yan Yu)

People's Daily Overseas Edition (October 21, 2022 Edition 05)