At the invitation of President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia, President Xi Jinping will attend the 17th G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, from November 14 to 17. The G20 is a major forum for international economic cooperation and an important platform for global economic governance. At present, the global anti-epidemic and economic recovery are in a critical period. President Xi Jinping's attendance at the 17th G20 Summit will surely forge new consensus, inject new impetus and point out a new path for the international community to jointly address challenges and promote post-pandemic recovery.
Ascend high and look far, and advocate the unity and cooperation of the G20
"The G20 carries the expectations of all countries in the world and has a great mission. We must strive to build the G20 well and grasp the general direction for world economic prosperity and stability. President Xi Jinping emphasized this in his opening speech at the G20 Hangzhou Summit.
Since 2013, President Xi Jinping has attended or chaired G20 leaders' summits. Focusing on the development of the times and grasping the general trend of history, President Xi Jinping made a series of important speeches on promoting G20 cooperation and strengthening international macro policy coordination. Leaving a strong mark on China on the G20 stage.
This is China's proposition of taking charge of the situation and planning the longitude and latitude -
The G20 members bring together the world's major developed economies and emerging market economies, accounting for about 85% of the world's total economic output. At a critical stage in the transformation of the international system, the importance and urgency of strengthening policy coordination and cooperation in the G20 continues unabated.
"We must build the G20 into an important force for stabilizing the world economy, building an international financial safety net, and improving global economic governance"; "Truly become a stabilizer of the world economy, a catalyst for global growth, and a promoter of global economic governance, so as to better benefit the people of all countries"; "The G20 needs to set goals, chart direction, and exercise, and exercise"... President Xi Jinping put forward a series of initiatives and propositions, advocating that the G20 achieve a transformation to medium- and long-term policies and long-term governance mechanisms.
Based on equality, guided by openness, driven by cooperation, and aimed at sharing. Adhering to the concept of global economic governance, China promotes a fair, open, comprehensive and innovative development path.
John Cotton, co-director of the G20 and BRICS research program at the University of Toronto, Canada, said: "China has contributed to the sustainable development of the G20 mechanism and played a key role in improving global economic governance. ”
This is the Chinese wisdom of seeing the clouds and moving forward courageously——
At present, the global development dilemma needs to be solved urgently. The growth momentum brought about by the last round of scientific and technological progress has gradually declined, the new round of scientific and technological and industrial revolution has not yet formed momentum, and the world economy is facing the problem of "open source"; Major economies have successively entered an aging society, the population growth rate has declined, and the economies of various countries have encountered "pressure" challenges; Economic globalization has seen twists and turns, protectionism and inward-looking tendencies have risen, the multilateral trading system has been impacted, and international economic cooperation is facing the pressure of "revitalization".
"Build an innovative world economy and open up sources of growth", "Build an open world economy and expand development space", "Build a linkage world economy, unite interactive forces", "Build an inclusive world economy and lay a solid foundation for win-win results";
"Adhere to reform and innovation, tap growth momentum", "keep pace with the times and improve global governance", "persist in facing difficulties and crack development bottlenecks", "adhere to the spirit of partnership and properly handle differences";
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China advocates both basing itself on the present and focusing on the long term.
Georges Zogopoulus, a scholar at the Institute of European Studies in Nice, France, believes that China's plan is effective, reflects China's ability to follow the trend and take responsibility, and provides important ideas for the world to get out of the current economic predicament.
This is China's responsibility to share the same boat and benefit the world at the same time——
The global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has brought great threats to people's lives and health, brought great challenges to global public health security, and also caused a comprehensive impact on global production and demand.
Since March 2020, President Xi Jinping has attended more than ten multilateral summits such as the G20 Leaders' Special Summit on Responding to the New Coronavirus Pneumonia, profoundly expounded the concept of a community of human health, and put forward a series of major initiatives and measures. China has carried out large-scale global humanitarian operations and put into practice the concept of a community of human health with practical actions. China's ideas and actions demonstrate the firm will and strong strength of unity and cooperation to overcome difficulties together.
Patricio Giusto, executive chairman of the Argentina-China Strategic Cooperation Observation Center, said that under the background of the continuous spread of the global epidemic, China has provided medical material assistance to Argentina and many other countries, shared diagnosis and treatment plans, and actively participated in international cooperation on vaccines, which has played an important role in building a global anti-epidemic firewall.
Open development and consolidate the foundation for world economic recovery
For some time, economic globalization has encountered "headwinds and adverse currents", the "world openness index" has been declining, and the global consensus on opening up has weakened. We should deeply understand that when the great river rushes to the sea, it will always encounter a countercurrent, but no countercurrent can stop the east of the river. Openness and cooperation are still the trend of history, and mutual benefit and win-win results are still the aspiration of the people.
At the opening ceremony of the 2016 G20 Business Summit, President Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out the importance of opening up to promote world economic development: "The history of world economic development proves that opening up brings progress, and closure leads to backwardness. ”
Adhering to the general direction of building an open world economy is an important experience of the G20 in coping with the international financial crisis and an important way to promote world economic growth.
From St. Petersburg to Brisbane, from Antalya to Hangzhou, from Hamburg to Buenos Aires to Osaka, China's determination and actions to build an open world economy have been consistent.
In the face of the challenges brought about by the interweaving of changes in the past century and the epidemic of the century, President Xi Jinping put forward the important initiative of "smoothing the operation of the world economy" at the G20 Riyadh Summit, and put forward the important proposition of "strengthening coordination and promoting recovery" at the G20 Rome Summit, pointing out the direction for promoting the recovery of the economy of all countries as soon as possible, and building broad consensus and injecting strong impetus into achieving global inclusive and sustainable development under the haze of the epidemic.
To promote the construction of an open world economy, China is not only an active advocate, but also a firm activist. From building a network of high-standard free trade zones facing the world, accelerating the construction of the pilot free trade zone and Hainan free trade port, to holding CIIE, CIFTIS, Canton Fair and Consumer Expo; From promulgating and implementing the Foreign Investment Law, reducing the negative list of foreign investment access for five consecutive years, to becoming a major trading partner of more than 140 countries and regions, the total trade in goods ranks first in the world, attracting foreign investment and foreign investment in the forefront of the world... A new pattern of all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging all-round opening up has accelerated to take shape, and opening up has become a distinctive symbol of contemporary China.
Jeon Byeong-sui, director of the South Korea's China Institute of Economics and Finance, said that China calls for upholding WTO principles such as openness, inclusiveness and non-discrimination, which will help protect the development interests and policy space of developing countries and promote global common prosperity.
Shoulder responsibilities and promote the reform of the global governance system
Combing through the coordinates of time, China's image as a participant, promoter and leader in the process of global governance reform is becoming increasingly clear. China actively participates in the reform and construction of the global governance system, practices the global governance concept of consultation, co-construction and sharing, and promotes the development of the global governance system in a more just and reasonable direction.
Strengthen global economic governance to provide a strong guarantee for the world economy to return to the growth track and achieve stable development in the medium and long term.
In September 2016, the G20 Hangzhou Summit comprehensively explained China's global economic governance concept of equality, openness, cooperation and sharing for the first time, took innovation as the core achievement for the first time, placed development issues in a prominent position in global macro policy coordination for the first time, formed a global multilateral investment rule framework for the first time, and included green finance on the agenda of the G20 for the first time... Many "firsts" highlight China's plan and actions to promote the reform of the global governance system.
At present, global economic governance is entering a critical stage, and the problems of unadaptability and mismatch have become more prominent with the spread of the epidemic. President Xi Jinping stressed: "We should follow the principle of consultation, co-construction and sharing, adhere to multilateralism, adhere to openness and inclusiveness, adhere to mutually beneficial cooperation, and adhere to advancing with the times." "At the 15th G20 Leaders' Summit, President Xi Jinping made a comprehensive exposition on global economic governance, and put forward a series of important proposals in clarifying guiding ideology, improving rules and mechanisms, and responding to risks and challenges.
Alexandre Figueiredo, director of Brazil's Institute of Global South Studies, said that China's promotion of improving a more just and reasonable global economic governance system has always been an important force in practicing multilateralism, promoting the democratization of international relations and safeguarding international law.
Strengthen global environmental governance and create a fair, reasonable, win-win global environmental governance system.
From actively promoting the G20 Hangzhou Summit to issue the first presidential statement on climate change, to holding a small-scale meeting on climate change with France and the United Nations during the G20 Buenos Aires Summit, to support the global response to climate change with practical actions; From putting forward a three-point proposition at the G20 Riyadh summit on the theme of "Protecting the Earth", to reaffirming that China will strive to achieve carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060; From emphasizing that the G20 should uphold the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities", to putting forward important propositions such as "adhere to green development" and "harmonious coexistence, green sustainability"... As the largest developing country, China has taken into practice and participated more actively and constructively in global climate governance, and vigorously promoted the international community to work together to address climate change.
John Cobb Jr., a member of the National Academy of Humanities, pointed out: "China has brought a ray of hope to the construction of a global ecological civilization. ”
Strengthen global health governance and build a community of human health.
China adheres to multilateralism, promotes the strengthening of the global public health system, promotes global disease pandemic preparedness and response, firmly maintains the fence of human health and security, and contributes to building a community of human health.
"Solidarity and cooperation are the most powerful weapons" "G20 members should shoulder their responsibilities in global anti-epidemic cooperation"... President Xi Jinping's important speech demonstrates China's firm will to work with other countries to overcome difficulties and demonstrate its responsibility to work together to fight the epidemic.
The first to propose that the new crown pneumonia vaccine should become a global public good, join the "new crown pneumonia vaccine implementation plan", and put forward the global vaccine cooperation action initiative... China has taken every step of strengthening global health governance and bridging the "immunization gap" resolutely and forcefully.
"Each generation is judged by whether it has confronted the grandest and most important problems of human society." Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said China actively participates in global governance and "strives to guide the way" and "build a new, powerful and peaceful force in the international community."
Work hard and unite the synergy of global prosperity and development
"It is better to promise a thousand than to implement one. We should make the G20 an action team, not a talking house. "Only with consensus on ideas, plans for action, and guaranteed mechanisms can G20 cooperation open up a new path for global growth and comprehensively enhance the medium- and long-term growth potential of the world economy."
China completely, accurately and comprehensively implements the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, adheres to the basic national policy of opening up, firmly pursues the opening strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, and constantly provides new opportunities for the world with China's new development.
After 9 years of hard work, from tamping the foundation and pillars to taking root and lasting development, the "Belt and Road" has achieved solid and heavy achievements. Power projects in Pakistan have turned on thousands of homes; Mozambican farmers growing Chinese hybrid rice have seen a bumper harvest and improved their lives; Algerian Chinese Enterprise Workers Training Center and Djibouti Luban Workshop have given more and more local people the opportunity to change their destiny through education... According to a World Bank study, if all transport infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative are implemented, they are expected to generate $1.6 trillion in global benefits annually by 2030, accounting for 1.3% of the global economy, of which 90% will be shared by partner countries, with low- and lower-middle-income countries benefiting the most.
President Xi Jinping said that the global development initiative I launched at the United Nations is highly consistent with the G20's purpose and key directions for promoting global development, and welcomes the active participation of all countries.
Since its launch more than a year ago, the Global Development Initiative has been supported by more than 100 countries and international organizations, and the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative" established on the United Nations platform has grown to more than 60 members. The establishment of an international non-governmental poverty reduction cooperation network, the establishment of the World Alliance for the Development of Vocational and Technical Education with 150 institutions in nearly 40 countries and regions, the implementation of the China-Pacific Island Countries Climate Change Cooperation Center, and more than 1,000 capacity building projects to provide more than 40,000 training sessions for developing countries... China has solidly promoted its global development initiatives.
Kressy, President of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that China's global development initiative will help accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Gu Qingyang, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, believes that the global development initiative is of positive significance and meets the concerns and needs of developing countries.
In the coordinate system of human development, China has always closely linked its own destiny with the destiny of the peoples of the world, always combined the interests of the Chinese people with the common interests of the peoples of all countries, and gathered the great power of win-win cooperation with the spirit of hard work and the courage to act.
The world is watching and looking forward to China's wisdom and Chinese power
The theme of this year's G20 Leaders' Summit is "Common Recovery, Strong Recovery". The history since the international financial crisis fully shows that the establishment of a cooperative partnership by the G20 will convey confidence in the recovery of the world economy and provide impetus for global development cooperation.
President Xi Jinping stressed: "The world is so big and there are so many problems, the international community is looking forward to hearing China's voice and seeing China's plan, and China cannot be absent." "At present, the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading around the world, and the world economy urgently needs to recover from stagnation and recession. The international community generally expects that through the G20 platform, China will provide more market opportunities, investment opportunities and growth opportunities for partners, and continue to provide driving force for global economic recovery and growth.
Kofi Kouaku, a senior researcher at the Center for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, said that in the complex and turbulent international situation, China has always insisted on promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable international order. "I believe that at this year's G20 summit, China will play a more important role and inject more positive energy into global governance."
Dealing with complex situations requires political foresight and innovative wisdom. Dino, founder of the Indonesian Foreign Policy Association, said: "President Xi Jinping proposed 'inclusive and common development' at last year's G20 Leaders' Summit. Indonesia strongly agrees. The pandemic has brought many problems and challenges between and within countries. The world needs inclusive and more sustainable development. We expect China, as an important engine of world economic growth, to strengthen cooperation with all parties in the fields of scientific and technological innovation and green transformation, and contribute to jointly addressing challenges. ”
"China has always been committed to promoting world peace and development. It is expected that China will guide all parties to build consensus, focus on common challenges, and build a more inclusive and cooperative world at the G20 Summit. Wesley Douglas, a former South African MP, said.
Looking far away, you can know that the wind and waves are small, and the volley is always aware of the flat sea. By conforming to the general trend of peace and development, aligning the direction of the world economy and global governance, uniting and helping each other and working together, all countries in the world will surely be able to overcome the difficulties together and build a better future together. This is the call of the times and the expectation of the world.
Source: People's Daily