Join hands to build a better future for the China-Central Asia community with a shared future

Join hands to build a better future for the China-Central Asia community with a shared future

——People from many countries spoke highly of President Xi Jinping's keynote speech at the China-Central Asia Summit

On the morning of May 19, President Xi Jinping presided over the China-Central Asia Summit in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Working Together to Build a China-Central Asia Community with a Shared Future for Mutual Assistance, Common Development, Universal Security and Friendship for All Generations".

International public opinion and overseas people continue to pay close attention to this summit, believing that President Xi Jinping's keynote speech has drawn a blueprint for China-Central Asia cooperation from a strategic perspective, explained the profound connotation and realization path of the China-Central Asia community with a shared future, pointed out the direction and injected impetus into the further deepening of all-round cooperation between China and Central Asian countries, and will promote the six countries to a better tomorrow of common development, common prosperity and common prosperity.

Opening a new chapter in the history of China-Central Asia relations

Over the past 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and the five Central Asian countries have embarked on a new path of good-neighborliness, friendship and win-win cooperation, and have become a model for building a new type of international relations. State-to-state relations have achieved a historic leap from good-neighborliness and friendship to strategic partnership to a community of common destiny, injecting positive energy into promoting regional peace and development and making new contributions to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

"President Xi Jinping has personally opened a new chapter in the history of China-Central Asia relations, which is a milestone in the history of China-Central Asia development and a blazing mark in the history of international exchanges." President Xi Jinping's keynote speech excited Yeltan Ransetov, a researcher at the Kazakhstan Institute of World Economy and Politics. "The friendly relations between China and Central Asia have continued to develop in the course of historical evolution, the partnership has been continuously improved, and cooperation in various fields will be further expanded in the future. In my view, this is not only conducive to the prosperity and stability of the region, but also to the well-being of the whole world. ”

Timur Kuvatov, director of Kazakhstan Today, which covered the China-Central Asia summit in Xi'an, noted that President Xi Jinping began his keynote speech with reference to the ancient Silk Road. In his view, over the past decade, China and Central Asian countries have made extraordinary achievements in jointly building the "Belt and Road", which has played an important role in regional prosperity and stability, and is also of great significance to the world.

Yanna Lekshutina, a professor at St. Petersburg State University in Russia, read President Xi Jinping's keynote speech through media reports, saying that China promotes the economic development and social prosperity of Central Asian countries through cooperation, and "as the first summit held in physical form by the heads of state of the six countries in the 31 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the China-Central Asia Summit will lead the development direction and strongly promote the development of multilateral cooperation."

At present, the evolution of the century-old changes is accelerating, and the changes in the world, the times, and history are unfolding in an unprecedented way. What kind of Central Asia does the world need? What kind of Central Asia do the people of the region need? In his keynote speech, President Xi Jinping gave China's answer that the world needs a stable, prosperous, harmonious and connected Central Asia.

"This is the common expectation of China and Central Asian countries, as well as the common expectation of the world." Syed Chowdhury, director of the International Affairs Council in Islamabad, Pakistan, was deeply moved by President Xi Jinping's keynote speech. In his view, China's close cooperation with Central Asian countries has always been based on mutual respect, good-neighborliness, common welfare, mutual benefit and win-win results, bringing peace and prosperity to the peoples of all countries.

Akhan Suwell, chairman of the Marmara Foundation, a well-known think tank in Turkey, believes that President Xi Jinping's keynote speech has issued an initiative to all countries to deepen friendship, common development, build peace and interconnection, and unite for the long-term peace and stability of Central Asia, which is in line with the expectations of all countries in the world, and the successful holding of the China-Central Asia Summit is a new starting point for further enhancing mutual trust and expanding cooperation among countries in the region.

Draw a roadmap for building a China-Central Asia community with a shared future

At the video summit held last year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the five Central Asian countries, the heads of state jointly announced the building of a China-Central Asia community with a shared future. At the summit, President Xi Jinping further explained the profound connotation of building a China-Central Asia community with a shared future, and put forward the "four persistences" - adhere to mutual assistance, adhere to common development, adhere to universal security, adhere to intergenerational friendship, which has aroused widespread resonance.

Suwell believes that President Xi Jinping's keynote speech has outlined a roadmap for building a China-Central Asia community with a shared future. China's cooperation with Central Asian countries is based on each country's own development path and characteristics, emphasizes common development and universal security, and opens the door for China-Central Asia cooperation to share the fruits of development.

Chaudhry stressed that President Xi Jinping's keynote speech is to the point, and building a China-Central Asia community with a shared future that helps each other, common development, universal security and friendship for generations requires countries to further strengthen strategic mutual trust and support each other on issues involving core interests.

After listening to President Xi Jinping's keynote speech, Korzhumbayev, editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan Business Daily, who participated in the coverage of the summit, said that President Xi Jinping put forward "four persistences" in his keynote speech, covering the content of the three major initiatives of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, showing China's image as a responsible major country.

"The China-Central Asia Summit is a vivid embodiment of the implementation of China's global development initiative, global security initiative and global civilization initiative." However, Shetov believes that under the top-level design and strategic guidance of heads of state, China-Central Asia cooperation is full of momentum, and it will become closer and closer in the future, and new projects will continue to emerge.

Najibullah Jami, a scholar at Kabul University in Afghanistan, was deeply touched by President Xi Jinping's keynote speech on upholding universal security. "China's unanimous position with Central Asian countries on cracking down on the 'three forces' will help eliminate regional instability and create a stable regional environment for peace and reconstruction in Afghanistan."

Kyrgyzstan international experts Igor Shestakov believes that China's friendship with Central Asian countries, including Kyrgyzstan, has withstood the test of time, China has always opposed external forces interfering in the internal affairs of Central Asian countries under any pretext, creating chaos and turmoil, and President Xi Jinping's keynote speech fully demonstrates China's determination and sincerity to actively participate in the development of China and Central Asia and help maintain social and political stability in Central Asia.

Zafki Zavkizoda, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan, said: "Central Asia still has great untapped potential. Fully aligning the respective potentials of China and Central Asian countries is an important development goal for Central Asian countries, and will also enable all parties to achieve win-win results. ”

Chart the course of action for China-Central Asia cooperation

"Strengthening mechanism building", "expanding economic and trade relations", "deepening connectivity", "expanding energy cooperation", "promoting green innovation", "enhancing development capabilities", "strengthening dialogue among civilizations", "safeguarding regional peace" - looking forward to the future development and cooperation prospects of China and the five Central Asian countries, President Xi Jinping put forward eight suggestions in his keynote speech to point out the direction of action for China-Central Asia cooperation, which received positive responses from people from many countries.

"China's investment, high technology, and China's solutions in agriculture, industry, transportation and other fields play an important role in the development of Central Asian countries." Alimbekov, an expert at the Central Asian Institute of International Studies in Uzbekistan, said that the summit has built a new platform for cooperation between China and Central Asia, and the proposal made by President Xi Jinping will provide more possibilities for Uzbekistan and China to expand cooperation. Under the framework of the China-Central Asia mechanism, Uzbekistan and China are developing cooperation and jointly building long-term mutually beneficial projects in the region, which is in the interests of all parties concerned and helps promote the integration of regional countries into the global economy and transport and logistics systems.

Dovletmerad Mamedov, an expert at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, paid close attention to President Xi Jinping's suggestions on deepening connectivity and expanding energy cooperation mentioned in his keynote speech. He said that for Turkmenistan, the priority task in China-Central Asia cooperation is to build modern infrastructure, make use of the advantages of the Caspian Sea and Turkish ports, and ensure the integration of transport in Eurasia. "The continuous strengthening of the China-Central Asia cooperation mechanism will surely benefit all participants, and all parties are full of confidence in the prospects of cooperation."

In Korzhumbayev's view, there are many areas where the full potential of Central Asian countries and China can be tapped, such as energy, industrial cooperation, transport corridors, cultural exchanges, education and digital technologies. The cooperation documents signed by Kazakhstan and China during the summit cover almost all areas of cooperation between the two countries, opening up broad prospects for Kazakhstan and China to build a community of common destiny and deepen economic and trade cooperation.

Zavkizoda is also optimistic about the huge potential of cooperation between Central Asian countries and China. He said that Central Asian countries hope to achieve win-win cooperation with China through this summit. The cooperation documents signed between Tajikistan and China cover many priority areas of development and are believed to further promote cooperation between the two countries.

In Chowdhury's view, President Xi Jinping's proposal, "well-thought-out and comprehensive planning with broad impact," will yield positive results. He said: "I hope that Central Asian countries will continue to uphold peace, stability and unity to achieve the common cause of prosperity and development, and believe that cooperation between China and Central Asian countries will bring positive and fruitful results to the region and the world." ”

Stanislav Pritchin, an expert at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that China has raised its cooperation with Central Asian countries to a new height, put forward a series of cooperation plans and projects that will help promote the development of China-Central Asian relations, and Russia and China share the same position in developing relations with Central Asian countries.

(Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, May 19 -- Zhao Yan, Chang Tiantong, Wang Yanan, and Wang Xiaomei reported by a comprehensive Xinhua News Agency foreign correspondent)

Guang Ming Daily(Version 05, May 20, 2023)

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