(Source: Global Times 2025-01-04)
Editor's note: "China is willing to work with all countries to be practitioners of friendly cooperation, promoters of mutual learning among civilizations, and participants in building a community with a shared future for mankind, and jointly create a better future for the world." President Xi Jinping's New Year's speech for 2025 aroused enthusiastic response. With the accelerated evolution of century-long changes, China will continue to provide development momentum and bring valuable confidence to the turbulent and changing world.
On the eve of the New Year, President Xi Jinping painted a beautiful vision of friendship, cooperation and creation of the future to China and the people of the world in his New Year's greetings in 2025: "The world's century-long changes are accelerating, and we need to transcend estrangements and conflicts with a broad mind and care for the destiny of mankind with broad feelings. China is willing to work with all countries to be a practitioner of friendly cooperation, promoter of mutual learning between civilizations, and participants in building a community with a shared future for mankind, and jointly create a better future for the world." Looking back on the past, China has always interpreted the spirit of the times with practical actions, demonstrated its broad mind with mutual respect, and demonstrated its unremitting pursuit of win-win cooperation with pragmatic measures.
In the past year, China's economy has put in great motivation for global economic recovery and regional integration with an excellent resilience and open attitude.2024In the first three quarters of the year, China's GDP reached95Ten billion yuan, year-on-year growth4.8%, annual GDP is expected to exceed130Ten billion yuan. China is good, and the world is good.2024year ago11month, total foreign direct investment in the entire industry in my country1.05Ten billion yuan, year-on-year growth10.3%. Among them, in co-construction“Belt and Road”National non-financial direct investment is2146.6billion yuan, year-on-year growth6.2%. At the same time, China is moving forward steadily on the road to deepening regional economic and w88 casino games cooperation: China (Ningbo)—Central and Eastern European Countries Economic and w88 casino games Cooperation Demonstration Zone was officially established, China—ASEAN Free w88 casino games Zone3.0version upgrade negotiations have successfully concluded, and the negotiations on the China-Japan-South Korea Free w88 casino games Zone have made key progress. China and Singapore, Maldives, Serbia and other countries have also signed or upgraded the free w88 casino games agreement. Through a series of economic and w88 casino games cooperation, China has established closer ties with many countries and made positive contributions to the world's hunger, poverty reduction, prosperity and development.
In the past year, China has unswervingly followed the path of peaceful development, actively advocated multilateralism and international cooperation, and promoted the construction of a new type of international relations. During the BRICS Leaders' Meeting, China and other BRICS countries held in-depth discussions on hot topics such as global economic governance and sustainable development, and jointly issued a series of statements and action plans; at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, China and member states focused on key areas such as regional security and economic cooperation, and reached a series of fruitful and important consensuses; the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was successfully held, and China and African countries reached broad and in-depth consensus on economic and w88 casino games, infrastructure construction, agricultural development, medical and health care.2024In 2018, China and Uzbekistan upgraded their bilateral relations to a comprehensive all-weather strategic partnership in the new era, signed a number of milestone cooperation agreements with Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries, and reached a series of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation consensus with Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran on issues such as regional security and energy cooperation.
In the past year, China has vigorously advocated the diversity of civilizations, actively promoted mutual understanding and respect of global culture and concepts, and built a bridge of communication for international friendly exchanges. The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind has been written into the resolution of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly for eight consecutive years, once again demonstrating its increasingly important global identity significance; China and Africa place the "Civilized Mutual Learning Partnership Action" at the top and core of the top ten partner actions to promote modernization; at the UN General Assembly, China successfully promoted the establishment of the International Day for Dialogue of Civilizations, etc.
In today's world, the countercurrent of w88 casino games protectionism is becoming increasingly rapid, the haze of geopolitical conflicts is still strong, extreme weather events and public health crises caused by global climate change are emerging one after another, and uncertain factors have increased significantly. Faced with this series of severe challenges, improving determination, shelving differences and maintaining communication is the top priority for all countries to control risks and avoid escalating conflicts.
(The authors are professors at the BRICS Research Center of the University of International Economics and Business, and doctoral student at the School of International Economics and w88 casino games)
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