Reference News Network December 3** said that the current world has undergone major changes unseen in a century, the world is facing new opportunities for major changes, and human society is facing unprecedented challenges.
On the morning of December 2, the 2023 "Understanding China" International Conference (Guangzhou) opened in Guangzhou. Hundreds of Chinese and foreign guests from more than 30 countries and regions conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on the major theme of "China's New Achievements in a Century of Changes - Expanding the Convergence of Interests and Building a Community with a Shared Future", looking at the relationship between China and the world from a global perspective, gathering consensus and contributing wisdom to building a better world.
Guangdong is not only an important window to display the achievements of China's reform and opening up, but also an important window for the international community to observe China's reform and opening up. At present, Guangdong is deeply studying and implementing Xi spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, anchoring the overall goal of "walking in the forefront", and taking high-quality development as the traction to solidly promote the practice of Chinese-style modernization in Guangdong.
advocacy + action", and unremittingly build a community with a shared future for mankind.
At this session, in the process of dialogue, discussion, consultation and discussion, participants from all over the world have become more and more eager to stabilize the global security situation and seek common development. More than 70 international guests, including former Ethiopian Prime Minister Muratu Tsesame, former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Hüssel, former Egyptian Prime Minister Issam Sharaf, former Vanuatu Prime Minister Karsakau, former Belgian Prime Minister Letem, and former Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sha Thi Thai, issued a strong appeal to the world for "win-win cooperation" around global security hotspots and development issues.
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Issam Sharaf believes that different colors and shapes can harmoniously make up a beautiful picture. Different civilizations can also break down cultural barriers, achieve harmony while differences, and people-to-people bonds, and jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said that in the face of global changes and challenges, we cannot be immune to it, we all live on the same earth, we are interconnected, and we must seek the cooperation of neighbors and partners. Globalization is the key to poverty and prosperity to which no one is immune.
*Xie Chuntao, deputy director of the Party School (National Academy of Administration) in charge of daily work, said that from the national, regional, and global levels to the political, security, development, civilization, and ecological fields, different forms of communities with a shared future have been built one after another, improving and broadening the path to realize the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
With the great changes in a century, "China's new achievements" are more dazzling.
Zheng Bijian, founding president of the China National Institute of Innovation and Development Strategy and chairman of the Academic Committee, believes that China has at least three new achievements under the changes in a century, one is to achieve Chinese-style modernization in high-quality development, the second is to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind in the peaceful rise of China and the vast number of developing countries, and the third is to create a modern civilization of the Chinese nation through exchanges and mutual learning among human civilizations.
Over the past decade, China has achieved the largest poverty alleviation campaign in human history, lifting nearly 100 million people out of poverty and becoming richChina's economy has achieved steady and healthy development in the midst of complex and difficult situations, and its share of the global economy has continued to increase, making an increasingly prominent contribution to global economic growthAt present, nearly half of the world's installed photovoltaic power generation capacity is in China, more than half of the world's new energy vehicles are driven in China, and a quarter of the world's new green area comes from China, and China is striving towards the goal of "striving to achieve carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060". In the face of these achievements, Muratu Teshome, a former Ethiopian official, said: "In the past 40 years, China's social and economic development has made remarkable achievements, and the cause of Chinese-style modernization has become a reality. ”
Huang Qifan, executive vice chairman of the Academic Committee of the China National Innovation and Development Strategy Research Association and former mayor of Chongqing, believes that in the past ten years, there have been three positive phenomena in China's economic operation, one is the obvious improvement of the export structure, with China's more than ten years of vigorously promoting the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and high-quality development, our country's position in the global industrial division of labor has been continuously improved, and the trend of high-end exports and high value-added is obviousSecond, the introduction of foreign capital has been increasing year after year, and China has become a gravitational field of global resource elementsThird, China has initially formed a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the mainstay and the domestic and international cycles reinforcing each other. In the future, China will remain the main engine of world economic growth.
At this conference, "showing China's new achievements under the changes of a century, highlighting China's solutions and responsibilities", "showcasing China's style and urban value, and showing the beautiful picture of the vigorous development of the Greater Bay Area in an all-round way" have become important contents of the attention and discussion of the guests. In view of the most urgent problems of global economic and social development, the new development concept based on innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, and the new quality productivity formed by informatization, networking, digitalization and intelligence will provide reference for countries around the world to explore solutions and paths.
Ten years of sharpening a sword to build a high-end platform for exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankindThis year is also the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, which has become a "happy road" for the benefit of all countries and the world, and the lives and destiny of countless people have been changed by the Belt and Road Initiative.
Also celebrating its 10th anniversary is "Understanding China", an important platform for the world to understand China's development strategy. Zheng Bijian said that at the beginning of the establishment of the "Understanding China" International Conference, it insisted on three "understandings" from the beginning, that is, "understanding China", "understanding the world", and "understanding the changes in a century". If this international conference can help the world better "understand China" and "understand the Communist Party of China", and at the same time help China better "understand the world" and "understand the changes in a century", it will certainly be able to reduce the "reading deficit" with sustained efforts.
Xu Weixin, president of the China National Innovation and Development Strategy Research Association and executive vice chairman of the Academic Committee, said that the birth of the "Understanding China" international conference marks a new window for China to speak on the international stage. It is precisely because of the maturity of the mechanism and remarkable results that in recent years, the number of participants in the "Understanding China" program has reached a new high, and more and more Chinese and foreign celebrities have devoted themselves to it and contributed their wisdom and strength.
Ten years of sharpening a sword. Behind the "understanding of China" is the deepening of the world's understanding of China, and the strengthening of China's belief in telling the "Chinese story" and spreading the "Chinese voice" to the world. At this conference, "Promoting the distinctive characteristics and rich connotations of Chinese modernization and the new form of human civilization" was listed as an important discussion direction for the first time, and "creating the modern civilization of the Chinese nation through exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations" will have an important impact on China and the world, which has attracted much attention.