The 2023 Seminar on the International Situation and China's Diplomacy was held in Beijing today (9th). At the opening ceremony of the seminar, Wang Yi, China's leading minister, pointed out in his speech that 2023 is a year of major and far-reaching changes in international relations and solid progress in Chinese-style modernization, as well as a year of exploration and harvest for China's diplomacy.
At the seminar, Wang Yi focused on six highlights of China's diplomacy in 2023: Brilliant head-of-state diplomacy, creating a new monument of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Solid progress has been made in building a community with a shared future for mankind, injecting new impetus into building a better future for mankind. The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was successfully held, pushing the Belt and Road Initiative into a new stage of high-quality development. The historic expansion of the BRICS mechanism has brought together new forces of solidarity and cooperation among developing countries. The China-Central Asia Summit was successfully held, creating a new platform for regional good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation. It has brought about a historic reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran and set a new model for political settlement of hotspot issues.
Wang Yiwei, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Renmin University of Chinese: In 2023, we will launch the eight action plans for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation in the next 10 years, and implement them into institutionalization, bilateralization, and even globalization. China is increasingly active in providing more public goods for development, and sharing China's development experience with the world to promote common development of the world, which is also the proper meaning of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Li Chengwen, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies of the China Institute of International Studies: At a time when the Middle East region is in a very turbulent and intensely intertwined with development contradictions, it can be described as an "earth-shattering shock" for us to do this (the Saudi-Iranian reconciliation). It conforms to the aspirations and trends of the people of the region for peace, development and reconciliation. This has played a positive role in the reconciliation of many countries in the region.
CCTV reporter Huang Huixin: In the world of 2023, multiple contradictions are highlighted, and regional conflicts are continuous. Peace, cooperation and development have always been the "key words" of China's diplomacy. Under the in-depth evolution of the changes in a century, China has demonstrated its responsibility and responsibility with practical actions, and China's international influence, charisma and shaping power have also been significantly enhanced.