The opening ceremony of the 5th World ** Summit.
Straight News: The 5th World Summit was held in Guangzhou, building mutual trust and promoting exchanges into the strongest voice, what do you think of this event?
Special Commentator Chen Bing: The World Summit is an effective platform for communication and brainstorming under the initiative of China's official news agency Xinhua News Agency, and in collaboration with the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Kyodo News, BBC and other influential international mainstreams, aiming to discuss how to play a role in improving international relations and promoting international exchanges, and build a "bridge" for exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
The first summit was held in Beijing in 2009. Since then, the summit has been held in Moscow, Doha and Beijing, and the fifth summit has been held in Guangzhou. The five summits and three were held in China, which shows China's enthusiasm and responsibility for world exchanges, and its willingness to hold extensive exchanges with its peers in the world, build mutual trust, and build a community with a shared future for mankind and promote the common values of all mankind by disseminating true and credible information. China actively hosts the conference, which is also a self-confidence in its own development path, and hopes that the world will use the summit to report on a respectable, lovely and credible China, and work with global counterparts to meet the challenges of the digital era, so that it can play a leading role in strengthening exchanges, eliminating misunderstandings and win-win cooperation.
Another important point is that this is also one of the important measures taken by China to take the initiative to expand its opening up. At a time when technological protectionism is prevalent and the demonization of China by the United States and the West is intensifying, can we make it easier for foreign countries, foreign friends and foreign companies to come to China with a more open attitude, so that they can see is believing?A few days ago, China exempted visas to six countries such as France, Germany and Spain, held the first Chain Expo in Beijing, and now held the world's first summit in Guangzhou. China's emergence as the world's second largest economy is the result of reform and opening up, and the result of China's initiative to open up.
In order for China to continue to develop in the future, it is necessary to further open up to the outside world. Development is the product of openness, and the pursuit of high-quality development requires all-round opening-up. Therefore, unilateral opening up may become a policy aspect of China in the future, including opening up to foreign countries. Before the World Summit was held, the heads of Xinhua News Agency, Reuters, Associated Press, and Agence France-Presse gathered in Beijing, hoping to strengthen exchanges and cooperation, shoulder social responsibilities, undertake global missions, and send a signal to the world to take the lead in cooperation. Perhaps, there will be more objective and fair reports on China in the international community.
On December 2, the 2023 "Understanding China" International Forum was held in Guangzhou.
Straight News: At the same time as the World Summit was held, the "Understanding China" International Forum was also held in Guangzhou, what is the relationship between the two?Can "Understanding China" Enable the World to Understand China Correctly?
Special Commentator Chen Bing: Let's first look at the relationship between the World Summit and the "Understanding China" forum. It may be a coincidence that the two major events were held in Guangzhou at the same time this year, the venue of the world's first summit has changed, and the "Understanding China" international forum has been held in Guangzhou since 2019. Obviously, the World Summit was held simultaneously in Guangzhou, with 197 mainstream summits, think tanks, and institutions from 101 countries and regions around the world participating, which provided a good opportunity for simultaneous interviews and reports. This allows the two meetings to complement each other and build on each other.
For Guangzhou, it is even more profitable, and its Chinese-style modernization practice process will not only receive perceptual reports, but also be rationally interpreted. As far as the "Understanding China" Forum is concerned, it is a forum mainly attended by foreign political, business, academic and international celebrities, examining the rationality, inevitability and practical achievements of the Chinese-style modernization development path, so that the world can recognize and understand the uniqueness of China's path, and urge the international community to understand from China's actions that the core concepts of Chinese-style modernization are peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, Common prosperity shows the sincerity of China's cooperation with other countries, the new development opportunities provided by China, and the true purpose of China's expansion of opening up and moving forward hand in hand with the world.
The outcome of the "Understanding China" forum will influence the world to make a fair evaluation of China, and make the list of cooperation longer and the cake of cooperation bigger. Of course, it is not enough to let the world understand China by relying only on the "Understanding China" forum. However, the outcome of the forum will certainly inspire more people and provide more clues for a correct understanding of China. The enlightening effect on China may be even greater, learn from and Xi learn from it, use international discourse and international thinking to explain China, and take the initiative to spread China to the world.
Personally, I believe that in order for the international community to "understand China" and reduce the misunderstanding of China, China should take the initiative to assume the responsibility of international communication, play a key role and make more voices heard. By increasing investment in international communication and attracting talents with international communication capabilities, we will be able to take the initiative and creatively make the world "understand China".
Author丨Chen Bing, special commentator of Shenzhen Satellite TV's "Live Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan".