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On January 9, local time, Liu Jianchao, director of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China, was invited to deliver a speech at the US Council on Foreign Relations and interact with foreign parties, with nearly 100 people from all walks of life such as US strategic circles, academic circles, and ** attending on-site, and more than 400 people participating online.
Liu Jianchao said that the chairman delivered an important speech at the economic work conference held not long ago, which further clarified what kind of development China is committed to and how to promote development in the new era. In the new era, China is committed to high-quality development, high-level opening-up development, development while maintaining stability, and green development. China's economic aggregate has been steadily increasing, innovation has become the primary driving force of China's economic development, and China's economic fundamentals will improve in the long run. China will correctly handle the relationship between development and security, independent innovation and opening up, continue to deepen reform, expand opening-up, especially promote institutional opening-up, and create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based and internationalized, so as to provide new development opportunities for the world.
Liu Jianchao said that China's strategic goal is grand and simple, that is, to make 1.4 billion Chinese people live a better life. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China has never taken the initiative to provoke any war or conflict, nor has it encroached on an inch of other countries' land. China is the founder, beneficiary and defender of the current international order, and does not seek to change the existing international order, let alone start from scratch and build a new so-called new order. The overarching goal of China's diplomacy in the new era is to build a community with a shared future for mankind, in which the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative is the strategic guidance, and the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation is the practical platform. No matter how the international situation changes, China will always work with other countries to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and jointly create a peaceful, secure, prosperous and progressive future.
Liu Jianchao said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States 45 years ago, China-US relations have brought tremendous benefits to the people of the two countries and made important contributions to world peace, stability and prosperity. Not long ago, the president and Biden had a successful meeting, opening up the "San Francisco Vision" for the future. China and the United States need to strengthen dialogue and communication, promote dialogue at all levels of various departments such as the Legislature, and political parties, and promote the implementation of the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, especially by inviting 50,000 young Americans to China for exchange and study in the next five years. To properly manage differences, the two heads of state stressed that they have no intention of clashing with each other, and that the two sides must understand and respect each other's bottom line of principles, and be clear about the interests that the other side must protect, defend, and adhere to. Expanding mutually beneficial cooperation, bringing a sense of gain to the two peoples and adding stability to bilateral relations is a valuable experience in the development of China-US relations over the past 45 years, and it is also the direction that we should continue to adhere to. As the world enters a period of turbulence and change, people of all countries expect China and the United States to take the lead in solving more global problems and providing more public goods. China is ready to work with the US to demonstrate its responsibility as a major country and make new and greater contributions to human progress.
In the interactive session, Liu Jianchao answered questions on China's view of global order, China-US relations, China-Russia relations, the Ukraine crisis, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the safety of navigation in the Red Sea, nuclear disarmament, China's economic development prospects, investment environment, Western bias against China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other issues.
Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations (CEAR) is a well-known think tank in the United States that has an important influence in the field of foreign affairs. (Reporter Liao Pan produced by Xu Miaoqiao).