China’s Diplomatic Year： Towards the Center of the World Stage
Cctv news(Reporter Wang Jiazhu) Open or closed? Cooperation or confrontation? Win-win or zero-sum In 2017, the international community needs to choose and maintain the correct course at this crossroads in history. At sunrise in the East, China used his wisdom and responsibility to give the answer to how to better benefit the world, to unite the greatest common denominator of all countries in the world, and to connect the Chinese dream with the world dream. In this year, the diplomacy of a big country with China characteristics entered a new era.
In this year, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China established the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, opened a new journey of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause, and defined the orientation, direction and strategic connotation of China’s diplomacy in the new era. In this year, customary diplomacy led China’s diplomacy to keep moving forward, safeguarded national interests, enhanced its international status and established the image of a big country; This year, from Davos to Geneva, from Hamburg to Da Nang, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader delivered important speeches on a series of international and multilateral occasions, putting forward clear ideas, opening the way for the world economy and contributing to global governance.
In this year, China, which entered a new era, helped the world, telling the world with its own actions that we are the mainstay of stabilizing relations between major powers, the strong voice of the times leading the direction of globalization, and the firm watcher of maintaining regional peace and development … … We ourselves, while becoming a "famous world power", are moving towards the center of the world stage step by step.
Thought: Draw a general plan for China’s diplomacy in the new era.
The opening ceremony of the 19 th National Congress (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang)
On October 18th, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing. In his report, the Supreme Leader General Secretary summed up China’s diplomatic work and historic changes in the past five years, and made it clear that China’s diplomacy in the new era should promote the building of new international relations and the building of a community of human destiny. He pointed out that the world is in a period of great development, great change and great adjustment, and peace and development are still the themes of the times. China will continue to play the role of a responsible big country, actively participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system, and constantly contribute to the wisdom and strength of China.
Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a top-level design for us to do a good job in diplomatic work in the new era. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that the diplomacy of a big country with China characteristics should promote the construction of new international relations and a community of human destiny, which pointed out the way forward for us. Among them, the "two constructions" are the inheritance and innovation of China’s peaceful development, and the connection and intersection of the Chinese dream and the world dream. It embodies the greatest common denominator of all countries in the world and contains the common value of human society, which has become a distinctive symbol of China’s diplomacy as a big country with characteristics entering a new era.
In fact, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has actively promoted the innovation of diplomatic theory and practice, put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new strategies, and has formed and established the diplomatic thought of the Supreme Leader General Secretary.
Wang Yi said in August this year that the core of the diplomatic thought of the Supreme Leader General Secretary is a main line, two pillars and three characteristics.
A main line is to firmly grasp the main line of adhering to peaceful development and promoting national rejuvenation. The two pillars are to build a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation as the core and to build a community of human destiny with one heart. Related to this, the General Secretary also put forward a series of new concepts and ideas, such as new security concept, new development concept, global governance concept, and correct justice and interests concept, which constitute the basic framework of the diplomatic theory system of China as a big country with characteristics. The three characteristics are advanced, pioneering and stable.
Footprint: hands-on diplomacy.
On January 18, 2017, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Rao Aimin)
In 2017, from home to the other side of the ocean, from G20 to APEC, in addition to the two "home diplomacy" of "Belt and Road Summit Forum" and "BRICS Xiamen Meeting", the Chairman of the Supreme Leader went abroad for five times, covering three continents of Asia, Europe and the United States and visiting eight countries … … In 2017, Chairman Supreme Leader will continue to build China’s diplomatic "circle of friends" to promote the stability and development of relations between major powers and neighboring countries.
From January 15th to 18th, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to Switzerland, attended the 2017 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum and visited international organizations in Switzerland. This is the opening of China’s diplomacy in 2017, and it is also the first time that the top leaders of China attend the annual meeting in Davos. On the 18th, the Supreme Leader of president delivered a keynote speech entitled "Building a Community of Human Destiny Together" at the UN headquarters. This paper systematically expounds the major international initiative of building a community of human destiny.
From April 4 to 6, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to Finland. During the period, the heads of state of China and Finland witnessed the signing of bilateral cooperation documents in the fields of innovation, justice and giant panda cooperation research.
From April 6th to 7th, the Supreme Leader of president met with President Trump in Haihu Manor, Florida, USA. This is the first face-to-face communication between the two heads of state since the new US president took office. The meeting laid the tone for Sino-US relations, pointed out the direction and planned the future, which is conducive to better benefiting the two countries and their peoples and benefiting people all over the world.
From June 7 to 10, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to Kazakhstan and attended the 17th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of SCO member States and the opening ceremony of the special World Expo in Astana.
On July 3-4, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to the Russian Federation. During the period, the two heads of state witnessed the signing of the Sino-Russian Joint Statement on Further Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation, the Sino-Russian Joint Statement on the Current World Situation and Major International Issues, and the Sino-Russian Foreign Ministry’s Joint Statement on the Korean Peninsula issue, which outlined the blueprint for Sino-Russian relations.
From July 4th to 8th, the Supreme Leader paid a state visit to Germany and attended the 12th summit of G20 leaders in Hamburg, where he delivered an important speech on the world economic situation and put forward four "China Propositions" to promote the development of the world economy.
From November 10th to 14th, the top leaders attended the 25th APEC Informal Leaders’ Meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, and paid state visits to Vietnam and Laos. This is the first visit by the supreme leader after the 19th National Congress, and it is also the opening work of China’s peripheral diplomacy in the new era.
During the APEC Da Nang Summit, the top leaders attended 17 events within 44 hours, and in their keynote speeches, they revealed the profound changes facing the world economy, pointed out the development direction of the Asia-Pacific region, shared the experience of governing the country, and comprehensively explained the new development journey of China initiated by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Voice: China wisdom leads global governance.
"One Belt, One Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pang Xinglei)
At the beginning of 2017, the deep-seated impact left by the impact of the international financial crisis still exists, the economic recovery is weak, global trade and investment continue to be weak, and anti-globalization thoughts prevail … … It is at this time when the international community is generally worried and at a loss that China’s wisdom, like a bright lamp, continues to send out the strong voice of the times leading the direction of globalization and lead global governance.
In Davos, the top leaders actively responded to the concerns of all parties at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, and profoundly answered major questions such as "What’s wrong with the world" and "What should we do", stressing that it is not feasible to reverse the historical trend of globalization, and engaging in protectionism is like putting yourself in a dark room, calling for joint efforts to create an innovation-driven growth model, an open and win-win cooperation model, a fair and reasonable governance model and a balanced and inclusive development model.
During his visit to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, the Supreme Leader systematically expounded the major international initiative of building a community of human destiny in the forum of the Palais des Nations, and put forward a Chinese plan to solve the global challenges facing human society, thus raising the China concept to an international consensus.
In May this year, the first "Belt and Road" international cooperation summit forum was successfully held in Beijing. Twenty-nine foreign heads of state and heads of state gathered in Beijing, and senior representatives of more than 130 countries and heads of more than 70 international organizations attended the meeting, forming a global consensus that all countries in the world should work together to promote the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. The forum reached more than 270 cooperation achievements, weaving a mutually beneficial cooperation network centered on the Eurasian continent, radiating all continents around the world and connecting all the oceans in the world. We will build an international cooperation platform that integrates development strategies, complements each other’s advantages, is interconnected, and is inclusive and open, thus opening up a new path for rebalancing globalization.
At the G-20 Hamburg Summit held in July, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader made an important speech on the world economic situation and put forward four "China Propositions" to promote the development of the world economy. From Hangzhou to Hamburg, the "China Plan" of global governance in the same strain has become clearer, pointing out the direction and path for the world economy to achieve prosperity, stability and sustainable development.
Ten years ago, in the tide of the group rise of developing countries, the BRICS countries officially appeared on the international stage, bringing "golden power" to the world. Ten years later, in Xiamen, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader successfully presided over the meeting of BRICS leaders in Xiamen and the dialogue meeting between emerging market countries and developing countries, which opened the second "golden decade" of BRICS cooperation and built a new platform for South-South cooperation with global influence.
"As the second largest economy in the world, China is well aware of its responsibilities." This is the solemn promise made by the Chairman of the Supreme Leader at the APEC Business Leaders Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam in mid-November. In more than 5,000 words, he accurately explained the profound changes that are taking place in the world economy, and gave China’s plan again with "continuing to build an open economy and strive to achieve mutual benefit and win-win", "continuing to seek innovative growth and tap new development momentum", "continuing to strengthen interconnection and realize coordinated development" and "continuing to enhance the inclusiveness of economic development and let the people share development achievements".
Responsibility: the mainstay, maintaining peace and benefiting the world
On July 8, the Supreme Leader of president met with US President Trump after the conclusion of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yao Dawei)
"For the sake of peace, we must firmly establish a sense of community of human destiny. Prejudice and discrimination, hatred and war will only bring disaster and pain. Mutual respect, equality, peaceful development and common prosperity are the right path in the world. " In 2015, the Supreme Leader said so at the conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of Chinese people’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the world anti-fascist war.
Over the past year, China has continued to practice and promote world peace and development. Actively build a partnership of dialogue, non-confrontation, partnership and non-alignment, work together with other countries for lasting peace and universal prosperity, and become the mainstay of maintaining regional peace and stability.
The guidance of the head of state is the key to the development of relations between major powers. Since the beginning of this year, President Xi and President Trump have met for three times and communicated by telephone for many times, which has played a strategic role in stabilizing this most complicated and important bilateral relationship in the world. Shortly after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China closed, President Trump paid a state visit to China. During their stay in Beijing, the two heads of state interacted sincerely, with frequent highlights, and even signed commercial contracts and two-way investment agreements with a total amount of 253.5 billion US dollars.
China and Russia are the largest neighbors linked by mountains and rivers. In the past year, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader and President Putin exchanged visits, held five meetings and intensively communicated with each other. Close cooperation on major issues of global strategic stability and deep docking on the development strategy of revitalizing Europe and Asia have made Sino-Russian relations an important cornerstone for maintaining peace and tranquility and upholding fairness and justice in today’s world.
In addition to new progress in coordination and cooperation with major powers, China’s good-neighborly friendship with neighboring countries has reached a new level in the past year.
In the face of various unstable factors gathered within Europe, China’s policy toward Europe is as steady as Mount Tai and consistent; China-ROK relations ushered in a turning point after the cold current caused by the "Sade" issue; China handled the incident of Indian border guards crossing the border into Donglang area of China in a reasonable and favorable way, which reflected the treasure of Sino-Indian relations and demonstrated the responsibility of maintaining peace. In terms of Sino-Japanese relations, Japan took measures to improve its relations with China at the end of the year … …
"The castle peak can’t be covered, after all, it flows east." This is a poem quoted by Foreign Minister Wang Yi when talking about the South China Sea issue. Since the beginning of this year, the situation in the South China Sea has slowed down. China and ASEAN countries have re-established a consensus on peaceful settlement of disputes through dialogue and consultation between the countries concerned, and officially announced the initiation of consultations on the substantive text of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. China and ASEAN countries have the ability to jointly safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea.
In 2017, China also actively mediated around hot issues. Wang Yi concluded that on the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, China, proceeding from safeguarding the international nuclear non-proliferation system, maintaining peace and stability on the peninsula, adheres to the goal of denuclearization, persists in solving the problem through dialogue and negotiation, and fully implements the UN Security Council resolutions concerning the DPRK. At the same time, it also shuttled diplomacy between Afghanistan and Pakistan to promote the establishment of bilateral crisis management and control mechanisms; Mediate Myanmar and Bangladesh, and put forward the idea of "three steps" to solve the Rakhine State problem in Myanmar.