BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated on Tuesday that China’s diplomacy in 2024 had created a sound exterior surroundings for China’s high-quality growth and injected helpful stability right into a risky world.
Wang, additionally a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when addressing a symposium on the worldwide state of affairs and China’s international relations in 2024.
HEAD-OF-STATE DIPLOMACY WRITING NEW CHAPTER
Over the previous yr, China’s head-of-state diplomacy has written an impressive new chapter and led the development of the instances for peace, growth and win-win cooperation, Wang stated.
Noting that this yr President Xi Jinping attended the Conference Marking the seventieth Anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, and the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), carried out 4 essential abroad journeys and attended a collection of multilateral summits, Wang stated President Xi has had in-depth strategic communication with leaders of different international locations and advocated better solidarity and cooperation among the many worldwide group.
President Xi focuses on peace and growth, sticks to multilateralism, equity, justice, openness and cooperation, and encourages the worldwide group to collectively reply to numerous world challenges, Wang stated, including that it’s broadly believed that it will have a optimistic and far-reaching impression on the progress and growth of human civilization.
“President Xi has also personally carried out friendly work with people around the world through meetings, letters and other forms, laying a solid foundation of public support for the sound development of state-to-state relations,” he added.
DEEPENING COMPREHENSIVE DIPLOMATIC AGENDA
Wang stated China’s diplomacy in 2024 has made new progress in deepening the excellent diplomatic agenda and strengthening the development of constructing a brand new sort of worldwide relations.
On China-Russia relations, he stated that underneath the strategic steerage of the 2 heads of state, China-Russia relations have set an instance of pleasant exchanges between main international locations and neighbors. President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin met thrice this yr, pushing for steady deepening of bilateral complete strategic coordination.
On the relations with Europe, Wang stated a more healthy and extra steady China-Europe relationship serves the basic pursuits of each side and meets the expectations of the world, calling on the 2 sides to strengthen dialogue and cooperation, correctly deal with variations, search win-win options, and collectively uphold free commerce and multilateralism.
On the relations with neighboring international locations, Wang stated that the pursuits of China and its neighbors have develop into extra carefully built-in, and friendship and mutual belief have been deepened. Regional cooperation with China’s participation and promotion has gained momentum, and mutual belief between China and main international locations within the area has been strengthened.
On China-U.S. relations, he stated over the previous yr, guided by head-of-state diplomacy, China has been working in direction of total stability in bilateral relations, specializing in implementing the “San Francisco Vision”.
Wang went on to level out that in current interactions with related U.S. leaders, President Xi has offered essential strategic steerage at an essential juncture for the event of bilateral ties, summarized seven factors of expertise and inspirations from the current years of exchanges and clearly recognized the 4 purple strains that brook no problem, particularly the Taiwan query, China’s path and system, democracy and human rights, and China’s growth proper.
“China’s policy toward the United States has maintained stability and continuity, which reflects the strategic resolve and the broad mind of a big country,” Wang added.
PROMOTING WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Noting that China has efficiently blazed a path of modernization suited to its nationwide circumstances, Wang stated China additionally stands able to work with the world to advertise the modernization of all international locations with peaceable growth, mutually helpful cooperation and customary prosperity.
He stated that China has actively promoted the reason for world growth and made deep and stable progress on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, with 155 international locations having joined the massive household of Belt and Road cooperation.
China’s pursuit of high-quality growth by means of high-level opening-up has created broad alternatives for the modernization of different international locations, Wang stated, including that China has additional expanded institutional opening up, repeatedly shortened the damaging checklist for international funding, absolutely liberalized entry to the manufacturing business, and actively aligned with worldwide high-standard commerce guidelines.
Noting that China has at all times been an essential member of the Global South and is dedicated to selling the unity and revitalization of the Global South, Wang stated that President Xi proposed to hold out open and inclusive cooperation of the Global South and introduced eight measures in assist of Global South cooperation.
“China follows the principle of sincerity, real results, affinity and good faith to help other developing countries realize their dream of rejuvenation,” he stated, including that the Beijing Summit of FOCAC this yr adopted the Beijing Declaration and the Beijing Action Plan to strengthen cooperation within the subsequent three years and 10 partnership actions for China and Africa to advance modernization.
BEING A FORCE FOR PEACE, UNITY
Noting that the yr of 2025 marks the eightieth anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, in addition to the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Wang stated China will stay a pressure for peace, unity, openness, justice and inclusiveness.
He stated it’s hoped that the brand new U.S. administration will make the proper alternative, work with China to take away disturbances and overcome obstacles, and attempt for the steady, wholesome and sustainable growth of China-U.S. relations.
“We will deepen China-Russia comprehensive strategic coordination and all-round practical cooperation, and push China-Europe relations forward steadily in the direction of independence, mutual achievement and benefit of the world,” he added.
He stated China will assist the holding of the second China-Central Asia Summit, perform the eight main measures for supporting high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, unswervingly open wider to the surface world at a excessive stage, speed up the event of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, uphold the worldwide free commerce system, and preserve the steadiness and unimpeded move of the manufacturing and provide chains.
“We will solemnly commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War,” Wang stated, including that China will assist Brazil in internet hosting the BRICS Summit and the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference, and assist South Africa in internet hosting the G20 Summit.