[China moves forward steadily] The community of human destiny provides a ＂China program＂ for global governance
Content summary:Building a community of human destiny is a "China plan" provided by contemporary China to promote world peace, development and global governance. From the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, to the two themes of peace and development, and then to the promotion of building a community of human destiny, China’s basic principles and value orientation of unswervingly following the path of peaceful development have developed in inheritance and innovated in development. This is not only a historical choice, but also a realistic choice and a value choice. "Welcome people from all countries to take the ‘ developed by China; Express ’ ‘ Hitchhiking ’ " China’s development has brought opportunities to the world, provided new impetus for the all-round and sustainable growth of the world economy, provided new guarantee for lasting world peace, and provided a referential Chinese plan for global governance.
From the strategic overall situation of the world change and national rejuvenation that has never happened in a century, the Supreme Leader General Secretary put forward an important idea of building a community of human destiny. Building a community of human destiny is a "China plan" provided by contemporary China to promote world peace, development and global governance. In 2018, "promoting the building of a community of human destiny" was written into the preamble of the Constitution. This concept, which embodies the wisdom of the East, has been given a new meaning, expressing China’s firm will to join hands with other countries in the world and realizing the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s solemn commitment to "strive for the cause of human progress".
China adheres to the road of peaceful development
A peaceful international environment will be conducive to achieving our goal of "two hundred years" and realizing the Chinese dream of the Chinese nation’s rejuvenation. Peace and development are two sides of the same coin: on the one hand, without development as the foundation and motivation, China and the world can not achieve lasting peace; On the other hand, without peace, it is impossible for China and the world to achieve sustainable development. This is also the profound reason why China should unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development — — Peace to ensure development; Develop and promote peace.
Looking back on the 70-year history of the founding of New China, we deeply realize that only by unswervingly following the path of peaceful development can we effectively promote the great process of people’s happiness and national rejuvenation, and also make China’s due contribution to world peace and prosperity and provide a "China plan" for eliminating the global governance deficit.
Judging from the historical context of 70 years since the founding of New China, China’s adherence to the path of peaceful development is both consistent and hard-won. In the early days of the founding of New China, we embarked on the road of seeking peace and development. At that time, the international "Cold War" had already begun, and we had experienced a hundred years of hardships, and everything was in a hurry. It was only when people hit the Yalu River that we were forced to make a major decision to protect our country and defend our country. In 1953, we signed an armistice agreement to promote peace through war. When the New China delegation attended the Asian-African Conference (Bandung Conference) in 1955, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence advocated by China gained universal recognition through equal dialogue between Premier Zhou Enlai and representatives of other countries, and its spirit was written into the Declaration on Promoting World Peace and Cooperation. Over the past 60 years, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence have not only become the basis for China to pursue an independent foreign policy of peace, but also been accepted by the vast majority of countries in the world, becoming the norm for handling international relations and the basis for safeguarding world peace.
At the beginning of reform and opening-up, we clearly pointed out that peace and development are the two major themes in the world today, and from this, we pointed out that China can adhere to the development strategy centered on economic construction, devote itself to developing productive forces and improving people’s living standards in a relatively peaceful international environment. After the end of the "Cold War", China took the initiative to conform to the trend of the times. By further deepening reform and opening up, it achieved a historical leap for the people of China from standing up to becoming rich. In such a short time and at such a small cost, with such a large population and such a poor original foundation, China has made such great achievements, which is the first case in human history.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. With the rapid development of China’s economy and society and the remarkable improvement of its comprehensive national strength, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core once again clearly put forward that we should unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development and lead China from prosperity to strength. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "adhere to the path of peaceful development and promote the building of a community of human destiny". The path of peaceful development is a new development path with interdependence between peace and development, organic unity of internal affairs and diplomacy, and interactive combination of national interests and human interests. Building a new community of international relations and human destiny is a pioneering work in the history and theory of international relations, and also a great progress in the history of human social development and a great innovation in the theory of social development.
From putting forward the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, to judging that peace and development are the two major themes in today’s world at the beginning of reform and opening up, and then emphasizing and reaffirming that China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development and promote the construction of a community of human destiny, its basic principles and value orientation have never wavered, but it has developed step by step through inheritance and innovated in development.
This is not only a historical choice, but also a realistic choice and a value choice.
The choice of history. Throughout the modern history of the world, western powers have always tried to invade and expand by relying on force, and to maximize their own interests in accordance with the "law of the jungle" and "zero-sum game". After 1840, the old China suffered from aggression and plunder, and "the monsters danced for a hundred years". After the founding of New China in 1949, China established and practiced an independent foreign policy of peace. From putting forward the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence to making a solemn commitment to the world that it will never seek hegemony, never expand and never engage in spheres of influence, from putting forward the path of peaceful development to explicitly proposing to build a community of human destiny, China has become the backbone of maintaining world peace and an important promoter of the reform of the international governance system. This is not only a profound lesson from the painful history of being bullied or even trampled on by others in modern times, but also a world orientation given to us by history.
A realistic choice. China unswervingly follows the path of peaceful development and works with other countries to build a community of human destiny, which is also based on China’s actual national conditions and China’s fundamental national interests. At the beginning of the founding of New China, we had a weak foundation and uneven distribution of resources. A peaceful external environment was a necessary condition for us to focus on domestic development. Today, after 70 years of hard work and more than 40 years of reform and opening up, although we have moved from being rich to being strong, it is still and will always be the right path for mankind to join hands with other countries to jointly promote the reform of the international governance system and further build a community of human destiny.
Choice of value. China is not only the largest socialist country, but also the largest developing country in the world today. It is also an ancient civilization that has lasted for thousands of years. Chinese has always paid attention to "harmony without difference" and pursued "one world", and "law of the jungle" and "zero-sum game" are not our value options. From the 70-year history of New China, we have always insisted that all countries, big or small, are equal. From the historical evolution of Chinese civilization, it has never been our cultural blood and historical gene to invade, plunder and bully others. We insist on "don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you". The pursuit of value behind this is not only "multiple integration, harmony but difference", but also "beauty of beauty, beauty and beauty together".
The development of China brings opportunities to the world.
We all remember clearly that Comrade Mao Zedong put forward that "China should make greater contributions to mankind." Since the founding of New China, we have both said and done so. Over the past 70 years, we have not only occupied an inch of other countries’ land, but also never carried out foreign economic and trade exchanges in a colonial or predatory way. Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, China is even more active, daring to take responsibility, even facing difficulties and taking the initiative to make unremitting efforts and explorations to promote the development and progress of human society and explore and build a better governance order and system in the new world.
The history of the world since modern times is full of wars, aggression, plunder, unequal rules and unfair transactions. Behind it are jungle laws and zero-sum games, which make the strong stronger and the winners take all. After the two world wars, people learned from their bitter experience, so there was an international organization like the United Nations and a world order under the United Nations system, and a new pattern of post-war international relations was formed. But even so, it failed to prevent the "cold war" that lasted for nearly half a century, and the world almost never stopped local wars and regional conflicts. As for other international institutions and international order, on the one hand, many of them continue to play a role, on the other hand, most of them need reform and improvement.
For many countries and regions in the world, development is the top priority and peace is the first guarantee. China, a big country, was once "poor and poor" for a long time. At the beginning of the founding of New China 70 years ago, the foundation was very thin and poor. In the final analysis, it depends on its own hard work and people’s hard work to develop. Even today, we are still a developing country and still in the primary stage of socialism. Therefore, while actively advocating that countries should formulate development strategies suitable for their own national conditions according to their own endowment characteristics, on the one hand, we should provide our help as much as we can, "Welcome people from all countries to take the ‘ developed in China; Express ’ ‘ Hitchhiking ’ " Let China’s development achievements benefit people of all countries more; On the other hand, it actively promotes the maintenance and improvement of the international governance system, provides new impetus for the comprehensive and sustainable growth of the world economy, and provides new guarantees for lasting world peace.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a political party for the happiness of the people of China, and it is also a political party for the cause of human progress. The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always made new and greater contributions to mankind as its mission. " Adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s China plan objectively provides a new reference development path choice for countries and nations in the world who want to speed up their development and maintain their independence. Today, China is approaching the center of the world stage day by day, and making greater contributions to the peace and development of mankind at a speed, scale and way that others and even ourselves have never thought of before. From now on, after the first centennial goal to 2035 and then to the middle of this century, China’s contribution to all mankind will be more prominent in the world when we are moving towards the goal of "two centennials" and the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation.
"China Plan" for Global Governance
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, we have calmly responded to the complicated and profound changes in the international situation, properly handled all kinds of risks and resolved all kinds of crises, firmly safeguarded the fundamental interests of the country, deepened friendly cooperation, actively demonstrated the responsibility of big countries, dared to adhere to principles, resolutely opposed and resisted bullying, and created a new diplomatic situation for big countries with China characteristics.
In the face of spreading protectionism and unilateralism, China adheres to the correct direction of historical development, holds high the banner of peace and cooperation, firmly defends multilateralism and free trade, and promotes the development of the global governance system in a more just and reasonable direction, thus becoming the mainstay of world chaos. On different important international occasions, China has clearly opposed all kinds of protectionism and unilateralism, called for the firm maintenance of the international order and system with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter as the core, and guided relevant meetings to form a series of groundbreaking, leading and institutional achievements, which reflected China’s world responsibility as a responsible big country, injected positive energy and brought new hope to the uncertain international situation.
Today’s world is indeed facing various problems and serious challenges, especially the headwind of economic globalization, the long-term downturn of the world economy, the increasingly prominent development gap, unfair distribution everywhere, frequent regional conflicts, global challenges such as terrorism and extremism, and various social and political trends of thought such as populism and conservatism. People are even asking, what’s wrong with the world? What on earth should we do? Many people in the world feel confused and confused about the increasing uncertainty in the future, and feel painful and helpless about various risks and crises. In this context, General Secretary Supreme Leader’s proposal to build a new type of international relations and a community of human destiny has effectively responded to the common concerns and universal worries of the world. In fact, he has put forward China’s global view, governance view and justice and benefit view, the essence of which is "to develop without poverty, to be peaceful without war, to cooperate without confrontation, and to win-win without dominating". China dares to face all kinds of problems, challenges, crises and risks facing the world today, and dares to answer all kinds of puzzles and confusions in people’s minds, which provides great wisdom and new ideas for the development of the world and the future of mankind to move in the right direction.
We insist on mutual respect and consultation on an equal footing, resolve disputes through dialogue and resolve differences through consultation, advocate overall response to various non-traditional security threats through cooperation and cooperation, and resolutely oppose all forms of terrorism and hegemonism.
We stick to the principle of mutual benefit and win-win situation, actively promote the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, promote the development of economic globalization in a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win direction, resolutely oppose trade protectionism and bullying in various situations, resolutely oppose unilateralism, actively safeguard multilateralism and promote the reform of the multilateral governance system.
We insist on respecting the diversity of world civilizations, transcending the barriers between civilizations, learning from each other, transcending the superiority of civilizations, and finally achieving harmony without differences and pluralism. Culture and civilization can only coexist and complement each other, instead of artificially judging who is superior and who is inferior and who is higher and lower with prejudice and even arrogance.
We insist on environmental friendliness, actively advocate and persist in coping with environmental pollution, ecological protection and climate change through cooperation, protect the common home on which human beings depend, and naturally return peace, harmony and beauty to society, trust and friendship.
China not only actively advocated building a community of human destiny, but also set an example by himself. A vivid example is that we actively advocate the "Belt and Road Initiative" and actively promote various related specific projects to take root and bear fruit. The "Belt and Road" construction is gradually connecting with the policies and development strategies of various countries, deepening their pragmatic cooperation, bringing countries and people closer to each other in cooperation, and opening up a new world, new ways and new paths of mutually beneficial cooperation and win-win, thus showing a vivid example and opening a new road for international relations to gradually move from a community of interests and responsibilities to a community of destiny.
Today, China has moved from standing up to becoming rich and strong. Although some people don’t want to see China grow and develop, and some even want to engage in a "new cold war" against us, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the trend of the times, which is irresistible and irresistible. On the way forward, there will be many "traps" and risks that we can think of and haven’t thought of, and there may be all kinds of "black swans" and "grey rhinos", and there will certainly be many new great struggles. The idea of community of human destiny and the important idea of building a new type of international relations put forward by the Supreme Leader General Secretary are not only the inheritance and development of China’s 70-year diplomatic fine tradition, but also the refinement and sublimation of China’s diplomatic practice since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. They are also a new solution to the disorder and anomie in today’s world and the out-of-control and loss of value in some areas, which provides an important theoretical basis and practical follow-up for us to overcome the old logic of "national power must dominate" and surpass the old thinking of "Thucydides Trap".
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "the dreams of the people of China are closely linked with those of people of other countries". The concept of "community of destiny" focuses on seeking the "greatest common denominator" of the interests of all parties, and builds a solid bridge for the Chinese dream to connect with the world dream. The two are in harmony and complement each other. Under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in the historical process of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the people of China will work with people all over the world to jointly promote the building of a community of human destiny. "Development together is true development, and sustainable development is good development", "Adhere to the concept of" Hello, I am good and everyone is good "and" Development achievements should be shared by all countries "… … With the steady progress of China, the beautiful vision brought by such a brand-new concept will surely come true.
(The author is a special researcher at the New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of China Academy of Social Sciences, Ping Huang)