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The final plenary of United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 19, 2022. |
The world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, resulting in the need of ongoing adjustments to the global governance system. China's vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind and contribution towards building a better world, have gained widespread support from across the world.
Professor Lawrence Loh, director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at National University of Singapore, believes that the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, can be a basis for global interaction and cooperation to overcome global challenges.
Xi's speech at the UN Office in Geneva in 2017 continues to be "a relevant and monumental" expression of a hope for world progress, since he first presented the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind to the world during a visit to Russia in 2013, said Loh.
Both the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have praised Xi's vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Guterres called on the international community to, "Build a shared future for all life," and added that everyone needs to be engaged to save the planet's indispensable and fragile natural wealth, including young people and vulnerable populations, who rely the most on nature for their livelihoods. Ban Ki-moon said Xi's emphasis on the vision is an inspiration for all UN member states.
According to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, an international corporate strategist and public intellectual, it is a significant vision for improving global governance, which represents China's contribution to global governance and Chinese wisdom to promoting world peace and prosperity.
Martin Albrow, a fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, praises China for leading by its own example, as it advances its vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind. "China gives a very good example. It supports the international institutions while it attempts to make peace with other countries and provide a place where people can discuss peace and the future," Albrow told Xinhua News Agency.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said that maintaining peaceful and stable relations between Japan and China will positively influence Asia, Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world. He believes, "Japan and China should join hands to become the backbone of building a community with a shared future for mankind."
China has been working hard to consolidate relations with Arab countries and jointly build a China-Arab community with a shared future, said Abbas Zaki, a member of the Palestinian Fatah Central Committee and commissioner for relations with Arab countries and China.
"Unlike Western countries who seek hegemony, China has never intended to plunder the wealth and resources of the Arab world," said Zaki, noting that China's cooperation with Arab countries has always been based on mutual benefit and aims at achieving win-win results, and Arab countries hope to strengthen cooperation with China to seek solutions to regional issues.