BEIJING – A few months after his election as general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Xi Jinping won his third term as Chinese president at the annual consultation of the national legislature, which ended on Monday.
At the first consultation of the XIV National People’s Congress (NPC), Mr. Xi also elected chairman of the country’s Central Military Commission. Assuming the highest positions in the Party, state and armed forces, Xi leads the country with 1. 4 billion other people on a new adventure toward modernization.
At the end of the session, Xi delivered a well-attended speech to a gathering of nearly 3,000 lawmakers. ” said M. Xi.
Xi said the central task of the entire Party and the entire Chinese people, from now until mid-century, is to make China a wonderful socialist country fashionable in all respects and promote national rejuvenation on all fronts.
“The baton has been in our generation,” he said.
Ten years ago, when Xi first elected the Chinese president, he explained the “Chinese dream,” saying the dream was to make the country filthy rich and strong, rejuvenate the country and provide a fulfilling life for its people.
China’s modernization has been a persistent pursuit of the Chinese since the Opium Wars. Over the course of a century, generations of Chinese, led by the CCP, have charted a distinctly Chinese path toward this goal.
Born in 1953, Xi began his political career as Party leader in a small town in northwest China. Since then, for more than half a century, Xi has risen through the ranks at almost every point in the Party hierarchy. He has accumulated Enjoying extensively and completing remarkable achievements in his career.
Xi was first elected as Party leader in late 2012. For the first time, the position was held by a user born after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Since then, he has led the country down an ambitious path of renewal, according to foreign media. Xi has a transparent view of China, to see it as a tough country in the world, according to reports.
THE CORE
In 1969, Xi left Beijing for a small village on the Loess Plateau to live as a farmer, sharing the same fate as millions of young people who came of age in the Cultural Revolution.
For someone like Xi who grew up in Beijing, life in the countryside was incredibly complicated at first. The villagers were meatless for several months. other ordinary people and society.
This exclusive holiday fueled Xi’s determination to do anything for the intelligence of the people.
While many of his peers chose to go abroad, Xi moved to work in a deficient county called Zhengding in Hebei province in the early 1980s.
In 2012, shortly after taking office as general secretary, Xi visited disadvantaged rural families in Hebei. At Gu Chenghu’s house, Xi sat on a hot brick bed and chatted with him.
“I came here to check your life situation and see what else the Party leadership can do for you and other people like you,” he said. Xi.
He lifted Gu’s sleeve and showed it to those around him saying, “Look, your coat is worn. “
At that time, about one hundred million rural Chinese lived below the poverty line and earned an annual income source of 2300 yuan ($366).
In less than a year, Xi introduced the “targeted poverty reduction” strategy and, in the span of about 8 years, sent 255,000 paintings and 3 million paintings to villages, offering individual assistance to impoverished farmers.
Xi himself conducted more than 50 inspections and studies on poverty reduction, including visits to the 14 regions with a maximum concentration of excessive poverty.
On February 25, 2021, Xi announced that there had been absolute poverty in China.
China’s poverty alleviation rate has been particularly faster than the global average, making it the country with the highest number of people lifted out of poverty in the world.
“Without Xi’s non-public push, poverty alleviation would have been even more complicated and time-consuming,” said Zeng Shoufu, who once worked as a poverty alleviation cadre in a village in North China’s province. Fujian.
Another challenge is corruption. When he took office as Party leader in late 2012, Xi warned that “if corruption is allowed to spread, it will eventually lead to the collapse of the Party and the fall of the state. “
Less than a month after his work, he fired the first shot in his war on corruption. In ten years, the high-ranking “tigers”, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, have been overthrown. .
More than 500 headquarters staff were investigated, most of whom were at ministerial level or higher. Corrupt officials who fled were returned thanks to anti-corruption operations initiated by Xi.
In 2018, he announced that he had won a “landslide victory” against corruption. But the crusade did not prevent it. After the 20th National Congress of the CCP, nearly 20 other senior officials were investigated or sanctioned for corruption.
Earlier this year, at the plenary consultation of the CPC’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the top anti-corruption agency, Xi called for a crackdown on corruption affecting both political and economic issues. Spokesmen or agents of interest teams and ruling cliques.
The good fortune of poverty alleviation and anti-corruption won popular support from Xi, but that is not the only explanation why he was unanimously elected as head of the Party and state. Over the past decade, many long-standing disorders in the country have been resolved under his leadership.
China has evolved and strengthened overall, with an average annual economic expansion of 6. 2% over the past decade. This was more than double the global average. GDP consistent with the capita doubled to more than $12,000.
China’s share of the world economy has increased from 11. 3% in 2012 to 18. 5% today. Cereal production has been plentiful.
In the past, China’s production industry was referred to as “big but not strong. “It took a billion pairs of socks to buy a Boeing plane, some say. Today, China has developed its own giant passenger jet, and technological advancements give it a contribution of more than 60% to the country’s economic growth.
China’s virtual economy is the largest in the world right now, and its production and sales of new electric cars have ranked first for 8 consecutive years.
Shan Zenghai, a technician at machine maker XCMG, recalled how in 2017, Xi visited the company’s workshop and installed an all-terrain crane.
“He encouraged us a lot, saying that genuine economics should never be set aside,” Shan said. “He also said China’s economy wants to move from high-speed expansion to high-quality development. “
During a deliberative assembly at this year’s NPC session, Shan sat down with Xi and informed him that all parts of the crane that Xi had assembled are now manufactured in China.
“Are your company’s crane chips domestically manufactured?”Xi asked.
“Yes, they are all made in China,” Shan replied.
Over the past decade, while ridding itself of absolute poverty, China has built the world’s largest education, social security, and health care and fitness systems. China is taking steps to provide more available and uninterrupted medical and fitness services to farmers. The average Chinese’s life expectancy increased to 78. 2 years in 2021, nearly two years longer than the average American’s that year.
Without Xi, China’s ecological environmental coverage would not have achieved historic improvements, observers said. The average concentration of small particles, PM2. 5, in the air has declined for nine consecutive years in giant cities, with cumulative relief of 57%. The occurrence of smog engulfing China’s northern skies, which was not unusual before, is now rare.
Xi has pushed for ecological progression by addressing pollutants at all levels. He announced that China aims to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. He also pushed for the ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Thanks also to its efforts, China is among the first to sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the world’s largest flexible industry agreement, and expanded its flexible industry pilot zones from 1 to 21. The entire island of Hainan has been remodeled into a flexible port area.
Xi is a strong advocate of the spirit of self-reliance and self-improvement. Under pressure he wants to build confidence and pride in being Chinese, and the importance of selling classical Chinese culture, saying that blindly following others is not the way to go. .
“Aren’t Hollywood videos like ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and ‘Mulan’ in our cultural resources?” he said.
Xi’s reform measures have achieved “historic changes, systematic review and comprehensive reconstruction” in many areas, ranging from economic, political, cultural, social and ecological systems of coverage to national defense and the Party’s own institutions.
He made the resolution that will accompany the Party documents the declaration to “let the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources and let the government play a more important role” and led the creation of the National Supervisory Commission, a tough anti-corruption body. Company in charge of supervising each and every one of the users in the public function.
In late 2012, Xi introduced the eight-point resolution on improving driving. This is seen as a lasting institutional solution to diseases such as waste, excitement and extravagance. Thanks to this resolution, Xi has managed to reduce practices that in the past were considered uncontrollable.
In other facets of institutional development, Xi has overseen reform of the skill formula to enable cutting-edge researchers to take advantage of their intellectual asset rights.
A landmark CPC solution approved in 2021 states that the Party has affirmed Xi Jinping’s central position in the Party Central Committee and the Party as a whole, and has affirmed the leading role of Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era.
This, according to the resolution, reflects the usual will of the Party, the Chinese armed forces and other people of all ethnic groups, and is of decisive importance in advancing the cause of the Party and the country in the new era and advancing the historic procedure of national rejuvenation.
Xi sees the declaration of his core prestige as a great responsibility. In his words: “To honor the acceptance as faithful of the Party and the people, I will devote myself to the maximum and be able to submit to any test without hesitation. “. “
Party theorists argue that Xi’s sustained leadership within the Party and state apparatus provides direction, stability and continuity to China’s development. They said this contributes to strengthening the Party’s overall leadership and is a manifestation of the political and institutional benefits of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Lu Man, who is an NPC deputy and director of an agricultural cooperative in Jiangsu province, said the unanimous vote that chose Xi as China’s president was one of the main final results of this year’s “two sessions. “waiting and it is obligatory to advance the reasons of the Party and the State.
From the XX CPC National Congress to this year’s “two sessions,” a new cohort of officials has taken up government positions, adding members, and exchanging members of the Party Central Committee, ministers, and provincial-level Party leaders. Xi suggested they fight diligently and disappointing people’s expectations.
According to Party members familiar with the matter, those new senior officials “share some unusual traits,” adding their strong roles in terms of impeachment and execution.
Meanwhile, the army has completed its leadership transition, with a new team from the Central Military Commission and a new defense minister.
In early November, Xi visited the military’s Joint Operations Command Center and called for “comprehensively strengthening the education and readiness of the army. “He pressed “the absolute leadership of the Party over the people’s army. “
According to Xi, the Party leadership defines the nature of China’s modernization.
Given the vastness of the Party and the country, it is difficult to achieve anything without the authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, as well as the nation’s conformity, Mr. Xi said.
“General Secretary Xi has the air of mystery to unify the entire Party. It is our backbone as the country moves forward on the new path to modernization,” said Cai Hongxing, president of Yanbian University, who is also a NPC deputy.
A NEW BEGINNING
The NPC is perceived as a primary platform for turning the Party’s proposals into the will of the nation. This is that China’s main modernization strategies, defined at the XX Party Congress, are translated into concrete plans in the “two sessions”.
In 1979, defeated Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the term “Chinese modernization” at the beginning of reform and opening-up in reference to Xiaokang, or a wealthy society. After achieving this purpose, the CCP proposed the purpose of a disgustingly rich society. society in all aspects.
According to media reports, Xi first used the term “Chinese modernization” in a public speech in December 2015 while leading efforts to formulate a progression plan aimed at propelling the country toward a disgustingly rich society in all respects.
Six years later, at the CPC’s centennial celebration, Xi said that purpose had been achieved.
Xi has continued to fine-tune the strategic deployment of China’s modernization, moving from building a disgustingly rich society in all respects to a new journey of modernization.
At the 19th CPC National Congress, he set a “timetable” for achieving modernization, and at the 20th Party Congress five years later, he presented a “road map” to achieve this goal.
Xi summarized five main features of China’s modernization: a massive population, common prosperity for all, coordination of material, cultural and moral progress, harmony between humanity and nature, and nonviolent development. This definition of Chinese modernization is now even more accurate. Well idea out and achievable.
“He put a lot of ideas into modernization and put them into practice. Throughout his career, he has worked from the interior to the coastal regions and from the local to the central level. No matter where he has worked, Xi is an active reformer and innovator. “advancing modernization,” said David Ferguson, who edited 4 volumes of the English-language edition of “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China. “
The goals for 2023 are to lay a solid foundation for building a fashionable socialist country. The five years from 2023 are conceived as a phase.
The national legislature approved the government’s expansion target of about five percent by 2023, two percentage points above last year’s actual expansion. This means that China’s economic expansion in a single year is equivalent to the GDP of a medium-sized developed European country.
But China has a population of 1. 4 billion, which lowers the country’s progression rating in terms of figures consistent with capital. Explaining the 5% expansion target, Xi said that if China increases GDP consistently with capital to that of a middle-level evolved country through 2035, it is inconsistent with moderate expansion on the basis of obtaining better quality and efficiency. And China has the capacity to do so.
“High-quality progression is the main task of building a socialist country,” he said.
Almost all 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in mainland China had set higher expansion targets. Shanghai set its target at 5. 5%, while Xinjiang and Tibet set their targets at around 7% and more than 8%, respectively.
Wang Xiangming, a researcher at Renmin University of China, said a remarkable change in Chinese society after the 20th Party Congress is that other people have a stronger sense of economic development. . “
A major update is an update in the reaction to COVID-19. Over the past three years, China’s rigorous reaction measures have improved people’s lives and health. Last November, Xi chaired an assembly of Party leaders to adjust COVID-19 reaction measures. Three months later, China was declared victorious from the pandemic.
Kristalina Georgieva, head of the International Monetary Fund, said China’s optimization of its COVID-19 policy is likely to be the ultimate for global expansion in 2023.
Xi made his first departure from the city after the 20th Party Congress in the countryside. He visited an orchard in Nangou, Shaanxi province, and frankly asked fruit growers how much they can earn in a day, what their source of income was and how. Their families were doing.
“What are the techniques for picking apples?” asked, and he himself picked up a big red apple while farmer Zhao Yongdong showed it.
In front of an apple grading workshop in the village, other people gathered around Xi. “Their main fear is the livelihood of other people,” said Zhang Guanghong, a village executive.
Before the Spring Festival, Xi spoke to executives and others across the country via video call. He asked an executive in a village of the Qiang ethnic minority in Sichuan province about the number of tourists and their source of income. After Xi learned that the source of income consistent with the capita of the entire village exceeded 40,000 yuan last year, he exclaimed: “Not bad!
Wei Zhuo, a tourist, told Xi about his party in the village. In particular, he said, Sichuan-style salted red meat was delicious. “The secretary-general asked me to eat more,” Wei said. He cares a lot about rural progress and expanding people’s incomes. “
Xi told the cadres accompanying him that “the most arduous and not easy task of building a fashionable socialist country is in the countryside. “At the Central Conference on Rural Work at the end of 2022, he said that to strengthen the country, agriculture will first have to be strong, emphasizing that ensuring a solid and secure source of vital cereals and agricultural products is the top sensible priority.
Seeking facts from facts is a very costly precept for Chinese communists. Xi himself has set an intelligent example. Over the past decade, he has made over a hundred inspection trips to gain first-hand experience in the field.
Once, he left Beijing early in the morning and arrived in the evening in a mountainous region of southwest China in Chongqing. Sitting in the courtyard with the locals, he said, “I took a plane, an exercise and a car, alternating between 3 shipping modes to get here to meet you and listen to what you have to tell us. “
On another occasion, at a panel discussion on the “two sessions,” Xi said, “You officials cannot fool me down. I come from a poor domain and I know what it is. “
The “philosophy of new progression,” introduced by Xi in 2015, prioritizes innovation, coordination, progression, opening-up and sharing. He is expected to advise China’s modernization push.
Scientific and technological innovation is a priority. Xi suggested accelerating the speed of self-reliance and self-empowerment in this regard.
Zhang Jin, an NPC lawmaker and chairman of robotics company Xinsong, reminded Xi of the company a few months ago.
“In the workshop, he stopped at almost every step of the way and asked questions all the time, showing voluntary interest, especially in products developed through the company, such as cellular robots used in automotive meeting production lines and robotic arms in the chip production industry. . Zhang said.
In a verbal exchange with young engineers, Xi expressed pressure that independent innovation is for the transition of a country to a productive powerhouse. He raised the question of whether there were still many demanding technical situations that needed to be addressed urgently, and said it was imperative to announce clinical and technological self-reinforcement to solve “bottleneck problems,” some of which are caused by the Western technological blockade.
Xi has been continuously under pressure that reform will have to stick to the direction of the socialist market economy. In January, he sent a deputy prime minister to the World Economic Forum’s annual assembly in Davos, where the official announced that China would never again pursue a planned economy.
In February, a primary reform was introduced that involves the entire capital market, selling a formula based on the registration of the entire market market and percentage public issues, which favors a greater allocation of resources according to the mechanisms of the market place.
At the same time, Xi has implemented measures to avoid systemic risks in finance, real estate and local government debt.
It has under pressure over various events that China deserves to deepen the reform of state-owned assets and enterprises and continue the business environment for the personal sector.
In this year’s “two sessions,” Xi told personal marketers that the Party “has regarded personal enterprises and personal marketing specialists as its own people” and encouraged them to abandon their considerations and burdens and boldly pursue their development.
“I have supported personal enterprises,” said Mr. Xi, who has worked for more than 20 years in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, known for their colorful personal sector.
China’s private corporations continued to grow. According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, in 2012, non-state-owned enterprises accounted for only about 10% of the overall market price of China’s 100 most sensible listed corporations. However, by the end of 2022, this proportion had risen to more than 40%.
Xi said he plans to implement a new comprehensive reform measure this year. High-level openness will also be accelerated, adding through the active sale of adherence to high-level economic and industrial agreements, such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. (CPTPP) and the Digital Economic Partnership Agreement.
In 2021, China’s overall tariff point will be reduced to 7. 4%, according to the WTO’s 9. 8% commitment. The country plans to further reduce tariff rates for 62 data generation products, and the overall tariff point will be reduced by an additional 0. 1 percentage points.
There are visible signs that the economic recovery is accelerating. In February, China’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI) of production reached 52. 6 percent, a new record in just about 11 years. The economy is expected to stabilize and recover in the first quarter, and foreign investment expectations remain positive.
The Canton Fair plans to increase its exhibition booths to nearly 70,000 this year. to grow in scale.
From building a new socialist crusade to building a beautiful China, from artistic creation to cultural and moral advancement, Mr. Xi has made new arrangements covering all areas.
Xi, under pressure that achieving the wonderful rejuvenation of the Chinese country demands the complete reunification of the motherland, which is mandatory and feasible, and formulated a comprehensive strategy for the Taiwan issue.
In his speech before the conclusion of this year’s “two sessions,” Mr. Xi said external interference and separatist activities seeking “Taiwan independence” will have to be resolutely opposed, and firmly emphasized the progress of the national reunification process.
“Xi is an idealistic and pragmatic person. He is sober, practical, decisive, has a broad and systemic vision,” said an executive who worked with him in Zhejiang province in the early 2000s. “He’s in turning crises into opportunities,” and he can see a plan to the end. “
VILLAGE LEADER
Xi is not only for others, but also for them.
Working with rural farmers, he learned to grit his teeth while using manure and ignored the constant feeling of hunger while managing the land. These formative years taught him the true price of those overlooked members of society, leaving him with an herbal ability to stick and pay attention to other ordinary people to help them solve their problems.
He may have left the fields decades ago, but even as secretary-general he has not forgotten those who paint there or those who animate the country’s fundamental industries, from paint shops to markets. He remained committed to maintaining a public presence through non-public visits or correspondence.
During a visit to a Beijing hutong, the capital’s unique residential alleyways, Xi rolled up his sleeves to make dumplings with a family, and verbal exchange flowed. Before leaving, Xi said he drew his strength from those interactions.
Despite his busy schedule, Xi has prioritized other people’s happiness as essential. On more than one occasion, he said, “Development deserves to benefit all other people more equitably and completely, and often heralds the overall progress of others. “
Earlier this year, Xi was unanimously elected as a deputy of the 14th NPC in a competitive election in Jiangsu. He is just one of more than 2900 deputies elected across the country, representing the country’s colorful socio-economic diversity, from staff to farmers, technical professionals. to migrant staff.
On March 5, Xi joined other deputies from the Jiangsu provincial delegation in the NPC consultation to plan the government’s painting report and discuss state affairs.
Jiangsu’s deliberation was not the only assembly Xi attended in this year’s “two sessions,” nor the only time he interacted with lawmakers and political advisers.
From 2013 to 2022, Xi attended 53 deliberations and debate sessions, speaking directly to some 400 lawmakers and political advisers. Whether it’s to ask about the marriage rate of a disadvantaged village in central China or about the main points about the winter tourism industry in the northeast. Jilin Province of China, your questions are poignant and relevant.
People familiar with Chinese politics see such interactions as a manifestation of Chinese democracy. As a result, it is unexpected that Xi has earned a reputation for supporting public empowerment in his own affairs and encouraging his participation in political affairs.
“China is a big country. It is natural for other people to have other considerations or perspectives on the same topic. What happens is that we succeed in consensus through communication and consultation,” Xi said in his 2023 New Year’s speech.
In June 2022, China finalized the election of county and county people’s congresses. The election involved 1. 064 billion voters. It is one of the largest people’s democratic elections in the world.
The People’s Congress is the backbone of China’s political system, and NPC deputies have a wide variety of functions, in addition to law-making, oversight of government and judicial bodies, and election of national leaders.
Each of the country’s 55 ethnic minorities is represented in the national parliament. Dong Caiyun is a member of the Bao’an ethnic group, which has a population of about 20,000.
During the “two sessions” of 2019, he proposed a new path that would boost the progress of his county in northwest China’s Gansu province. Other members welcomed his proposal and Mr. Xi, who participated in the meeting, responded by asking the relevant departments to consider the proposal.
After a series of feasibility studies, the structure began. It is scheduled to be completed this year.
“This path represents my other friends’ aspirations for a fashionable life,” Dong said.
Quan Taiqi, who works at a bus station in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, ended her momentary term as a deputy in the national legislature. She voted for Xi to be China’s president five years ago.
“I supported him [as president] because he’s a trusted leader who really cares about people,” she said.
He recalled that Xi spoke in a deliberation years ago when he raised the issue of child passengers without tickets on buses, which could lead to overselling tickets. Xi spoke immediately, surprising Quan, as he thought the issue was too fast and subordinate to a head of state. Xi not only spoke, but also asked about the practice on trains as a reference. After the meeting, a review of the factor temporarily began, resulting in a practical plan.
“When Xi addressed us, the rank-and-file deputies, he was not condescending. He asked us, ‘Is that so?’Is he smart or not?'” recalls Quan.
During the “two sessions” in 2021, Quan met Xi again. She came to him and remembered their past interaction. However, the room was filled with people, but when he left, Xi said, “Let’s talk about it later. “Quan’s idea would be the end of their conversation, but around 11 p. m. That night, he won a call from Xi’s team, asking if he had any advice or problems to raise.
Xi believes that democracy is a requirement for fashionable countries, but that it will have to adjust to national conditions, and that Chinese democracy will in no way equal Western-style democracy. It describes Chinese democracy as a “comprehensive people’s democracy” covering all facets of democratic procedure and all sectors of society.
“The goal of democracy is to solve the disorders that require a solution through the people,” he said.
Challenges to the formula are tolerated.
According to a witness, at a plenary consultation of the anti-corruption firm in 2014, Xi discussed at length a case of vote-buying in the election of local legislators in Hunan. Visibly angry, Xi introduced an avalanche of questions: Where are the Party members?Where are their notions of the party camp and law?Where is your consciousness?
Xi subsequently raised the case on at least two other occasions. In the end, another 467 people were held accountable.
Observers have found China’s modernization practice complicated, especially given China’s large scale, unprecedented since Europe’s Industrial Revolution. Xi said even feeding more than 1. 4 billion people is an overwhelming challenge. Issues such as employment, distribution and education. , health care, housing, elderly care and childcare deserve not to be underestimated, especially given the length of the population.
Xi said advancing China’s modernization requires a new path of law-based governance. , Mr. Xi.
In a signed article commemorating the 40th anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the existing charter, Xi highlights the role of the charter in building a fashionable socialist country and the wonderful rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
On Monday, Xi and other NPC deputies voted to amend the law, adding content to announce the implementation of the constitution. In 2018, Xi was the first Chinese president to pledge allegiance to the constitution. Last week, after being elected, Xi was sworn in again, followed by members of his governing team.
DEFENDING PEACE, DEVELOPMENT
At this point last year, Xi returned to “offline” diplomatic activities after the “cloud diplomacy” that characterized the two-and-a-half-year pandemic.
In the past four months alone, Xi has attended the G20 summit in Bali, the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Bangkok, as well as the first China-Arab States Summit and the China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh.
On the sidelines of multilateral events, Xi also held bilateral meetings with leaders of dozens of countries, including France, the Netherlands, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq.
At home, Xi welcomed many foreign leaders and dignitaries to Beijing after the Party congress. Among the guests were leaders from Vietnam, Pakistan, Tanzania, Germany, Cuba, Mongolia, Laos, Russia, the Philippines, Iran and Belarus. scale in China, while others were “old friends”.
Over the past decade, Xi has made it clear that China will create new opportunities through progression and bring more stability and certainty to such a volatile world.
“As China develops, it will make a greater contribution to the world’s prosperity, which is not unusual,” Xi said.
During his meeting with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Riyadh in December, Xi spoke about the football World Cup hosted by Qatar, saying the occasion injects new and positive power into today’s world. Tamim thanked China for its contributions to the World Cup, noting that Chinese corporations built the main stadium and the arrival of two pandas added to the festive atmosphere of the tournament.
The stadium discussed through Tamim is Qatar’s Lusail Stadium, which hosted the last World Cup between Argentina and France. For many, it is an iconic achievement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The BRI, proposed through Xi in 2013, also helped Indonesia build its first high-speed railway. After the G20 summit in Bali, Xi and Indonesian President Joko Widodo observed the operational verification of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail video link. The railway, built jointly by the two countries, is expected to facilitate the movement of goods and other people and increase local income.
To date, 151 countries and 32 foreign organizations have signed Belt and Road documents to gain country advantages.
The port of Piraeus in Greece has one of the fastest developing container ports in the world since a Chinese company joined its operations.
Another vital proposal Xi put forward in 2013 is the long-term network shared by humanity. It has been enshrined in Party and country constitutions and incorporated into vital documents of the United Nations and other foreign organizations or multilateral mechanisms.
Xi told the G20 summit that all countries embrace the vision of a long-term network shared by mankind and advocate peace, progress and win-win cooperation.
“All countries will have to update the department with unity, confrontation with cooperation and exclusion with inclusion,” Mr. Xi said in his speech.
He also solemnly promised the world, “No matter what level of progression is reached, China will never seek hegemony or engage in expansionism. “
He believes that as long as large countries communicate and treat each other sincerely, the “Thucydides trap” can be avoided.
China has shown the world that one country can expand and progress without engaging in expansionism, and that other countries can expand simultaneously, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said in a signed article published ahead of his China stopover in February.
Reacting to Xi’s initiative, the Saudi and Iranian delegations held talks earlier this month in Beijing. The two countries reached an agreement to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies and missions within two months.
One of Xi’s highest-profile diplomatic caucuses in recent months was his first face-to-face meeting with American presidential Joe Biden since the latter took office. During the more than three-hour verbal exchange in Bali on Nov. 14, Xi told Biden that China-U. S. relations are not a zero-sum game in which one aspect competes or thrives at the expense of the other, and the successes of China and the US are not a zero-sum game. Be opportunities in the U. S. be opportunities, not challenges, for each other.
“China seeks to replace the existing foreign order or interfere in U. S. internal affairs and is not aimed at challenging or displacing the United States,” Xi said.
Biden said the U. S. respects the Chinese formula and does not seek to replace it. The United States does not seek a new Cold War and does not seek to revitalize alliances opposed to China, he said. Biden also said the United States does not seek “Taiwan independence. “, it does not say “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan” and does not aim to conflict with China.
Meeting European leaders, Xi said that when it comes to the Ukraine crisis, China supports ceasefire, cessation of fighting and peace talks.
In February, China released a 12-point peace plan on the Ukraine crisis, which states that the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all countries should be well respected and foreign law universally identified, adding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. , will have to be strictly observed. ” No nuclear weapons will have to be used, and nuclear wars will not have to be fought,” the policy document says.
Xi is a leader who provides vision and plans to promote solving major upheavals facing humanity, said Keith Bennett, a longtime China expert and vice chairman of Britain’s 48 Group Club.
PIONEERING HUMAN ADVANCEMENT
When Xi delivered his 2023 New Year’s speech, other people saw the volumes on the shelf he had in his office, adding General History of China, Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty, Global History, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Having called to read his favorite pastime, Xi is known for drawing wisdom from the written word to rule the country.
After the Party congress, Xi visited central China’s Henan province and visited the ruins of Yinxu. The 3,300-year-old site, the capital of the past Shang (Yin) Dynasty, and the first showed ruins dating from this period. Slowly entering the Yinxu Museum, Xi thoroughly tested the exhibits, covering bronze objects, jade objects, oracle bone inscriptions and other relics.
“I’ve wanted to be here for so long,” Xi said. I come here thirsting for a deeper understanding of Chinese civilization so that we can put the afterlife at the service of supply and gain inspiration to build a more modern Chinese civilization. “. “
With a long and unbroken history, China’s civilization has our wonderful country, and this country will remain wonderful, he added. Xi, who called for efforts to promote classical culture, which the leader said is the “root” of Party culture. New theories.
Xi proposed combining the fundamental principles of Marxism with classical culture, saying that when a country’s modernization is rooted in the fertile soil of its history and culture, it can flourish and endure.
In 2014, Xi said he was reluctant to see classical Chinese poems and essays removed from textbooks on his scale at Peking Normal University. In November 2013, he made a stopover in Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius, and the following year he turned to a foreigner. Commemoration of the ancient Chinese philosopher. In 2021, when he stopped at a park dedicated to Zhu Xi in east China’s Fujian province, Xi paused for a long time before the words of the prominent Chinese Confucian philosopher of the twelfth century. Zhu said a country is based on its people, and society is also established to gain advantages from its people. Xi, in a previous organization, examined the consultation of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, quoted Zhu as saying, and emphasized that no political attention is more vital than people.
Xi has lamented the humiliation and defeat suffered by the Chinese nation, despite its position at the forefront of the world for the past 5,000 years.
In particular, he said China’s modernization has achieved significant effects “at a wonderful cost and with wonderful difficulty. “Under pressure that China will have to chart its own path to modernization. Experts say that Chinese modernization, which gives a new way of human being progress, dispels the myth that “modernization is equivalent to Westernization. “Xi said efforts should be made to achieve a power above capitalism while maintaining equity in society.
According to Zheng Yongnian, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China’s modernization is a way to solve the disorders faced by all countries. First and foremost, the source of its energy is basically sustainable economic development, he said.
British researcher Martin Jacques believes that if China succeeds in addressing inequality the way it triumphed over absolute poverty, a fairer and more inclusive modernity will have a massive global impact.
Xi is proud and confident of the achievements and clients of the modernization campaign. He once said, “China is capable of looking the world in the eye,” referring to the country’s rise. However, this does not mean the search for unilateral agreements. domination, much less a clash of civilizations. He cited the famous “sleeping lion” metaphor for China and noted, “Today the lion woke up. But it’s peaceful, charming and civilized. “
China is under pressure not to follow in the footsteps of some countries that have modernized through war, colonization and plunder, and China supports peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit, which are decided through China’s formula and culture.
A word containing “promoting the shared values of humanity: peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom” written in the Party’s letter last year.
Xi also modestly proposed that socialism at the number one level conscientiously examine and take credit for the favorable achievements of civilization created through capitalism. “The cause of selling China’s modernization, which is a pioneering and unprecedented effort, will inevitably face all kinds of risks, challenges, difficulties and even damaging storms, some of which we may be waiting for and some of which we may not,” Xi said. “Let us exploit our indomitable fighting spirit to open new horizons to our cause.
“Those who paint will triumph, and those who walk will reach their destination. An action user will leave a clever call in the story,” he said.