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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

around the world. I would like to use this opportunity to share with you
our ideas.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,
Throughout the ages, to live happy and better lives, has always been
the dream toward which humankind has striven. Over the millennia,
we have built splendid civilizations. But war and conflict have also been
unceasing. Together with natural disasters, diseases, and plagues, they
have inflicted untold suffering on humankind and extracted a painful
price. Today, the rapid development of the Internet, big data, cloud
computing, quantum satellites, and artificial intelligence, has connected
the lives of human beings more closely than ever before. At the same
time, we are also confronted with global challenges hitherto unseen
in number, scale, and severity. The future and fate of the peoples of
countries around the world are increasingly intertwined.
Confronted with such a situation, humankind has two options.
The first is to resort to vicious competition or even armed conflict in
a scramble for power and profit — an option which could well result
in a catastrophic crisis. The other is for people to follow the trend of
our time and work collectively to meet challenges by engaging in global
collaboration. This would in turn create favorable conditions for building
a human community with a shared future. We must grasp this historic
opportunity, make the right choice, and work together to create an even
brighter future for humankind.
The Chinese nation is blessed with a long history and a splendid
civilization, but in modern times it has experienced unspeakable
suffering. Instead of capitulating to fate, the Chinese people chose to
rise up in defiance and to engage in a tireless pursuit of progress. After a
long struggle, we are now on the pathway to national rejuvenation.
History shows that what has sustained the growth of this ancient
nation right up to this day, what has driven the continuous development
of our civilization for over 5,000 years, is the cultural genes that course
through the veins of the Chinese people. Since ancient times, the
Chinese have believed that “all under Heaven are of one family”; we have
advocated “affinity between all people and all creatures,” “peace among

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