Page 1 - ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

EDITOR’S NOTE

Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has upheld the belief
that “all under Heaven are of one family” and has advocated the
ideas of peace among all nations and harmony under Heaven. The
Communist Party of China (CPC) regards making new and greater
contributions to humanity as its abiding mission. Since the CPC’s
18th National Congress in November 2012, Xi Jinping has called for
the building of a human community with a shared future. As General
Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People’s
Republic of China, and the highest military leader of China, Xi
Jinping has put forward this concept from the perspective of humankind’s
development throughout history. It is based on the profound changes in
the international situation, on the trend of our times toward peace,
development, cooperation, and mutual benefit, and on an in-
depth reflection of the major questions concerning the future of
humanity, namely what kind of world should we build and how
should we build it.
The concept reflects the shared values of humankind — peace,
development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom; and it embodies
the aspirations for peace, development, and prosperity, which
represent the common interests of the people of all countries. In
February 2017, the concept of building a community of shared future
for mankind was written into a United Nations resolution for the first
time. Later, it was also included in UN Security Council Resolution
2344 (2017) and the resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council’s
34th and 37th sessions.
This book is a collection of translations of 85 articles and
speeches written by Xi Jinping since 2012. The purpose of the
book is to help readers gain a clearer understanding of President
Xi’s thinking on building a human community with a shared future.