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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

our people.
Asian stability needs all of us on board to protect it and resolve
major issues. Stability in Asia now faces new challenges. As one flashpoint
is abated another arises and both traditional and non-traditional security
threats are apparent. Achieving lasting stability in our region, calls for all
Asian countries to strengthen mutual trust and work together.
Asian cooperation calls for building on past successes and making
further progress. Our mechanisms and initiatives for strengthening
cooperation in Asia are many, and ideas from different parties for
boosting cooperation abound. To balance different sides’ interests
and create mechanisms able to ensure that everyone benefits we need
to increase mutual understanding, build consensus, make the content
covered more concrete, and deepen cooperation.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,
Humankind has only one Earth; our world is shared by all countries.
That our development is common development is an important
foundation for making it sustainable. This serves the long-term and
fundamental interests of the people of all the world’s countries. As
members of the same global village, we should foster a firm awareness
of our being a community with a shared future; we should go with the
tide of our time, move in the right direction, and stick together when
things are tough, to drive development in Asia and the rest of the world
to the next level.
First, we need to have the courage to seek change and innovation,
creating an endless source of energy to drive common development.
Over the years, where maintaining stability and promoting growth is
concerned, different countries and regions have gained much experience
and developed many good practices. This experience and these practices
should continue to be employed and expanded on. But at the same
time, nothing in the world remains perpetually static. We have a saying
in China: “The wise change with the times and the erudite change with
the way of the world.” We need to abandon old ways of thinking
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that today are out of place, break out of those old boxes that confine
development, and unleash all sources of potential for development. We

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