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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

keep expanding our common interests. We should strengthen South-
South cooperation and North-South dialogue, promote greater balance
in the development of developing and developed countries, and
cement the foundations needed for sustaining stable global economic
growth. We need to work actively to create more opportunities for
cooperation, elevate the level of cooperation, and enable the dividends
of development to be of greater benefit to the people of all countries, to
contribute more to global growth.
Fourth, we need to remain open and inclusive, creating broad
space for promoting common development. An ocean is vast because it
welcomes hundreds of rivers. We should respect the right of a country to
choose independently its social system and development path, eradicate
distrust and misgivings, and turn the world’s diversity and the differences
of countries into dynamism and a driving force for development. We
should keep an open mind, learn from the development of other regions,
share development resources, and promote regional cooperation.
During the first decade or so of the new century, trade within Asia
has increased from US$800 billion to US$3 trillion, and Asia’s trade
with other regions has grown from US$1.5 trillion to US$4.8 trillion.
This shows that cooperation in Asia is open, that cooperation within
Asia and Asian cooperation with other regions go hand in hand with no
discordance, and that everyone stands to benefit from such cooperation.
We should welcome countries from outside of Asia to play a constructive
role in ensuring the stability and development of the region. At the same
time, countries from outside Asia should respect the diversity of our
continent and our long-standing traditions of cooperation. With this we
will foster a positive state of play in which Asian development and that
of other regions reinforce and progress in concert with each other.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,
China is an important member of both the Asian and the global
family. China cannot achieve development in isolation from the rest of
Asia or the world. For Asia and the world to enjoy prosperity and stability
they too need China.
In November last year, the Communist Party of China held its 18th

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