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BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

each year on average. In the coming five years, China will import US$8
trillion of goods, attract US$600 billion of foreign investment, make
US$750 billion of outbound investment, and Chinese tourists will
make 700 million outbound visits. All this will bring more development
opportunities to the countries of the world.
China pursues a path of development in keeping with its national
conditions. We always put the rights and interests of the people above
everything else and have worked hard to advance and uphold human
rights. China has seen the basic living needs of its 1.3 billion-plus people
met and helped lift over 700 million people out of poverty. These stand
as significant contributions to the global cause of human rights.
The Belt and Road Initiative I have put forward aims to achieve
development with mutually beneficial outcomes to be shared by all. Over
100 countries and international organizations have so far supported
the Initiative, and a large number of “early harvest” projects have been
launched. In order to provide more public goods to the international
community, China is providing support to ensure the successful
operation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other new
multilateral financial institutions.
Third, China remains unchanged in its commitment to foster
partnerships. China pursues an independent foreign policy of peace, and
is ready to enhance friendship and cooperation with all other countries
on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. China is the
first country to make partnership-building a principle guiding state-to-
state relations. It has formed partnerships of various forms with over 90
countries and regional organizations. It seeks to foster a circle of friends
that links every corner of the globe.
China will endeavor to put in place a framework for major-country
relations based on general stability and balanced development. We will
strive to build a new model of major-country relations with the United
States, a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination with
Russia, a partnership with the EU based on peace, growth, reform, and
civilization, and a partnership of unity and cooperation with BRICS
countries. China will continue to uphold the right approach to justice and
the pursuit of interests, and it will boost practical cooperation with other
developing countries to achieve common development. We will further

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