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BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

facilitate talks for peace, and we should all respect the role of the UN
as the main channel for mediation. The alarm has been sounded for
international health security by pandemic diseases such as bird flu, Ebola
virus, and Zika virus. It is important that the WHO plays a leading role
in strengthening epidemic monitoring and the sharing of information,
practices, and technologies. The international community should step up
support and assistance for public health in African countries and other
developing countries.
We should build a world of common prosperity through mutually
beneficial cooperation. The idea that development is the top priority
is applicable to all countries. Instead of beggaring thy neighbor,
countries should stick together like travellers in the same boat. All
countries, the main economies in particular, should strengthen macro
policy coordination, pursue both current and long-term interests, and
focus on resolving deep-seated problems. We should seize the historic
opportunity presented by the new round of scientific and technological
revolution and industrial transformation, transform our growth models,
drive growth through innovation, and unlock greater social productivity
and social creativity. We should uphold WTO rules, support an open,
transparent, inclusive, and nondiscriminatory multilateral trading regime,
and build an open world economy. Trade protectionism and self-isolation
will benefit no one.
Economic globalization is an inevitable historical trend that has
greatly facilitated trade, investment, the flow of people, and technological
advancement. Since the turn of the century, and under the guidance of
the UN, the international community has capitalized on the wave of
economic globalization to set the Millennium Development Goals and
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These initiatives have
helped lift 1.1 billion people out of poverty, provide access to safe drinking
water for 1.9 billion people, ensure access to the Internet for 3.5
billion people, and we now are on course to eradicate extreme poverty
by 2030. All this demonstrates that economic globalization is moving
in the right direction. Of course, challenges such as the development
disparity, governance dilemma, digital divide, and equity deficit are also
objective realities. But they are growing pains. We should squarely face
these problems and come up with solutions, instead of succumbing to

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