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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

There is a saying in China that goes: “The fire burns brightest when
everyone adds wood.” China stands ready to pursue shared development
and common prosperity with all other countries. It will continue to
follow a win-win strategy of opening up, put justice first in the pursuit of
our interests, develop an open economy, and comprehensively strengthen
and expand mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries. We will
never seek benefit at the expense of others.
China’s development is an important opportunity for the world.
China is accelerating informatization, urbanization, agricultural
modernization, and the new model of industrialization, creating many
new growth areas in the process. With over 1.3 billion people, China’s
market has unfathomable potential. Our efforts to restructure the
economy and upgrade industries will generate enormous demand. It
is estimated that over the next five years, China will import more than
US$10 trillion of goods and invest more than US$500 billion overseas,
while Chinese tourists will make over 500 million overseas visits. All
this will provide a broader market, more ample capital, more plentiful
products, and more valuable cooperation opportunities for our partners
in the region and around the world.
Third, China will not waver in its resolve to pursue a policy of
promoting cooperation and development in the Asia Pacific. The Asia
Pacific is home to China. Without peace and prosperity in the region,
China’s stability and development are not guaranteed. The enormous
success that China has achieved over more than three decades of reform
and opening up has resulted not only from our own efforts, but also
from an open and inclusive Asia Pacific region. It is China’s sincere wish
to work with other countries in the region to bake a larger pie of benefits
and make sure that everybody gets a piece.
China remains committed to building friendly relations and
partnerships with its neighbors. We practice the principles of amity,
sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness, advocate a new vision of
common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security in Asia,
and strive to deliver more benefits to our neighbors and other countries
in the Asia Pacific through our own development. China will work with
other countries to make good use of platforms such as APEC, EAS, and
ARF, push the RCEP negotiations to conclude on schedule, and speed

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