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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

added, high-tech industries will also continue to account for a bigger
share; and new consumer trends and growth areas will keep on emerging.
In the next five years, it is projected that China will import over US$10
trillion of goods, make over US$500 billion of investment overseas, and
see over 500 million Chinese tourists travelling abroad.
The ancient philosopher Laozi believed that, “A big country should
be like the lower reaches of a river.” In other words, just as a river’s
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lower reaches welcome all tributaries, a big country should adopt an
attitude of inclusiveness. China wishes, in an open and inclusive way, to
strengthen dialogue and communication with the rest of the world and
to listen with an open mind to the voices of others. We hope that time
will dispel prejudice and misunderstanding. We also hope that the world
can see China more objectively, within a historical context, and without
missing its many dimensions, to be able to genuinely understand China
fully, accurately, and as a whole.
China’s development will never be pursued at the expense of
the interests of another country. We will, categorically, not be taking
any measures that benefit ourselves by harming others or that could
be described as beggar-thy-neighbor policies. With the greater good
of world peace and development as our point of departure, we will
contribute Chinese ideas on handling contemporary international
relations, offer Chinese solutions for improving global governance, and
do our bit to respond to the different challenges faced by humanity in
the 21st century.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,
The Chinese and the German nations are two great nations, and
have each made important contributions to the progress of human
civilization. Germany is not only known the world over for its advanced
science and technology and modern manufacturing, it has also produced
a great many luminaries of philosophy, literature, and music. A lot of
their works are familiar to the Chinese people. The poems and literary
works of Goethe, Schiller, and Heine, the philosophy of Leibniz, Kant,
Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Heidegger, and Marcuse, and the enchanting
melodies of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, to name but a

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