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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

the jungle, not the way that countries interact with each other. Those
who always brandish their guns in aggression will only end up shooting
themselves in the foot.
We should cast aside the Cold War mentality in all its forms, and
foster a new vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and
sustainable security. We must allow the United Nations and the Security
Council to play their central role in preventing war and maintaining
peace, and bury the hatchet in various conflicts through the two-track
approach of peaceful dispute resolution and mandatory action. We
should advance international cooperation in both the economic and
social domains and take a holistic approach to addressing traditional and
non-traditional security threats in order to prevent conflicts and disasters
before they even emerge.
We should pursue open, innovative, inclusive, and mutually
beneficial development.
The 2008 international financial crisis has taught us that allowing
capital to pursue profit in an unbridled manner can only lead to further
crisis, and that global prosperity cannot be built on the shaky foundation
of a market that is ethically lacking. The growing gap between rich and
poor is both unsustainable and unfair. We must make good use of both
the visible hand and the invisible hand to form synergy between the
functions of the government and the market, and create a new standard
under which equal emphasis is placed on efficiency and fairness.
Truly positive development is that which is inclusive and sustainable.
To achieve such development, we should carry forward the spirit of
openness, offer help to each other, and promote mutually beneficial
cooperation. In the world today, there are still 800 million people living
in extreme poverty. Nearly six million children die before the age of five
each year, and close to 60 million children have no access to education.
The Post-2015 Development Agenda was formulated at the recently
concluded UN Sustainable Development Summit. We must translate our
commitments into actions and work together to ensure that everyone is
free from want, can achieve growth, and lives with dignity.
We should encourage intercultural exchanges that promote tolerance
and harmony amid diversity.
Cultural diversity makes the world more colorful. Diversity brings

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