At the time of spring and the bright scenery, President Xi Jinping is about to start his first visit this year: from April 14 to 18, state visits to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia.

This is a highly anticipated neighboring diplomatic action in China at a time when the world has undergone accelerating its changes in the century.

This important visit is of great significance not only to promote the overall development of China's relations with Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and China-ASEAN, but will also inject new impetus into peaceful development in the region and even the world.

(I) "Being faithful and cultivating harmony and harmony among all nations is the basic connotation of China's neighboring diplomacy"

Being faithful and cultivating harmony and being kind to neighbors is the consistent way of dealing with Chinese civilization. China has a long history of friendly exchanges with neighboring countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia.

The geographical and cultural differences are similar, and China's exchanges with the three countries are as cordial as visiting neighbors. President Xi Jinping's visit to Vietnam will achieve another mutual visit between the general secretaries of the two parties of China and Vietnam; last year, the highest head of state of Malaysia and the prime minister visited China respectively; the friendship story of the leaders of China and Cambodia is well-known in both countries...

Friendly hope for the good deeds, and neighbors hope for the good deeds. The head of state diplomacy guides the direction of diplomacy, and the common meeting and movement between neighbors reflects the consistent practice of neighborhoods. President Xi Jinping's first visit to the Southeast Asian countries was not only a vivid continuation of the history of long-term friendly exchanges, but also a response to the common desire to strengthen mutual friendly cooperation under the new situation.

"China and Vietnam are socialist friendly neighbors and strategic community of shared future" "China and Malaysia are not only good neighbors across the sea, but also like-minded friends and good partners for joint development." "China and Cambodia have a strong friendship, which is fully in line with the common interests of the people of both countries"... President Xi Jinping has repeatedly highly praised China's friendly friendship between visits to the three countries.

President Xi Jinping pointed out that "confidence and peace and harmony are the basic connotations of China's neighboring diplomacy." Since the new era, the concept of friendly, sincere, favorable and inclusive neighboring countries has promoted the rapid development of China's relations with neighboring countries. At present, China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, have reached a consensus on building a community with a shared future at the bilateral level. The diplomacy of the head of state has once again opened the Southeast Asian chapter, and the construction of a bilateral community of shared future between China and the three countries will also open up a new situation.

(II) "Achieve national stability and people's happiness is our common goal"

Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia are all member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

President Xi Jinping once profoundly pointed out: "China and ASEAN countries have similar historical experiences, and achieving national stability and people's happiness is our common goal."

Similar experiences deepen mutual understanding; common goals lead common efforts. In the past 30 years since China established dialogue relations with ASEAN, the cooperation between the two sides has become one of the most dynamic and fruitful cooperation models in the Asia-Pacific region and even the world.

Looking at the overall situation, China-ASEAN cooperation has entered the "fast lane" - the two sides have been each other's largest trading partners for many years, the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone 3.0 upgrade protocol is expected to be signed within the year, and digital empowerment and green development have become an emerging field for China to help ASEAN countries transform and develop;

In terms of countries, China and other countries have achieved "acceleration" - the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative is connected with Vietnam's "two corridors and one circle" strategy In-depth promotion, the construction of Malaysia's East Coast Railway and "two countries and two parks" has achieved good economic and social effects, and the construction of China-Cambodia's "Industrial Development Corridor" and "Fish-Rice Corridor" has made positive progress...

President Xi Jinping's trip to Southeast Asia will not only inject new impetus into China's deepening of pragmatic cooperation with Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, but will also make the road of China-ASEAN cooperation more steadily and vigorously, and move forward hand in hand towards the common vision of realizing modernization.

(III) "Together write a new chapter in promoting the building of an Asian community with a shared future and a community with a shared future for mankind"

Asia is the most vibrant and potential region in the world, and peace, cooperation, openness and inclusion are the common values ​​of Asia.

As the birthplace of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, Asia today is facing an increasingly turbulent world, and its understanding and recognition of shared destiny is becoming more and more profound. More and more neighboring countries realize that Asia's prosperity is due to regional countries' insistence on independence, self-reliance, unity and self-reliance, and it also requires regional countries to work together and maintain it together.

People travelled are reflected in the 17 neighboring countries including Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia that have successively reached consensus with China on building a community of shared future, and are reflected in the vigorous development of regional cooperation mechanisms such as East Asia cooperation, Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, China-Central Asia Cooperation, and Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

At present, my country's relationship with its surrounding areas is at its best period since modern times, and it has also entered an important stage of in-depth linkage between the surrounding landscape and the changes in the world. The Central Peripheral Work Conference pointed out that the periphery is "the key to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind."

When spring is full of joy, looking at the beginning of the diplomatic relations between Chinese heads of state this year, we feel the profound meaning: the first foreign head of state visit to China this year comes from Asia; the first home diplomacy after the Spring Festival is the gathering of Asian countries in the Asian Winter Conference in Harbin; since the beginning of the year, President Xi Jinping has held meetings with many leaders of Asian countries...

Good neighborly and friendly, and everyone will go far. All parties look forward to and believe that President Xi Jinping's trip to Southeast Asia will effectively promote China to deepen friendly cooperation with neighboring countries, including the three countries, and "jointly write a new chapter in promoting the building of an Asian community with a shared future and a community with a shared future for mankind."

Planning: Zhang Xiaosong

Editor: Yang Yijun

Chief editor: Feng Xinran, Liu Yang

Visual: Zhu Siming, Zhang Huihui

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