Title: Leading Asia-Pacific open cooperation and continuing to write a new chapter of common development
Xinhua News Agency reporter
The 32nd APEC Leaders’ Informal Meeting concluded recently. President Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered an important speech, putting forward a series of important proposals on promoting regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, leading open cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and demonstrating the responsibility of a major country.
For more than 30 years since its birth, APEC has led the Asia-Pacific region at the forefront of global openness and development, helping the Asia-Pacific become the main growth engine of the world economy. At a time when the multilateral trading system has been severely impacted and unstable and uncertain factors are increasing, the Asia-Pacific region is faced with a choice of where to go, and Asia-Pacific cooperation is facing the test of retreat if it does not advance.
“It is difficult for those who work alone to succeed, but it is easy for those who work together.” China has always been an active advocate and leader of Asia-Pacific cooperation. At the first phase of the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, emphasizing that we must adhere to APEC's original intention of promoting economic growth and improving people's well-being, adhere to sharing opportunities and achieve win-win results in open development, promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization, and build an Asia-Pacific community. The stronger the storm, the more important it is to stay together. China's proposition of "holding hands" rather than "letting go" and "extending the chain" rather than "breaking the chain" has aroused widespread resonance among all parties and built a consensus on unity and cooperation. The "2025 APEC Leaders' Gyeongju Declaration" calls for strengthening cooperation and taking concrete actions to promote economic growth and ensure benefits for everyone.
How to develop together and share prosperity? President Xi Jinping put forward the "Five Commons" from a high position, that is, jointly safeguarding the multilateral trading system, jointly creating an open regional economic environment, jointly maintaining the stability and smoothness of industrial and supply chains, jointly promoting the digitalization and greenization of trade, and jointly promoting inclusive and inclusive development. How to seize new opportunities and build a sustainable tomorrow? President Xi Jinping put forward three suggestions: strengthening digital intelligence empowerment, adhering to green and low carbon, and implementing inclusive and beneficial sharing. These important propositions systematically summarize the successful experience of Asia-Pacific development, conform to the development trend of the times, effectively counteract the anti-globalization rhetoric, point out the path for the Asia-Pacific region to work together and achieve integrated development, and encourage all parties to have confidence in adhering to multilateralism and free trade, and maintaining an open economy. Ryu Ji-won, dean of the Korea-China Relations Institute at Wonkwang University in South Korea, said that these suggestions put forward by President Xi Jinping provide a practical roadmap for the vision of building an Asia-Pacific community and are of far-reaching significance.
“If you want to stand up for yourself, you must stand up for others; if you want to reach yourself, you must help others.” As a responsible member of the Asia-Pacific family, China has always shared opportunities and common development with the Asia-Pacific and the world. Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concluded successfully and reviewed and approved the “15th Five-Year Plan” planning recommendations. During this visit, President Xi Jinping authoritatively explained the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee through various forms of meetings, public speeches, and written speeches, emphasizing that China will take this opportunity to further comprehensively deepen reforms, unswervingly expand high-level opening up, and continue to provide new opportunities for the Asia-Pacific and the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization. In a written speech to the APEC Business Leaders Summit, President Xi Jinping emphasized that China can provide the global business community with more development opportunities, a good business environment, a broad stage for innovation, and conditions for green growth, and is an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination. President Xi Jinping’s incisive remarks and policy declarations not only send a strong signal that China will unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world, but also send a sincere invitation to the world for mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation. Hiroshi Shiratori, a professor at Hosei University in Japan, said that this demonstrates China’s responsibility to promote common development of the world through Chinese-style modernization.
China’s development is inseparable from the Asia-Pacific and will further benefit the Asia-Pacific. As the host of APEC in 2026, China will work with all parties to adhere to open development, mutual benefit and win-win results, jointly make the pie of Asia-Pacific cooperation bigger, build an Asia-Pacific community, and write a new chapter in Asia-Pacific development.
