Bandung Spirit is still needed today

President Xi Jinping's speech, delivered at the Asian African Summit in Jakarta on Wednesday, marks China's latest contribution to Asian-African cooperation. It will also inject new vitality into the time-honored Bandung Spirit.

Sixty years after the birth of the Bandung Spirit, which features solidarity, friendship and cooperation, the principles it upholds are still relevant today. Peaceful co-existence and win-win cooperation should continue to guide international efforts to build a new type of nation-to-nation relationship and a more balanced international order.

Xi put forward a three-point proposal in deepening Asia-Africa, South-South and North-South cooperation so that developing and developed countries can all join hands in the building of a community of common destiny for all mankind.