Diplomacy in the new era full of vitality

At the recent Foreign Ministry's annual meeting in Beijing, which was attended by a group of Chinese diplomats posted abroad, President Xi Jinping elaborated on "major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era" and how to advance it.

The world is undergoing great changes, giving rise to unprecedented opportunities and challenges. The rapid rise of a number of emerging-market and developing economies has accelerated the process of multilateralism and furthered the development of the world order in a balanced manner.

On the domestic front, China's principal contradiction has changed from that between the ever-growing material and cultural needs of the people and backward social production to one between the "unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life".