Forum focuses on shared future for all

Editor's note: Luminaries from home and abroad in a wide range of fields are exchanging views on how to build a community with a shared future for mankind at the fifth annual conference of the Taihu World Cultural Forum being held in Beijing, Wednesday to Friday. The following are excepts of the views of three participants:

Progress through cooperation

The world is experiencing complicated and profound changes and the futures of all countries are connected more than ever before. But the world is also faced with a choice of whether to keep the old international order or to transition to a new type of international relations.