Key figures address global challenges

Vital insights given on building community with shared future for mankind

Editor's Note: On the sidelines of the Taihu World Cultural Forum in Beijing last week, China Daily's Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Zhou Shuchun hosted a cultural dialogue between prominent international political figures at the Palace Museum. They discussed global challenges and shared their views and insights about possible solutions.

Amid growing global challenges, China's solution of building a community with a shared future for mankind conforms to common aspirations for a better world, international political figures said.

Ali Ahmedov, deputy prime minister of Azerbaijan; former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi; former Polish president Bronisław Komorowski; and former Egyptian prime minister Essam Abdelaziz Ahmed Sharaf called for concerted efforts from the international community to improve the global governance system to cope with rising uncertainties and instability.

The notion of building a community with a shared future for mankind is important as people worldwide face common challenges and have common desires for better lives, Ahmedov said.

The notion is a direction for countries to make joint efforts to achieve a common goal, he added.

Rooted in Chinese civilization, the notion was proposed by President Xi Jinping in March 2013 during a speech at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Together with the idea of building a new type of international relations featuring win-win cooperation, the notion constitutes the main pillar of China's foreign policy.

Xi proposed a vision that takes into account the interests of all countries and enables people to jointly work for world peace, stability and common prosperity, Ahmedov said.

In February last year, the vision was written into resolutions of the UN Security Council by a unanimous vote.

It was enshrined by the Communist Party of China into its Constitution in October last year at the Party's 19th National Congress, and was written into China's Constitution at the annual session of the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, in March.

Observers said this shows China's commitment to the world to promote building a community with a shared future for mankind and an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security and common prosperity.