Beijing ready to share governance experiences

China assumed the BRICS' chair on Jan 1, 2017, and will play host to the upcoming 9th BRICS Summit. The year of China's chairmanship also marks the beginning of the second decade of BRICS cooperation.

For the city of Xiamen in East China's Fujian province, this year is one of "double happiness", as it will host the BRICS Summit less than two months after its Gulangyu Island was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

We earnestly hope that BRICS cooperation will bring us good luck. But only good luck is not enough to achieve success; it needs great efforts, too. And true to their word, China and other member states have lent firm support to BRICS to not only strengthen its structure but also to help it deliver vigorous, better results. As Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a news conference during the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in Beijing in June, the BRICS cooperation mechanism, beating the odds, has shown strong vitality during the past 10 years.