Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a heartfelt congratulatory letter to the 2024 Understanding China Conference, which commenced on Tuesday in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. The conference, themed “Carry Through the Reform to the End – Chinese Modernization and New Opportunities for World Development“, brought together scholars, policymakers, and business leaders from around the globe to explore China’s evolving role in the international arena.
In his letter, President Xi highlighted the significance of understanding China’s comprehensive efforts to deepen reform in advancing Chinese modernization. “To understand China, one needs to understand China’s efforts to further deepen reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization,” he emphasized.
President Xi outlined China’s commitment to building a high-standard socialist market economy at a faster pace. He noted that China is steadily expanding institutional opening up, taking the initiative to align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, and actively fostering a transparent, stable, and predictable institutional environment.
He affirmed that the Chinese modernization endeavor meets the aspirations of 1.4 billion people for a better life and will contribute to world peace and development. “The Chinese modernization endeavor meets the aspiration of 1.4 billion people for a better life and will make new and greater contributions to world peace and development,” Xi said.
Addressing the rapidly unfolding changes unseen in a century, President Xi acknowledged that countries around the world face new risks and challenges, as well as new development opportunities and prospects. He expressed China’s readiness to work with other nations to create an enabling environment and conditions for development, tackle difficulties and challenges, and facilitate the modernization of all countries featuring peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity.
“China looks forward to working with all other countries to create an enabling environment and conditions for development, tackle the many difficulties and challenges, and facilitate the modernization of all countries featuring peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity,” Xi stated, aiming to write a new chapter in building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The Understanding China Conference was co-hosted by the China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy, the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, and the Guangdong provincial government. The event serves as a platform for international dialogue on China’s development strategies and offers insights into the nation’s future trajectory.
Reference(s):
Xi sends congratulatory letter to Understanding China Conference
cgtn.com