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2021 Understanding China Conference (Guangzhou) Successfully Held
2021-12-06
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2021 Understanding China Conference (Guangzhou), co-hosted by the China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS), the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA), the People’s Government of Guangdong Province, and organized by the People’s Government of Guangzhou Municipality, was successfully held from December 1 to 4 in Guangzhou. On Dec. 2, Chinese President Xi Jinping made the remarks when delivering a speech via video at the opening ceremony in Beijing.
The world is experiencing changes unseen in a century which, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, have brought the world into a period of fluidity and transformation, Xi said in the speech.
It is all the more important for us to exchange views, have more interactions and cooperation, and contribute our wisdom and strengths to a joint response to global challenges at such a juncture, he noted.
It is all the more important for us to exchange views, have more interactions and cooperation, and contribute our wisdom and strengths to a joint response to global challenges at such a juncture, he noted.
“As I have pointed out, ‘To understand China today, one must learn to understand the CPC’,” Xi said.
Noting this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, Xi said that the CPC has rallied and led the Chinese people in making unremitting efforts that have fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people and exerted a profound impact on the course of world history over the past century.
Not long ago, the sixth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee was successfully concluded with the adoption of the Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century, he said, adding that going forward, the CPC will draw strength from history, forge ahead for a better future, stay true to its founding mission, and rally and lead the Chinese people on a new journey toward building a modern socialist country.
The Party will always put the people first, commit to its fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people, follow a people-centered philosophy of development, promote well-rounded human development and common prosperity for all, and better meet the Chinese people’s aspiration for a better life, Xi said, adding that the CPC will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development and opening-up to the world, work for a community with a shared future for mankind, and promote humanity’s common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom.
“The CPC will always be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development and a defender of the international order, and strive to make new and greater contributions to the progress of human civilization and to world peace and development,” Xi said.
Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of CPC Central Committee, attended the conference and delivered an opening speech via spot connection at the opening ceremony in Beijing. Li Xi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Secretary of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, attended the conference and delivered an opening speech. Wang Chao, President of the CPIFA, attended the conference, spoke at the welcome dinner and the Guangzhou gala. Li Huilai, Vice President of CPIFA, attended the conference, spoke at the closed-door session on “Outlook for the China-US Relations and International Order” and attended the closing press conference.
Noting this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, Xi said that the CPC has rallied and led the Chinese people in making unremitting efforts that have fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people and exerted a profound impact on the course of world history over the past century.
Not long ago, the sixth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee was successfully concluded with the adoption of the Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century, he said, adding that going forward, the CPC will draw strength from history, forge ahead for a better future, stay true to its founding mission, and rally and lead the Chinese people on a new journey toward building a modern socialist country.
The Party will always put the people first, commit to its fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people, follow a people-centered philosophy of development, promote well-rounded human development and common prosperity for all, and better meet the Chinese people’s aspiration for a better life, Xi said, adding that the CPC will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development and opening-up to the world, work for a community with a shared future for mankind, and promote humanity’s common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom.
“The CPC will always be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development and a defender of the international order, and strive to make new and greater contributions to the progress of human civilization and to world peace and development,” Xi said.
Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of CPC Central Committee, attended the conference and delivered an opening speech via spot connection at the opening ceremony in Beijing. Li Xi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Secretary of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, attended the conference and delivered an opening speech. Wang Chao, President of the CPIFA, attended the conference, spoke at the welcome dinner and the Guangzhou gala. Li Huilai, Vice President of CPIFA, attended the conference, spoke at the closed-door session on “Outlook for the China-US Relations and International Order” and attended the closing press conference.
Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, sent a congratulatory letter to the conference. About 600 guests from home and abroad participated in the conference online and offline. Among them, there are politicians, strategists, scholars, entrepreneurs from America, Russia, Europe, countries surrounding China and developing countries, including Melnikov Ivan Ivanovich, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Alexei Kudrin, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Minister of Finance and current Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia, Rosen Asenov Plevneliev, former President of Bulgaria, Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, Essam Sharaf, former Prime Minister of Egypt, Mario Monti, former Prime Minister of Italy, Goh Chok Tong, former Prime Minister of Singapore, Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, former Prime Minister of Spain, Gordon Brown, former Primer Minister of the United Kingdom, Yohei Kono, former Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan and President of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade, Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the US Treasury Department, James Steinberg, former US Deputy Secretary of State. Besides, foreign diplomats and representatives from international organizations and transnational corporations and leading members from Chinese ministries, commissions and local governments also participated in the conference.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Whence and Whither —— Unprecedented Changes in the World and China and the CPC”. Besides opening ceremony, keynote speeches, welcome dinner and Guangzhou gala, there are also 5 thematic forums, 12 parallel sessions, 10 thematic events on understanding Guangzhou, 9 supporting activities and 12 special press conferences. Meanwhile, the Understanding China Book Series was launched, 3 “Understanding China” TED talks were recorded, “understanding china” international multilingual communication project was started, and several strategic cooperation agreements were signed.
This conference is the 6th Understanding China Conference since 2013.
