Full Text: Remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 14th BRICS Summit

BEIJING, June 23 (Xinhua) — On the night of June 23, Chinese language President Xi Jinping hosted the 14th BRICS Summit in Beijing through video hyperlink.

Following is the total textual content of the remarks by President Xi on the Summit:

Fostering Excessive-quality Partnership and Embarking on a New Journey of BRICS Cooperation

Remarks by H.E. Xi Jinping

President of the Individuals’s Republic of China

On the 14th BRICS Summit

23 June 2022

Expensive Colleagues,

Our world at the moment resides by way of accelerating modifications unseen in a century and continued unfold of the COVID-19 pandemic. They confront humanity with unprecedented challenges and usher in a brand new part of instability and transformation for international improvement.

The Chinese language folks usually say, “True gold can stand the take a look at of fireside.” Over the previous 16 years, the enormous ship of BRICS has sailed ahead tenaciously in opposition to raging torrents and storms. Using the wind and cleaving the waves, it has launched into a righteous course of mutual help and win-win cooperation. Standing on the crossroads of historical past, we must always each look again on the journey we have now traveled and take into account why we established BRICS within the first place, and stay up for a shared way forward for a extra complete, shut, sensible and inclusive high-quality partnership in order to collectively embark on a brand new journey of BRICS cooperation.

First, we have to uphold solidarity and safeguard world peace and tranquility. Our world at the moment is overshadowed by the darkish clouds of Chilly Struggle mentality and energy politics, and beset by consistently rising conventional and non-traditional safety threats. Some international locations try and broaden army alliances to hunt absolute safety, stoke bloc-based confrontation by coercing different international locations into choosing sides, and pursue unilateral dominance on the expense of others’ rights and pursuits. If such harmful tendencies are allowed to proceed, the world will witness much more turbulence and insecurity.

It is necessary that BRICS international locations help one another on points regarding core pursuits, follow true multilateralism, safeguard justice, equity and solidarity and reject hegemony, bullying and division. This yr, we have now held the Overseas Ministers’ Assembly and the Assembly of Excessive Representatives on Nationwide Safety, deepened cooperation on counter-terrorism, cybersecurity and different points, enhanced coordination on the United Nations and different multilateral establishments, and spoke out for justice on the worldwide stage.

Not way back, I put ahead the International Safety Initiative (GSI), which advocates a imaginative and prescient of widespread, complete, cooperative and sustainable safety, follows the philosophy that humanity is an indivisible safety group, and goals to create a brand new path to safety that options dialogue over confrontation, partnership over alliance and win-win over zero-sum. China wish to work with BRICS companions to operationalize the GSI and convey extra stability and optimistic vitality to the world.

Second, we have to uphold cooperation to spice up improvement and collectively deal with dangers and challenges. The mixture of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine disaster has resulted in disruptions to international industrial and provide chains, sustained hikes of commodity costs, and weaker worldwide financial and monetary techniques. All these have forged shadows over improvement worldwide, and rising markets and growing international locations bear the brunt. However simply as a disaster might deliver chaos, it might additionally spur change. So much will trip on how we deal with the disaster.

This yr, we launched the BRICS Initiative on Enhancing Cooperation on Provide Chains and the Initiative on Commerce and Funding for Sustainable Growth, adopted the Settlement on Cooperation and Mutual Administrative Help in Customs Issues and the Technique on Meals Safety Cooperation, and held a Excessive-level Assembly on Local weather Change for the primary time. We must always make good use of those new platforms to spice up connectivity of business and provide chains and collectively meet challenges in poverty discount, agriculture, vitality, logistics and different fields. We must always help higher improvement of the New Growth Financial institution and a gradual course of to confess new members, and enhance the Contingent Reserve Association to cement the BRICS monetary security web and firewall. We also needs to broaden BRICS cooperation on cross-border fee and credit standing to facilitate commerce, funding and financing amongst our international locations.

Final yr, I put ahead the International Growth Initiative (GDI), which goals to re-energize the implementation of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth and construct a world group of improvement. China stands able to work with BRICS companions so as to add extra substance to the GDI and contribute to stronger, greener and more healthy international improvement.

Third, we have to uphold the pioneering spirit and innovation and unleash the potential and vitality of cooperation. Those that seize the alternatives of the brand new financial system, equivalent to large information and synthetic intelligence, are in sync with the heart beat of the occasions. Those that search to create monopoly, blockade and limitations in science and know-how with a purpose to disrupt different international locations’ innovation and improvement and maintain on to their dominant place are doomed to fail.

We have to enhance international science and know-how governance and permit extra folks to entry and profit from the fruits of scientific and technological advances. This yr, we have now accelerated the constructing of the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Innovation Middle in Xiamen, hosted the Discussion board on the Growth of Industrial Web and Digital Manufacturing and the Discussion board on Huge Knowledge for Sustainable Growth, reached the Digital Economic system Partnership Framework, issued the Initiative for Cooperation on Digitalization of Manufacturing, and established a community of know-how switch facilities and an aerospace cooperation mechanism. All these have opened new channels for nearer industrial coverage coordination between BRICS international locations. Recognizing the significance of abilities within the digital age, we have now arrange the Alliance for Vocational Schooling, and arranged the Abilities Competitors and the Girls Innovation Contest to construct a expertise pool for stronger BRICS cooperation on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Fourth, we have to uphold openness and inclusiveness and pool collective knowledge and power. BRICS international locations collect not in a closed membership or an unique circle, however a giant household of mutual help and a partnership for win-win cooperation. On the Xiamen Summit in 2017, I proposed the “BRICS Plus” cooperation method. Over the previous 5 years, “BRICS Plus” cooperation has deepened and expanded, setting a main instance of South-South cooperation and in search of power by way of unity amongst rising markets and growing international locations.

Beneath the brand new circumstances, it’s all the extra vital for BRICS international locations to pursue improvement with open doorways and increase cooperation with open arms. This yr we, for the primary time, invited visitor international locations to attend the BRICS Overseas Ministers’ Assembly. The newly established BRICS Vaccine R&D Middle has an unequivocal dedication to openness. Step-by-step, we have now organized a wide range of “BRICS Plus” occasions in such areas as scientific and technological innovation, people-to-people exchanges and sustainable improvement. All these present new platforms for cooperation amongst rising markets and growing international locations.

In recent times, many international locations have requested to affix the BRICS cooperation mechanism. Bringing in recent blood will inject new vitality into BRICS cooperation and improve the representativeness and affect of BRICS. This yr we have now, on separate events, had in-depth discussions on the query of membership growth. It is very important advance this course of to permit like-minded companions to develop into a part of the BRICS household at an early date.

Colleagues,

As representatives of rising markets and growing international locations, we should make the best resolution and take accountable actions at this crucial juncture of historical past. What we do can have a major influence on the world. Allow us to keep united, pool power and forge forward to construct a group with a shared future for mankind and collectively create a shiny future for humanity.

Thanks.