Work Actively to Implement the Global Civilization Initiative and Jointly Advance Human Civilizations

As countries around the world face common challenges in the course of seeking peace and development and making explorations towards modernization, the call for solidarity, collaboration and dialogue is growing stronger than ever. However, the deep-seated problems of suspicion, division and confrontation are still blocking international cooperation. Therefore, it is essential to step up inter-civilization exchanges for closer people-to-people connectivity.

The Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping in his keynote address entitled Join Hands on the Path Towards Modernization at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting on March 15 2023, is a sincere call to the world for in-depth inter-civilization exchanges and dialogue to advance human civilizations through inclusiveness and mutual learning. This is yet another effort to contribute China’s wisdom and solutions to promoting international cooperation at a higher level.

I. The GCI epitomizes General Secretary Xi Jinping’s profound strategic vision, broad historical perspective, strong sense of responsibility for the times and deep care for humanity.

The GCI is a timely response to the urgent call of peoples around the world for stronger solidarity and collaboration to jointly deal with common challenges. In today’s world, multiple challenges and crises are intertwined. The global economic recovery remains sluggish, the development gap is widening, ecological environment is deteriorating, and the Cold War mentality is lingering. Humanity’s modernization process has once again reached a crossroads of history.

To meet our common challenges, we need material means to conquer difficulties, and cultural and ethical resources to garner strength. General Secretary Xi Jinping noted that as the future of all countries are closely connected, tolerance, coexistence, exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations play an irreplaceable role in advancing humanity’s modernization process and making the garden of world civilizations flourish. Proposing the GCI at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting conveys China’s sincere desire to work with all countries in pursuing modernization with distinctive features of each country, and promoting global inter-civilization exchanges and mutual learning for the advancement of human civilizations.

The author of this article is the Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPCID).

This article was originally published in the China Daily