The 2024 Understanding China Conference kicked off in Guangzhou on December 3, continuing its tradition of fostering global dialogue on China's development.
As in previous years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent his congratulatory letter, emphasizing the understanding of China's efforts to further deepen reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization.
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.
Xi sends congratulatory letter to 2024 Understanding China Conference
The following article presents the highlights of Xi's congratulatory letters to the Understanding China Conference over the years, offering a comprehensive view of his vision for the global significance of China's development.
2023 Understanding China Conference
On December 2, 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2023 Understanding China Conference (Guangzhou).
Xi Jinping said that today, confronted with a weak global economic recovery and continuously escalating geopolitical conflicts, humanity has once again reached a crossroads in history. It is all the more important that countries work together to meet various global challenges, promote common development, and improve the well-being of humanity.
Xi Jinping pointed out that to understand China, the key lies in understanding Chinese modernization. China today is endeavoring to build itself into a stronger country and rejuvenate the Chinese nation on all fronts by pursuing Chinese modernization, and promoting the building of a human community with a shared future.
China's future is closely linked with the future of all humanity. China is pursuing high-quality development through high-standard opening up, and China will continue to foster a market-oriented, world-class business environment underpinned by a sound legal framework and steadily expand institutional opening up with regard to rules, regulations, management, and standards.
2021 Understanding China Conference
On December 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, 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.
"As I have pointed out, 'To understand China today, one must learn to understand the CPC'. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC; 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,” said Xi.
2019 Understanding China Conference
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the fourth Understanding China Conference that opened on October 26 in Guangzhou.
Economic globalization is an irreversible trend despite some difficulties it has encountered, and the interests and future of different countries are becoming increasingly interconnected, Xi said in the letter, noting that creating a better life is a common aspiration of people around the world.
As a contributor to and a beneficiary of economic globalization, China will remain steadfast in pursuing the path of peaceful development and an opening-up strategy of mutual benefit to continue adding impetus to an open world economy, Xi said.
China will work with other countries to promote economic globalization and make it more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial to all, he said.
2018 Understanding China Conference
President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 3rd Understanding China Conference which opened in Beijing on December 16.
The world today faces unprecedented changes in a century; peace and development are still the themes of the times, and, meanwhile, humanity is facing many common challenges, Xi said in the letter.
China is willing to work with other countries to actively promote the building of a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness and justice, and win-win cooperation, and to facilitate the construction of a community with a shared future for humanity, thus making new greater contributions to world peace and development, Xi said.
Xi stressed that the year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up, which has written a glorious chapter in China's development, with China's relations with the world becoming closer and closer.
China will continue to comprehensively deepen reform and expand opening up, remain committed to the new development philosophy, push forward the supply-side structural reform, and take coordinated efforts to stabilize growth, propel reform, make structural adjustments, improve people's livelihoods and guard against risks, so as to promote high-quality development of the country's economy and offer more cooperation opportunities to the world, Xi said.
2015 Understanding China Conference
On November 3, 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with foreign representatives of the 2nd Understanding China Conference in the Great Hall of the People, expressing views on topics including the prospects of China's reform and development, the building of the "Belt and Road," and China's hosting of the G20 Summit in 2016. He emphasized that realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the Chinese dream of the Chinese people, and that practices have proven that the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics to which we adhere is correct. He also stated that China will stick to the path of peaceful development, promote a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, mutual benefit, and win-win results, and uphold the co-building of a harmonious and coexisting community of common destiny with other countries around the world.
Source: Xinhua, chinadaily.com
Poster: Lai Meiya
Editor: Liu Lingzhi, Huang Qini, Jiang Chang, Shen He
