浙侨英频 ?Shared values help to build consensus

发布时间：2021-08-11

President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech via video at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2021, on April 20, 2021. [PhotoXinhua]

 

Xi calls for efforts to promote common aspirations of peace, development, fairness

As some Western countries push their values on others in diplomatic settings, China has called for upholding and promoting the common values of humanity, including peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom, to build a better world.

Since he put forward such a concept during the general debate of the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, President Xi Jinping has, on various occasions, called on the international community to champion the common values of humanity and respect the efforts of different peoples to turn these values into reality.

Addressing a grand gathering in celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China on July 1, Xi, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, told the world that on the journey forward, the CPC will continue to work with all peace-loving countries to promote the shared human values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom.

Five days later, while delivering the keynote speech at the CPC and World Political Parties Summit via video link in Beijing, he once again called for fostering broad-minded tolerance toward the understanding of values by different civilizations, and said that the common values of humanity should be translated into the practice of individual countries to serve the interests of their own people in a concrete and realistic way.

Observers said that faced with profound changes in the international landscape as well as a pandemic unseen in a century, promoting the shared values of humanity helps build the broadest consensus in the international community to jointly cope with the global challenges and to advance the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Wendell Bell, a professor emeritus of sociology and senior research scientist at Yale University's Center for Comparative Research, said overcoming cultural differences and discontent with globalization requires reexamining and reemphasizing the positive values that all humans share to seek a positive future.

In an article published on universespirit.org, Bell wrote that cultural differences do indeed separate people between various civilizations, however, for most people, most of the time, peaceful accommodation and cooperation are the norms.

Most people of the world, whatever society, culture, civilization or religion they revere or feel a part of, simply want to live－and let others live－in peace and harmony. To achieve this, all of us must realize that the human community is inescapably bound together, he wrote.

Different from the values-based diplomacy that Western countries adopt to build an alliance structure, China advocates the shared values of humanity which aim to build a community with a shared future for mankind, as countries, with different histories, cultures and systems and in different development levels, all pursue peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom, Chinese analysts said.

Western countries, such as the United States, always export their own values to other sovereign states by peaceful or military means, they said, however, China exports no revolution or ideology, far transcends the Cold War zero-sum game mentality of countries being either friends or foes, and is committed to win-win cooperation and building a global partnership network.

Wang Yiwei, vice-president of the Academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at Renmin University of China, said that China emphasizes seeking common ground while putting aside differences in realizing the shared values of humanity.

In this way, China strives to explore the common interests for the whole of mankind beyond disparities and clashes, while respecting cultural diversity and different levels of development, Wang said.

Zhang Guoqi, a professor of Marxism at South China University of Technology, said Xi's proposal on the common values of humanity is based on the fact that all people share our planet and live in a global village, and in the meantime, it demonstrates the basic values and norms governing the development and progress of human society.

It also calls for the international community to forge an awareness of building a community with a shared future and to work together to deal with global challenges, Zhang said.

Xi has stressed that peace and harmony are ideas the Chinese nation has pursued and carried forward for more than 5,000 years and that the Chinese nation does not have aggressive or hegemonic traits in its genes. He has said on many occasions that China remains committed to promoting peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit, to an independent foreign policy of peace and to the path of peaceful development.

Sergei Glazyev, the minister in charge of integration and macroeconomics at the Eurasian Economic Commission and an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the CPC has set an example for global development.

Mainstream Western economic thought and theory alone cannot explain the range of achievements China has made over the past 50 years, such as how it has grown from a poor and backward country to a global leader in manufacturing technical products today, Glazyev said in an opinion piece published on the website of China Global Television Network.

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【背景阅读】

坚守和弘扬全人类共同价值

习近平总书记在庆祝中国共产党成立100周年大会上庄严宣告，中国共产党将继续同一切爱好和平的国家和人民一道，弘扬和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由的全人类共同价值，坚持合作、不搞对抗，坚持开放、不搞封闭，坚持互利共赢、不搞零和博弈，反对霸权主义和强权政治，推动历史车轮向着光明的目标前进！这是习近平总书记立足中华民族伟大复兴战略全局和世界百年未有之大变局，回答时代之问、引领时代之变的时代强音，彰显出中国共产党人的天下情怀。

2015年，习近平主席在出席第七十届联合国大会一般性辩论时指出，“和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由，是全人类的共同价值”。之后，习近平主席在国内外多个重要场合，提出要坚守和弘扬全人类共同价值。

当前，世界进入加速演进的动荡变革期，新冠肺炎疫情仍在全球多地蔓延，一些地方战乱和冲突仍在持续，隔阂和对立仍在加深。在这一背景下，和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由的全人类共同价值，凝聚了人类不同文明的价值共识，反映了世界各国人民共同的价值追求，超越了国家、民族等因素限制，顺应历史潮流，契合时代需要，用思想伟力为世界发展和人类进步指明方向。

中国矢志不渝维护和平发展。中国共产党把维护世界和平和增进人民福祉作为全人类共同关切的大事。新中国成立以来，中国从未主动挑起过一场战争，从未侵占过别国一寸土地，并促进诸多地区热点问题的和平解决。中国先后参加近30项联合国维和行动，派出5万余人次维和人员，是联合国第二大会费国和维和经费摊款国、安理会常任理事国第一大出兵国，被联合国誉为“维和行动的关键力量”。中国已连续15年成为对世界经济增长贡献率最高的国家。共建“一带一路”成为当今世界范围最广、规模最大的国际合作平台，迄今已有140个国家和32个国际组织加入。中国共产党带领中国人民历史性地消除绝对贫困，对世界减贫贡献率超过70%。中国始终同其他发展中国家守望相助，深化南南合作，向160多个发展中国家提供各类援助，以实际行动为促进世界和平和全球发展注入中国力量。

中国坚定不移捍卫公平正义。从制定反帝反封建民主革命纲领，到不遗余力支持亚非拉国家民族解放运动，再到在联合国等国际舞台上坚持为发展中国家仗义执言；从坚持和践行多边主义，到积极建设相互尊重、公平正义、合作共赢的新型国际关系，再到秉持共商共建共享原则积极参与全球治理，中国永远站在公平正义一边。中国坚持主权平等，反对干涉内政，反对霸权强权；坚持客观公道，反对地缘争夺，反对拉帮结伙。在全球抗疫进程中，中国实施新中国成立以来规模最大的全球人道主义行动，为全球供应超过3000亿只口罩、37亿件防护服、48亿人份检测试剂盒，目前，中国已向国际社会提供5亿剂新冠疫苗和原液……中国为构建人类卫生健康共同体作出巨大贡献。

中国坚持不懈追求民主自由。民主是全人类共同价值，而不是少数国家的专利。实现民主有多种方式，不可能千篇一律。一个国家民主不民主，要由这个国家的人民来评判，而不能由少数人说了算。在中国共产党的领导下，中国实现了民族独立，实现了最广泛的人民民主，人民真正成为国家、社会和自己命运的主人。中国已将维护和保障人权写入宪法，成为国家意志。中国积极参与国际人权事务，先后批准或加入了26项国际人权文书，中国积极参与国际人权机制，积极参与制定国际人权规范，推动国际人权机构改革朝着更加公正合理包容方向发展，为全球人权治理贡献中国智慧、提供中国方案。

历史告诉我们，拥抱世界，才能拥抱明天；携手共进，才能行稳致远。中国将始终做世界和平的建设者、全球发展的贡献者、国际秩序的维护者，与各国一道，坚守和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由的全人类共同价值，共同构建持久和平、普遍安全、共同繁荣、开放包容、清洁美丽的世界。

 

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