At the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, President of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Kresch visited China from February 1st to 4th.
Kresch once commented on China's contribution to the cause of the United Nations: China has always been a strong backing of the cause of the United Nations, and has played an important role in addressing climate change, peacekeeping and other fields.
As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and the first country to sign the "United Nations Charter", China has always defended the purposes and principles of the Charter, and always maintained the core role of the United Nations in international affairs. Contributor to global development and defender of international order.
Combing the relevant facts and figures, people can see a clear and impressive "report card" of China's support for the cause of the United Nations.
A key force in global peacekeeping
The United Nations, established at the end of World War II, carries the hope of people of all countries for permanent peace.
However, the Chinese civilization has always advocated "peace as a nation", "harmony in diversity", and "peace as the most important thing" to maintain peace and stability. China and the United Nations share the same philosophy.
Conflicts continue in today's world, and various security challenges emerge in an endless stream.
President Xi Jinping put forward a global security initiative at the Boao Forum for Asia in April 2022, emphasizing that mankind is an indivisible security community, contributing Chinese wisdom to make up for the deficit of human peace, providing Chinese solutions to international security challenges, and winning international cooperation including the United Nations. widely recognized by society.
Actively participate in the political settlement of major regional hotspot issues such as the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the Iranian nuclear issue, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Palestine and Israel; strive to maintain the authority and unity of the Security Council, and support the United Nations in mediating in accordance with its authorization; actively participate in the international arms control and disarmament process, and join the "Non-Proliferation Treaty on Nuclear Weapons and other dozens of international arms control treaties and mechanisms; on the Ukrainian crisis, China has always decided its position and policy according to the merits of the matter itself, upholding an objective and fair position, actively promoting peace talks...China and the world Share weal and woe and inject positive energy into world and regional peace and stability.
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that China is committed to being a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of international order, which is consistent with the ideals enshrined in the UN Charter.
Power source of global development
"In the face of the severe impact of the epidemic, we must jointly promote global development to a new stage of balance, coordination and inclusiveness. Here, I would like to propose a global development initiative." In September 2021, President Xi Jinping addressed the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly In the general debate, a global development initiative was proposed for the first time.
"Adhere to development priority", "Adhere to people-centered", "Adhere to inclusiveness and inclusiveness", "Adhere to innovation-driven", "Adhere to the harmonious coexistence of man and nature", "Adhere to action-oriented" - China's propositions have aroused enthusiastic responses from the world, and China's actions promote the development of the world progress.
Today, the Global Development Initiative has achieved a series of early harvests: the establishment of the Global Development Promotion Center, and the invitation of the "Friends of the Global Development Initiative Group" countries, regional organizations and relevant departments of the United Nations to designate corresponding institutions, and the establishment of the "Global Development Promotion Center Network". Already 31 countries and regional organization counterparts have joined; established a global development project library, the first batch of 50 projects have been launched, and now more than 100 projects have been expanded, and 1,000 human resource training sessions have been implemented, covering more than 50 "Friends Groups" country etc.
In the past ten years since the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative was proposed, it has also become a popular international public product and international cooperation platform, covering two-thirds of the countries and one-third of the international organizations in the world.
Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, said that with a global population of more than 8 billion, China's development and contributions will benefit many countries in the world.
Biggest Contributor to Global Poverty Reduction
"China has solved the problem of food and clothing for more than 1.3 billion people and lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty. This is a major contribution to the cause of human rights in the world." In January 2017, when President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, he pointed out China Worldwide implications of poverty reduction.
In December 2020, China officially announced that after 8 years of continuous struggle, China has completed the task of poverty alleviation in the new era as scheduled. Under the current standards, all rural poor people have been lifted out of poverty, all poor counties have been decapitated, and absolute poverty and overall regional poverty have been eliminated. , achieved a major victory that surprised the whole world.
Poverty is a chronic disease of human society, and anti-poverty has always been a major issue in governing the country in ancient and modern times.
Facing poverty eradication, which is a difficult problem in global governance, China has never hesitated to share experience and contribute to international poverty reduction while achieving its own poverty reduction.
In recent years, China has focused on providing support to developing countries with "six 100" projects, including 100 poverty reduction projects, 100 agricultural cooperation projects, 100 trade promotion and aid projects, 100 ecological protection and climate change response projects, 100 Hospitals and clinics, 100 schools and vocational training centers to help countries reduce poverty.
In Asia, China implements East Asian poverty reduction demonstration cooperation technical assistance projects in rural grassroots communities in Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar; in Africa, China helps African countries build water conservancy infrastructure, build agricultural cooperation demonstration areas, and promote the implementation of China-Africa Juncao Technical cooperation and other projects; in the South Pacific region, carry out technical cooperation assistance projects such as infrastructure construction and agricultural medical care; in Latin America, assist in the construction of agricultural technology demonstration centers to help local people in recipient countries get rid of poverty...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said China was "the country that has made the greatest contribution to global poverty reduction".
Practitioners of unity against the epidemic
"People of all countries help each other, showing the courage, determination, and love of mankind in the face of major disasters, illuminating the darkest moments. The epidemic will eventually be defeated by mankind, and victory will belong to the people of the world!" September 2020, at the time of the new crown epidemic When the world is repeatedly raging, President Xi Jinping's speech at the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly is inspiring.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, China has been helping each other with the world, sharing anti-epidemic experience in a timely manner, helping other countries with anti-epidemic supplies, and actively carrying out international cooperation in the fight against the epidemic.
China has provided anti-epidemic supplies to 153 countries and 15 international organizations, and has jointly held more than 300 technical exchange activities on epidemic prevention and control and medical treatment with more than 180 countries and regions and more than 10 international organizations around the world.
China was the first to promise to make the new crown vaccine a global public product, the first to support vaccine R&D intellectual property exemption, and the first to cooperate with developing countries in vaccine production, injecting strong impetus into bridging the global "immunization gap".
China has actively played the role of traditional Chinese medicine, held more than 100 video exchanges and live broadcasts of anti-epidemic experts, introduced traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment solutions to more than 150 countries and regions, and provided traditional Chinese medicine products to some countries and regions in need.
Romina Sudak, a member of the China-Argentina Research Group at the University of Rosario in Argentina, said that China has implemented its consistent concept of "a community with a shared future for mankind" with practical actions when talking about China's help to developing countries in fighting the epidemic.
Practical faction of green development
"The sky moves in all seasons without speaking, and the earth grows without speaking." In terms of addressing climate change and strengthening global environmental governance, China is an active advocate and a down-to-earth doer.
President Xi Jinping has repeatedly expounded on the occasion of the United Nations China's proposition of building a clean and beautiful world and protecting the beautiful home of the earth.
"Green waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver. We should follow the concept of harmony between man and nature and Taoism to follow nature, and seek the path of sustainable development."
Made historic contributions to the conclusion and rapid entry into force of the "Paris Agreement", took the lead in publishing the "China's National Plan for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", fully implemented the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change", and announced the realization of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality A timetable and roadmap for the implementation of the dual-carbon goals, and the introduction of the "1+N" policy system, leading the world in the field of renewable energy development, becoming the country that contributes the most to the protection of the global ozone layer, and making green a real part of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" background... As the largest developing country, China, with consistent determination and strong measures, promotes the building of a community of life between man and nature, and contributes to the protection of the common homeland of mankind and the realization of sustainable development of mankind.
Simon Steele, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that currently, the international community is facing an energy crisis, and China has continued to make substantial progress in the field of climate change, playing an important role in promoting the global process of addressing climate change .
Currently, the world is standing at a historical crossroads.
Changes in the world, times, and history are unfolding in unprecedented ways, and human society is facing unprecedented challenges.
People hope that the sunshine of peace, development and progress will penetrate the haze of war, poverty and backwardness.
The avenue is not alone, the world is one family.
China is willing to work with all countries in the world to promote the United Nations to play a more active role in the noble cause of promoting peace and development of mankind, to promote the common values of all mankind, such as peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom, to safeguard world peace and promote world peace. development and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
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