Johannesburg, August 27th (Xinhua) - Journalist's note: Enlightenment of Great Power Diplomacy

Xinhua News Agency reporter Han Liang and Yang Yijun

Flying over the equator, crossing the Indian Ocean, from early autumn in Beijing to early spring in Johannesburg. On the stage of the BRICS, the world's most dynamic emerging economies and the continent with the most developing countries warmly embrace each other.

Four days and three nights, dozens of bilateral and multilateral activities. Shaking hands, meeting after meeting, exchanging ideas, enhancing understanding and consensus, consolidating confidence and strength, leading BRICS cooperation and China Africa cooperation to a new starting point, injecting surging momentum into the unity and self-improvement of the "global south", and playing a profound and lasting spiritual resonance among different civilizations.

Harmony, coexistence, and universal harmony have been the beautiful pursuits of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.

During interviews in South Africa, there is always a strong sense of time rushing towards us. History, reality, and the future intersect here.

In the administrative capital of Pretoria, the statue of Nelson Mandela stands quietly on the Plaza of the Federal Building, engraved with the history of the South African people's struggle against apartheid and witnessing the firm steps on the path of development and self-improvement in the most economically developed country in Africa.

In the economic hub of Johannesburg in Africa, the bustling commercial center is bustling with people, and buildings filled with a sense of design are arranged in rows. Chinese brand cars shuttle through the streets, and locally manufactured Chinese brand home appliances in South Africa are widely popular. China is not a distant and unfamiliar country, but a warm existence that integrates into ordinary life. The locals who spoke with the reporter coincidentally agreed that for Africa, "China represents the future.".

South African media figure Van der Weste Izen Hajders has a deep understanding of this. He said that Africa and China have similar historical experiences and struggles, and they also have a natural empathy for each other's civilizations. The unity, harmony, and inclusiveness advocated by the Ubantu ideology and Confucianism not only promote mutual understanding and affinity among people from different countries, but also help to solve the common challenges faced by humanity.

At the Sando Conference Center, where the BRICS Leaders Meeting is held, people of different skin colors and languages have traveled thousands of miles across the ocean or gathered from various parts of the African continent to join the BRICS Treaty. Through sincere dialogue, heated discussions, profound thinking, and resounding declarations, people truly feel the pulse of the times as the tide of history surges forward, the collective consciousness of unity and self-improvement in the "global south", and the joint action of developing countries representing the vast majority of the world's population to shape a more just and reasonable world order.

In today's era, the collective rise of emerging market countries and developing countries represented by the BRICS is fundamentally changing the world map and becoming an important force in shaping the future world order. Emerging market countries and developing countries independently choose their own development paths, jointly defend their right to development, and move towards modernization, representing the direction of human society's progress. And China is playing an important role in this historical process.

On August 24th, the 15th special press conference of BRICS leaders announced the invitation to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Iran, and Ethiopia to officially become members of the BRICS family.

The century long changes in the world are accelerating, facing both the danger of division and confrontation, as well as opportunities for unity and cooperation. China's actions are a practice of the principles of unity, benevolence, cooperation, and inclusiveness advocated by Confucianism and the Ubantu ideology. In the view of David Monyae, director of the Africa China Research Center at the University of Johannesburg, an increasing number of countries are eager to join the BRICS family, which not only demonstrates the openness, inclusiveness, and vitality of the BRICS cooperation mechanism, but also confirms that true civilizations are mutually respectful and inclusive.

Emphasizing that human history will not end with one civilization or one system, advocating for the BRICS countries to promote the spirit of embracing all rivers and opposing ideological opposition, institutional confrontation, and "civilization conflict";

I hope that developing countries can start from their own national conditions and explore new paths to achieve modernization on the basis of drawing on the achievements of human civilization;

It is pointed out that China and Africa are answering historical questions through the vivid practice of jointly exploring modernization, and working together to promote the historic feat of cooperation, win-win, harmonious coexistence, and civilized development.