Gather consensus on cooperation and promote common development -- President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the first high-level meeting of the Global Action Forum for Shared Development, which aroused resonance among Chinese and foreign participants.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 10th. Title: Gather consensus on cooperation and promote common development -- President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the first high-level meeting of the Global Shared Development Action Forum, which resonated among Chinese and foreign participants

Xinhua News Agency reporter

On July 10, the first high-level meeting of the Global Shared Development Action Forum opened in Beijing. President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter, which triggered a warm response from Chinese and foreign participants. Everyone conducted in-depth exchanges around the spirit of the congratulatory letter and the global development initiative.

Participants said that President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter demonstrated China's sincere desire to promote the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, demonstrated its firm determination to implement the global development initiative, and further consolidated the international consensus on achieving common development and shared development, and contributed to global development cooperation. Inject confidence and strength.

Global development initiatives benefit many developing countries

Shared development is an important path to building a better world.

"This is an urgent appeal from the broadest number of developing countries." Tanzanian President Hassan deeply agreed with President Xi Jinping's words. In her opening video speech, she said that the meeting "especially echoed the aspirations of most developing countries in Africa and Asia to pursue their own development and benefit from globalization".

Over the past year, with the joint participation of all parties, significant early gains have been made in global development initiative cooperation, benefiting many developing countries.

According to Deng Boqing, Deputy Director of the National Agency for International Development and Cooperation, more than 800 guests from 158 countries and international organizations attended the conference online and offline, including high-level delegations from 23 countries and representatives from 36 international organizations. "This fully demonstrates that the global development initiative has become a universal consensus and strong call of the international community."

"The ideas conveyed by President Xi Jinping in his congratulatory letter reflect the consensus of many people: the world urgently needs some new global initiatives to advance the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." Ugandan Foreign Minister Odongo said that the Global Development Initiative is a very important and great initiative for all countries.

"At this time, China is calling on the world to pay attention to development issues, reflecting a clear understanding of the international situation."

China's development creates new opportunities for world development

In his congratulatory letter, President Xi Jinping stressed that as the largest developing country, China has always placed its own development in the coordinate system of human development and created new opportunities for world development with its own development.

Jin Zhongzhen, Assistant Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, said that since 1996, China has been an important strategic partner of the organization, providing continuous and practical support for promoting South South cooperation."The Food and Agriculture Organization will continue to strengthen international cooperation with China in the field of food, and make greater contributions to accelerating the implementation of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and building a world free from hunger and poverty."

"The implementation of global development initiatives must be driven by technical support and projects." President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter reminded Lin Zhanji, chief scientist of the National Fungus Engineering Technology Research Center, of his valuable experience of "Fungus assisting foreign countries. In the late 1990 s, under the instructions of Comrade Xi Jinping, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee, Lin Zhanxi went to Papua New Guinea with other Chinese experts to train local people to learn fungus grass cultivation, opening up a new way for local employment, poverty eradication and sustainable development.

Nowadays, mycorrhizal technology has been applied and promoted in 106 countries and regions worldwide, serving 13 out of 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations, providing Chinese wisdom and solutions for poverty alleviation and ecological protection in many countries.

"The experience accumulated by China in the past few decades of rapid development has provided a valuable roadmap for helping Africa achieve poverty alleviation." Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University in the United States, believes that among China's many experiences, the significant investment in human capital, infrastructure, and other fields is particularly worth learning from for African countries.

"China has achieved the poverty reduction goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule, implemented the right to development, made positive contributions to the global implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and set an example for other developing countries." Zhou Taidong, deputy director of the China International Development Knowledge Center, said that President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter once again demonstrated China's firm will and determination to implement the global development initiative, promote the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and build a community with a shared future for mankind.

"Currently, the implementation process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has exceeded half," said United Nations Development Programme Administrator Steiner. Global development initiatives help promote close collaboration among countries and jointly explore new paths to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Continuously advancing global development initiatives, deepening and implementing them

In his congratulatory letter, President Xi Jinping emphasized that China will further increase its resource investment in global development cooperation, and work with the international community to continue to promote the deepening and implementation of global development initiatives, in order to achieve the United Nations 2030 sustainable development goals as scheduled and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. Make new contributions.

"I admire President Xi Jinping's great leadership, especially his global development initiative and the'Belt and Road' initiative, which are all guiding us to increase our actions." Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, called on all countries to unite and act together to rebuild trust and get back on track in order to achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals with a sense of urgency.

It is reported that China has completed more than half of the 32 practical measures announced to implement the global development initiative; The global development initiative project library is constantly expanding, with a total of nearly 200 projects; The Chinese side has integrated and established the Global Development and South South Cooperation Fund, with an increase in capital to 4 billion US dollars; At present, more than 100 countries and international organizations have supported global development initiatives, and nearly 70 countries have joined the Group of Friends of Global Development Initiatives. China has also signed cooperation memorandums of understanding with nearly 20 countries and international institutions.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sogavare stated that under the framework of the Global Development Initiative, Solomon Islands will cooperate with China to invest in the construction of 161 communication towers, which will closely connect Solomon Islands' dispersed populations in different regions for the first time. "This will effectively create economic opportunities and enable our people to integrate into the global economic system in a meaningful way."

Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shah Lunsai stated that the global development initiative will effectively promote the acceleration of the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially in addressing multiple challenges such as food security and climate change, and urging countries to accelerate action to achieve sustainable development and build a global development community.

"The global development initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping aims to achieve equitable and sustainable development, and is firmly committed to achieving a world without poverty. It is a global public good, and it should become a collective global mission." Kulkarni, former chairman of the Observer Research Foundation in Mumbai, India, said.