On the morning of October 24, 2024 local time, President Xi Jinping attended the "BRICS Plus" Dialogue at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre and delivered important remarks entitled "Combining the Great Strength of the Global South to Build Together a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind".
Xi Jinping pointed out that the collective rise of the Global South is a distinctive feature of the great transformation across the world. Global South countries marching together toward modernization is monumental in world history and unprecedented in human civilization. At the same time, peace and development still face severe challenges, and the road to prosperity for the Global South will not be straight. Standing at the forefront of the Global South, we should use our collective wisdom and strength, and stand up to our responsibility for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
- We should uphold peace and strive for common security. We should come forward together to form a stabilizing force for peace. We should strengthen global security governance, and explore solutions to address both symptoms and roots of hotspot issues. Many parties have warmly responded to my Global Security Initiative. Under the Initiative, we have made prominent progress in maintaining regional stability and in many other areas. We should promote an early deescalation of the Ukraine crisis to pave the way for a political settlement. We should continue to promote a comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and revive the two-State solution. We must stop the flames of war from spreading in Lebanon.
- We should reinvigorate development and strive for common prosperity. We should make ourselves the main driving force for common development. We should play an active and leading role in the global economic governance reform, and make development the core of the international economic and trade agenda. Since its introduction three years ago, the Global Development Initiative has helped make available nearly 20 billion U.S. dollars of development funds and launch more than 1,100 projects. And recently the Global Alliance on Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Manufacturing Center of Excellence has been established in Shanghai. China will also build a World Smart Customs Community Portal and a BRICS Customs Center of Excellence. We welcome active participation by all countries.
- We should promote together development of all civilizations and strive for harmony among them. We should be advocates for exchanges among civilizations. We should enhance communication and dialogue, and support each other in taking the path to modernization suited to our respective national conditions. China will coordinate with others to form a Global South Think Tanks Alliance to promote people-to-people exchanges and experience-sharing in governance.
Xi Jinping stressed that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made systemic plans for further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization. This will provide more opportunities for the world. No matter how the international landscape evolves, we in China will always keep the Global South in our hearts, and maintain our roots in the Global South. We support more Global South countries in joining the cause of BRICS so that we can combine the great strength of the Global South to build together a community with a shared future for mankind.
The meeting was chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, representatives from Brazil, India, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, 25 leaders or representatives of invited guest countries, as well as six heads of international organizations including UN Secretary-General António Guterres and President of the New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff.
On the evening of October 23, Xi Jinping attended the welcoming banquet held by Vladimir Putin for the leaders of BRICS countries and guest countries.
Cai Qi and Wang Yi, among others, were present at the above events.
