Community with a shared future

Building a community with a shared future is one of the key ideas proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping. By the end of May 2015, he had spoken about this topic on more than 60 occasions. In an address at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in March 2013, he brought up this idea for the first time. He said, “In today’s world, countries are connected to and dependent on one another to a degree never seen before. We all live in the same global village, in a space where the past and the present meet, and in a community with a shared future in which everyone has a little bit of others in him or herself.”

In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in March 2015, President Xi set forth the principles for building a community with a shared future, namely the need for all countries to respect one another and treat each other as equals, cooperate in search of win-win solutions and common development, achieve common, comprehensive, collaborative, and sustainable security, and maintain mutually enriching and beneficial interactions among civilizations in a spirit of inclusiveness.

Earlier in March 2013 during his visit to Tanzania, he said, history shows that China and Africa have always found themselves facing similar odds. Similar historical experience, common development tasks and shared strategic interests bound them together.