President Xi Jinping Attends the 29th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting
On November 18, the 29th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting was held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand. President Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered important remarks entitled “Shouldering Responsibility and Working Together in Solidarity to Build an Asia-pacific Community with a Shared Future.”
President Xi pointed out that the Asia-pacific is our home as well as the powerhouse of global economic growth. Over the past decades, robust economic cooperation in the region has created the “Asia-pacific miracle” admired across the world. Asia-pacific cooperation is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Today the world has come to another historical crossroads, and this has made the Asia-pacific region even more important and prominent in its standing and role. Facing new circumstances, we must join hands together to build an Asia-pacific community with a shared future and take Asia-pacific cooperation to new heights.
President Xi put forward the following proposal: First, upholding international fairness and justice and building an Asia-pacific region of peace and stability. Second, staying committed to openness and inclusiveness and bringing about prosperity for all in the Asiapacific. Third, striving for green and low-carbon development and ensuring a clean and beautiful Asia-pacific. Fourth, bearing in mind our shared future and making the Asiapacific a region where all are ready to help each other.
President Xi stressed that in October the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held successfully, setting the course and providing the blueprint for China’s development for now and for years to come. China is ready to pursue peaceful coexistence and common development with all countries on the basis of mutual respect, equality, and mutual benefit. China will advance a broader agenda of opening-up across more areas and in greater depth, follow the Chinese path to modernization, put in place new systems for a higher-standard open economy, and continue to share its development opportunities with the world, particularly with the Asia-pacific region.
Quoting a Thai proverb that goes, “You reap what you sow,” Xi noted that APEC economies have jointly sown the seeds of the Putrajaya Vision and that it is time to cultivate, nurture, and foster the blossoming flower of common development of the Asia-pacific.