Li Qiang Meets Foreign CEOs - Inspections Target 30 SoEs, 5 Financial Institutions & Sports Authority - China-Honduras Ties - Qin Gang Speech at China Development Forum - Report on US Human Rights
Here are the key reports and articles that I found noteworthy from the People’s Daily’s edition on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
Page 1: At the top of the page is a brief report on a new book of Xi’s speeches being published. This one is on the theme of food security. This comprises excerpts from 80 spoken and written works on the subject from December 15, 2012, to December 23, 2022.
Next, there are a set of reports of engagements of PBSC members and VP Han Zheng. First, there’s a report on Li Qiang meeting with representatives of overseas attendees of the China Development Forum in Beijing. Xinhua English has the story.
“‘The current world economic development is in a difficult period of multiple complicated shifts,’ Li said. He called on all parties to strengthen confidence and stabilize expectations, and in particular, to keep a broad vision and take a long-term view, so as to address risks and challenges. ‘It's like traveling on a rainy day. If you always look down at your feet, you will only see mud all over the ground. If you can often look up ahead, you can see the rainbow after the rain,’ Li said. He also called on all parties to enhance consensus, strengthen cooperation and jointly promote global economic recovery.”
He added that going forward “while maintaining a certain growth rate, China’s economy will accelerate reform in quality, efficiency and driving force, strive to achieve development of higher quality, and make people's lives better.” This, he said, will provide a “new driving force for world economic growth and broad space for foreign companies to develop in China.”
“China’s development cannot be separated from the world, and the world’s development also needs China. No matter how the international situation changes, China will unswervingly open wider to the outside world. We align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, thoroughly implement the pre-entry national treatment plus negative list management system, continue to improve the level of trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation, steadily expand institutional opening, and world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based and internationalised…Investing in China and taking root in China means choosing a better future. China is willing to join hands with all parties to write a new chapter of open cooperation and mutual benefit.” 李强强调，中国经济已深度融入全球分工体系，中国发展离不开世界，世界发展也需要中国。无论国际形势如何变化，中国都将坚定不移扩大对外开放。我们将对接高标准国际经贸规则，深入实施准入前国民待遇加负面清单管理制度，继续提升贸易投资自由化便利化水平，稳步扩大制度型开放，着力打造市场化、法治化、国际化一流营商环境。中国开放的大门会越来越大，环境会越来越好，服务会越来越优。投资中国、扎根中国，就是选择了更好的未来。中国愿与各方携手，续写开放合作、互利共赢的新篇章.
Some of the foreign companies’ bosses who spoke at the meeting.
CEO of Allianz Insurance Group
CEO of Apple Inc
CEO of Rio Tinto Group
Chairman of Hitachi Group
Hans-Paul Bürkner from Boston Consulting Group
Second, Wang Huning spoke at the third Chairperson’s Council meeting of the CPPCC NC. He made four points:
Make efforts to further equip the CPPCC with the Party’s innovative theories, i.e., “thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focus on studying, understanding, and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on strengthening and improving the work of the CPPCC, and implement the requirements of the CPC Central Committee”
understand the nature and position of the CPPCC and perform duties and responsibilities in accordance with the Constitution.
take the lead in implementing whole-process people's democracy, fully promote democracy in the performance of CPPCC functions, respect each other and talk to each other on an equal footing in consultation and deliberation activities, cultivate a good atmosphere for speaking freely and expressing one’s opinions.
establishment of relevant special committees should be advanced, the campaign of in-depth research and studies should be promoted, and the competence of CPPCC members should be strengthened.
一要加强创新理论武装，深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，重点学习好、领会好、贯彻好习近平总书记关于加强和改进人民政协工作的重要思想，在落实中共中央对政协工作要求的过程中稳中求进、改革创新，不断提升政协工作质量和水平。二要把准人民政协性质定位，着眼党和国家事业全局，依照宪法和政协章程及有关制度规定，尽职尽责，担当作为。三要带头践行全过程人民民主，在政协履职中充分发扬民主，在协商议政活动中相互尊重、平等协商，形成畅所欲言、各抒己见的良好氛围。四要打好基础，提高质量，加强专门委员会建设，大兴调查研究之风，抓好政协委员队伍建设，把委员智慧和力量汇集到强国建设、民族复兴的伟业中去，充分发挥政协职能作用.
Third, Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, held talks with with Vietnam's National Assembly chairman Vuong Dinh Hue. Xinhua reports:
Zhao “said China is ready to work with Vietnam to consolidate the traditional friendship, adhere to high-level strategic guidance, strengthen strategic communication, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, cement public support for the friendship between the two countries, commit to the path of socialism suited to their respective national conditions, and build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that bears strategic significance. China's whole-process people's democracy is a new form of political civilization created by the people under the leadership of the CPC, Zhao said, adding that China is willing to work with Vietnam to uphold and develop socialist democracy, and to showcase the advantages and bright prospects of the socialist system.”
He also called to strengthen exchanges and cooperation among special committees, friendship groups, deputies and local legislative bodies, and for the two bodies to provide legal and policy support for pragmatic cooperation between the two countries.
Fourth, Vice President Han Zheng met with Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Reina in Beijing.
Xinhua reports: “President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to China-Honduras relations and welcomes President Castro to visit China as soon as possible to jointly draw a blueprint for bilateral relations, Han said. The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Honduras meets the trend of the times, and is in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples, Han said. China stands ready to work with Honduras to carry out exchanges concerning state governance, and welcomes Honduras to join the Belt and Road cooperation to turn complementary strengths into the energy of comprehensive cooperation, he added. China is willing to work with Honduras to enhance coordination and cooperation in international affairs, jointly safeguard the interests of developing countries and build a community with a shared future for humanity, said Han.”
Reina said that Honduras “will uphold the one-China principle.”
The Reuters report on what motivated Honduras’ decision is worth reading.
“Honduras denied on Wednesday it had demanded $2.5 billion in aid from Taiwan before its announcement to seek to open relations with China, instead saying the country had repeatedly requested Taiwan buy Honduran public debt. Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina told Reuters the $2.5 billion figure was ‘not a donation,’ but rather ‘a negotiated refinancing mechanism.’ A source familiar with the situation told Reuters earlier Wednesday Honduras had demanded the funds in aid from Taiwan the day before Honduran President Xiomara Castro tweeted her government would seek to open relations with China. Honduras is one of only 14 countries to maintain formal diplomatic ties with Chinese-claimed Taiwan and Beijing has been stepping up efforts to win over Taipei's remaining allies, saying that as a Chinese province the island has no right to state-to-state ties, which Taiwan strongly disputes…The source familiar with the situation confirmed a report by Taiwan's official Central News Agency that on March 13 the Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina had written to Taiwan's foreign ministry demanding the money. But Honduras did not wait for Taiwan's response before Castro sent her tweet, the report said. Reina denied the report, saying Taiwan was told verbally about the offer several times, and that he had sent a note to Taiwan "about a week" before Castro's announcement. Reina had said last week Honduras’ decision was partly because the Central American country was ‘up to its neck’ in financial challenges and debt - including $600 million it owes Taiwan. Reina told Reuters Wednesday interest rates were very high and ‘choking’ Honduras, and that the proposal was ‘related to finding a debt financing mechanism for (Taiwan) to buy (Honduran) debt’.”
Here is what MoFA’s Mao Ning said about this issue yesterday.
“Mao Ning: Establishing diplomatic ties with China is a political decision made by Honduras on the basis of the one-China principle and based on no preconditions. China highly appreciates the decision of Honduras. Diplomatic relations are not a bargaining chip. Over the past few years, when Panama, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Nicaragua established or restored diplomatic relations with China, there were no preconditions whatsoever, neither were there any for Honduras. Now that we have established diplomatic ties with Honduras, China will, on the basis of the one-China principle, act in the spirit of mutual respect, equality, mutual benefit and common development, actively promote the mutually-beneficial cooperation in various fields with Honduras, and contribute to its economic and social development and the well-being of the local people. It is widely known that the DPP authorities are an expert of using dollar diplomacy. We would like to make this clear to the DPP authorities that “Taiwan independence” and dollar diplomacy have no future and any attempt to go against the trend of history will end in failure.”
Fifth, there’s a report on Li Xi’s comments at the conference on national discipline and inspection work. Li said:
“In order to better fulfil the duties and missions of inspection work in the new era and new journey, we must accurately grasp the new deployment and new requirements of the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping on inspection work. It is necessary to deepen political inspections, deeply understand the decisive significance of Two Establishments, and undertake the fundamental task of the two safeguards with a clear-cut stand. It is necessary to serve and guarantee the overall situation, focus on the 国之大者, strengthen supervision and inspection, and supervise and promote the implementation of the spirit of the 20th Party Congress and the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee…implement the mass line, and give full play to the important role of safeguarding the vital interests of the people and maintaining the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the people…” 李希指出，巡视监督是党和国家监督体系的重要组成部分，是全面从严治党的战略性制度安排。在新时代新征程上更好履行巡视工作职责使命，必须准确把握党中央和习近平总书记关于巡视工作的新部署新要求。要深化政治巡视，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义，旗帜鲜明承担起“两个维护”的根本任务。要服务保障大局，聚焦“国之大者”加强监督检查，督促推动党的二十大精神和党中央重大决策部署贯彻落实。要坚持人民立场，贯彻群众路线，充分发挥维护人民群众切身利益、保持党同人民群众血肉联系的重要作用...
Li also issued instructions for inspections of centrally-managed state-owned enterprises, financial institutions and the General Administration of Sport of China.
For the centrally-managed SOEs, he said that the focus would be on the Party organisation’s adherence to the Party’s overall leadership and on identifying major contradictions and prominent problems that impede high-quality development.
For financial institutions, he called for a “review/look back” to thoroughly examine the actual actions and results of implementing the requirements of the last round of inspection and rectification, to urge financial institutions to combine inspection and rectification with studying and implementing the deployment requirements of the CPC Central Committee on financial reform and promote the resolution of outstanding problems in the financial field.
For the General Administration of Sport, Li called for addressing deep-seated institutional problems, corruption (especially in football) and to focus on implementing the major decision-making arrangements for building a sports power.
对中管企业开展常规巡视，要聚焦企业党组织坚持党对国有企业全面领导、履行全面从严治党主体责任等情况，着力查找影响制约高质量发展的主要矛盾、突出问题。对金融单位开展“回头看”，要深入检查落实上一轮巡视整改要求的实际行动和成效，督促金融单位把巡视整改与学习贯彻党中央关于金融改革的部署要求结合起来，推动解决金融领域存在的突出问题。对国家体育总局开展机动巡视，要聚焦履行党的领导职能责任、贯彻落实体育强国建设重大决策部署情况，深入查找、推动解决体育领域特别是足球领域腐败问题和深层次体制机制问题，为建设体育强国提供有力保障.
On page 4, we have the full list of entities that will be inspected in the first round of inspections after the 20th Party Congress. 30 centrally-managed SoEs and five financial institutions along with the General Administration of Sport of China will be covered in this round. The entities are:
China National Nuclear Corporation
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation Limited
Aviation Industry Corporation of China
China State Shipbuilding Corporation
China North Industries Group Corporation Limited
China South Industries Group Corporation
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
Aero Engine Corporation of China
China Rong Tong Asset Management Group Corporation Limited
China National Petroleum Corporation
China Petrochemical Corporation
China National Offshore Oil Corporation
China Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Corporation
State Grid Co., Ltd.
China Southern Power Grid Corporation
China Huaneng Group
China Datang Corporation
China Huadian Corporation
State Power Investment Corporation
China Three Gorges Corporation
China Energy Investment Corporation
China Telecom
China Unicom
China Mobile
China Satellite Network Group Co., Ltd
China Electronics Corporation
Sinochem Holdings Corporation Ltd
COFCO Group Co., Ltd.
China Grain Reserves Group Co., Ltd.
Financial Institutions:
China Investment Corporation
China Development Bank
Agricultural Development Bank of China
China Everbright Group
People's Insurance Company of China Limited
Finally, there’s a commentary marking the “64th anniversary of the democratic reform in Tibet.” The article argues that “In today’s Tibet, political stability, social stability, economic development, ethnic unity, religious harmony, border defence consolidation, and people living and working in peace and contentment present a thriving scene, which fully demonstrates the incomparable superiority of the socialist system.” The article, of course, argues that the “democratic reforms” in Tibet has been “a great feat that has truly benefited the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet.”
In terms of the new journey post the 20th Party Congress, the article says that “‘to govern the country well, we must first govern the frontiers well’. Tibet’s continued stability and rapid development are important contributions to the overall work of the Party and the country.” “治国必治边、治边先稳藏”，西藏实现持续稳定和快速发展是对党和国家工作大局的重要贡献.
It also calls for implementing the Party's strategy of governing Tibet in the new era; implement the new development concept; promote high-quality development; strengthen the construction of border areas; and do a good job in stability, development, ecology and strengthening the border…”
“We should insist on maintaining the unity of the motherland and strengthening ethnic unity as the focus and point of emphasis, seek long-term solutions and strengthen the foundation, constantly enhance the recognition of the people of all ethnic groups with the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China and Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and lay a solid ideological foundation for ethnic unity. We must insist that all development must endow the meaning of ethnic unity and progress, improve people’s livelihood and unite people’s hearts, and be conducive to enhancing the sense of gain, happiness and security of the people of all ethnic groups, and embark on a road of high-quality development in line with Tibet's reality.” 要坚持以维护祖国统一、加强民族团结为着眼点和着力点，多谋长久之策，多行固本之举，不断增强各族群众对伟大祖国、中华民族、中华文化、中国共产党、中国特色社会主义的认同，打牢民族团结的思想基础。要坚持所有发展都要赋予民族团结进步的意义，都要赋予改善民生、凝聚人心的意义，都要有利于提升各族群众获得感、幸福感、安全感，走出一条符合西藏实际的高质量发展之路.
Page 2: A couple of reports to note. First, a report (English report) informing that bond issuances in China totaled 5.47 trillion yuan (about $800 billion) in February. Treasury bond issuances amounted to 673 billion yuan, while local government bond issuances stood at 576.14 billion yuan.
Second, a report informing that Agricultural Bank of China’s outstanding inclusive loans exceeded 3 trillion yuan (about $436.6 billion) as of Monday. Xinhua reports: “The outstanding loans, which were issued to groups including small and micro enterprises, self-employed businesses and farmers, increased by 443.3 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, the bank said…Meanwhile, the bank has set up 500 institutions for inclusive financial services and nearly 10,000 credit service outlets for small and micro businesses across the country.”
Page 3: Lots of brief reports on the page. First, a report saying that Li Qiang will be attending the Boao Forum. Among the foreign leaders, the prime ministers of Singapore, Malaysia and Ivory Coast will be in attendance, along with IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva.
Second, there’s a report with foreign CEOs attending the China Development Forum praising the economic opportunities that China provides and expressing faith in the Chinese economy.
Third, there’s a commentary on strengthening solidarity and cooperation with developing countries. This is the third in this series. It says that “Over the past 60 years, China has dispatched 30,000 medical team members to 76 countries and regions around the world, treating 290 million patients. China's foreign aid medical team has benefited the local people with benevolence…” 60年来，中国累计向全球76个国家和地区派遣医疗队员3万人次，诊治患者2.9亿人次. 中国援外医疗队以仁心仁术造福当地人民，成为中国同广大发展中国家以心相交的真实写照.
The piece adds that “it has always been a feature and tradition of New China’s diplomacy to treat developing countries with sincerity, courtesy and friendship. In its exchanges and cooperation with developing countries, China is committed to touching people’s hearts and minds with affection, enhancing mutual understanding and knowledge among people, laying a solid social foundation for friendly undertakings, building a stronger emotional foundation and providing deeper spiritual nourishment for mutually beneficial cooperation.” 对发展中国家以诚相知、以礼相待、以心相交，一直是新中国外交的特色和传统。在与发展中国家的交往与合作中，中国坚持以亲动人、以亲感人，增进人民之间的相互了解和认知，厚植友好事业的社会基础，为互惠合作筑起更坚固的情感根基、提供更深厚的精神滋养.
The next paragraph says
“From building the Belt and Road into a road of civilisations, to hosting the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations and the High-Level Meeting of CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties, from promoting people-to-people cooperation within multilateral mechanisms such as the SCO and the BRICS countries to comprehensively deepening exchanges with African countries, Arab countries and Latin American countries in culture, education, science and technology, health, media, think tanks, youth and women under the impetus of the FOCAC, the China-Arab Cooperation Forum and the China-CELAC Forum, China has actively built platforms for mutual learning, such as dialogue among civilizations, exchanges between political parties and non-governmental diplomacy, so as to promote the drawing of wisdom from each other’s civilizations. The international community generally believes that China has actively built platforms for people-to-people dialogue and made important contributions to enhancing mutual understanding, unity and mutual trust among different civilisations.” 从将“一带一路”建设成文明之路，到举办亚洲文明对话大会、中国共产党与世界政党高层对话会，从推动在上海合作组织、金砖国家等多边机制内加强人文合作，到在中非合作论坛、中阿合作论坛、中拉论坛等机制推动下，全面深化同非洲国家、阿拉伯国家和拉美国家等文化、教育、科技、卫生、媒体、智库、青年、妇女交流，中国积极搭建文明对话、政党交流、民间外交等互学互鉴平台，推动从彼此的文明中汲取智慧和营养，助力文化相知、民心相亲，为构建人类命运共同体凝聚起更广泛的共识。国际社会普遍认为，中国积极搭建人文对话平台，为增进不同文明之间的相互理解与谅解、团结与互信作出了重要贡献.
The next paragraph talks about the “practical things” that China has done for development in other countries. After this, the piece says that “China actively promotes exchanges with the young people of other developing countries to build a broad stage for their development and mutual learning. From providing Chinese government scholarships to strengthening cooperation in vocational education, from holding youth leadership forums to organising youth exchange camps, from sending youth volunteers to developing countries to organising ‘International Youth China Tour’...China is helping more young people from developing countries to realise their dreams, and more and more young people from developing countries are falling in love with Chinese language and culture, studying in China or working in Chinese enterprises, and becoming youth ambassadors for the cause of friendship between China and developing countries.” 中国积极推动与广大发展中国家青年的交流交往，为青年成长成才、互学互鉴搭建广阔舞台。从提供中国政府奖学金到加强职业教育合作，从举办青年领导人论坛到组织青年交流营，从向发展中国家派遣青年志愿者到举办“国际青年中国行”活动……中国帮助越来越多发展中国家青年实现梦想，越来越多发展中国家青年喜欢上中文和中国文化，到中国学习或到中国企业工作，成为中国与发展中国家友好事业的青年使者. — Alas, there’s no data provided on this.
Fourth, Wang Yi met with Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Kao Kim Hourn. Wang expressed appreciation to Kao Kim Hourn for making China the first stop of his visits to non-ASEAN countries. Xinhua says:
“As ASEAN's largest neighbor, China has always supported ASEAN sincerely and selflessly, said Wang, adding that under the new circumstances, China will continue to firmly support ASEAN’s integration and community building, support its strategic independence and solidarity for development, and support maintaining the ASEAN-centered regional cooperation architecture. He added that the two sides should join hands to advance the noble cause of modernization for over 2 billion people in China and ASEAN. The two sides should push for alignment and cooperation between the Belt and Road Initiative and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific; build a common homeland that features peace, tranquility, prosperity, a beautiful environment, and friendship; and foster a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future, said Wang. He also called for upholding the environment for peaceful development that has been shaped over the past decades, firmly rejecting the Cold War mentality, and opposing any attempt to stoke conflicts between major countries or camp-based confrontation, said Wang.”
Another report talks about Qin Gang’s meeting with Kao Kim Hourn. Xinhua reports:
“Qin said the stability and continuity of China's domestic and foreign policies and its cause of advancing national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization will inject more stability into regional peace and tranquility, and provide stronger driving force for regional development and prosperity. This year marks the 10th anniversary of China's proposal to foster a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future and the 20th anniversary of China's accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. China and member states of ASEAN have coexisted peacefully and set an example of good neighborliness and friendship, Qin said. He expressed China's willingness to work with ASEAN to carry forward the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the spirit of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia to jointly defend regional rules and order. As the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has fully entered into force, China hopes that the two sides will make good use of this opportunity to yield significant outcomes in the negotiations on Version 3.0 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) as soon as possible, he said. China is ready to work with ASEAN to implement the Global Civilization Initiative and strengthen people-to-people exchanges to provide inexhaustible energy for mutually beneficial cooperation, Qin said. He pointed out that China is willing to work with ASEAN members to eliminate external interference, fully and effectively implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, and reach an early agreement on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC), so as to provide institutional guarantee for building the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and cooperation. Qin stressed that Myanmar is a member of the big ASEAN family, and that China supports ASEAN in playing constructive good offices relating to Myanmar in the ASEAN way.”
In the report, Kao Kim Hourn said that “ASEAN supports the Global Development Initiative proposed by China, agrees to exchanges and mutual learning among diverse civilizations, and is ready to cooperate with China on the implementation of relevant initiatives.”
Fifth, there’s a report on Qin Gang’s speech at the China Development Forum. I am looking at the detailed version on the MOFA website. So to address the four deficits, development, peace, governance and trust, we have the GDI, GSI and GCI. Should we also expect a new initiative to address the governance deficit or is this all that we are to get?
Qin talked about how over the years the idea of “a community with a shared future for mankind has transformed from concept to action, from vision to reality, providing an important pillar for maintaining world peace and stability, and injecting strong impetus into promoting global development.”
He added that “The construction of a community with a shared future for all offers China's solution to eliminating the world's security deficit. President Xi Jinping proposed GSI, advocating a new security path featuring dialogue rather than confrontation, partnerships rather than alliances, and win-win results rather than zero-sum competition, providing correct guidance for building a world of lasting peace and universal security. The community with a shared future for mankind has provided the world with Chinese dynamics to escape from the development dilemma. Today’s Chinese economy is deeply embedded and multi-dimensionally coupled with the world economy. President Xi Jinping proposed the GDI to promote cooperation among countries and promote sustainable development. The advantage of China’s super-large-scale market domestic demand potential being released will surely bring new and greater opportunities to the economic recovery and development of countries around the world. A community with a shared future for mankind provides Chinese wisdom for the world to avoid conflicts of civilisations. President Xi Jinping put forward the GCI, emphasising the need to jointly advocate respect for the diversity of world civilizations, carry forward the common values of all mankind, attach importance to the inheritance and innovation of civilizations, and strengthen international cultural and people-to-people exchanges and cooperation, in order to provide important guidelines for promoting harmonious coexistence, mutual respect, mutual understanding and mutual accommodation among different civilizations.” 秦刚指出，人类命运共同体为世界消弭安全赤字提供了中国方案。习近平主席提出全球安全倡议，倡导走出一条对话而不对抗、结伴而不结盟、共赢而非零和的新型安全之路，为推动构建持久和平、普遍安全的世界提供了正确指引。人类命运共同体为世界摆脱发展困境提供了中国动能。今天的中国经济，同世界经济深度互嵌、多维耦合。习近平主席提出全球发展倡议，推动各国加强合作，促进可持续发展。随着中国超大规模市场优势和内需潜力持续释放，必将给世界各国经济恢复发展带来新的更大机遇。人类命运共同体为世界避免文明冲突提供了中国智慧。习近平主席提出全球文明倡议，强调要共同倡导尊重世界文明多样性、弘扬全人类共同价值、重视文明传承和创新、加强国际人文交流合作，为推动不同文明和衷共济、和谐共生、互尊互敬、互谅互让提供了重要遵循.
He added that China will maintain policy continuity. We will unswervingly adhere to mutual respect, promote coordination and healthy interaction among major powers, develop friendly cooperation with other countries, fully implement GSI, and join hands with all parties to promote the construction of an international and regional security pattern that takes into account the demands of all parties and accommodates their interests. We will unswervingly adhere to win-win cooperation, continue to promote high-quality development and high-level opening up, maintain the stable and smooth operation of the global industrial chain and supply chain, better promote the cooperation on the GDI, and gather the greatest synergy for developing countries to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We will unswervingly adhere to fairness and justice, constantly expand the representation and voice of developing countries in the international community, promote the development of global governance in a more just and reasonable direction, and join hands with all countries in the world to meet global challenges. We will unswervingly adhere to openness and tolerance, carry forward the common values of all mankind, such as peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom, and join hands with all parties to implement the Global Civilization Initiative, so that the big garden of world civilisation will be full of flowers and colourful.” 秦刚强调，中国将保持政策的连续性、发展的稳健性，为推动构建人类命运共同体提供新契机、新能量。我们将始终不渝坚持相互尊重，促进大国协调和良性互动，同各国发展友好合作，全面落实全球安全倡议，同各方携手推动构建兼顾各方诉求、包容各方利益的国际和区域安全格局。我们将始终不渝坚持合作共赢，持续推进高质量发展和高水平对外开放，维护全球产业链供应链稳定顺畅运行，更好推进全球发展倡议合作，为发展中国家加快落实2030年可持续发展议程汇聚最大合力。我们将始终不渝坚持公平正义，不断扩大发展中国家在国际社会中的代表性和发言权，推动全球治理朝着更加公正合理的方向发展，与世界各国携手应对全球性挑战。我们将始终不渝坚持开放包容，弘扬和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由的全人类共同价值，同各方携手落实全球文明倡议，让世界文明的大花园百花齐放、姹紫嫣红.
Sixth, ILD chief Liu Jianchao met with Mushahid Hussain Syed, co-chairman of the Standing Committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) and chairman of the Pakistani Senate's Defense Committee, in Beijing. The two sides exchanged views on advancing the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, strengthening cooperation among Asian political parties, and jointly promoting high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
Page 17: On the international page, there is a report with comments from the Syrian foreign ministry condemning US airstrikes in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor.
Finally, although it is not in the paper, today the Chinese side published its Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2022.
**Note: I will not be doing the newsletter tomorrow owing to travel commitments. Will return to normal from Thursday.