China continues to act as promoter, contributor to global development: Chinese FM

BEIJING, July 28 -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday said that China will continue to play the role of a responsible major country, closely link its own development with the common development of all countries and act as a promoter and contributor to global development.

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while addressing the High-Level Meeting on the Global Development Initiative at Five Years in Beijing.

Noting that the Global Development Initiative (GDI) proposed by China five years ago offered a Chinese solution and contribution to revitalizing the global development cause, Wang said that, over the past five years, cooperation mechanisms in various fields have steadily improved, and practical achievements have been successively implemented.

He added that in the current volatile and intertwined international situation, the contemporary significance of the GDI has become even more prominent, and all parties must continue to hold high the banner of development and firmly promote the alignment of the GDI with the United Nations development agenda.

Wang called for enhancing unity and cooperation and creating a peaceful development environment; pooling efforts for action and accelerating the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; promoting openness and mutual learning and strengthening the engine of innovative development; and practicing multilateralism and improving the global governance system.

UN senior officials, diplomatic envoys of member states of the Group of Friends of the GDI in China, and representatives from China offices of the UN development system, among others, attended the meeting.

All parties at the meeting spoke highly of the fruitful results achieved by the GDI over the past five years, expressed their appreciation for China's leading role in promoting international development cooperation, and voiced their willingness to continue deepening development cooperation with China.