"Focus on building a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas and strive to create a new situation in surrounding areas."

From April 8 to 9, the Central Peripheral Work Conference was held in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered an important speech, systematically summarizing the achievements and experience of my country's surrounding work since the new era, scientifically analyzing the situation, and clarifying the goals, tasks, ideas and measures of surrounding work in the future period.

This reminds people of the first symposium on neighboring diplomatic work held by New China in October 2013. It was at that symposium that General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the concept of friendship, sincerity, favor and tolerance of neighboring countries, and led China to open up a new realm of friendly cooperation with neighboring countries.

Why is the surrounding area so important to our country? Our country has a vast territory and a long border. "Whether from the perspective of geographical location, natural environment or mutual relations, the surrounding area has extremely important strategic significance to our country."

General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized, "Only when our home is peaceful can we do our own things with peace of mind." "The surrounding area is where China lives and the foundation for its development and prosperity." "Asia is our common home, and the surrounding area is our neighbors who cannot move away. Achievement of neighbors is to help ourselves."

"Building a community with a shared future for mankind must first start with Asia." General Secretary Xi Jinping once quoted the lyrics familiar to China, "We in Asia, trees are rooted together; we in Asia, clouds are shaken hands" and said: "This reflects the simple sense of Asian community with a shared future in the hearts of the Chinese people." The General Secretary emphasized, "China has always placed its surroundings in the top position in the overall diplomatic situation and regards promoting peace, stability and development in the surrounding areas as its responsibility."

This Central Peripheral Work Conference further summarizes the strategic significance of the surrounding areas: "The surrounding areas are an important foundation for achieving development and prosperity, the focus of safeguarding national security, the primary focus of planning the overall diplomacy, and the key to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind." The meeting emphasized that "we must examine the surrounding areas from a global perspective and enhance the sense of responsibility and mission in doing a good job in the surrounding areas."

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, strategizing the surrounding areas has been a major focus of China's diplomacy. "Meet often, walk more". Under the guidance of the head of state diplomacy, the surrounding work has achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes. China's "neighborhood relations" have become stronger over time, and a new chapter has been written.

Now, China has reached a consensus with 17 neighboring countries to build a community with a shared future, and signed a cooperation agreement with 25 neighboring countries to jointly build the "Belt and Road" policy, becoming the largest trading partner of the 18 countries, and forming the "two clusters" of a community with a shared future in the Indochina Peninsula and Central Asia. The integration of political mutual trust and interests between China and neighboring countries continues to deepen.

"At present, my country's relationship with its neighbors is at its best period since modern times, and it has also entered an important stage of in-depth linkage between the surrounding pattern and the changes in the world." This is a strategic judgment made by this Central Peripheral Work Conference.

At the moment when the international situation is becoming increasingly complex, we must not only adhere to and make good use of the experiences explored and formed in practice, but also keep pace with the times and give new connotations and create new situations.

At the symposium on neighboring diplomacy held in 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed: "The basic policy of our country's neighboring diplomacy is to adhere to good-for-neighborly, safe neighbors, and rich neighbors, and highlight the concept of closeness, sincerity, favor and tolerance."

On October 24, 2023, President Xi Jinping delivered a written speech to the International Seminar to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the proposal of the concept of closeness, sincerity, favor and tolerance of neighboring diplomacy, emphasizing that in the new era, we will give the concept of closeness, sincerity, favor and tolerance of the concept, carry forward the Asian values ​​with peace, cooperation, inclusiveness and integration as the core, and provide new support for regional unity, opening up and progress.

This Central Peripheral Work Conference further emphasized that we should take the construction of the "five major gardens" of peace, tranquility, prosperity, beauty and friendship as the common vision, take good neighborhood, peace, wealth, friendship, friendship, and sharing of destiny as the concept and policy, take the Asian values ​​of peace, cooperation, openness and inclusiveness as the basic guideline, and take the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as the main platform, and take the Asian security model of sharing safety, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and dialogue and consultation as the strategic support, and work with neighboring countries to create a better future.

"Feeling in love, and neighbors looking forward to neighbors." General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "building a neighboring community with a shared future" at the 2014 Central Foreign Affairs Work Conference. Since then, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized the same meaning on different occasions: "China is willing to combine its own development more closely with the development of neighboring countries, and work with neighboring countries to build a community with a shared future, so that everyone can live a good life together."

This Central Peripheral Work Conference has made arrangements for building a neighboring community with a shared future: "We must consolidate strategic mutual trust with neighboring countries and support the land The district countries will follow their own development path and properly manage contradictions and differences; deepen development integration, build a high-level interconnection network, and strengthen cooperation in industrial chains and supply chains; jointly maintain regional stability, carry out security and law enforcement cooperation, and respond to various risks and challenges; expand exchanges and facilitate personnel exchanges."

Faced with the century-old changes in accelerating evolution and the turbulent international situation, China has been rooted in the surrounding areas and contributed to the surrounding areas, committed to promoting the construction of a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas, working with neighboring countries to achieve common development, injecting more stability and more hope into the world.

Producer: Liang Changjie

Planning: Yue Xiaoqiao

Written by: Ren Huaitong

Poster: Wang Yufeng Liu Kejun

Editor in charge: Yan Qiaoxiu