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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, June 11 (Xinhua) — The Global Civilization Initiative has become another important public good that China has offered to the international community following the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, said Luo Shixiong, China’s Consul General in Yekaterinburg.
“On March 15, 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Civilization Initiative, calling on the world to actively promote exchanges and mutual enrichment among civilizations, and promote the progress of human society,” Luo Shixiong recalled in his article published on Wednesday in the newspaper “Sovetskaya Sibir” / Novosibirsk Region/ on the occasion of the International Day of Dialogue Among Civilizations, which is celebrated on June 10.
It is stated that this initiative advocates respect for the diversity of world civilizations, adheres to the principles of equality, mutual enrichment, dialogue and inclusiveness, and strives to ensure that exchanges and mutual enrichment between different civilizations, as well as their coexistence, prevail over mutual alienation and clashes between them, and over the feeling of superiority of one civilization over another.
The article emphasizes that the Global Civilization Initiative advocates the promotion of universal values: peace, development, justice, democracy and freedom. It calls for a broader outlook on the various ideas about the essence of values in different civilizations, rather than imposing one’s own model and values on others. In addition, the initiative advocates the preservation and development of cultural heritage, encourages the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional cultures of all countries in the process of modernization, and calls for strengthening international humanitarian exchanges and cooperation, bringing peoples of different countries closer together and jointly promoting the progress and development of human civilization.
“This initiative complements China’s response to the key question of our century, ‘What is happening to the world and what should we do?’, demonstrating China’s global vision and sense of responsibility as a responsible great power,” the diplomat added.
According to the author of the article, the resolution proposed by China to establish the International Day of Dialogue among Civilizations, which was unanimously adopted last June at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, marked China’s intellectual contribution to achieving inclusive coexistence and mutual enrichment among various civilizations. “This symbolizes the successful construction of a new bridge for human exchanges and civilizational interaction by mankind, and also means that the Chinese concept has become a global consensus and will be further transformed into global practice,” the article emphasizes.
Luo Shixiong believes that the emergence of the Global Civilization Initiative and the establishment of the International Day of Dialogue among Civilizations are very timely. “Looking at the world today, we see that changes unseen in a century are accelerating, the deficit of peace, security, development and governance is deepening, and the human community is facing many challenges to coexistence,” he notes.
According to the diplomat, finding a path for harmonious coexistence among civilizations has become the most important task for human society. By proposing the Global Civilization Initiative and the International Day of Dialogue among Civilizations, China aims to raise global awareness of the value of civilizational diversity and the importance of inter-civilizational exchanges, strengthen unity in finding solutions to global challenges, and inject positive impetus into humanity’s collective confrontation with common threats.
“We have every reason to believe that the Global Civilization Initiative and the International Day of Dialogue among Civilizations will certainly serve the benefit of all mankind,” Luo Shixiong concluded. –0–