July 8, 2021
On July 6, 2021, the CPC and World Political Parties Summit were held virtually. The cloud summit gathered leaders of more than 500 political parties and organizations from over 160 countries, including high level representatives of the Sierra Leone People’s Party.
H.E. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President delivered a keynote speech titled Strengthening Cooperation among Political Parties to Jointly Pursue the People’s Wellbeing via video link in Beijing.
In the speech, General Secretary Xi noted that political parties, as an important force behind human progress, need to set the right course forward and shoulder their historic responsibility to ensure the people’s wellbeing and pursue human progress. He said that political parties need to work even harder on the following:
First, shoulder the responsibility to steer the course by seizing and shaping the shared future for mankind.
Second, shoulder the responsibility to build consensus by upholding and promoting the common values of humanity.
Third, shoulder the responsibility to promote development by bringing greater benefits to all peoples in a fairer manner.
Fourth, shoulder the responsibility to enhance cooperation by working together to address global risks and challenges.
Fifth, shoulder the responsibility to improve governance by enhancing our capacity to ensure the people’s wellbeing.
He emphasized that CPC stands ready to work with world political parties to live dreams and act to create a better future. He called on political parties around the globe to always be builders of world peace, advocates for global development, and guardians of the international order. He reiterated that:
–The CPC will unite and lead the Chinese people in pressing ahead with the Chinese-style modernisation to make new contributions to humanity’s search for ways to modernise.
–The CPC will unite and lead the Chinese people in taking comprehensive steps to deepen reform and opening up to make new contributions to shared development and prosperity of all countries of the world.
—The CPC will shoulder its responsibilities as a major political party in a major country to make new contributions to improving the wellbeing of mankind.
–The CPC will actively improve global governance to make new contributions to humanity’s joint response to common challenges.
General Secretary Xi also took swipes at practices of seeking technology blockade and decoupling, politicizing the pandemic, “political manipulation for the purpose of sabotaging the development of other countries,” and practices of “seeking hegemony by way of group politics.”
He pointed out that on the road to the well-being of all mankind, no country or nation should be left behind. All countries and nations are equally entitled to development opportunities and rights. There doesn’t exist a fixed model for the path to modernization, and the path that suits a country will serve it well, he said.
He said that that China will always be a member of the developing world and China will never seek hegemony, expansion, or sphere of influence.
Over 10,000 representatives of political parties and various circles attended the event. The summit issued a joint statement of proposals, which expressed the common will of political parties attending the event to safeguard world peace and development and promote the wellbeing of the people.（Source: Xinhua）