On July 10, 2023, the First High-Level Conference of the Forum on Global Action for Shared Development was held in Beijing. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi first read out a congratulatory letter from President Xi Jinping.
Wang Yi said that President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter has shown China's sincere wish to advance the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, demonstrated China's resolute determination to implement the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and drawn a grand vision of building a human community with a shared future. In 2021, President Xi Jinping solemnly put forth the GDI, sending a strong message of the times of concentrating on development and revitalizing cooperation. Two years on, China has joined hands with all cooperative partners to deepen and substantiate the GDI, revitalized the international development agenda, carried out numerous cooperation projects, established extensive cooperation networks, and improved the lives of people in all countries.
Wang Yi said that the GDI is not a solo of China, but a symphony of all sides. As the world's largest developing country and an ex officio member of the Global South, China will seek more active, effective and sustainable measures to promote the implementation of the GDI, take action in six areas including supporting the development priority agenda, optimizing the cultivation of development projects, breaking the bottleneck of development financing, expanding development cooperation methods, strengthening tripartite development cooperation, and supporting youth-led development, and jointly create a future of development with all other countries in the world.
Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Manasseh Sogavare, President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, Prime Minister of Cambodia Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Nikolai Snopkov, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos Saleumxay Kommasith, among others, attended the conference and delivered remarks either online or offline. Representatives of 158 countries and international organizations attended the conference upon invitation.
