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    For a Safer And Better World

    May 26, 2022 7 minutes
    By Ding Ying
    Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

    What does an ideal world look like? For many around the globe, the answer is quite simple: A much more friendly, helping environment compared to today’s society. Ever the peaceloving civilization, the Chinese concur.

    About 2,500 years ago, amid the chaos stemming from successive wars between vassal states, the philosopher and politician Confucius (551-479 B.C.) proposed a type of “great harmony” in which people live in peace and help each other grow, all the while remaining open to the beauty of different groups and states.

    Today, the world sees its people fight against a pandemic, natural disasters, poverty and even each other. China, as an emerging economy and a responsible major country, calls for the creation of a community with a shared future for humanity, initiates novel approaches to realize it and practices major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics for a new era.

    Setting an example

    President Xi Jinping reiterated China’s commitment when addressing the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2022 on April 21. No matter how the world will change, “the country will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the

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