Tang Ying addresses China Social Sciences Forum

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held an international symposium in Beijing to discuss the joint building of the Belt and Road, the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and cooperation with peripheral regions on Nov 18. 

Tang Ying, director of the Global Development Promotion Center of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), attended the meeting and delivered a speech. 

Tang said the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by China offer a feasible path for the world's development amid changes unseen in a century. 

In the face of overlapping crises, the GDI provides a route for the realization of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Tang noted.

Tang said that the GDI emphasizes a people-centered principle, demonstrates the Chinese nation's care about the wellbeing of humanity, practices real multilateralism, and highlights the direction for China's international development cooperation in the new era. 

According to Tang, the Global Development Promotion Center is an important platform for China to implement the GDI, bearing the common expectation of the international community to strengthen development cooperation. 

The center has established a project pool, a network of promotion centers, and a digital promotion platform, and has held a series of forums to support global development, she said, expressing her hope to draw all parties to actively participate, pool wisdom and strength, and contribute to the GDI's implementation. 

The participants agreed that the GDI is a significant public good offered by China for the world, and that all parties should contribute their resources and wisdom to advance it jointly. 

Former UN under-secretary-general Liu Zhenmin, former deputy prime minister of Thailand Surakiart Sathirathai, and diplomatic officials from Malaysia, Pakistan and Indonesia attended the forum online or offline.