Zhinews of Shenzhen Satellite TV:

During the past decade, China has actively reformed and built the global governance system. Yet some people argue that China plans to start all over again and change the rules-based international order. How do you view China's position and role in global governance? Thank you.

Ma Zhaoxu:

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, following the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, China has expanded and deepened the involvement of its diplomacy in global governance with unprecedented intensity. It has contributed Chinese wisdom, offered Chinese solutions and demonstrated its sense of responsibility, winning wide praise from the international community.

Bearing in mind the future and the fate of humanity, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forth, at the United Nations and other major occasions, China's global governance vision that advocates commitment to openness and inclusiveness instead of closeness and exclusion; commitment to working based on international law instead of a sense of superiority; commitment to consultation and cooperation instead of conflict and confrontation; and commitment to keeping up with the times instead of rejecting change. China's vision guides reforms of the global governance system and international system and injects positive energy into global uncertainty.

China has faithfully fulfilled its responsibility and mission as a permanent member of the UN Security Council. It has sent over 50,000 peacekeepers to UN peacekeeping operations and is now the second largest financial contributor to both the United Nations and UN peacekeeping operations. China stays committed to facilitating peaceful negotiations and advocates resolving disputes through peaceful means to settle significant hotspots such as the Ukraine crisis, the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the Iranian nuclear issue, and Afghanistan. China maintains its commitment to promoting global security and has proposed the Global Security Initiative, winning praise and support from more than 70 countries.

China was among the first countries to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals. It has taken the lead in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, accounting for over 70% of global poverty reduction. We have used China's new achievements in development to provide the world with new opportunities, contributing over 30% of global growth on average. We have proposed a Global Development Initiative, set up the UN Peace and Development Trust Fund and expanded South-South cooperation, injecting strong impetus into human progress.

China has followed through with the Paris Agreement on climate change and declared its carbon peak and neutrality targets as well as new measures for nationally determined contributions, playing a key role in the cooperation on addressing climate change. It hosted the COP15 to the Convention on Biological Diversity and established the Kunming Biodiversity Fund, making it a firm player in global ecological governance. We have taken an active part in global digital governance and put forth the Global Initiative on Data Security to make the global digital governance system fairer and more equitable.

Recently, we have put forth related initiatives on food security and energy security, offering Chinese solutions to the world's challenges.

Here I want to make it clear that the reform of the global governance system is not intended to reinvent the wheel. Instead, it aims to make the system fairer and more equitable. The international order can only be underpinned by international law instead of the so-called rules drawn up by a few countries and the rules of a country or an organization. No matter how the global situation might have changed, China will neither change its resolve to practice genuine multilateralism nor change its efforts in improving global governance nor change its actions in pushing multilateral cooperation. Thank you.

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