" What's wrong with the world and what should we do?" As global political leaders, business, academic and media leaders gather again in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 starting on January 20, this question of the times becomes even more intense and urgent.

Geopolitical conflicts continue, political situations in many countries are unstable, and economic recovery is weak. How will the ship of shared human destiny get out of the crisis and confusion and move forward?

Breaking through the waves and bravely standing at the forefront. Since 2017, President Xi Jinping has attended the Davos Forum three times and delivered important speeches. He not only analyzed and grasped the laws from the long historical cycle but also had insights into the changes of things from the details, grasped the pulse of the times, answered the questions of the times, and pointed out the direction for human development and progress.

" The propositions put forward by President Xi Jinping at the Davos Forum are of great significance to the world today." Borg Brende, President of the World Economic Forum, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency recently.

" The direction of economic globalization has never changed and will not change."

Low growth, high debt and high inflation are plaguing the world, and the global extreme poverty rate has risen for the first time in 20 years. Looking ahead, people can't help asking: Where is the way out for global development? Where is economic globalization going?

" Adhere to innovation-driven and create a dynamic growth model", "Adhere to coordinated and interactive efforts and create an open and win-win cooperation model", "Adhere to advancing with the times and create a just and reasonable governance model", "Adhere to fairness and inclusiveness and create a balanced and inclusive development model" - In 2017, President Xi Jinping gave such Chinese answers in the face of many challenges faced by economic globalization in Davos, Switzerland.

" Although there have been many countercurrents and dangerous shoals, the direction of economic globalization has never changed and will not change." President Xi Jinping made this important assertion again at the World Economic Forum Video Conference in 2022.

" The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth, and the digitization, greening and intelligentization of the world economy are accelerating continuously, accumulating strong momentum for the acceleration of economic globalization again." "We need to promote economic globalization to release more positive effects and enter a more dynamic, more inclusive and more sustainable new stage." "We should strengthen the international governance and cooperation of artificial intelligence to ensure that artificial intelligence is good and benefits all mankind and avoid it becoming a 'game for the rich and the wealthy'."...

In the past year, President Xi Jinping has called for promoting innovation-driven development, improving global governance, strengthening global cooperation and achieving common development at many international occasions. This is China's proposition and also China's action.

At the beginning of 2025, the first policy dialogue meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative and the Working Group on Promoting the United Nations System Initiative was held, and representatives of more than 40 countries and nearly 20 United Nations agencies highly appreciated China's leading role in international development cooperation.

Implementing the Global Development Initiative, jointly building the "Belt and Road" with global partners at a high quality, joining the "Global Alliance to Combat Hunger and Poverty", expanding unilateral opening to the least developed countries, building the "Five Cooperation Patterns" with Arab countries, jointly promoting the "Ten Partnership Actions" for modernization with African countries, and advocating the construction of the Peace BRICS, the Innovation BRICS, the Green BRICS, the Justice BRICS and the Humanities BRICS... Based on the concept of win-win cooperation, China creates opportunities for the Global South countries eager for development and continuously injects vitality and expands space into economic globalization.

Bernard Dewit, Chairman of the Belgium-China Economic and Trade Commission, said that at a time when protectionism is on the rise globally, China has always adhered to the win-win concept, promoted global cooperation and continuously advocated the construction of an open world economic system through cooperation. "It is really admirable."

" Let the torch of multilateralism light up the way forward for mankind."

In a refugee camp in the central city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, the cold wind mixed with winter rain is beating the simple tents.

Since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, the Palestinian Saidim has taken his whole family to many refugee camps. His son Alkan has long lost his smile, and his daughter Jori is too afraid of the explosion sound to sleep all night and curls up in the corner of the tent. When he learned that a ceasefire agreement had been reached in the Gaza Strip, Saidim had mixed feelings: "Why did peace come so late?"

Looking around the world, the war and conflict have made Gaza a hell on earth, the Ukraine crisis has lasted for a thousand days without seeing the light of day, and terrorism is raging in the Sahel region of Africa... The 2024 Global Trends Report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees shows that the number of displaced people in the world has increased continuously for 12 years and reached 120 million by May 2024. Countless people like Saidim's family are eager for the sunshine of peace.

" The reason for this problem is war, conflict and regional unrest. The way out to solve this problem is to seek peace, promote reconciliation and restore stability." In 2017, President Xi Jinping pointed out the crux of the problem and prescribed the remedy for the refugee tide and the displacement of the people that had troubled the world at that time in his speech at the Davos Forum.

" Let the torch of multilateralism light up the way forward for mankind." In 2021, President Xi Jinping made a special speech at the "Davos Agenda" Dialogue of the World Economic Forum, pointing out the direction for bridging the increasingly serious peace deficit and trust deficit.

" When countries are at peace, the world is safe; when countries fight, the world is in chaos." "Let the fire of peace be passed down from generation to generation, let the driving force of development be continuous, and let the light of civilization shine brightly." "Only when all countries are safe can there be real security."... In recent years, at the United Nations Geneva Headquarters, at the SCO, BRICS, APEC, G20 and other bilateral and multilateral occasions, President Xi Jinping has deeply grasped the historical logic of human social development and repeatedly sent out the strong voice of peace and development, injecting positive energy into maintaining world peace and stability.

Promoting the adoption of the first Gaza ceasefire resolution by the United Nations Security Council, providing multiple batches of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and promoting breakthroughs in the process of Palestinian internal reconciliation; jointly issuing the "Six-Point Consensus" on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis with Brazil, dispatching special envoys to conduct three rounds of shuttle mediation, and launching the "Friends of Peace" group together with relevant Global South countries... China has shown its responsibility through actions and is firmly committed to maintaining world peace.

Babar Amin, the first national coordinator of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Pakistan, believes that the Global Security Initiative put forward by President Xi Jinping is in line with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. "China has taken actions based on the concept of the Global Security Initiative and made practical contributions to world peace."

" In the same boat", unity and cooperation

The Panama Canal, an important international shipping channel connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, is called the "Bridge of the World".

Ajaques Murillo, 61 years old, is the hydrological manager of the Canal Affairs Department. What has worried him more and more in the past decade or so is that due to the impact of global climate change, there is less rainfall around the canal and the water volume of the canal has also decreased, which has seriously affected shipping. Due to drought, the canal was forced to limit the number of passing ships and reduce the cargo capacity of cargo ships in 2023.

The Panama Canal has a special geographical location and its "physical condition" directly affects the international logistics cost and is related to the prices of bulk commodities such as energy, agricultural products and basic raw materials. The dilemma it faces is a microcosm of the global impact of climate change.

Murillo told reporters that in order to cope with the climate challenge, the Canal Affairs Department has reached a forest protection agreement with the surrounding communities and introduced electric vehicles to promote emission reduction, but the climate change problem is far from being something that the Canal Authority, Panama or even the surrounding countries can cope with. "Why don't we solve the global challenges together?"

On issues such as climate change, public health, nuclear safety and terrorism, people are increasingly aware that in the face of common challenges, human beings, regardless of nationality and race, have related interests and a shared destiny, and only by working hand in hand can we overcome difficulties together.

" There is only one earth in the universe and all mankind shares one home." In 2017, President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations Geneva Headquarters and expounded the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind in depth.

In 2021, President Xi Jinping once again made a sincere appeal in his special speech at the "Davos Agenda" Dialogue of the World Economic Forum: "Whether it is to deal with the current crisis or create a better future, mankind needs to be in the same boat and work together in unity."

In the view of Volker Chapke, Honorary President of the Prussian Society in Berlin, Germany, the Chinese leader has repeatedly expounded the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind to the world, guiding more people to think about "our future" from "my future".

Today, the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind is widely recognized in the world and has been written into United Nations General Assembly resolutions and multilateral documents many times. The goals of building a community with a shared future in various fields such as cyber security, climate change and health have been established one after another; the three global initiatives have won the hearts of the people. At present, 82 countries have joined the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative", 119 countries and international organizations support the Global Security Initiative, and the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the resolution proposed by China to establish the International Day of Dialogue among Civilizations. In the past year, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly called on all parties to uphold the spirit of "in the same boat" and build a broader consensus at different occasions.

In 2024, China and Brazil announced the "China-Brazil Community with a Shared Future for a More Just World and a More Sustainable Planet", launched the construction of the China-Serbia Community with a Shared Future in the New Era with Serbia, and built the China-Africa Community with a Shared Future All-Weather in the New Era with Africa. Looking at the world, the construction of regional communities with a shared future between China and Central Asia, ASEAN, Lancang-Mekong countries, Arab countries, Latin American and Caribbean countries and other countries has been carried out one after another, highlighting the common wish of people of all countries to move forward hand in hand.

In January 2025, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell of Grenada said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency on the eve of his visit to China that the many concepts and practices put forward by China show that China has the ability and is leading and promoting all countries, especially the Global South, to respond to the common challenges of the times.

Building a community with a shared future for mankind is a beautiful goal and also a goal that requires generations of people to run in relays to achieve. The times are full of changes and challenges. China will continue to show great vision and responsibility and work hand in hand with all progressive forces in the world to jointly create a more beautiful future.（Outlook New Era）