From April 8 to 9, 2025, the Central Peripheral Work Conference was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People’s Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech, emphasizing the need to focus on building a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas and strive to create a new situation in surrounding work.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for building a community with a shared future with neighboring countries and striving to open new ground for China’s neighborhood work. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a central conference on work related to neighboring countries, which was held in Beijing from April 8 to April 9, 2025.
On April 1, 2025, at Dehong Mangshi International Airport, staff transported the donated medical supplies onto the plane. On the same day, the People’s Government of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province donated a batch of medical supplies worth more than 240,000 yuan to the Ministry of Health through aviation to support Myanmar’s earthquake relief work. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
【Knowledge Points】
China is connected with its surrounding countries, has a cultural connection, has a harmonious relationship with interests, and shares a shared destiny. Our country has a vast territory and a long border line. The surrounding area is an important foundation for achieving development and prosperity, the focus of safeguarding national security, the primary focus of planning the overall diplomatic situation, and the key to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. From October 24 to 25, 2013, at the first neighboring diplomatic work symposium held since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, China proposed the basic policy of neighboring diplomacy is to adhere to being kind to neighbors and taking neighbors as a companion, adhere to good neighbors, peace and wealth, and highlight the concepts of friendship, sincerity, favor and tolerance. The “Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s Centennial Struggle” passed in 2021 proposes to deepen relations with neighboring countries in accordance with the concept of friendship, sincerity, favor and inclusiveness and the neighboring diplomatic policy of being kind to neighbors and taking neighbors as partners, stabilize neighboring strategic support, and build a community with a shared future in the neighborhood. Building a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas is a major strategy proposed by our country in the face of the current regional development and a win-win path between our country and neighboring countries. Over the years, China has actively planned neighboring diplomacy, properly punished differences, enhanced mutual trust, deepened mutually beneficial cooperation, consolidated the foundation of public opinion, and built a neighboring community with a shared future, setting an example for promoting the construction of a new type of international relations and building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The Central Peripheral Work Conference held in April 2025 pointed out that my country’s relationship with its neighbors is at its best period since modern times, and it has also entered an important stage of in-depth linkage between the surrounding pattern and the changes in the world. The meeting believes that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, we have put forward the concept of friendly, sincere, favorable and inclusive neighboring diplomacy, advocated and promoted the building of a community with a shared future in the neighboring world, guided by the diplomacy of the head of state, deepened all-round cooperation with neighboring countries, strengthened exchanges in various fields, jointly maintained peace and stability, formed a pragmatic and efficient peripheral work framework, and promoted historic achievements and historic changes in surrounding work. The meeting emphasized that to build a neighboring community with a shared future, we must consolidate strategic mutual trust with neighboring countries, support regional countries to stabilize their own development path, properly manage contradictions and differences; deepen development integration, build a high-level interconnected network, and strengthen cooperation in the industrial chain and supply chain; jointly maintain regional stability, carry out security and law enforcement cooperation, and respond to various risks and challenges; expand exchanges and facilitate personnel exchanges.
【Important Speech】
China is willing to combine its own development with the development of neighboring countries, and work with neighboring countries to build a community with a shared future so that everyone can live a good life together.
China is ready to better align its development with that of its neighbors, and work with them together to build a community with a shared future and deliver a better life to all.
——On December 12, 2023, Xi Jinping published a signed article in Vietnam People’s Daily entitled “Building a strategically significant China-Vietnam community with shared future begins a new chapter of working together to move towards modernization”
【Congratulations by letter】
The basic policy of China’s neighboring diplomacy is to adhere to being kind to neighbors and taking neighbors as a companion, adhere to good neighbors, peace and wealth, and highlight the concept of friendship, sincerity, favor and tolerance. Over the past 10 years, China has actively practiced the concept of friendship, sincerity, favor and inclusiveness, and has comprehensively developed friendly and cooperative relations with neighboring countries. The political mutual trust between the two sides has been continuously strengthened, and the integration of interests has continued to deepen, and has embarked on a bright road of good neighborliness, friendship and win-win cooperation.
The basic policy of China’s neighborhood diplomacy is to pursue friend and partnership with its neighbors, and to build an amicable, secure and prosperous neighborhood, highlighting the principle of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness. Over the past decade, China has actively practiced the above-mentioned principle, and developed friendly and cooperative relations with its neighbors in an all-round way. The two sides have continuously enhanced political mutual trust and deepened convergence of interests, thus opening up a bright pathway of good-neighborly friendship and win-win cooperation.
——On October 24, 2023, Xi Jinping delivered a written speech to the International Seminar to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Diplomacy of Friendship, Sincere, Welfare and Forbearing the Neighbors
【Related Words】
Community of shared future for mankind
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the principles of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy
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