China is a strong advocate and a steadfast practitioner of true multilateralism and it always prioritize the future of humanity and the well-being of the people, and aligns its national interest with the common interests of all nations, said Assistant Foreign Minister Miao Deyu on the occasion of release of the report on “True Multilateralism: Conceptual Development, Core Essence and China’s Practice”. In his remarks on the occasion, the Assistant Foreign Minister said China faithfully fulfills its responsibilities and duties as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, dispatching over 50,000 personnel to U.N. peacekeeping missions, and serving as the second-largest contributor to both UN’s regular and peacekeeping budgets. “China is among the first to meet the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and a pacesetter in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, accounting for more than 70 percent of global poverty reduction. China firmly supports U.N.’s main channel role in global governance on new frontiers such as the artificial intelligence. We promoted the adoption of a U.N. General Assembly resolution on enhancing international cooperation on AI capacity-building, and support the establishment of an international AI governance body under the U.N. framework, to ensure equal participation and benefit-sharing by all countries.” the Assistant Foreign Minister said China firmly safeguards the international rule of law, fairness and justice. The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, initiated and jointly championed by China 70 years ago, have become open, inclusive, and universally applicable basic norms for international relations and fundamental principles of international law. China has joined almost all universal intergovernmental organizations and over 600 international conventions and amendments, always fulfilling its treaty obligations in good faith, and exceeding its commitments made upon accession to the WTO. We worked for the conclusion of the Paris Agreement and its comprehensive and effective implementation, upholding the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and helping to address developing countries’ concerns about funding, technology, and capacity-building. We stand firmly by the “golden rule” of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs, respect other nation’s choice of development paths and systems, and oppose power politics, bullying practices, unilateral sanctions and “long-arm jurisdiction.” The Assistant Foreign Minister said China actively provides the world with much-needed global public goods. To address the development challenges facing many countries, President Xi Jinping has put forward the initiative of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. The BRI has brought together over 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations in several thousand practical cooperation projects, creating the largest platform for international cooperation with the broadest coverage. In view of the growing deficit in global governance, President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI), and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), winning wide acclaim and warm response from the international community. Over 100 countries have joined the Group of Friends of the GDI, expressed support to the GSI, or endorsed the six-point common understanding on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis jointly proposed by China and Brazil. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most severe global public health emergency since World War II, China is committed to making its vaccines a global public good, providing tens of billions of masks and 2.3 billion doses of vaccines to countries around the world, and collaborated with more than 20 countries in vaccine production, building a strong defense for the lives and health of people across the world. The Assistant Foreign Minister said China proactively engages in and leads the reform and improvement of the global governance system. In response to the major issues and challenges facing the world today, President Xi Jinping has called for an equal and orderly multi-polar world, and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, and advocated humanity’s common values of peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom, pointing the direction and providing inspiration for the international community’s pursuit of lasting stability and shared prosperity. China supports continuous reform and development of the U.N., and the growth and strengthening of the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. China is actively engaged in multilateral mechanisms such as the WTO, APEC, and G20, and takes an active part in the global governance and rules-setting for emerging fields. In a spirit of win-win cooperation, China keeps offering new opportunities for the world with the latest achievements in Chinese modernization, and works with all sides to advance global modernization that features peace and development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity, to better serve the interests of people in all countries. The Assistant Foreign Minister said China is ready to join forces with all parties to continue holding high the torch of multilateralism, advance the goal of building a community with a shared future for mankind, replace conflict and confrontation with peace and development, replace absolute security with common security, replace zero-sum game with win-win cooperation, prevent clash of civilizations through mutual learning, protect our planet through green development, and build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world of lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity, to jointly open up a better future for mankind.