China's top diplomat urges enhancing understanding
via dialogue among civilizations
BEIJING, June 9 --
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday
called for improving understanding and fostering mutual trust through dialogue
when addressing an event observing the International Day for Dialogue among
Civilizations via video.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of
China Central Committee, called on all sides to promote unity and seek
consensus through exchanges, and continuously consolidate the popular and
cultural foundation for building a community with a shared future for humanity
in the face of unprecedented challenges.
Wang highlighted that China proposes a four-pronged approach to
promoting dialogue among civilizations.
He said, firstly, that all sides should adhere to mutual respect and
promote harmonious coexistence among different civilizations, calling for
championing equality, mutual learning, dialogue and inclusiveness among
civilizations.
Secondly, all sides should abide by a people-oriented approach and lay a
solid foundation for exchanges among civilizations, Wang said, adding that
efforts should be made to promote mutual understanding and friendship among
people of all countries and ensure that the fruits of mutual learning among
civilizations benefit the people more extensively and directly.
China is willing to enhance dialogue among civilizations with all
countries and deepen exchanges of experience in state governance, in order to
jointly solve the problems of the times and work together to broaden the path
of world modernization, Wang added.
Thirdly, Wang called for endeavors in inheritance and innovation of
traditional culture to enhance the driving force of civilization and progress,
noting that China will assist all countries in achieving creative
transformation and innovative development of their outstanding traditional
cultures.
He also appealed for fully exploiting technological dividends such as
artificial intelligence and social media, to empower exchanges, mutual
learning, inheritance and innovation among civilizations, and promote the
common prosperity of human civilization.
Fourthly, Wang said all sides should adhere to exchanges and mutual
learning and improve the mechanism for dialogue among civilizations.
China supports further leveraging platforms including the United Nations
Alliance of Civilizations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization and the Forum of Ancient Civilizations to enable them to
play an important role in inter-civilization dialogue, he added.