【建设亚太共同体 促进共同繁荣】共担时代责任 共促亚太发展

CCTV News (Xinwen Lianbo): APEC is the Asia-Pacific region's highest-level, broadest-ranging and most influential economic cooperation mechanism. As a member of the Asia-Pacific family, China has consistently shared opportunities and pursued coordinated development with regional partners. The 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting will be held in Shenzhen on November 18–19. China will work with all parties to bring together the wisdom and strength of member economies and jointly chart a new vision of Asia-Pacific prosperity.

The final Senior Officials' Meeting of the APEC China Year concluded today, November 15, in Shenzhen. Through in-depth communication, the parties reached broad consensus and made final preparations on outcomes for the forthcoming Economic Leaders' Meeting. APEC's "China time" has entered its core agenda. Asia-Pacific partners are gathering in Shenzhen, with the world's attention focused on China.

The vast Pacific Ocean carries the shared aspirations of Asia-Pacific peoples for a better life. Over the 37 years since its founding, APEC has upheld the concept of "open regionalism," forged a path of cooperation featuring harmony amid diversity and mutual benefit, led the region to the forefront of global openness and development, and helped make the Asia-Pacific the world's most dynamic economic region.

Yet with global trade protectionism rising and geopolitical conflicts continuing, the Asia-Pacific is also at a critical juncture in its development. How can it navigate the storms and continue its miracle of development and prosperity? With a profound historical perspective on the trends of the times, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly put forward clear positions and practical initiatives, encouraging unity of purpose within the Asia-Pacific family and guiding the region in the right direction.

Since 2013, President Xi Jinping has attended successive APEC Economic Leaders' Meetings and delivered important speeches. From first proposing and outlining a roadmap for an "Asia-Pacific community with a shared future," to advocating an Asia-Pacific partnership of mutual trust, inclusiveness, cooperation and mutual benefit, and systematically explaining the community's meaning in terms of openness and inclusiveness, innovative growth, connectivity and mutually beneficial cooperation, President Xi has profoundly articulated the reality of intertwined interests and shared futures among Asia-Pacific economies, building consensus and strength for jointly creating a better regional future.

"China's development has benefited from the Asia-Pacific, and China has used its own development to give back to and benefit the Asia-Pacific." In the more than 30 years since joining APEC, China has consistently been a staunch participant in and contributor to regional cooperation.

China promotes mutually beneficial cooperation through openness and integration. It is implementing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to a high standard and steadily advancing the upgrade to Version 3.0 of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, injecting lasting momentum into regional integration. China continues to shorten its negative list for foreign investment access and expand opening-up in the service sector, sharing the benefits of its opening-up with neighboring partners.

China pursues common prosperity through inclusiveness and benefits for all. In Thailand, Chinese new-energy technologies are helping transform and upgrade the local automotive industrial chain. In Malaysia, Chinese companies have helped a local national car brand turn losses into profits, while China and Southeast Asian countries are jointly building a deeply integrated, mutually beneficial industrial ecosystem. In Peru, Chancay Port, which opened two years ago, has become a "fast lane" for economic and trade exchanges between Asia and Latin America and has created tens of thousands of local jobs through technical training. In Papua New Guinea, China's Juncao and upland rice technologies are helping people escape poverty and strengthening the foundations of the island country's development. The Chinese concept that "only development shared by all countries is true development" is becoming a tangible experience for people across the region.

In the face of a new round of technological and industrial transformation involving artificial intelligence and other fields, China calls for jointly building an open innovation ecosystem. From promoting green supply chain capacity building to establishing multilateral dialogue platforms on artificial intelligence and recently announcing the establishment of the "China Center for Promoting APEC Cooperation on Cross-Border Data Flows," China is helping the Asia-Pacific accelerate digital, intelligent and green transformation and foster new drivers of growth.

From Shanghai in 2001 to Beijing in 2014 and Shenzhen in 2026, China, hosting for the third time, remains true to its original commitment to advance alongside Asia-Pacific partners.

Since the launch of the APEC China Year, China has held more than 300 events in over ten cities. From specialized ministerial meetings on trade, tourism, energy, forestry, digital matters and artificial intelligence to capacity-building training for developing economies, China continues to build frameworks for coordinated action, turning the vision of "Building an Asia-Pacific Community and Promoting Common Prosperity" into concrete cooperation outcomes.

Looking ahead, China will continue to embrace the Asia-Pacific and connect with the world with an inclusive approach, working with all parties to give APEC cooperation a fresh start from Shenzhen and write a new chapter of openness, innovation and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.