On July 10, 2023, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the First High-Level Conference of the Forum on Global Action for Shared Development.

Xi Jinping pointed out that transformations of today’s world unseen in a century are unfolding at a faster pace, the world economy is struggling to recover and the global development agenda is facing challenges. To build consensus on cooperation and promote common development, Xi Jinping has put forward the Global Development Initiative to help accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He is pleased to see that with the joint participation of all parties, cooperation on the Global Development Initiative has yielded important early harvests and benefited many developing countries.

Xi Jinping stressed that development is the eternal theme of human society, and shared development is an important path to building a better world. As the largest developing country, China has always placed its own development within the larger context of human development and created new opportunities for the development of the world through its own development. China will further increase its resource input for global development cooperation, work with the international community to continuously deepen and substantiate the Global Development Initiative, and make new contributions to realizing the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as scheduled and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The First High-Level Conference of the Forum on Global Action for Shared Development, hosted by the China International Development Cooperation Agency, kicked off in Beijing on July 10 with the theme “Global Development Initiative: Echo the Development Agenda and Call for Global Action”.