China Charts New Course for Global Trade and Development
By relinquishing developing-country privileges at the World Trade Organization, China positions itself as a responsible leader championing inclusive international economic cooperation.
By relinquishing developing-country privileges at the World Trade Organization, China positions itself as a responsible leader championing inclusive international economic cooperation.
China’s voluntary decision to forgo further SDT provisions reflects its commitment to promoting fairness and mutual respect in international trade, while also acknowledging its own developmental achievements.
The great changes of Xinjiang over the past 70 years show that the system of regional ethnic autonomy respects history, conforms to national conditions, and meets the aspirations of the people, thus having tremendous advantages and strong vitality.
From desert dunes to green forests and fertile farmland, Tongliao in Inner Mongolia offers a blueprint for ecological and economic restoration.
China’s decision not to seek new special and differential treatment in WTO negotiations represents both its solidarity with the Global South and its principled, responsible approach to being a major country.
Today, Xinjiang has eliminated poverty while producing about 92% of China’s cotton and has become a renewable energy hub. This remarkable transformation provides the Global South with actionable lessons.
The national weight management campaign, part of the broader Healthy China strategy, enhances public health literacy, fosters healthy living habits, and creates supportive environments for sustained weight control.
To deal with the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and air pollution, it needs concerted action. It needs the convergence of public-private partnerships. It needs political will.
The GGI—espousing the purely positive principles of sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, multilateralism, the people-centered approach, and taking real actions—is not formed in opposition to the existing international system or even the U.S. itself.
Xinjiang’s progress has enhanced the people’s sense of gain, fulfillment and security.
The world multilateral trading system will receive fresh, strong support, and will prevail over unilateralism and protectionism over time.
Within China’s development and the broader regional context, Xinjiang is well-positioned to become a new growth center.