Implementing the Global Governance Initiative for a Group with a Shared Future for Humanity_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

Remarks by H.E. Wang Yi
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
And Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China
At the twenty third Lanting Forum

Beijing, October 27, 2025

Distinguished Guests,
Diplomatic Envoys,
Friends,

Good morning! It is my nice pleasure to hitch you on the Lanting Forum in discussing enhance world governance, broaden solidarity and cooperation, and advance collectively towards a neighborhood with a shared future for humanity.

A couple of days in the past, we simply celebrated the United Nations Day. Over the previous 80 years, the worldwide system with the U.N. at its core has been standing as a bedrock of world peace and improvement, and the concept of multilateralism has taken deep root within the coronary heart of the individuals. Yet 80 years later at the moment, the dregs of unilateralism are stirring up once more, and world challenges are rising one after one other. How to reform and enhance world governance to make it extra related within the forthcoming multipolar world? That is a consequential query occupying minds all over the place.

Last month, President Xi Jinping solemnly put forth the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), providing the Chinese reply to this query of our instances. This main initiative options and advocates 5 core ideas: First, sovereign equality to make sure participation in world affairs by all nations; Second, worldwide rule of regulation for a simply and orderly world governance system; Third, multilateralism for better solidarity and cooperation amongst all nations; Fourth, a people-centered method for universally useful and inclusive outcomes of worldwide governance; Fifth, actual outcomes for a practical and environment friendly world governance course of.

The GGI builds on the needs and rules of the U.N. Charter, displays the positive custom of Chinese diplomacy, upholds the imaginative and prescient of a shared future, and units out the rules, strategies and paths to reform and enhance world governance. It represents a artistic development and elevation of our understanding of worldwide governance in addition to a breakthrough of theories of conventional worldwide relations. It is a brand new main world public good contributed by China.

The GGI responds to the wants of the world and needs of the individuals. Together with the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI) and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), it guarantees a lot wanted stability and offers certainty for this risky world, and has acquired swift and clear help from greater than 140 nations and worldwide organizations. The worldwide neighborhood believes that the Initiative is a well timed name for solidarity in a world threatened by fragmentation, it holds up essential pillars when the U.N. basis is being eroded, and it explicitly advocates togetherness as a substitute of dominance as a rule of worldwide governance. It believes the GGI represents the utmost commonality of all nations, it’s a key measure to sort out world challenges and defend multilateralism, and that it’s a essential step towards a extra simply and equitable world.

The most unequivocal message from the GGI is a name for stronger solidarity. The world at the moment is witnessing greater than 50 ongoing conflicts of varied varieties, with over 100 million individuals displaced. Such a world, marked by transformation and turbulence, is in better want of enhanced world governance than ever earlier than. Blind worship of may, energy politics and bullying will solely push the world again to the regulation of the jungle, and severely undermine the muse of the worldwide system and guidelines. President Xi Jinping’s well timed proposal of the GGI has despatched a robust message that nations should come collectively to satisfy challenges, forging a consensus and a power for solidarity and cooperation to beat division and confrontation.

The GGI represents a strongest assertion of multilateralism. Multilateralism is the cornerstone of the present worldwide order, and extra importantly, the trail that guarantees peace and improvement. Yet, it’s confronted with unprecedented challenges by willful acts that search to desert worldwide organizations and agreements and to forge unique blocs. But the development of historical past is irreversible, and a multipolar world is dawning. As advocated by the GGI, world affairs ought to be mentioned by all, the worldwide governance system constructed by all, and the governance outcomes shared by all. All acts of unilateralism have to be rejected. This place displays the development of our instances and the aspirations of the overwhelming majority of nations. It will increase the boldness and dedication of the worldwide neighborhood to observe multilateralism and improve multilateral mechanisms.

The most desired imaginative and prescient of the GGI is a way forward for equity. It goals to make the worldwide governance system extra simply and equitable and produce all collectively towards a neighborhood with a shared future for humanity. It requires better illustration and voice for creating nations, and rejects bullying of the small and weak. It requires equal and uniform software of worldwide regulation and guidelines, and opposes imposing one’s personal home guidelines on others. It requires closing the North-South hole as quickly as attainable and higher upholding the widespread pursuits of all nations. It calls on developed nations to earnestly fulfill their duties and creating nations to hunt power by means of unity. The GGI reveals not solely the course of worldwide governance, but additionally the correct path to get there. It will assist safeguard the reliable rights and pursuits of Global South nations and essentially rectify historic injustice.

Friends,

Vision lights up the trail forward, and cooperation opens up a greater future. China is able to work with all events to place the GGI into motion. We will have interaction constantly in equal session, hearken to completely different views, and take helpful recommendation with an open thoughts to construct most consensus. We will base our creativity on previous achievement, and make well timed adjustments to reform and enhance, quite than substitute, the present worldwide system. We will promote world governance reform with gradual and sustained effort to make it useful to the entire world. To this finish, we must always take the next actions.

First, we must always collectively uphold the authority and standing of the U.N. to cement the muse of worldwide governance. The U.N.-centered worldwide system has all the time been an essential underpinning for human progress. It have to be strengthened, not weakened. Failure to honor the needs and rules of the U.N. Charter has led to the multitude of issues we face at the moment. All nations ought to uphold the U.N. Charter and the essential norms governing worldwide relations and fulfill worldwide obligations of their entirety and in good religion. International guidelines shouldn’t be utilized selectively in accordance with one’s personal pursuits. No one ought to be allowed to cripple the United Nations. Greater democracy and rule of regulation in worldwide relations is an unstoppable course of. As lengthy as we keep decided and united, the U.N. will overcome difficulties and reinvigorate its authority and vitality.

China helps the U.N. constantly and firmly. We have held a solemn commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War to uphold the outcomes of World War II and the post-war worldwide order and safeguard worldwide equity and justice. The success of the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women is China’s concrete motion to empower the worldwide girls’s trigger. We have introduced the choice to arrange a China-U.N. Global South-South Development Facility and set up in Shanghai a worldwide heart for sustainable improvement in partnership with the U.N. Development Program to hurry up the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We name on all nations to have interaction with the U.N. on the cooperation agendas throughout poverty discount, infrastructure, training and well being. The U.N.80 Initiative has reached a essential stage the place member states are in session for its development. China helps the U.N. reform effort and can work with all nations to step up help for the U.N. system.

Second, we must always work collectively to advance widespread improvement to reinforce the efficacy of worldwide governance. International commerce is a key engine for world financial development. A WTO that performs its due function to safeguard an open and inclusive commerce setting meets the elemental pursuits of all sides. China has introduced that whereas remaining a creating nation, it won’t search new particular and differential therapy in present and future negotiations on the WTO. This concrete motion by China is a vote of confidence within the multilateral buying and selling system. We name for an finish to politicizing financial and commerce points, to fragmenting the worldwide market, and to reckless choices to wage commerce and tariff wars.

Today, worldwide cooperation on improvement is dropping steam, and the North-South hole is widening. We ought to put improvement again on the heart of worldwide agenda, mobilize world assets for improvement, and foster an equal and balanced world improvement partnership. China has been advancing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation with companion nations, benefiting over three-fourths of all nations on the earth. We have applied the ten partnership actions for modernization with African nations, carried out 5 applications with Latin American and Caribbean nations, developed 5 cooperation frameworks with Arab states, and constructed seven cooperation platforms tailor-made to Pacific Island nations, bringing about shared progress on our paths towards modernization. China will open its door ever wider. We will absolutely ship on the zero-tariff therapy for one hundred pc tariff strains given to least developed nations and African nations having diplomatic relations with China, in order to share improvement alternatives with extra nations and peoples.

Third, we must always stand collectively to sort out urgent challenges and shore up the weak hyperlinks in world governance. This yr marks the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Climate change has turn out to be a urgent problem. On tackling local weather change, no nation ought to lag behind, and none ought to shirk its duty. Developed nations should earnestly fulfill their emission discount commitments, and supply monetary and technological help to creating nations. China stands able to play an essential function, honor its phrases with concrete actions and try to do its utmost inside its functionality. Recently, President Xi has introduced China’s new Nationally Determined Contributions, which displays China’s uttermost efforts based mostly on the necessities of the Paris Agreement. We are able to work extra carefully with the worldwide neighborhood on inexperienced applied sciences and industries and keep heading in the right direction towards inexperienced transition. 

Science and expertise is advancing at an unprecedented tempo, and world governance must sustain with the instances. Artificial intelligence ought to profit all humanity; it ought to neither be monopolized by a couple of nations nor be maliciously abused. China helps the U.N., as the primary channel in world AI governance, in guiding nations to strengthen the alignment of AI improvement methods, governance guidelines and technical requirements, in order to kind a governance framework and requirements with broad consensus. China is actively implementing the Global AI Governance Initiative, and has initiated the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), to advance AI for good and for all and help capability constructing in Global South nations. We welcome the energetic participation of all nations in these efforts.

Building a world of common and customary safety is an inherent duty of the worldwide neighborhood. While we welcome the first-phase settlement on the Gaza battle, and the humanitarian catastrophe has lastly been eased, peace there stays very fragile. China requires a real, complete and lasting ceasefire, and the implementation of “the Palestinians governing Palestine” precept in addition to the two-State resolution for the aim of lasting peace and stability within the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Ukraine disaster continues to persist. China holds an goal and simply place, actively promotes peace talks, and stands able to work with the worldwide neighborhood to proceed the efforts for peace.

Fourth, we must always actively reply to the aspirations of the Global South and enhance the worldwide governance structure. The Global South is rising as a complete. Making certain that creating nations equally participate in main world governance decision-making is vital to simply and efficient governance. We consider that when making worldwide guidelines, the voice of the Global South have to be heard totally, their presence expanded, and their reliable rights and pursuits protected.

The reform technique of the worldwide monetary system gravely lags behind, failing to replicate main shifts on the earth financial panorama. We help advancing the realignment of IMF quota shares and shareholding evaluation on the World Bank in accordance with the agreed timeframe and roadmap, in order to promptly tackle the democratic deficit in world financial and monetary governance. We help the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank in enjoying a better function as helpful enhances to current monetary establishments, collectively contributing to world monetary stability.

In the face of main crises and conflicts, the U.N. Security Council has not been in a position to successfully reply to the expectations of the worldwide neighborhood. As a everlasting member of the U.N. Security Council, China firmly helps the reform of the Council. Upholding the correct course of this reform means to extend the illustration and voice of creating nations. The urgent process is to make particular preparations to satisfy Africa’s aspiration as a precedence.

China believes that the Global South not solely has the need and the correct but additionally the capability to be a pivotal power in world governance reform. Looking ahead, world governance will enter the “Global South Time.” South Africa, Brazil and Qatar will host respectively the G20 Summit, the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP30), and the World Summit for Social Development. China will render full help to Global South nations in internet hosting these conferences, advancing the collective contributions of the Global South to world governance.

Fifth, we must always absolutely leverage the roles of numerous stakeholders and pool power for world governance. Regional cooperation mechanisms and specialised platforms are flourishing as a significant new power in world governance. China will quickly assume the rotating presidency of APEC 2026. We stay up for working with all sides to advance the constructing of an Asia-Pacific neighborhood and a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, paving the best way for better improvement within the area. The BRICS cooperation mechanism, with its rising illustration, has turn out to be an important platform for solidarity and cooperation of rising markets and creating nations. China firmly helps the high-quality improvement of better BRICS cooperation, with equity, justice, openness and inclusiveness as its guiding rules in advancing world governance reform. Embracing the Shanghai Spirit, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is more and more changing into a robust driving power in world governance improvement and reform. China helps the SCO in increasing cooperation with the U.N. and different multilateral mechanisms to collectively enhance world and regional governance.

A couple of days in the past, the International Organization for Mediation (IOMed) was inaugurated within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. It is the world’s first intergovernmental authorized group devoted to resolving worldwide disputes by means of mediation, and represents a brand new sort of worldwide public good supplied by China along with the founding members. We welcome extra nations to hitch the IOMed and search to resolve variations, promote reconciliation and safeguard peace on this platform. 

Friends,

The just-concluded Fourth Plenary Session of the twentieth CPC Central Committee proposed suggestions for China’s fifteenth Five-Year Plan. It charts a grand blueprint for China’s financial and social improvement within the subsequent 5 years, in addition to a promising imaginative and prescient for win-win cooperation between China and the remainder of the world. It was burdened on the session that China ought to promote high-standard opening up, create new horizons for mutually useful cooperation, and safe additional progress in constructing a neighborhood with a shared future for humanity. A China steadily advancing modernization will undoubtedly create huge alternatives for the widespread improvement of the world. A China devoted to the noble explanation for peace and improvement will display even better duty in advancing human progress. We stand able to work with the worldwide neighborhood, absolutely ship the Global Governance Initiative, construct a extra simply and equitable world governance system, and collectively usher in a brighter tomorrow for humanity.

Thank you.