Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced Saturday that China has so far provided over 2.1 billion doses of covid-19 to more than 120 countries and international organizations.
Wang announced this while reiterating the importance of major countries leading by example in efforts aimed at making the world a better place, particularly in the face of a global health crisis of magnitude being experienced at the moment.
He noted that China, under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, has made the covid-19 vaccines ‘public goods,’ especially by providing the much-needed life-saving doses to countries in need.
“We are now focusing on providing a new round of large-scale vaccine assistance to Africa.” he said while addressing the 58th Munich Security Conference.
According to the Chinese topmost diplomat, the current pandemic has shown that the world requires greater solidarity and cooperation under the banner of multilateralism.
“As President Xi Jinping highlighted at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, “Amidst the raging torrents of a global crisis, countries are not riding separately in some 190 small boats, but are rather all in a giant ship on which our shared destiny hinges.”
“Only when countries row the oars together and cheer up each other, rather than undercut and come after one another, can we overcome the current challenges and sail into a bright future. In this process, the role and action of major countries are critically important.” Wang Yi said
He said Beijing expects that the developed nations will take the lead in throwing their weight behind multilateralism, living up to their international commitments, acting on the purposes of the UN Charter, and contributing to world peace and development.
Wang Yi maintained that, on the whole, China has all along honored its international responsibilities and obligations with real actions.
“Facing the sluggish global economic recovery, China has put actions behind the vision of common development. It has worked to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and pursue green, open, and clean development as well as high-standard, people-centered and sustainable progress,” he said
While confronting the impact of COVID-19 on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Wang told the conference that China has put forward the Global Development Initiative and called on all countries to take action together and lend fresh impetus to the realization of the Agenda.
He said China, with higher quality development and better capability to deliver, will provide stronger impetus for global recovery beyond COVID and greater contribution to international peace and stability.
At the same time, Wang told the conference that the Asian economic giant will continue to advocate for an international system with the United Nations (UN) at the center and the international order based on international law.
“Facing the complex governance challenge, China has taken an active part in developing global governance systems on climate, environment, health and in the digital sector and worked to make globalization more open and beneficial to all.”
“Facing the volatile global landscape, China upholds the new vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, and has worked for a political settlement of regional hotspot issues, playing a constructive role in maintaining international peace and security.” He said
On the situation in the international community, Wang Yi maintained that China’s development has increased certainty in the world and ‘expanded the force for peace.’
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