The CCP has used this slogan to express its aim of creating a “new framework” of
international relations which would promote and improve global governance. By 2023, the Community of Shared Future for Mankind had become China's most important foreign policy formulation in the Xi Jinping era. As part of its effort to develop the
Chinese Dream, China seeks to use to Community of Shared Future for Mankind as a mechanism to expand its network of foreign relationships.
Development The phrase "community of common destiny" first appeared in a report delivered by former CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao to the
17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2007, referring to shared blood and common destiny of mainland China and
Taiwan. In his 2012 report to the
18th National Congress, Hu broadened the expression by adding “for all mankind” to emphasize that "mankind has only one earth to live on, and countries have only one world to share" and called for the building of a “harmonious world of enduring peace and common prosperity.” Hu envisioned a new type of more equitable and balanced global development partnership that would stick together in times of difficulty, both sharing rights and shouldering obligations, and boosting the common interests of mankind. When Xi Jinping met with foreigners for the first time after taking office as General Secretary of the CCP in November 2012, he said that the international community has increasingly become a community with shared future, with each having a stake in others. Xi used the slogan in an international arena at the
Moscow State Institute of International Relations in March 2013, and again in a speech to the
World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland in January 2017, which "won him high credits at home and abroad". Chinese officials subsequently cited the two UN resolutions in “an attempt to demonstrate that the concept has been broadly accepted by the international community.” Delegations from multiple countries subsequently banded together to oppose Chinese efforts to include the phrase in other multilateral documents. On March 11, 2018, the constitutional amendment adopted at the first meeting of the 13th
National People's Congress of China added a sentence that promoted the building of a community with a shared future while developing diplomatic relations and economic and cultural exchanges with other countries. In August 2018,
Yang Jiechi, wrote that "Building a community of common destiny for mankind is the overall goal of China's foreign affairs work in the new era" and requires a "new type of international relations." Chinese Foreign Minister
Wang Yi used the phrase at the 2020
Munich Security Conference. Since 2019, the
Ministry of Education's
Institute for a Community with Shared Future (ICSF), hosted at the
Communication University of China, has served to promote the concept internationally through multiple affiliated research centers in several countries. == International usage ==