By He Yin, People’s Daily
“Carrying forward the Shanghai Spirit: SCO in Action.” This is a slogan raised by China after it took the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for 2024-2025 in July this year. It clearly demonstrates that the SCO is not about high-sounding rhetoric, but about concrete action.
China has fully started the work as the rotating presidency. It will host over 100 meetings and events within the SCO framework to further deepen practical cooperation in various fields and build a closer SCO community with a shared future.
As the first international organization with China as a founding member state and named after a Chinese city, the SCO, guided by the Shanghai Spirit since its establishment in 2001, has been consolidating political mutual trust, enhancing good-neighborliness and friendship, safeguarding regional security, and strengthening practical cooperation, playing a significant role in maintaining global and regional stability and development.
From a regional organization with six founding members to a big family with 26 countries, the SCO has shown stronger vitality, cohesiveness and appeal. It has embarked on a path of peaceful development and set an example for building a new type of international relations.
As the world is faced with accelerating changes unseen in a century, the human society is standing at a crossroads of history again. The SCO always stands on the right side of history, fairness and justice, and strives for greater development through solidarity and cooperation, whichcontributes significantly to regional and global peace, stability and development, as well as the well-being of the people of SCO member states.
As a founding member, China has always taken the SCO as a diplomatic priority. On July 4, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at “Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus”meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, during whichhe proposed to build a common home of solidarity and mutual trust, a common home of peace and tranquility, a common home of prosperity and development, a common home of good-neighborliness and friendship, and a common home of fairness and justice, drawing a new blueprint for SCO’s development.
The SCO enjoys strong vitality and momentum of cooperation. This, in the final analysis, is attributed to the Shanghai Spirit. China has promised that after taking the rotating presidency, it will work with SCO partners in the spirit of solidarity and cooperation, and join hands with more countries and international organizations that identify with the Shanghai Spirit to strive for common progress and foster brighter prospects for a community with a shared future for mankind.
The 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO to be held in China next year is the most important event within the framework of the SCO and the most core event during China’s presidency.
In June 2018, China successfully hosted the 18th SCO Summit in Qingdao, east China’sShandong province, marking a milestone in SCO’s development. This summit comprehensively mapped out SCO’s future path and development and reached important consensus that exceeded expectations.
China will host a friendly, united and fruitful SCO summit next year, which is expected to build more consensus and draw a blueprint for development. The meetings and events held by China during the summit will focus on political mutual trust, common security, shared prosperity, people-to-people exchanges, and the effectiveness of the SCO mechanism, which aim to further deepen practical cooperation and inject new momentum into SCO’sdevelopment.
Modernization is the shared goal of all countries in the SCO. China proposes that 2025 be designated as the SCO Year of Sustainable Development, and will carry out a series of cooperation initiatives and actions in the eight key areas of cooperation under the Global Development Initiative.
It aims to enhance cooperation in trade and investment, energy, digital economy, modern agriculture, and green development, and continue advancing high-quality alignment between the Belt and Road Initiative and the development strategies of regional countries for the joint pursuit of modernization.
Making global governance more just and equitable is essential for addressing the prominent challenges in today’s world and a vital path to creating a better future for humanity.
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, a summit declaration will be issued, expressing the unified stance of the member states on major international and regional issues, and contributing SCO’s strength to coping with global challenges.
In response to the profound changes in the international landscape, China will uphold the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind, carry forward the Shanghai Spirit, and strengthen solidarity and collaboration, so as to further the growth and development of the SCO, ensure it leads the trend of the times, and make greater contributions to regional and global peace, stability, development, and prosperity.
Photo shows the Qingdao SCODA Pearl International Expo Center in the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province. (Photo by Yang Xuemei/People’s Daily Online)
The 2024 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Ice Hockey Tournament kicks off at the Harbin Ice Hockey Arena, northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, October 12, 2024. (Photo from the WeChat official account of Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau)
Participants from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries share their perspectives with lecturers during a seminar on poverty reduction and development in 2024. (Photo from the WeChatofficial account of the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)
弘扬“上海精神” 加强团结协作
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“弘扬‘上海精神’：上合组织在行动”，这是中国今年7月接任上海合作组织轮值主席国后提出的响亮口号。这个口号清晰表明，上海合作组织不当“清谈馆”，而是要做行动派。目前，中方已全面启动主席国工作，将在上海合作组织框架内举办100多项会议和活动，以实实在在的行动进一步深化上海合作组织各领域务实合作，推动构建更加紧密的上海合作组织命运共同体。
上海合作组织是首个中国参与创建、以中国城市命名的国际组织。成立20多年来，上海合作组织始终以“上海精神”为指引，不断巩固政治互信，持续增进睦邻友好，共同守护地区安全，切实加强务实合作，为维护全球和地区的稳定与发展发挥着重要作用。从最初的6个创始成员扩大为涵盖26个国家的“上合大家庭”，上海合作组织的影响力、凝聚力和感召力不断提升，走出了一条富有成效的和平发展道路，树立了构建新型国际关系的典范。当前，世界百年变局加速演进，人类社会又一次站在历史的十字路口。上海合作组织始终站在历史正确一边，站在公平正义一边，在团结协作中实现更大发展，不仅关乎各成员国人民福祉，也对地区及世界和平稳定与发展至关重要。
中国是上海合作组织创始成员国，始终将上海合作组织作为外交优先方向。习近平主席今年7月在“上海合作组织+”阿斯塔纳峰会上发表重要讲话，提出建设团结互信、和平安宁、繁荣发展、睦邻友好、公平正义的“五个共同家园”，为携手擘画上海合作组织发展新蓝图指明方向。上海合作组织之所以能够保持旺盛生命力，根本原因就在于始终践行“上海精神”。中方明确表示，接任轮值主席国后，将同本组织伙伴团结协作，同更多认同“上海精神”的国家和国际组织携手并进，让构建人类命运共同体的前景更加光明可期。
明年在中国举办的上海合作组织成员国元首理事会第二十五次会议是上海合作组织框架内最重要的活动，也是中方主席国任期内最核心的活动。2018年6月，中国成功举办上海合作组织青岛峰会，全面规划了上海合作组织未来的路径和方向，达成了一系列重要共识，成果超出预期，成为上海合作组织发展进程中一座里程碑。中方明年将主办一届友好、团结、成果丰硕的上海合作组织峰会，凝聚各方共识，为上海合作组织发展擘画新的蓝图。中方举办的会议和活动，将重点在巩固政治互信、维护共同安全、促进共同繁荣、加强民间交往、提升机制效能等五个方向推进务实合作，为上海合作组织发展注入新动力。
实现现代化是上海合作组织国家的共同目标。中方建议将2025年确定为“上海合作组织可持续发展年”，将在全球发展倡议八大重点领域开展一系列合作与行动，着力提升贸易投资、能源、数字经济、现代农业、绿色发展等领域合作水平，持续推进“一带一路”建设同地区国家发展战略高质量对接，为地区国家推进现代化提供助力。推动全球治理朝着更加公正合理的方向发展，是解决当今世界突出问题的价值取向，也是开创人类更加美好未来的重要途径。中国担任上海合作组织轮值主席国期间，将结合中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利80周年、联合国成立80周年，发表峰会宣言，发出成员国在重大国际和地区问题上的共同声音，为应对全球性挑战贡献上海合作组织力量。
面对深刻变化的国际形势，中方将秉持人类命运共同体理念，坚定引领各方弘扬“上海精神”，加强团结协作，推动上海合作组织不断发展壮大、继续走在时代前列，为促进地区和世界和平、稳定、发展、繁荣作出更大贡献。
鸟瞰山东青岛上合之珠国际博览中心。杨雪梅/人民图片
10月12日，2024年上海合作组织冰球比赛开幕式在哈尔滨冰球馆举行。 图片来源：龙江体育
参加2024年上合组织国家减贫与发展研修班的上合组织国家学员与授课专家互动交流。 图片来源：青岛农业农村微信公号
