Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech titled Working Together to Meet the Challenges of Our Times and Build a Better Future at the first session of the 17th summit of the Group of 20 (G20) in Bali, Indonesia, on November 15, 2022.
The following is the full text of the speech:
Working Together to Meet the Challenges of Our Times and Build a Better Future
Remarks by H.E. Xi Jinping
President of the People's Republic of China
At Session I of the 17th G20 Summit
Bali, 15 November 2022
Your Excellency President Joko Widodo,
Colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure to attend the G20 Bali Summit. At the outset, I wish to thank President Joko Widodo and the Indonesian government for making these thoughtful arrangements for the Summit. I also salute the Indonesian presidency for its important role in promoting G20 cooperation.
We meet at a time of momentous changes unseen in a century, changes that are consequential to the world, to our times and to history. The COVID-19 pandemic still drags on with cases surging here and there. The world economy is getting more fragile. The geopolitical environment remains tense. Global governance is seriously inadequate. Food and energy crises are compounded with one another. All this poses formidable challenges to our development.
Faced with these challenges, it is imperative that all countries embrace the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, and advocate peace, development and win-win cooperation. All countries should replace division with unity, confrontation with cooperation, and exclusion with inclusiveness. All countries should join hands together to answer the question of our times — "what is wrong with this world, what we should do about it" — so as to tide over difficulties and create a better future together.
All G20 members should take the responsibility inherent in being major international and regional players, and should lead by example in promoting development of all nations, improving the well-being for the whole mankind, and advancing progress of the entire world.