Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the 15th BRICS Summit on August 23, 2023.

Following is the full text of Xi's remarks:

Seeking Development Through Solidarity and Cooperation and Shouldering Our Responsibility for Peace

Remarks by H.E. Xi Jinping

President of the People's Republic of China at the 15th BRICS Summit

Johannesburg, August 23, 2023

Your Excellency President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa,

Your Excellency President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,

Your Excellency President Vladimir Putin,

Your Excellency Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

I am very pleased to join you in Johannesburg for the important discussions on BRICS cooperation and development. It is especially significant that the BRICS Summit is held in Africa for the third time. I wish to thank President Ramaphosa and the South African government for the thoughtful arrangements.

We gather at a time when the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation. It is undergoing major shifts, division and regrouping, leading to more uncertain, unstable and unpredictable developments.