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Now the world is stepping into a crucial time: underthe shadow of economic crisis, the era of great changes has come. This is anera of pragmatic development, in which all nations over the world choose itsown route varied by different national conditions, different development phasesand different challenges and inject down-to-earth development style to takereal actions. This is an era of cooperation, in which all nations are tied andgenerate spirit of partnership under economic crisis by sharing commonaspiration, interests and hopes. This is an open era, in which no more cornerof the world is isolated under the global economy. Opening is a guiding forcein global economic governance as well as the trend of the times. This is an eraof innovation, in which, marked by mobile internet, the new technological andindustrial revolution has unveiled. New technologies such as artificialintelligence and virtual reality are changing with each passing day. Theincorporation of virtual and the real economy has brought revolutionary changesto people’s production and life style.
To embrace technical innovation, raise productivity,create new format, exploit new source of economic strength and push up the riseof new industries is the only choice for all nations in the new era. In an eraof innovation and entrepreneurship, all nations should intensify the reforms,abandon outdated ideas and operation and management style that hinder thedevelopment, and fully stimulate man’s initiative and market vitality. Inrecent years, many Asian countries have strongly encouraged innovation to giveimpetus to industrial transformation and upgrading, while at the same timeaccelerated the process of reform and unleashed the dividend of system andmechanism. The exploration of Asia deserves encouragement and expectation.
Look around Asia and the world, the global politicaland economic pattern is undergoing the most profound adjustments since the endof the cold war. Factors like changes of political and economic power,development of issues left over by history and linkages between internal andexternal regions are expediting the pattern transition. Strategic competence amongsuperpowers, the sharpening of territorial sovereignty disputes, highlights ofgeopolitical issues and integration and contradiction between economies are allincreasing the counter risks among regions. Meanwhile, with the worldwideemergence of conservatism and populism as well as the change of nationalleaders, more uncertainty are added to the global and regional governance. Comparedto other areas of the world, Asia is more culturally and systematicallydiversified, and hence is face with more complex situations and toughchallenges. How to make full use of thousands of years of rich historicalexperience and governance wisdom? How to play Asian countries’ role in thereform of global governance system? How to shape examples of strategicinnovation, institutional innovation and cultural innovation? How to constructa platform for win-win mechanism by multilateral regional cooperation? Asia notonly needs the greatest common value and guidance, but also needs wisdom andmeasures leading to consensus as well as boldness and responsibility thatsurpass history and reality.
The world economy is now at a cross road. In the pastfew years, the weakening momentum of emerging economies led by China exposesinternal problems such as system and mechanism, growth pattern and structure aswell as external constraints shared by BRIC nations and Asian high-incomeeconomies. How to keep the prosperity going? We must seek for an inclusivedevelopment through continuing reform, opening up, and innovation, enhancingmacroeconomic policy coordination, promoting global economic growth,maintaining financial stability, innovating development patterns, exploitinggrowth sources, intensifying the liberalization and facilitation of trade andinvestment, and pushing forward the further opening of global economy.
Small wisdom is for issues, great wisdom is formechanisms. The shift of global landscape is followed by voices of changesaround the world. To reshape the landscape and rearrange the order is thefundamental task for Asia and the world in a long period of time. The reshapingof landscape is accompanied by the rearrangement of order. In terms of Asia, itis undoubted that the shift of order should highlight the subjectivity of Asia,which means Asian affairs should be dealt by Asian countries and its people.Asians are willing, capable and wise enough to handle their own issues. Besides,the order should be centered on development and governance as they areimperatives for the continent, and without which, the order would be inanimate.What’s more, it should be an open order, which encourages Asia and othercountries and intuitions to maintain and develop beneficial connections and bywhich to show the vitality and confidence of Asia. Most importantly, the ordershould be set up on the basis of cooperation as economic development, socialprogress and people’s happiness are the common wish shared by Asia and theworld. All nations’ common responsibilities urge us to seek for cooperationrather than fight, seek for win-win, multi-win and all-win instead ofsingle-win, seek for the greatest common value, expansion of cooperation,enhancement of coordination and reform of global governance.
