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The China Asia Summit was successfully held, creating a blueprint for future development

01 From the round table summit to co planting pomegranate trees, the first summit featured many highlights

In May 2023, President Xi Jinping presided over the first China Central Asia Summit in Xi'an. In his keynote speech, he quoted a line from the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai - "Chang'an will work together again, and then pay attention to the precious wealth. Looking west in Chang'an, the "camel bell" has risen again, and the "Silk Road" has been revitalized. This is a grand event that blends history and future, and a two-way journey between China and Central Asian countries.

President Xi presided over the summit and delivered a keynote speech, proposing the "Four Point Proposition", "Four Perseverances", and "Eight Point Suggestions". This is the first time since the new era that China's highest leader has fully, centrally, and systematically elaborated on its foreign policy towards Central Asia to the international community.

After the round table summit, President Xi Jinping and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries attended the signing ceremony and jointly signed the Xi'an Declaration of the China Central Asia Summit.

During the summit, China and the five Central Asian countries also reached six bilateral and multilateral documents, including the "List of Results of the China Central Asia Summit", and signed over 100 cooperation agreements in various fields.

At the press conference, President Xi Jinping announced an important message: taking the hosting of this summit as an opportunity, the China Central Asian Summit mechanism will be officially established, which will be held every two years and will take turns in China and Central Asian countries. The next summit will be held in Kazakhstan in 2025.

After the summit, President Xi Jinping and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries jointly planted six pomegranate trees, symbolizing the close unity of the six countries like pomegranate seeds.

Pomegranate flowers are the city flower of Xi'an, and the origin of pomegranate trees is in Central Asia. The emblem of this China Asia Summit is also the image of the six colored pomegranate flower.

02 How to build a community with a shared future between China and Central Asia?
The China Central Asia Summit is the first physical summit held between China and Central Asian countries in 31 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations. Why is it said to be the first time a summit has been held in physical form? Because on January 25th last year, China and the five Central Asian countries held a video summit on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which was also the first collective meeting between the heads of state of China and the five Central Asian countries since the establishment of diplomatic relations.

At last year's video summit, heads of state jointly announced the construction of a community with a shared future between China and Central Asia. At this year's China Asia Summit, President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech. The title of the speech is "Jointly Building a China Central Asia Community with a Shared Future of Mutual Assistance, Common Development, Universal Security, and Generational Friendship".

President Xi Jinping pointed out that in building a community with a shared future between China and Central Asia, it is necessary to achieve the "Four Persistences".

The first perseverance is to persevere and help each other.

Dear friend, dear neighbor. China has always adhered to the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness, and values political mutual trust and good-neighborly friendship with the five Central Asian countries. At last year's video summit, President Xi Jinping put forward five suggestions, the first of which is to "deeply cultivate demonstration fields for good neighborliness and friendship".

At the China Asia Summit, President Xi Jinping said that we need to deepen strategic mutual trust, always provide clear and strong support to each other on core interests such as sovereignty, independence, national dignity, and long-term development, and work together to build a community of mutual help, unity, and trust.
The second to fourth principles are to adhere to common development, adhere to universal security, and adhere to generational friendship.

In recent years, President Xi Jinping has successively proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative. The other three insistences he put forward at the summit on the same day are in line with these three global initiatives, each pointing to working together to build a community of cooperation, mutual benefit, and mutual achievement, a community far from conflict and forever peaceful, and a community of mutual understanding and solidarity.

President Xi Jinping once said, "No matter how the international situation changes and to what extent China develops in the future, China will always be a trustworthy and trustworthy good neighbor, good partner, good friend, and good brother of Central Asian countries

This is a historic sexual selection made by President Xi Jinping with the fundamental interests of the people of all countries in mind, and also a solid foundation for building a China Central Asia community of shared future.

03 From the "four point proposition" to the "eight point suggestion", these words are resounding

Central Asia is the center of the Eurasian continent, located at a crossroads that connects east and west and runs through north and south.

Geographically, Central Asia is the farthest place on Earth from the ocean, and some people compare it to the "world island" of the land civilization era, emphasizing its important strategic position in the world pattern.

The "four point proposition" proposed by President Xi Jinping is that the world needs a stable Central Asia, a prosperous Central Asia, a harmonious Central Asia, and a connected Central Asia.

President Xi Jinping emphasized that ethnic conflicts, religious disputes, and cultural barriers are not the main themes in Central Asia. Unity, inclusiveness, and harmony are the pursuit of the Central Asian people. No one has the right to create discord or confrontation in Central Asia, let alone seek political gain from it.
The 'four point proposition' has strong pertinence in every aspect. This is China's position.

On the same day, President Xi Jinping also put forward eight suggestions on how to plan, build, and develop China Central Asia cooperation well: strengthening mechanism construction, expanding economic and trade relations, deepening connectivity, expanding energy cooperation, promoting green innovation, enhancing development capabilities, strengthening cultural dialogue, and maintaining regional peace.

From holding the theme event of "Aggregating Cloud Products in Central Asia", comprehensively increasing cross-border transportation volume, accelerating the construction of the D-line of the China Central Asia natural gas pipeline, to conducting cooperation in areas such as saline alkali land governance and development, water-saving irrigation, formulating a special cooperation plan for poverty reduction through science and technology, and launching a special train for cultural tourism to Central Asia, President Xi Jinping also proposed many practical measures in his keynote speech, It will bring welfare to the people of China and the five Central Asian countries.

From the video summit marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in January last year to this year's China Central Asia summit, President Xi Jinping and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries have held collective meetings for two consecutive years, and the China Central Asian Summit mechanism has been officially established, providing strategic guidance for the development of China Central Asian relations.

As President Xi Jinping said, this summit has opened a good beginning for cooperation among countries. The ship of China's relations with Central Asian countries will definitely be able to ride the wind and waves with courage and determination.