Xu Jianguo Secretary General of CFPD attended International Civil Society Solidarity Conference on the Global Development Initiative Time：2022/08/18

On August 12, 2022, the International Civil Society Solidarity Conference on the Global Development Initiative was held by China NGO Network for International Exchanges both online and offline under the guidance of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC). Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of China, sent a congratulatory letter to the conference. The theme of the conference is “building a global development community together to help implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Faure Gnassingbé, Chairman of the Union for the Republic and President of Togo, Shahbaz Sharif, President of the PML-N Pakistan (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Sharif) and Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica and Leader of the Dominica Labour Party, congratulated on the opening of the conference in written form or via video link. About 400 representatives attended the conference, including Bertie Ahern, former Prime Minister of Ireland and Co-Chairman of the InterAction Council, Martin Schulz, former President of the European Parliament and Chairman of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, diplomatic envoys from relevant countries to China, and representatives from NGOs, think tanks and enterprises in China.    

Liu Jianchao, Minister of the IDCPC, remarked that the Global Development Initiative (GDI) proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping was actively responded and participated in by the international community. The international civil society is a main force in fostering a global development partnership. The Chinese side would like to work with the international civil society to support the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, gather people’s power, and promote to build a global community of development with a shared future.