To jointly build a China-Myanmar community with a shared future
By Ren Huanyu
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state
visit to Myanmar from Jan 17 to 18 has guided China-Myanmar relationship onto a
new starting point.
The new blueprint of bilateral ties
heralds a beautiful prospect of the China-Myanmar community with a shared
future and responds to the earnest aspiration of the two peoples for a
long-lasting fraternal relationship between the two countries.
A closer China-Myanmar relationship further
reflects the two countries’ geographic proximity and close people-to-people
bonds and cultural ties. President Xi has reiterated the “Paukphaw” friendship
between the two countries in his signed article carried by Myanmar newspapers
and during his meeting with Myanmar leaders.
The China-Myanmar “Paukphaw” friendship,
with a history of more than 1,000 years, is the driving force and source of the
development of bilateral relationship. The deep friendship between the two
countries could be seen from the fact that the two countries understand each
other and treat each other with sincerity, support each other through thick and
thin, and respect each other and adhere to win-win cooperation.
China firmly supports the Myanmar
government and people in taking a development path that is in line with their
national conditions and continuously advancing the cause of national
development. The country advocates that the people of the two countries will
always be good neighbors, friends and partners. The Myanmar society highly
agrees with this.
During President Xi’s visit, the voice
for “Long live China-Myanmar friendship!” echoed over Naypyidaw, and the faith of
promoting the friendship between the two countries and deepening bilateral
relations became firmer.
To build a China-Myanmar community with
a shared future allows China-Myanmar relations to keep up with innovation and
forge ahead in the new era.
The comprehensive strategic cooperative
partnership between China and Myanmar has a deep foundation. It is of
extraordinary significance in the field of international relations that the two
sides work together to set an example of promoting and practicing the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence,
and set an example of exchanges between countries.
The important political consensus
reached by leaders of the two countries on the establishment of a community with
a shared future between China and Myanmar has further explained the close
relationship between the two countries, and injected new impetus and vitality
into the development of bilateral relations. It also signified that the two
countries will make new joint efforts to push for the construction of a community
with a shared future for mankind.
China has always been a good friend to
Myanmar and the two countries have been bound together, said Myanmar State
Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, adding that Myanmar stands ready to keep sharing
weal and woe and build a community with a shared future with China.
China and Myanmar will work hand in hand
to build an even closer China-Myanmar community with a shared future and write
a new chapter for the millennia-old pauk-phaw friendship, Myanmar newspaper The
Global New Light of Myanmar said in a commentary.
To accelerate the integration of the Belt and Road Initiative with
Myanmar’s development strategy brings bright prospects to China-Myanmar
cooperation.
During his stay in Myanmar, President Xi
conducted in-depth discussions on promoting high-quality co-construction of the
BRI with Myanmar leaders. The two sides agreed to work hard to push forward the
construction of the Kyaukpyu Special Economic Zone, the China-Myanmar Border
Economic Cooperation Zone, the New Yangon City, as well as roads, railways and power
and energy infrastructure projects.
It marks the transition of the
China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) from conceptual planning to substantive
construction.
At present, a three-pillar giant
cooperation pattern is being formed which starts in north from China’s Yunnan
province, goes down south to the central Myanmar city of Mandalay, and further
extends eastward to the new city of Yangon and westward to the Kyaukpyu special
economic zone.
In the future, China-Myanmar mutually
beneficial cooperation in various fields will bear more fruits and create more
benefits for the people. Myanmar President U Win Myint said he believes that as
the two countries’ cooperation deepens, Myanmar- China relations will witness
greater development.
Deep are the feelings of Paukphaw, just
as long is the flow of rivers of China and Myanmar. The Myanmar trip, paid days
before China’s Spring Festival, was President Xi’s first overseas trip in 2020,
a year that marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic
relations between China and Myanmar.
People are glad to see the historical
trend of China-Myanmar friendly exchanges and cooperative development is
leaping forward, and the path of building a community with a shared future for
China and Myanmar is getting wider and wider.
To jointly build a China-Myanmar community with a shared future
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