On October 20th, 2021, MFA Presenting Tibet to the World was held in Beijing with the theme of “China on a New Journey: A New Chapter of Development for a Happy New Tibet”. Wang Yi, minister of foreign affairs and a state councilor, attended the conference and delivered a speech. The promotion was mainly conducted by Qi Yu, secretary of the party committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Le Yucheng, vice minister, Deng Li, assistant minister, as well as ambassadors to China and China-based representatives of international organizations.
Wang Yi said that, this was a significant year in the development of Tibet. 70 years ago, peaceful emancipation was carried out in Tibet thanks to CPC’s relentless effort, transforming it’s dark and backward serfdom to the bright path of socialist, a political miracle of “a-thousand-year progress within one step”. In the past 70 years, under the leadership of the CPC, different nationalities in Tibet had been solidifying a sense of community for Chinese nation and working hard toward the same goal, enabling great historical changes in Tibet, a developing miracle of “a-thousand-year progress within one step”. Now, Tibet had became an epitome of China’s leaping development, an example of China’s progressing democratic and human rights cause as well as an important platform of China’s opening and international cooperation. Tibet had built a moderately prosperous society in all aspects on time. People of different nationalities could enjoy adequate and equal rights in all aspects of politics, economy and society. The freedom of religious belief and the culture of ethnic minorities had been enjoying adequate protection and continual progressing. China Tibet Tourism and Culture Expo, “Forum on the Development of Tibet China”, China Tibet Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation and other international sessions all showed strong momentum. There would be abundant results in the common construction of the “belt and road” initiative.
Wang Yi said that in the July of this year, general secretary Xi Jinping went to the Tibet for an inspection and brought up a CPC’s Tibet-governance plan in all aspects for a new era, aiming to start a new chapter for the long-term safety and high-level development for the snow plateau. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs saw serving domestic development and promoting regional openness as important missions, so it would implemented decisions and plans of the CPC Central Committee; make full use of it’s unique advantage; support Tibet to encourage economic and social development, expand openness and international cooperation, create a highland for international ecological civilization and sustain safety, stability and unity among nationalities; oppose all action threatening safety in Tibet and destroying stable actions in Tibet as well as make more contribution to build a prosperous, happy and beautiful Tibet.
Wang Yi stressed that the last 70 years witnessed Tibet changing it’s appearance from backwardness to progress, poverty to abundance and isolation to opening-up. Glorious achievement of Tibet was an amazing chapter of the rejuvenation of China as well as an important witness of Chinese modernization. China’s opening-up and development were closely connected to the world. We would continue to offer new opportunities and expand new space to the world relying on self-development, implement “global development initiative” brought up by Chinese president Xi Jinping and push forward the construction of a global development community with a shared future, so as to create a peaceful, stable, prosperous and beautiful future.
Wang Junzheng said that since the 18th CPC National Congress, Xi Jinping had been planing for work in Tibet; clarify CPC’s Tibet-governance plan in a new era and encourage Tibet to achieve progress in all aspects and historical achievement. In such way, a more prosperous, advanced, developing, confident and open new Tibet with socialism would be presented to all people. Chinese government welcomed people of all walks of life from home and abroad to experience the happiness in Xinjiang and to start a new chapter of development. Yan Jinhai introduced the condition of Tibet’s long-term safety and green high-quality development in terms of harmony between nationalities, guarantee of people’s livelihood, ecological protection and exchanges with the international society.
Andrey Denisov, Russian ambassador to China, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey, Nepalese ambassador to China, and Baba Ahmad Jidda, Nigerian ambassador to China, said in their speech that Tibet had been an inseparable part of China. Tibet had achieved amazing result in all fields with the concerted effort of the Chinese central government and people of different nationalities. Tibet was impressive thanks to it’s distinctive culture of ethnic groups, green and clean ecological environment, safe, harmonious and diverse society as well as hospital people from different nationalities. I believed the future of this place would be brighter and I wished the friendly exchanges and win-win cooperation between Tibet and the international society would be improved. The mayor of Daga town of Qushui county in Lhasa, a teacher from a primary school of Shenzha county of Naqu city and a Living Buddha form Dalong Temple in Linzhou county to share things happened near them, so as to introduce positive measures and effect of the poverty alleviation, traditional culture protection and freedom of religious belief. French director delivered a speech through video, telling his 10-year experience of filming documentaries in Tibet and wishing the international society could learn more about a real Tibet.