With COVID-19 still causing widespread damage across the world, China on 
Saturday called for concerted efforts from major economies to promote more 
inclusive development and improve global governance in the post-pandemic era.

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The pandemic, which has infected over 57.4 million people and killed over 1.3 
million worldwide, has exposed many weak links in global governance. The 
international community is wondering what the Group of 20 (G20) can do to make 
the system better, Chinese President Xi Jinping said when addressing the G20 
Riyadh Summit via video link. 

Xi said the G20, playing an irreplaceable role in the global fight against 
COVID-19, should uphold multilateralism, openness, inclusiveness, mutually 
beneficial cooperation, and keep pace with the times.

Created in 1999, the G20 is the main forum for international cooperation on 
financial and economic issues. It comprises 19 countries – Argentina, 
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, 
Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, Britain 
and the United States – plus the European Union.

Helping developing countries

"We should keep our support for developing countries and help them overcome the 
hardships caused by the pandemic," Xi told other G20 leaders, urging the 
world's leading economies to pursue more inclusive development. 

China has fully implemented the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) 
while overcoming its own difficulties, with the total amount exceeding $1.3 
billion, he noted. 

The G20 launched the DSSI in April to address the immediate liquidity needs of 
low-income countries, allowing the debt service payments due from May 1 to the 
end of the year owed by the most impoverished countries to be suspended. The 
debt suspension will be extended by another six months until June 30, 2021, the 
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors decided in October. 

China ranked first among the G20 members in terms of debt deferral amounts 
under the DSSI for the poorest countries, Finance Minister Liu Kun said 
recently.

"China will increase the level of debt suspension and relief for countries 
facing particular difficulties and encourage its financial institutions to 
provide new financing support on a voluntary basis and according to market 
principles," Xi said in his speech.

He reaffirmed China's commitment to help and support other developing countries 
through making COVID-19 vaccines a public good that is accessible and 
affordable around the world. 

The Chinese president also called on the G20 to promote free trade, oppose 
unilateralism and protectionism, and safeguard developing countries' right to 
and space of development.

Tackling global challenges

"We need to build up capacities for tackling global challenges," Xi stressed. 
"The most pressing task of the moment is to shore up the global public health 
system and contain COVID-19 and other infectious diseases." 

G20 members should work together to enhance the role of the World Health 
Organization and build a global community of health for all, he said. 

Meanwhile, the president called for international cooperation to protect the 
environment, fight climate change and build a "clean and beautiful world where 
man and nature coexist in harmony." 

China announced in September that it would strive to achieve carbon neutrality 
before 2060. The country aims to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030. 

The G20 should also play a leadership role in promoting innovation-driven 
development in the digital age and improve economic globalization, according to 
Xi. 

Noting that the pandemic has fueled a boom in new technologies and business 
forms, he called for action to turn the crisis into an opportunity. 

"We may deepen structural reform and cultivate new growth drivers through 
scientific and technological innovation and digital transformation," he said.

Commenting on the backlash against economic globalization, he called for 
challenges to be addressed head-on and globalization to be made "more open, 
inclusive, balanced and beneficial to all." 

China's move to establish a new development paradigm will create more 
opportunities for countries around the world to share its achievements in 
pursuing high-quality economic development, Xi told other leaders attending the 
summit.  

China's top leadership has made a strategic decision to foster a new 
development paradigm with the domestic circulation as the mainstay, and 
internal and external circulations reinforcing each other.

"China will always be a builder of global peace, a contributor to global 
development and a defender of international order," Xi said. "We may bridge 
differences through dialogue, resolve disputes through negotiation, and make a 
joint effort for world peace and development."

SOURCE:  CGTN