On the afternoon of September 17, 2021, President Xi Jinping attended the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing via video link and delivered an important speech titled Staying True to Our Founding Mission and Forging Ahead on a New Journey of SCO Cooperation. In the speech, he summarized the SCO Experience of jointly promoting political mutual trust, jointly ensuring security and stability, jointly pursuing prosperity and development, and jointly upholding international justice. He also proposed the China Approach of following the journey of enhancing solidarity and cooperation, following the journey of upholding our common security, following the journey of promoting openness and integration, and following the journey of boosting interactions and mutual learning.
On the afternoon of September 18, CNISCO held a special learning session to earnestly study the important speech made by President Xi Jinping at the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Liu Xiaohong, President of SHUPL and Director of CNISCO Office, Hu Jiling, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President at SHUPL and Secretary of the Party General Branch of CNISCO, and relevant personnel of CNISCO attended the study. Shi Qibao, Director of the Development Department of SHUPL and Director of the Strategic Planning Department of CNISCO, presided over the Special Learning Session.
Liu Xiaohong said that President Xi Jinping's important speech not only summarized the achievements of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the past 20 years but also made plans for SCO's development in the next stage. In her point of view, SCO's strategic influence has become increasingly important, especially under the current background where the game between China and the United States is intensifying. Therefore, we must work hard to promote the development of CNISCO so as to play a more active role in the international arena as a multilateral regional organization.
Liu Xiaohong requested that all relevant personnel of CNISCO should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of President Xi's important speech, go all out and take active actions in the development of CNISCO so as to enhance its international influence, and contribute CNISCO wisdom and strength to safeguard regional security, stability, and prosperity.
Hu Jiling said that we should thoroughly study and understand the essence of President Xi's important speech, make reasonable arrangements of our work and research based on the spirit of the speech to promote the high-quality development of CNISCO. We should think about how to do top-level design and hierarchical planning according to CNISCO's functions in order to better serve the national strategy.
At the meeting, Shi Qibao led everyone to study the content of President Xi's important speech, and interpreted the profound connotations of the speech and the requirements of the times from four aspects: politics, security, economy, and humanities; Li Xin said, after this SCO summit, the members of the SCO family have grown to 21 countries, with its space for cooperation further expanded, covering the entire Eurasian continent and its potential for cooperation to be further enhanced in the Region. We believe that the growing Sco family will continue to practice real multilateralism, move forward with all progressive forces in the world, and safeguard international fairness and justice. Through our joint effort, the SCO will be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of international order, in which way to achieve common prosperity through mutual respect, mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation. Shen Xiaochen said that President Xi's important speech profoundly pointed out the relationship between the development of member states and the development of the Region, charted the course to realize connectivity and common development, and full of confidence in China's active role in the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the future.
Wang Xiaoyu, Jiang Siyuan, Ding Yunbao, Sun Liuhua, Wang Lai, and others also expressed their views that we should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of President Xi's important speech and integrate it into our daily work, and strive to build CNISCO a better platform.