Xi Jinping's Important Speech at the Special Summit of the G20 Leaders (Full Text)

On March 26, President Xi Jinping attended the G20 leaders' special summit on the new coronary pneumonia in Beijing and delivered an important speech entitled "Working together to fight the epidemic to overcome the difficulties.

Join hands to fight the epidemic and overcome the difficulties together-Speech at the G20 Leaders' Special Summit

(26 March 2020, Beijing)

the People's Republic of China President Xi Jinping

Honorable King Salman,

Dear colleagues:

Hello, everyone! First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to King Salman and Saudi Arabia for their extensive communication and coordination work for this meeting!

In the face of the sudden outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the Chinese Government and the Chinese people have always put the safety of people's lives and health in the first place, in accordance with the general requirements of firm confidence, solidarity, scientific prevention and control, and precise policy implementation, and have launched a people's war against the epidemic by insisting on national mobilization, joint prevention and control, openness and transparency. After hard work and great sacrifices, the current situation of epidemic prevention and control in China continues to improve, and the order of production and life is accelerated to restore, but we still cannot relax our vigilance.

In the most difficult time for China, many members of the international community gave sincere help and support to China, and we will always remember and cherish this friendship.

Major infectious diseases are the enemy of all mankind. The neo-coronary pneumonia epidemic is spreading around the world, posing a huge threat to people's lives and health, and posing a huge challenge to global public health security. The situation is worrying. At present, what the international community needs most is to strengthen confidence, make concerted efforts, unite in response, comprehensively strengthen international cooperation, pool a strong joint force to overcome the epidemic, and join hands to win this human struggle against major infectious diseases.

Here, I would like to make the following four initiatives.

First, we will resolutely fight the global fight against the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. The international community should step up its efforts to resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic. I would like to propose that the G20 health ministers' meeting be held as soon as possible to strengthen information sharing, carry out cooperation in drug and vaccine research and development, and epidemic prevention, so as to effectively prevent the cross-border spread of the epidemic. We need to work together to help developing countries with weak public health systems improve their response capacity. I propose to launch the G20 Anti-Epidemic Assistance Initiative and strengthen information communication, policy coordination and action coordination with the support of the World Health Organization. Adhering to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, China is willing to share useful practices in prevention and control with other countries, carry out joint research and development of drugs and vaccines, and provide assistance within its capacity to countries where the epidemic has spread.

Second, effective international joint prevention and control. Viruses have no borders. The epidemic is our common enemy. Countries must work together to build the most rigorous joint defense and control network. China has established an online knowledge center on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, which is open to all countries. It is necessary to gather the efforts of all countries to work together to speed up scientific research in drugs, vaccines, and testing, and strive to achieve breakthrough results that benefit all mankind as soon as possible. It is necessary to explore the establishment of a regional public health emergency liaison mechanism to improve the speed of emergency response to public health emergencies.

Third, actively support the role of international organizations. China supports the World Health Organization in playing a leading role in formulating scientific and reasonable prevention and control measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic across borders. I suggest that the G20 rely on the World Health Organization to strengthen information sharing on epidemic prevention and control and promote comprehensive, systematic and effective prevention and control guidelines. We should give full play to the communication and coordination role of the G20, strengthen policy dialogue and exchanges, and hold a high-level meeting on global public health security at an appropriate time. China will work with other countries to increase support for relevant international and regional organizations.

Fourth, strengthen international macroeconomic policy coordination. The epidemic has had a full impact on global production and demand, and countries should join forces to increase macro policy hedging to prevent the world economy from falling into recession. Strong and effective fiscal and monetary policies should be implemented to promote the basic stability of the exchange rates of currencies of all countries. We should strengthen financial supervision and coordination to maintain the stability of the global financial market. To jointly maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, China will increase its efforts to supply raw materials, daily necessities, epidemic prevention materials and other products to the international market. It is necessary to protect women and children, protect vulnerable groups such as the elderly and the disabled, and ensure the basic livelihood of the people. China will continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, unswervingly expand reform and opening up, relax market access, continuously optimize the business environment, actively expand imports, expand foreign investment, and contribute to the stability of the world economy.

I call on the G20 members to take joint measures to reduce tariffs, remove barriers and smooth trade, so as to send a strong signal and boost the morale of the world economic recovery. We should formulate a G20 action plan and make the necessary institutional communication and arrangements for the coordination of macro-policy on the fight against the epidemic in a timely manner.

Colleagues!

At this critical juncture, we should face the challenge and act quickly. I firmly believe that as long as we work together and help each other, we will be able to completely overcome the epidemic and usher in a better tomorrow for human development!

Thank you all.