This year marks five years since the founding by Chinese President Xi Jinping of the much-heralded Global Development Initiative (GDI)
This year marks five years since the founding by Chinese President Xi Jinping of the much-heralded Global Development Initiative (GDI).
Five years ago, addressing the thorny issue of global development, President Xi came up with the idea of the GDI during the general debate of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly.
In only five years since then, the GDI has proved so popular that no less than 130 countries plus international organizations have endorsed President Xi’s idea by openly throwing their weight behind this revolutionary mode of inclusive global development.
The GDI is not only a socio-economic proposition, it is also a geopolitical theory of collective development based on the notion of shared future, which is a fundamental cornerstone of China’s foreign policy.
