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Workers of a Chinese construction company hold a banner to welcome the first commercial train as it arrives at a platform at Nagad railway station in Djibouti on January 3, 2018. /VCG
Over the past decade, the young CPC member has worked on infrastructure projects in Sudan, Djibouti and Zimbabwe. One of the most memorable was the expansion of Victoria Falls International Airport. Faced with a shortage of construction materials, Wei and his colleagues repeatedly ventured into remote mountains to locate suitable quarries, overcoming rough terrain and harsh conditions.
Today, the airport serves as an important gateway to one of Africa’s best-known tourist destinations, helping to boost local tourism and economic growth.
“For us, it was never just about building an airport,” Wei once said. “It was about helping improve local development conditions.”
His experience reflects a much broader story. Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, Chinese CPC members – whether engineers, doctors, agricultural experts or teachers – are helping improve local livelihoods and expand development opportunities. With a global vision, the CPC strives not only for the well-being of the Chinese people, but also for the progress of humanity.
Pursuing common development
The CPC has long viewed development as key to addressing both domestic and global challenges. Having lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty since 1978, it believes that people’s well-being should remain at the center of governance and that development is the foundation for lasting peace and prosperity.
This philosophy has increasingly shaped China’s engagement with the world. Under the Belt and Road Initiative, China has signed cooperation documents with more than 150 countries and over 30 international organizations. In 2025, trade between China and Belt and Road partner countries reached 23.6 trillion yuan ($3.3 trillion), accounting for more than half of China’s total foreign trade.
China has also expanded development cooperation through multilateral platforms. It established the China-UN Global South-South Development Facility, launched the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, increased its funding to $4 billion, and mobilized more than $23 billion in development financing.
For the CPC, development is not a zero-sum game, but an opportunity to create shared prosperity.
As Ioannis Kotoulas, associate professor of geopolitics at the University of Athens, noted, the CPC’s people-oriented governance philosophy offers valuable reference for political parties around the world because improving people’s well-being should remain the ultimate goal of governance.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attends a meeting of the Group of Friends of Global Governance at United Nations headquarters in New York, on May 28, 2026. /VCG
Shaping a fairer global governance system
As profound changes unseen in a century reshape the international landscape, development deficits, security challenges and governance gaps have become increasingly prominent. Under the leadership of the CPC, China has evolved from an active participant in global governance into an important contributor to its reform.
More than a decade ago, China proposed building a community with a shared future for humanity. Guided by this vision, it has successively put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, offering a systematic response to deficits in development, security, civilization and governance.
Rather than promoting bloc politics or zero-sum competition, these initiatives advocate consultation, cooperation and shared benefits. The Global Development Initiative has received support from more than 130 countries and international organizations. The Global Governance Initiative has won positive responses from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, with more than 60 countries joining the Group of Friends of the Global Governance.
China has also translated these ideas into concrete action. It is the second-largest contributor to the UN peacekeeping budget and the largest troop contributor among the permanent members of the UN Security Council, having dispatched more than 50,000 peacekeepers to 29 UN missions. It has helped establish the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations at the United Nations, while actively advancing cooperation on biodiversity conservation, climate change and artificial intelligence governance.
As Egyptian scholar Diaa Helmy observed, China has become “an indispensable doer” in promoting a more just and equitable global governance system.
As the CPC marks its 105th anniversary, its contribution to global governance goes beyond proposing new concepts. By combining its development experience with practical international cooperation, the Party has sought to address the world’s growing governance deficit with Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions. In an era marked by uncertainty and transformation, its vision of common development, shared security and inclusive governance continues to offer a pathway toward a more just and sustainable international order.
Editor’s Note: As the Communist Party of China (CPC) approaches the 105th anniversary of its founding, on July 1, CGTN presents “How the Communist Party of China Works,” a special series of in-depth news analyses. This series offers a systematic analysis of the CPC’s sustained effectiveness, examining its institutional resilience, people-centered philosophy and global significance.
