Posters: Forge ahead to promote sound, sustained development of the SCO

Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Monday.

He hailed the groundbreaking and historic achievements in the organization's development and cooperation. He also called for promoting the sound and sustained development of the SCO with greater resolve and more practical measures, and urged efforts to steadily advance toward a brighter future for a community with a shared future for humanity.

The following are highlights of President Xi's remarks.

-- The SCO has grown into the world's largest regional organization, with the participation of 26 countries, cooperation covering more than 50 areas, and a combined economic output of nearly US$30 trillion.

-- SCO member states are all friends and partners. We should respect our differences, maintain strategic communication, build up consensus, and strengthen solidarity and collaboration.

-- We need to better align our development strategies and promote the high-quality implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, so that in planning and building relevant projects together and benefiting from them together we can strengthen the momentum of regional development and improve the well-being of the people.

-- SCO member states need to enhance mutual understanding and friendship through people-to-people exchanges, firmly support one another in economic cooperation, and jointly cultivate a garden of civilizations in which all cultures flourish in prosperity and harmony through mutual enlightenment.

-- We must promote a correct historical perspective on World War II, and oppose the Cold War mentality, bloc confrontation and bullying practices.

-- China always aligns its development with that of the SCO and with the aspiration of the people of member states for a better life.