China has vowed to deepen cooperation in new energy and green minerals with the nations in the Global South, saying the move is in line with their industrial goals and a step towards further advancing Beijing’s economic opening-up, according to the latest front-page commentary in the Communist Party’s official newspaper.
“Amid profound changes in the global environment, [China’s commitment to further opening up] underscores our confidence and responsibility in upholding openness and win-win cooperation,” the piece in People’s Daily said on Monday.
“It sends a powerful signal that China’s high-quality development will create new opportunities for the world.”
The commentary was the sixth in a new editorial series, coming at the start of China’s 15th five-year planning period and published under the byline “Zhong Caiping”. It resembles one – “Zhong Caiwen” –…