Editor's Note: Five years after its launch, how has China's Global Development Initiative evolved from a proposal into a platform for international cooperation? What impact has it had on advancing sustainable development and addressing the priorities of the Global South? In this special roundtable edition of The Hub, Wang Guan is joined by Zhou Hong, emeritus academician at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Alhaji Sarjoh Bah, African Union's permanent representative to China; and Maninoud Phosena, climate technician at the Lao Meteorological Bureau, to explore the GDI's progress over the past five years.