The notion of building a community of common destiny for mankind features at the core of China's foreign policy, and has featured in many international resolutions in 2017.

 

On January 18th, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, expounding the concept of building a community of shared future for mankind. On February 10th, the concept was incorporated for the first time in a UN resolution, which called on the international community to enhance support for Africa's development "in the spirit of win-win cooperation and to create a shared future, based upon our common destiny".

 

On March 17th, the notion of a "community of shared future" was written in UN resolution 2344, related to promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan and the surrounding region. And on March 23rd, the UN Human Rights Council adopted two resolutions on the "Question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights", and the "Right to food". Both of these resolutions called for efforts "to build a community of shared future for human beings", marking the first time that the concept has been recorded into UN Human Rights Council resolutions.