LINK CHINA WITH THE WORLD
The goal of building a community of common destiny goes beyond the local neighborhood.
Xi once told a conference on foreign affairs that China must have diplomacy with its own characteristics. He then defined the Chinese dream as one of peace, development, cooperation and win-win outcome. By this definition, he linked China's future with the destiny of the world.
The president has since actively put his design into practice.
After he was elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in Nov. 2012, Xi has conducted 19 visits abroad, spending more than 133 days outside the country. The distance he travelled amounted to orbiting the Earth ten times.
In the meantime, he met with 165 state and government leaders on home soil.
All his effort is not only for the Chinese dream but also for the shared destiny and future of the world as a whole.
CREATIVE DIPLOMATIC STYLE
Xi's diplomacy is in line with the traditional format for major countries, neighbors, developing countries and multilateral occasions, but he is also innovating.
In June 2013, Xi paid a visit to the United States, where he and U.S. counterpart Barack Obama held talks at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in California.
On the evening of Nov. 11, 2014, President Xi Jinping and the visiting U.S. president discussed building a new-type major country relationship between China and the U.S. at Yingtai in the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in downtown Beijing.
His creativity has not been limited to China-U.S. relations. In February 2014, Xi attended the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in Russia, opening a new chapter of sports diplomacy.
Xi also met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Xi'an, capital city of Shaanxi Province, in May 2015. The meeting has been referred to as hometown diplomacy as it was the first time Xi hosted a foreign leader in his hometown.
Europe has also been a heavy focus for Xi's diplomatic activities. Xi visited The Netherlands, France, Germany and Belgium in March 2014 and paid a visit to Britain in October 2015.
