Beijing, Jan. 25, China Youth.cn—— Recently, President Xi has been conducting state visits to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran for five days, turning a new page for Chinese diplomacy in 2016. On January 21th, at the headquarter of Arab League, Cairo, Xi delivered a speech of which the title was Together for a Better Future of Sino-Arab Relations, continuing his style of citing various quotes. During the speech, Xi quoted a Chinese ancient saying “people never met but feel intimate can be friends; people bearing on mind and cannot forget can frequently contact” to express his intimacy to Arabian countries and people. Meanwhile, he quoted an Arabian proverb “You only know where your nails itch” to reply to “the Middle East questions” by putting forward “selecting a path which conforms to the national condition”.

Xi loves reading books and using allusions. When making a visit or attending important international meetings, he not only repeatedly quotes Chinese classics, but also does as the Romans do, for example, he more than once cites the visited countries’ proverbs, quotes of famous people, speeches of important members of the governments and even skillfully conducts matching of Chinese and foreign favorite quotations through centering on such themes as “friendship” “cooperation” “peace” and so forth, vividly unfolding Chinese disposition before the world’s eyes, telling Chinese attitude and delivering Chinese voices.

Appeal for friendship: unfold Chinese dispositions of loving friends, cherishing friendship and being kind and easy-going

January 21, 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech of which the title was Together for A Better Future of Sino-Arab Relations at the headquarter of Arab League, Cairo. Report of the Xinhua News Agency Pang Xinglei shot

Xi’s visits to various countries rightly shows that Chinese people love making friends and cherish friendship, and “friendship” becomes the key word in Xi’s speeches and articles during his visits. In March, 2014, during his state visit to France, Xi published a signed article which titled “Special Friends All-Win Companions” on French Le Figaro. In this article, Xi cited “At fifty, I knew the will of Heaven”to praise the five-decades friendship between China and France. China is positively making friends all around the world, it is through which Chinese dispositions of being kind and easy-going was totally displayed.

In May, 2015, before proceeding on the state visit to the Republic of Belarus, Xi published a signed paper which titled as “Making the Symphony of China-Belarus Relations More Intense and Higher” on Soviet Belarus Newspaper. At the ending of this article, Xi said: “People of the Republic of Belarus frequently say that ‘the solid friendship is difficult to be broken up’”. China also has a famous proverb, which says ‘mastering ways of making friendship can make friendship as solid as metal and stone, even though you are distant from each other’. Play the symphony of friendly relations and cooperation between China and Belarus, making it more intense and higher is my expectation for the development of China-Belarus relations.We wish that we can join hands to strive for the common targets with Belarus.

In January, 2016, during the period of making a trip to Egypt, Xi published a signed article whose title was Making Sino-Arab Friendship Flushing forward as the Nile on Egyptian Al Ahram. In this article, Xi retrospected the friendly communication history of Chinese and Arabian as well as the profound sentiments of friendship. Xi said, “As the Arabian proverb goes that ‘if you want to go fast, walk alone; and if you want to go far, walk together’, Chinese people often say ‘It is easy to live when we have many friends’, which couldn’t be better to describe the Sino-Arab relations.”

With the expansion of “Friend Circle”, a wide partnership network that covers the whole globe has been built, from which China owns more developmental space and potentials. Besides, each country benefits a lot through promoting friendship and developmental cooperation with China.

(Source: China Youth.cn)