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High hopes for strengthening South-South cooperation with ‘BRICS Plus’

By Jiang Jie (People's Daily Online)    16:34, August 22, 2017
High hopes for strengthening South-South cooperation with ‘BRICS Plus’
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The expansion of BRICS into “BRICS Plus” is necessary to make the organization a model platform for South-South cooperation, Chinese experts argued at a seminar on Monday.

Addressing the seminar, which was held in Beijing ahead of the 9th BRICS Summit to be held from Sept. 3-5 in Xiamen, Fujian, China International Culture Exchange Center (CICEC) Secretary-General Ding Kuisong noted that the economic concept of BRICS has now been widely seen as a model example for South-South cooperation. It is only natural for that model to go beyond the original five countries.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in March that China would explore ways to expand BRICS and build a wider partnership by holding dialogues with other major developing countries and organizations.

Currently, the BRICS group has five member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and potential new member countries include Mexico, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, according to China Daily.

Fu Mengzi, a researcher with the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, added that many countries in the world are now emerging economies, from Indonesia and Malaysia, Kazakhstan in Asia to Mexico in Latin America and to Turkey in Europe.

“In Africa, we see Ethiopia undergoing rapid industrialization. There will be opportunities for them to join the big BRICS family,” Fu noted, adding that BRICS expansion should be gradual so as to guarantee its cooperation results for all members.

“China has been largely focused on neighboring countries and emerging powers. We used to look at solving our own problems as our contribution to the world, which is true, but now we provide a new path to modernization for other developing countries,” Huang Ping, head of the Institute of European Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), added.

Hosted by CASS’ National Institute for Global Strategy (NIGS), the Social Sciences Academic Press, and CICEC, the seminar also unveiled a series of books on BRICS written by Chinese and international scholars.

BRICS has become an international mechanism with global impact, pushing forward the process of global economic governance by enhancing the discourse rights of emerging markets and developing countries, said NIGS Secretary-General Wang Linggui, who is also chief editor of a published book at the seminar.

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