I am honoured to speak at globally distinguished the Hongqiao International Economic Forum. China has so many extraordinary economists and economic institutes whose economic models have proofed themselves in practice. China’s experts have had an indispensable impact on China’s economic growth that is well grounded despite current unprecedented challenges to it like America’s trade war on China. Since the 1990s to now the World Bank and other global financial institutions predicted China’s GDP would grow no more than 5 percent annually from 1994 to 2015. China’s potential for growth often has been underestimated though it has shown that it is here to stay.I would like to congratulate China’s hard-working people, leaders and experts on remarkable 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. They were and are central driving force behind China’s transformation to a middle-income country and together with the United States the leading power in technology and artificial intelligence.I would also like to thank to express my gratefulness to amazing Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that brought me here in beautiful Shanghai.This International Economic Forum is taking place under the framework of the Second China International Import Expo (CIIE) that appears to me as China’s very concrete and generous answer to tendency of protectionism in the world. Hope Germany would do something similar in Europe.I understand the last 70 years of China, from Revolution in 1949 to 2019 as a path of reform (gaige) and China’s struggle to change and to remember. Recently, the renowned sinologist and historian Wang Gungwu said, at the launch of Think China magazine in Singapore, “China’s reforms don’t contradict to the communist revolution - they consolidate it.”There are many China’s economic achievements, unprecedented in human history, that have to be admired but I am most impressed with China’s achievements in poverty reduction under the banner of socialism. In the history of humankind, the most successful country in poverty elimination is China. After China’s forty years of development 850 million Chinese were lifted out of poverty. According to the World Bank China has contributed more than 70% to global poverty reduction. China’s middle class has grown to 420 million.Hope next year in Stockholm will be different and that fascinating results of China’s economists and leadership will be awarded by Nobel prise.Now I will take this opportunity for providing my views on China’s project named the Community with a Shared Future for Mankind.Currently, China seems to me as the only country in the world that pursues a global vision on constructing the better world for all people.China’s passion and devotion to reform itself is supporting my deep belief that China has capacity to carry out world order closer to the community based on stronger multi-polarity, and new multilateralism based on shared development. These processes have already started by the Belt and Road Initiative envisioned by President of China Xi Jinping.I share opinion with Professor Yan Xuetong, the Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University that for every country is essential what kind of leadership it has. China’s leaders with their ideas of development, experience, pragmatism and the ability to think strategically locally, nationally and globally have been essential for China’s historical success.In past 40 years, I have witnessed China’s leaders ability not just to make any kind of development but also to move the country further from being the world factory to laboratory of the world and leader in 5 G economy. Achieving of economic development is one of the main responsibilities of every government. The wellbeing of the people and peace are the fundamental goals of development.I met with President of China Xi Jinping several times in China on the sidelines of several high-level conferences and forums. I am not here to say who is a historical figure and who is not, but ideas, values and the work that President Xi Jinping has put beyond his foreign policy strategy called Belt and Road Initiative, I see historic for China and the world.The Belt and Road Initiative is project that came to us from the future!The BRI epitomises new kind relationship between China and the world and as such a major platform for building a community with a shared future in the new era.I attended many forums on the Belt and Road Initiative in China and Europe and read many articles and books on it and I would absolutely agree with a globally renowned foreign policy expert Wang Yiwei’s analysis that behind the Belt and Road Initiative is China’s efforts to connect the world.President Xi’s global community with shared future seems to me as a concept that has strength to change the very structure of the world order that has been based for centuries on the power politics.This project for the world is absolutely new and will need a long way to eliminate the barriers brought to the world by geopolitics, eliminate the pain caused by poverty, colonialism, neoliberalism, unfairness, protectionism and populism and to create a path of development in accordance with sustainable development and people aspirations for a better life.I have been visited China many times and seen with my own eyes China’s ability to create amazing economic and social progress for itself and the world.That is why I am optimistic that China together with other countries will build a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind.Thank you for the attention.