In October last year, the CPC successfully held its 20th National Congress and unveiled its blueprint for building a modern socialist China by following the "Chinese path to modernization". The report CPC Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered to the 20th Party Congress categorically states that harmony between humanity and nature is an integral part of the Chinese path to modernization.

"Humanity and nature make up a community of life. If we extract from nature without limit or inflict damage on it, we are bound to face its retaliation. We will protect nature and the environment as we do our own lives," Xi said in the report.

Rana Ali Qaisar Khan, executive member of the Central Standing Committee of the National Party of Pakistan, said that given the ecological challenges, the world has no choice but to become a community with a shared future. "No country can prosper alone. Only through cooperation can we effectively address global environmental issues such as climate change, ocean pollution and biodiversity conservation, and achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by 2030," Khan said.

According to Khan, China pursues common development by balancing its own interests and the common interests of humanity, so as to realize shared prosperity across the world.

Christophe Lavernhe, who is a founding member of the French party Solidarité et Progrès (Solidarity and Progress), said he was optimistic about China's modernization benefiting the rest of the worldjust as the Belt and Road initiative has done in the past decade. Noting that the Belt and Road Initiative has benefited European countries including France, through projects such as the China-Europe freight railway, Lavernhe said he believes European countries would benefit more from this universal idea.

"We have entered a new world where we have to choose whether we want to get on the train of development or just look at the train leaving, the platform with China already sitting in the first carriage," he said.