President Xi Jinping hosted a banquet on the evening of June 9 to welcome guests gathered in the coastal city of Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit.
Xi recounted that Shandong is the hometown of Confucius (551-479 B.C.), one of the greatest educators and philosophers in Chinese history, and the birthplace of Confucianism.
Confucianism states that “a just cause should be pursued for the common good” and it champions harmony, unity and a shared community of all nations.
There is much in common between Confucianism, which emphasizes unity and harmony, and the Shanghai Spirit. As the SCO’s underlining values, it advocates mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diversity of civilizations and the pursuit of common development, Xi said.
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