On April 17, 2025, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a written speech to the Roundtable themed "The Global South: Carrying Forward the Bandung Spirit and Marching Together toward Modernization".

Wang Yi pointed out that seventy years ago, leaders from 29 countries and regions in Asia and Africa gathered in Bandung, Indonesia to hold a conference, giving birth to the Bandung Spirit of solidarity, friendship, and cooperation. Over the past seventy years, inspired by the Bandung Spirit, Asian and African countries have increasingly become important forces in maintaining peace, promoting development, and deepening cooperation. Today, people around the world widely expect to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation and achieve common development. However, power politics, unilateralism, and bullying continue to undermine international rules, and sow division and confrontation. The world has once again come to a critical crossroads. "We must inherit and carry forward the Bandung Spirit, and unite and cooperate more closely to build a peaceful, safe and secure, prosperous, beautiful, and amicable home shared by all."

Wang Yi stressed, "We should take on the responsibility of safeguarding peace and stability, jointly uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, advocate for an equal and orderly multipolar world, and practice true multilateralism." It is essential to prioritize development and people's livelihoods, advocate for universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system, oppose the practices of unilateralism and protectionism, and build an open world economy. It is also necessary to promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and work for mutual respect and harmonious coexistence while preserving diversity.

Wang Yi said that China is further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization and stays committed to building a community with a shared future for mankind, which will provide new opportunities, create new space, and inject new momentum for the development of the countries in the Global South and other nations around the world. Wang Yi called on all to build on past achievements and forge ahead, and continue to write a new chapter of the Bandung Spirit featuring solidarity, friendship, and cooperation on the historical journey towards modernization.

Indonesian Deputy Foreign Minister Siti Nugraha Mauludiah delivered a keynote speech, extending warm congratulations to the roundtable on behalf of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She said that the world today is facing multiple crises, and the Global South must unite as a cohesive force. She emphasized the need to inherit and carry forward the Bandung Spirit, strengthen cooperation in the principles of inclusiveness, shared benefits, fairness and justice, practice multilateralism, oppose unilateralism, jointly safeguard development rights and interests, and work together towards prosperity.

President of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs Wang Chao, Indonesian Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun, former Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Myanmar U Thant Kyaw, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (U.N.) Wu Hongbo, as well as Chinese and Indonesian experts and scholars, representatives from some of the countries that participated in the Bandung Conference, and heads of U.N. agencies in China attended the roundtable.