On December 30, 2025, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the opening ceremony of the Symposium on the International Situation and China's Foreign Relations in Beijing and delivered a keynote speech.

Wang Yi said that the year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations. This year, the international landscape evolved toward a watershed, with unilateralism and hegemonism finding no support and a multipolar world in the making. The contest between progress and regression sharpened. Economic globalization met serious setbacks. The choice between openness and isolation became imperative. Local wars and cross-border conflicts flared up more often. The question of peace or war weighed heavily on many people's mind.

Wang Yi said, "At this new turn in the course of history, we, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, held high the banner of building a community with a shared future for humanity, followed the strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy, united progressive forces across the world with utmost sincerity, and built the momentum for peace and development with greatest efforts. Facing a troubled world where peace is under threat, China acted as an anchor for stability. Facing a new environment in its neighborhood, China acted as a pillar of the region. Facing a changing international order, China acted as a defining force. Facing the global development predicament, China acted as a main engine. Facing critical challenges to international justice, China acted as a steadying force. We dedicated ourselves to rejuvenation for the Chinese nation and to harmony in a turbulent world, and we opened up new horizons for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics."

Wang Yi emphasized that "A look back at our journey of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in 2025 strikes us more keenly than ever that the relationship between China and the world is developing in a more positive direction, and that China's international influence, its capacity to lead new endeavors and its moral appeal have significantly enhanced. Today, with composure and confidence, China's diplomacy is cleaving through the waves and pressing ahead. This is fundamentally attributable to the stewardship of President Xi Jinping, the sound guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, and the centralized, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee. It is also attributable to the enormous support of the people and the fact that China's diplomatic vision always holds international moral high ground."

Wang Yi said, "The 15th Five-Year Plan period will be a critical stage for our endeavor to reinforce the foundations and push ahead on all fronts toward basically realizing socialist modernization, and China's relations with the rest of the world will enter a new stage where we can make greater contributions to the development and progress of humanity. In 2026, with the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, our major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics should accomplish more." Wang Yi said, "We will provide stronger strategic support for our national development and rejuvenation, blaze new trails in forging a new type of major-country relations, work more actively to build a community with a shared future with neighboring countries, foster greater synergy for the Global South's joint march toward modernization, inject stronger impetus into global openness and cooperation, make greater contributions to reforming and improving global governance, and act with a stronger sense of mission and responsibility in safeguarding national interests."

Wang Yi emphasized, "We will rally more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, follow the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, and, with greater initiatives in fulfilling our historical mission and a more dynamic spirit of innovation, make new contributions to building China into a great modern socialist country, to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and to the building of a community with a shared future for humanity."

The Symposium on the International Situation and China's Foreign Relations was hosted by the China Institute of International Studies.