Li Junru, former vice president of the School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China （CPC）, researcher, doctoral supervisor, recipient of a special allowance from the State Council, member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference （CPPCC）, member of the Standing Committee of the 11th CPPCC National Committee, and member of the Advisory Committee and leading expert on scientific socialism for the Marxist Theory Research and Development Project.
　　Li has long been a researcher into the intellectual history of adapting Marxism to China's context. He has published the 18-volume Works of Li Junru, including the Mao Zedong research trilogy-Mao Zedong and Modern China, Mao Zedong and Contemporary China, and Mao Zedong and Post-Mao China-which won the 11th China Book Prize in 1998. He has published several hundred research papers, including "Deng Xiaoping's Theory on Governing the Country".
　　Li won the 2nd Award for the Top 100 Promoters of China's Development in 2005, the UNAIDS Award for Outstanding Contributions to the AIDS Response in 2008, and the Australian Golden Kangaroo Award in 2008. He was also named Scholar of the Year 2017 to receive the Influencing China Award set up by China Newsweek.
　　
　　Luo Jianbo, director, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Diplomacy Research Center at the Central Party School's Institute for International Strategic Studies, is now a leading expert of the Central Party School National Think Tank. His long-term research interests include China's diplomatic theory and strategy, national security, soft power and national image, and China's governance experience.
　　Luo has hosted three projects for the National Social Sciences Fund and more than 20 projects commissioned by the CPC Central Committee or the State Council. He has published academic works, including Major-Country Diplomacy with Distinctive Chinese Features. He has also authored more than 100 research papers.

　　The world is experiencing momentous changes unseen in a century， and human society is charting a new round of major development， transformation and adjustment. In this period of transition， the international order is rapidly evolving， with increasing elements of uncertainty and instability.
　　The Covid-19 pandemic has particularly worsened an already gloomy situation for global development and governance. Creater challenges are also confronting world peace and development， governance and trust. What is happening to our world? And what should we do about it? The answer is to step onto the right path to development， towards building a global community of shared future.
　　China's proposal for building a global community of shared future is aimed at improving global governance. This proposal also presents a vision of the future for humanity， based on historical lessons， current conditions， and development trends. It offers the only feasible plan for the shared future of humanity.
　　Building a global community of shared future provides the right path to development-right in the sense that this plan is not for one country's benefit alone， but for all humanity. Its aim is not short-term profit， but the wellbeing of coming generations. Such a plan offers an innovative approach to global governance. It also unveils a grand vision of the international order， marking the future direction of China's diplomacy while initiating new forms of human civilization.

　　《人间正道：构建人类命运共同体（英）》：
　　To build a global community of shared future in the face of such profound changes in the world is not only necessary and urgent in the practical sense, but also essential as well as legitimate in a deeper sense. From the perspective of historical development, the essence of the past century's great changes is the great development and adjustment of the international order. Its core issue is the trends of the progress and direction of the international order. Its fundamental driving force lies in the breakthroughs of the scientific and technological revolution and the industrial revolution, as well as ideological and system innovations. In the current world of developments, transformation and adjustments, factors of uncertainty and instability keep emerging, and conventional security and nonconventional security threats are intertwined, but economic globalization, international multi-polarization, non-Westernization and global governance are making progress, and cultural exchanges are deepening. These are the basic directions, and they are not and will not be totally reversed. This only reinforces the need to take a proper historical and holistic approach to assessing international developments and the right approach to China's role. We need to keep up with the new changes, trends and features of the international situation. More importantly, we need to keep in mind the direction of human history and the general trends of world development, with a historical, comprehensive and dialectical approach. We need to fully grasp the historical opportunities presented by the major global changes that occur only once in a century. Building a global community of shared future is the only choice in keeping with the trends of our times and the trends of world development.
　　The general trend of economic globalization remains unchanged
　　Since the world entered modern times, great geographical discoveries and successive scientific and technological revolutions have directly promoted economic globalization. Since the 21st century, the advance of cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence （AI）, developments in modern logistics technology, as well as the global flow of factors of production and restructuring, have all greatly contributed to sustained and in~depth development of economic globalization. This has further enabled commodity circulation, trade booms, investment convenience, large capital restructuring, technical development, and massive f：lows of personnel and information. Under the long-term effects of this historical process, the resource advantages of different regions around the world could be better allocated and used. Developing and developed countries could realize interactive development through unimpeded flow of factors of production and connection of industrial chain, value chain and supply chain. As a result, social productivity will be further developed and released, markedly improving the levels of development in the world as a whole. Global human interaction has become deeper and more extensive than ever before, and countries are becoming more interconnected, more interdependent and closet than ever before.
　　What is also of historic significance is that the driving forces of globalization are also being regrouped. Emerging economies and developing countries are more actively participating in the global division of labor and industrial cooperation, and have become important new forces in a new round of economic globalization. In view of their own relatively decreasing gains from globalization, some Western countries have responded with rising protectionism and populism, as well as obvious anti-globalization tendencies. Moreover, with Covid-19 spreading rampantly
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Preface

Chapter 1 Great Changes Call for a Global Community of Shared Future
A Historical and Holistic Approach to Assessing International Developments and the Right Approach to China's Role
The Necessity and Urgency to Build a Global Community of Shared Future Amidst the Global Fight Against Covid-19
General Trends in World Development Reveal the Necessity to Build a Global Community of Shared Future

Chapter 2 The Basic Meaning of a Global Community of Shared Future and Its Global Significance
The Core of a Global Community of Shared Future
The Global Community of Shared Future and the Community of the Future Society
China's Proposal and Realization of a Global Community of Shared Future
The Historic Significance of a Global Community of Shared Future

Chapter 3 How to Build a Global Community of Shared Future
Pathways of Building a Global Community of Shared Future
Main Steps for Building a Global Community of Shared Future

Chapter 4 Promoting China's Strategy of Building a Global Community of Shared Future
Managing Our Own Affairs Well and Accelerating the Formation of a New Pattern of Development
China's Neighborhood as a Preferred Choice to Initiate the Building of a Global Community of Shared Future
Defining China's International Position and Responding to the Legitimate Concerns of Developed Countries
Active Participation in Global Governance
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Appendix
Epilogue and Conclusion