2026-09-14
53 分钟Hello and welcome to World Today, I'm Ding Heng in Beijing.
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First up.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says President Xi Jinping's attendance at the BRICS summit
in India is strategically significant for steering the high-quality development for greater BRICS cooperation.
Wang Yi says the Chinese top leader's trip also promoted strength through unity among the Global South countries.
Xi Jinping attended the 18th BRICS summit in India on Saturday and Sunday.
He caught on BRICS countries to be pioneers in advancing innovation-driven development, upholding peace and stability,
facilitating mutual learning between different civilizations, and reforming and improving the global governance.
He also pledged that China would take BRICS's fourth China year in 2027 as an opportunity to work with all parties
to build consensus, open up new prospects for the future, and embark on the third golden decade for BRICS cooperation.
Wang Yi says President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a candid
and in-depth exchange of views on strategic issues concerning China-India ties.
He says the most important consensus between the two leaders is that China and India should be partners.