Xinhua | Updated: 2023-09-28
President Xi Jinping meets with
Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization Audrey Azoulay in Beijing on Thursday, Sept 28, 2023.
[Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi
Jinping met with Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay in Beijing on Thursday.
China has
always supported the work of UNESCO, and together with UNESCO, has made
positive contributions to safeguarding world peace and promoting global
development, Xi said, adding that the valuable China-UNESCO cooperation should
be maintained.
The world is
made up of diverse civilizations, and China is among the countries with the
longest histories and oldest cultures, he said.
China is
willing to work more closely with UNESCO to continuously improve the capacity
for and level of heritage protection, and promote exchanges, mutual learning
and cooperation among different civilizations, in order to contribute to world
peace and facilitate the building of a community with a shared future for
humanity, he said.
Xi said that
China is committed to building itself into a great, modern socialist country in
all respects by the middle of the century, and to advancing the rejuvenation of
the Chinese nation through a Chinese path to modernization.
To this end,
China adheres to the strategy of invigorating the country through science and
education; promotes the development of education, science, technology and
culture; and attaches importance to international exchanges and cooperation
with all parties including UNESCO, he said.
Azoulay said
that the Chinese government has always attached great importance to and
actively supported UNESCO's work, and that the UNESCO Prize for Girls' and
Women's Education -- established with China's support -- plays an important
role in promoting the education of girls and women around the world.
Azoulay said
that UNESCO is satisfied with its important consensus and cooperation with
China in a wide range of fields, and hopes to strengthen exchanges and
cooperation with China further in the fields of cultural heritage protection,
science, culture and technology to achieve further international consensus and
contribute to safeguarding world peace and development.
President Xi Jinping meets
with Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization Audrey Azoulay in Beijing on Thursday, Sept 28, 2023.
[Photo/Xinhua]
