President Xi Jinping spent 42 days conducting eight trips abroad this year, as China's proposed economic initiatives bore fruit and resulted in ever-increasing recognition of the country's enhanced global role.
Economic and trade cooperation is one of the main themes of President Xi’s overseas visits. During his trips in 2015, China signed deals worth more than $100 billion, focusing on several areas, including energy, transportation, infrastructure, aviation, technology, tourism and education.
President Xi's overseas visits in 2015 not only brought big trade deals, but also life-changing benefits to people's daily life, including more convenient visa policies, cheaper imported goods, and cooperation on education and climate change with other countries.
China's hectic diplomatic year of 2015 witnessed an ever-increasing recognition of the country's enhanced global role and a boost in diplomatic ties with major world powers including the United Kingdom and the United States, and neighboring countries like Pakistan and Indonesia.
One key task in China's diplomatic efforts in 2015 is to comprehensively promote the Belt and Road Initiative. During President Xi's overseas visits this year, countries and regions along the route were invited to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative and agreements were signed and many major projects are already making steady progress.
China's diplomacy followed the main thread of serving the nation's peaceful development, and remained committed to promoting world peace and development. The new type of international relations, as President Xi said, features win-win cooperation and creates a community of common destiny for mankind.
