On November 2, 2022, when attending the "Global Insight into Enterprises under the Central Government" event, delivering a keynote speech, sharing and exchanging with foreign diplomatic envoys to China his perceptions and thoughts on studying the guiding principles of the 20th CPC National Congress, Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng noted that Chinese modernization, rooted in China and embracing the world, is both an “intellectual property” unique to China and an “open-source code” shared by the world.

Xie Feng said that China is working to achieve modernization for more than 1.4 billion people, a number larger than the combined population of all developed countries in the world today. With 9 percent of the world's arable land and 6 percent freshwater resources, we need to feed nearly 20 percent of the world's population, and there is no existing model for us to copy. We will, as always, bear China's realities in mind as we address issues, make decisions, and take actions. We will stay patient in advancing the course of history and take steady and incremental steps to sustain progress.

Xie Feng said that common prosperity represents the great dream of the Chinese nation, and relates to the daily life of every family. Now the average reliability of power supply in China's countryside reaches 99 percent, and what is behind is the input in electricity infrastructure facilities even in some places where "costs may not be recouped for 100 years." We have the world's largest network of high-speed railways, and in some of China's underdeveloped areas, areas inhabited by ethnic minority groups, and revolutionary bases with limited transportation access, we have kept more than 80 "slow trains" - still in operation today as public services - on a routine basis, renowned by the people living there as trains for going to market, school and a better life. These trains will continue to usher the people towards a happier life.

Xie Feng said that we have established the world's biggest education, social security, and medical health systems, and the average life expectancy has increased to 78.2 years. In the past, 400 million people did not have adequate food, while today 1.4 billion people have high-quality and healthy food. We have solved the historical issue of "who feeds China". We have actively developed a whole-process people's democracy. The most prominent feature of whole-process people's democracy is that it integrates process-oriented democracy with results-oriented democracy, procedural democracy with substantive democracy, direct democracy with indirect democracy, and people's democracy with the will of the state. It is a democracy to the broadest extent, of the truest nature, and to the greatest effect possible. Smears by some people in the world of China's institution and practice being "authoritarianism" is completely groundless. If the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government were so-called "autocratic", how could they get long-term support from more than 90 percent of the Chinese people?

Xie Feng said that we adhere to sustainable development, and we protect the Nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes. Over the past 10 years, the Chinese people have made great efforts and sacrifices for improving the ecological environment and made remarkable contributions to the global cause of the ecological environment, protecting the environment even if our economic growth has slowed down. China will spend only 30 years achieving carbon emission peak and carbon neutrality which takes most developed countries 50 to 70 years, and China will realize the endeavor with the shortest time in global history. This fully demonstrates a solemn pledge made by a responsible major country to the international community.

Xie Feng said that China is the only country in the world that has pledged to "keep to a path of peaceful development" in its Constitution, the only one among the five Nuclear-Weapon States that has pledged no first use of nuclear weapons, and the largest troop contributor to peacekeeping operations among the five permanent members of the Security Council and the second largest contributor to UN peacekeeping assessments. China surpasses most countries in the number of neighboring countries, the length of the land border, and the complexity of the border situation. We adhere to settling disputes through dialogue and negotiation, and pursue a defensive national defense policy. However strong it may grow, China will never seek hegemony or expansion. China's development strengthens the world's forces for peace.