In his toast at the welcome banquet of the 2024 Beijing Summit of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, President Xi Jinping said "True friendship knows no distance; even ten thousand miles can be considered as a neighborhood. I have visited Africa ten times and have also received many African leaders who visited. Every time I meet with African friends, I feel a special affinity, and I deeply feel that the construction of a community of shared future between China and Africa has solid foundation, a high starting point, and broad prospects, setting a shining example for building a community of shared future for mankind." "True friendship knows no distance; ten thousand miles can be considered as a neighborhood" is from the "Song of Wei City Li Shao Fu" by Zhang Jiuling, a poet of the Tang. The poem not only expresses the reluctance to part with friends but also reflects the cultural characteristics of people's deep affection and mutual support.

The mutual connection between human beings and all things or between human beings and others has profound roots. Confucianism identifies this foundation asvolence. The Book of Changes, Xici Xia, says: "The greatest virtue of heaven and earth is called life, and the greatest treasure of the sage called position. How to maintain one's position? It is said that benevolence." The greatest virtue of heaven and earth is to make all things live forever, the sage is placed in a high position among all things because of his benevolence. The nobility of human beings lies in the fact that human beings can promote Tao, and the human Tao is the highest manifestation of the Tao of heaven. Therefore, Mencius, in the first chapter of Jingxin, says: " relatives and be benevolent to the people, and love the people and care for things." The gentleman should extend his filial piety to the love of the people and from the love of the people to the cherishing of things. Wang Yangming further extended the compassion of seeing a child falling into a well to the unwillingness seeing birds and animals wailing, plants and trees being destroyed, and tiles and stones being damaged. This kind of layer-by-layer expansion from oneself to others and from to things makes the virtue of life circulate in the universe, and heaven, earth, and all things are connected with me because of benevolence. In this, Chinese culture has created an emotional world that includes all things. Human beings are not alone in the world without any concern. He fulfills his duties in the support the interconnection of all things and in the kinship of human beings, and promotes the people of the world to become what they are

"Four seas within are all brothers", comparing strangers to brothers, is to extend one's own love and compassion to others, affirming and others kindly while affirming one's own life. The way to treat others can be "I want to establish and establish others, I want to reach and reach others from a positive perspective, and "I do not want to do to others what I do not want to do to myself" from a negative perspective. The cultural tradition mutual affection and support among people thus emerged. In this tradition, although people are separated by physical bodies, their emotions are connected, and even spatial and temporal barriers and differences cannot hinder communication and mutual assistance among people, hence the warm poems such as "There is no distance in knowing each other, and even ten thousand miles are still" and "There are bosom friends in the sea, and the ends of the earth are like neighbors" illuminate the later generations.

The words "wanli," "hai nei," and "tianya" suggest that the world of emotions is not confined to a of the universe but is spread all over the world. The concept of "the world" emerged at the latest during the creation of the world system by the Western Zhou, and documents such as the "Book of History" and the "Strategies of the Warring States" even trace it back to the period of Yao, Sh, Yu, and Tang. As the totality of all possible spaces under the sky, the world indicates that the political vision of the ancients was not a narrow limited by self-imposed constraints but an overall vision that included all tribes and states. In this vision, the world is not a simple sum of independent states but a of humanity that shares a common destiny. Of course, although the world is a whole, it does not require uniformity but rather harmony among all states. This is mature attitude that the "Book of History·Yao Dian" already possessed. More importantly, the world points to the ultimate magnitude of the world. The ultimate means that there is no opposing external world, no essential hostile force, and all affairs are internal issues that can be resolved, which are responsibilities that humans should face together

Today, we are facing a world of intertwined turmoil, with hot conflicts, great power confrontations, and geopolitical contradictions rising and falling. we take personal or the interests of a certain country as the main body and pursue the survival of the fittest, this subject will always be in a state of tension others, or for the sake of one's own interests, it will distinguish between friends and enemies. This is a simple truth that history has repeatedly proved. The Chinese has accumulated more than 5,000 years of historical experience about the wisdom that has long existed. Only "symbiosis" is the right path. than a hundred years ago, Russell, facing the shadow of the First World War, had high hopes for China in his book "The Problem of China", pointing out that if China, when its national strength was sufficient to defend itself, did not imitate the West to conquer other ethnic groups, but devoted itself to science and art, created a better economic system, then it would bring new hope to mankind in a disappointing era. 

True friendship knows no distance; even ten thousand miles can't separate neighbors. In today's ever-changing information age, the worldliness of human is more profound and extensive than ever before, and the mutual connection and interdependence among countries are more frequent and intimate than ever. At this historical crossroads, every, every nation, and every individual should face up to the common challenges facing humanity. Unilateralism, protectionism, and extremism have no future, and hegemonic such as bullying the weak, cunningly seizing resources, and zero-sum games are extremely harmful. Jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind, standing on side of human progress, establishing new ideas for international relations, helping oneself and others, and benefiting the world are the precious gifts that Chinese culture brings to the world the correct choice for humanity to move towards a better future.