Build a Stronger Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the world’s largest comprehensive regional cooperation organization in terms of geographical coverage and population. Over more than 20 years, the SCO has played an exemplary role and made remarkable achievements in fostering a new type of international relations and building a community with a shared future for humanity.

上合组织是世界上幅员最广、人口最多的综合性区域合作组织。二十多年来，从加强政治互信到共担国际道义，从维护地区安全稳定到促进共同繁荣发展，上合组织为推动构建新型国际关系和打造人类命运共同体发挥示范作用，取得了辉煌成就。

The past 20 years have seen evolving international developments and profound reshaping of the global governance system. These years have also seen the vigorous growth of the SCO and the fruitful, mutually beneficial cooperation among its member states. Over the past two decades, guided by the Shanghai Spirit of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diversity of civilizations and pursuit of common development, the SCO has endeavored to promote world peace, development and human progress, and to explore new ground, both theoretically and with actual steps, with a view to building a new type of international relations and a community with a shared future for mankind.

—— Speech at the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, September 17, 2021

过去20年，是国际格局持续演变、全球治理体系深刻重塑的20年，也是上海合作组织蓬勃发展、成员国互利合作硕果累累的20年。20年来，本组织始终遵循“互信、互利、平等、协商、尊重多样文明、谋求共同发展”的“上海精神”，致力于世界和平与发展和人类进步事业，为构建新型国际关系和人类命运共同体作出重要理论和实践探索。

——2021年9月17日，在上海合作组织成员国元首理事会第二十一次会议上的讲话