Editor’s notes: the 19th national congress of the Communist Party of China has attracted great attention from all over the world. People want to know what influence the 19th Congress will bring to China and the world. To help domestic and foreign readers understand the 19th Congress, we continue to present the “key ideas of the 19th CPC National Congress” in this week’s column “Key Words to Understand China”.

“A new type of international relations”. The report to the 19th CPC National Congress pointed out that China will hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefits, while continuing to stress the fundamental foreign policy goal of preserving world peace and promoting common development. China remains firm in its commitment to strengthening friendships and cooperative efforts with other countries on the basis of the “Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence”. The country is forging a new form of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness, justice, and win-win cooperation.

President Xi Jinping began the 13th section of the report to the 19th CPC National Congress by saying “it takes a good blacksmith to make good steel”. This is the general philosophy guiding full and rigorous governance over the Party in this new era. If “making good steel” means changing the objective world, then “a good blacksmith” equates to changing the subjective world. The two are dialectically unified in the vivid practice of the great struggle, the great cause, the great dream and the great project in this new era.