Summary of Language of Concern, by Language Group

(U) “Create a community of shared future for 

mankind” and “New partnership/era of international 

relations”

Alternative translations, related terms

• Building a community of shared future for mankind/of 

common destiny

• Community of shared interests/shared 

responsibilities/our common humanity

• For the common good of humankind

• Mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, 

respect for cultural diversity and the pursuit of common 

development (“The Shanghai Spirit”)

• Open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world

• New partnership/type/era of international relations 

featuring mutual respect, fairness and justice, and winwin cooperation

• Mutual respect, common progress, cooperation, winwin result, and sustainability

• Mutual benefit, win-win outcomes and common 

development

• Ecological civilization or Ecological environment

• Friendship, sincerity, reciprocity, and inclusiveness

• Wide consultation, joint contribution, and shared 

benefits

• Principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution 

and shared benefits 

• Joint efforts of the international community to create a 

better future for the world

• Peace, security, openness, cooperation and order

• Amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness

(U) “Win-win cooperation” or “Mutually beneficial 

cooperation”

Alternative translations, related terms

• Pursue mutual benefit and common progress

(U) “Global community of health for all”

Alternative translations, related terms

• Health Silk Road

• Multilateral approach to combat the pandemic for winwin outcomes

(U) “UN-centred international order” or 

“Uphold multilateralism”

Alternative translations, related terms

• In the spirit of multilateralism

• True multilateralism

• Safeguard the international system with the UN at its 

core

• Pursue openness and inclusiveness, and oppose 

seclusion and exclusion

• Promoting democracy in international relations

• Vision of global governance featuring consultation, 

cooperation and benefit for all

• Core values and basic principles such as openness, 

inclusiveness and non-discrimination

• Open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial to all

• Global development and prosperity through win-win 

cooperation

• Accommodate the interests of all countries, particularly 

emerging markets and developing countries

• Unity over division, cooperation over confrontation, 

mutual benefit over a zero-sum game

• Common values of peace, development, equity, justice, 

democracy and freedom

(U) “Innovative, coordinated, environmentally sound 

(or green), open and shared manner (or 

development)”

Alternative translations, related terms

• Common prosperity (+/- high quality development)

• Safe, convenient, efficient, green and economical

• Peaceful, open, cooperative, and common development

• Open, green, and clean cooperation/development

• High-quality, reliable, resilient, and sustainable 

infrastructure 

• Viable, affordable, accessible, inclusive, and broadly 

beneficial [development or infrastructure]

• Cheap financing for infrastructure

• “The important role of the UN system in addressing the 

funding gaps in infrastructure investment”
(U) “Belt and Road Initiative,” “Silk Road Economic 

Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road”, and “One 

Belt, One Road Initiative”

Alternative translations, related terms

• Policy coordination, facilities connectivity, unimpeded 

trade, financial integration, and people-to-people bonds

• Promote policy, facilities, trade, financial, and peopleto-people connectivity 

• Peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, 

mutual learning and mutual benefit 

• Peaceful, open, cooperative, and common development

• Promote economic prosperity and regional economic 

cooperation, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning, 

and promote world peace and development 

• Open, inclusive, interconnected, sustainable, and 

people-centered 

• Global cooperation for common development (+/-

activities)

• Promoting global partnership on connectivity, based on 

transparency, openness and inclusiveness, providing an 

opportunity for all 

• Common prosperity and high-quality development

(U) “Common, comprehensive, cooperative, and 

sustainable security”

Alternative translations, related terms

• Common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable 

security, and a path of security featuring wide 

consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits

• Common Security, common development, and political 

inclusiveness

• Common, comprehensive, and cooperative security

• International security based on wide consultation, joint 

contribution, and shared benefits

• Open, inclusive, indivisible and transparent security and 

cooperation architecture

• Relevant disputes should be resolved through 

consultations between directly concerned states

(U) “Facilitating socioeconomic development in Africa 

including through job creation and promotion of 

entrepreneurship” and “Transnational and transregional infrastructure development, industrialization, 

poverty eradication, job creation, agricultural 

modernization and promotion of entrepreneurship” 

(U) “People-centered approach” or “People-centered 

development” 

Alternative Formulations

• People-centered cooperation

• High-standard, people-centered and sustainable growth

• People-centered philosophy

• “[X program], which puts the people at the center of the 

approach”

(U) “General international law” or “Universally 

recognized rules and principles of international law”

Alternative translations, related terms

• Basic norms governing international relations built 

around the purposes and principles of the UN Charter

• The spirit of the rule of law, the international norms 

based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of 

the United Nations, and the widely recognized rules of 

fairness and justice 

• The basic norms governing international relations based 

on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter

• The spirit of international law

• Observe universally recognized international laws and 

norms

• Honor international agreements adopted by all parties

• International rules must be based on international law 

and must be written by all

• Noting the role of relevant national policies and 

frameworks

• Reaffirming its commitment to the purposes and 

principles of the Charter of the United Nations 

including the need to respect the territorial integrity and 

political independence of States 

• The duty of States to cooperate with one another in 

accordance with the Charter

• Common values of humanity, including peace, 

development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom

• Fairness and justice

• Based on facts and impartial research