The 46th Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Group of 77 and China was held at the United Nations Headquarters in new york. Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal presided over the meeting. President of the 77th UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General Guterres and Cuban Foreign Minister Rodriguez delivered speeches at the opening ceremony. Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, attended the meeting and delivered a speech on behalf of State Councilor and Foreign Minister. COVID-19 epidemic, geopolitical conflict, climate change, food and energy crisis, economic imbalance and other risk challenges are intertwined, and developing countries bear the brunt. It is more important than ever for the Group of 77 and China to strengthen unity and cooperation, accelerate the implementation of the 23 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and achieve common development and prosperity.

we should make concerted efforts to unite our knowledge of international development. Development is the top priority for developing countries. We should put development at the core of the international agenda and pay attention to the urgent challenges faced by developing countries such as food and energy. Countries should strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination and deepen cooperation in poverty reduction, health, development financing, food and energy security and climate change. Promote major developed economies to adopt responsible monetary policy measures, oppose protectionism and unilateralism, and build an open world economy. Since the establishment of the Group of 77, it has gradually expanded from UNCTAD to the United Nations Environment Programme, UNESCO, FAO, UNIDO, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other institutions, and established corresponding coordination mechanisms. New york and Geneva are the activity centers. The South Summit is the highest decision-making body and has held two sessions so far.

China is not a member of the Group of 77, but it has always supported the just claims and reasonable demands of the Group of 77 and maintained good cooperative relations with it. At the preparatory meeting of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, China and the Group of 77 took the initiative to? Group of 77 and China? In the form of a joint position paper. This mode of cooperation has been gradually extended to the economic, social, financial and budgetary fields of the United Nations. At the 58th session of the Commission for Social Development in new york, the Group of 77 supported China's efforts to fight the COVID-19 epidemic. The Group of 77 fully supports the comprehensive efforts made by the Government of China to fight the COVID-19 epidemic and positively affirms the cooperation between China and the international community. China has participated in all the meetings of foreign ministers of the Group of 77.