BRICS promotes multipolar and fairer world order

Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined BRICS in January and attended the just-concluded summit of the grouping in Kazan, Russia, as full members. As a grouping of emerging market economies and developing countries, BRICS has been trying to make more contributions to global development and peace, while making efforts to reform the global governance system to make it fairer and truly representative.

Since its meeting in 2006, the grouping has evolved from a concept into reality, becoming a key force promoting a multipolar world order. Accordingly, one of the main topics on the agenda of the Kazan summit was collaboration between BRICS member states and the Global South in order to build a better world marked by equality and justice.

Just as President Xi Jinping said in his important speech at the "BRICS Plus" leaders' dialogue in Kazan, Russia, on Oct 24, the collective rise of the Global South is a distinctive feature of the great transformation across the world. Global South countries marching together toward modernization is monumental in world history and unprecedented in human civilization.