Proposals seen to boost development

Chinese President Xi Jinping's newly proposed Global Civilization Initiative seeks to build a global consensus to help resolve conflicts and this, in turn, can usher in peace and accelerate economic development, said Zafar Uddin Mahmood, policy adviser to the secretary-general of Boao Forum for Asia, or BFA.

The GCI is consistent with and intrinsically linked to the two initiatives proposed earlier, the Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative, he told China Daily.

He said Xi's GCI, which is very timely, will address the issue of various countries' dealings with each other in a humbler way, wherein we can listen to others' point of view.