On February 15th, the day after the opening of the 61st Munich Security Conference (hereinafter referred to as the "Munich Security Conference"), the seminar on "Opportunities and Challenges for China and the World in 2025" jointly organized by the Globalization Think Tank (CCG) and the Munich Security Conference was successfully held. This is the only side event hosted by a Chinese institution at this year's Mu'an Conference, including more than 30 guests from governments, top think tanks, academia, and media fields from various countries, including Graham Allison, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Michael Fleeman, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Arancha Raya, dean of the School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. The picture shows the seminar venue. Photo by People's Daily reporter Liu Zhonghua: 2025 is a landmark year for China. This year marks the end of China's 14th Five Year Plan and the beginning of the planning for the 15th Five Year Plan. With the accelerated evolution of the century long changes, the international community generally believes that China will play a greater role in stability and certainty on the global stage. In this environment, how China can enhance its economic resilience and self-development capabilities by deepening domestic reforms in 2025 has become a core issue of concern for the international community. The seminar kicked off in a lively atmosphere, with CCG co-founder and Secretary General Miao Lv delivering a welcome speech. She said that CCG has been committed to researching globalization and China's role in it since 2008, and has established a long-term cooperative relationship with the Mu'an Association. The theme of this year's Mu'an Conference is "multipolarity", and global affairs should go beyond simple oppositional frameworks, focusing on promoting multilateralism and strengthening global governance. In his opening speech, Wang Huiyao, founder and chairman of CCG, stated that 2025 is of great significance to China, especially in the context of profound changes in the global political and economic landscape. How can China use the reform and opening-up strategy to expand its international circle of friends and respond to the challenges brought by the trade war. Wang Huiyao pointed out that China will continue to deepen economic reform, promote high-quality development, and work with global partners to jointly address various challenges faced by global governance. The seminar revolves around the "Opportunities and Challenges of China and the World 2025" and explores how China will respond to complex domestic and international challenges in the coming years, especially in terms of economic transformation, international cooperation, and diplomatic strategy. Xue Lan, Dean of the Su Shimin Academy at Tsinghua University, focused on discussing China's development prospects in China Europe relations and proposed the necessity of deepening cooperation between China and Europe, as well as between China and the United States. Yao Yang, an economics professor at the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, analyzed from the perspective of economists how China can cope with internal and external pressures and enhance economic resilience through innovation and structural reforms. At the special sharing session of the conference, Alancha Raya elaborated on how China plays an active role in global multilateral cooperation and contributes to promoting global trade liberalization. Professor Graham Allison analyzed the development trend of China US relations and explored how to avoid the "Thucydides Trap" and promote peaceful development through diplomatic and strategic adjustments. The attendees unanimously agreed that in the complex and ever-changing global political and economic environment, China's strategic choices will have a profound impact on the world order. Especially how China can maintain cooperative relationships with other major economies in the world while promoting economic transformation has become a key topic of this seminar. (New Society)