Governance forum concludes in China with vision document on global governance

The 2026 Global Governance Forum (Xiong'an) concluded on Sunday in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province, with the release of a vision document that consolidates cross-party consensus and expectations for reforming and improving global governance. According to the document, upholding multilateralism is the only viable path to effectively address global governance deficit.

It also call on the Global South to strengthen coordination, translate aspirations for common development into joint actions to build economic and trade rules, and earnestly amplify the voice of developing countries.

The United Nations should serve as a core platform for global governance in artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure equal and effective participation by all countries, said the document.

Under the theme "Rebuilding Confidence and Cooperation: Reforming and Improving Global Governance in a Transforming World," participants held in-depth exchanges and reached consensuses on a range of topics such as safeguarding the UN-centered international system, forging consensus on faster development, deepening the reform of the international economic and financial system, governing emerging fields including AI, cyberspace and outer space, and advancing inter-civilization dialogue and mutual learning.

Participants agreed that translating global governance initiatives into shared global action represents an irresistible trend and the common aspiration of all people.

They welcomed China's launch of a global governance research center, saying that it will provide strong intellectual support for reforming and improving global governance.

Governance forum concludes in China with vision document on global governance

The rare footage of a family of three snow leopards, including a cub playing with a stick, was released recently after being captured by infrared cameras at the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The footage shows the three snow leopards briefly appeared together on a rocky hillside before the male walked off into the distance. In another clip, the cub played with a stick, walking around and occasionally lying down, while the female watched nearby.

"The cub is now almost the same size as an adult leopard. It is nearly one and a half years old and has adapted very well to the Helan Mountain environment. It is growing up very healthily," said a staff member of the administration bureau of the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve.

The snow leopard is a first-class nationally protected wild animal in China, and its survival is an important indicator of the health of high-altitude ecosystems.

To protect its habitat, the reserve has continued to track individual snow leopards through field patrols and infrared camera inspections, accumulating rich data for species protection and scientific research.

To date, five individual snow leopards have been monitored in the reserve.

Infrared cameras capture snow leopard family at nature reserve in Inner Mongolia