A staff member shows a dose of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during vaccination program as second injection for health workers as the main priority group in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Jan. 28, 2021. (Photo by Septianjar/Xinhua)

Chinese President Xi Jinping's pledges and proposals, ranging from promoting global vaccine cooperation and jointly building the Belt and Road, to practicing multilateralism, have charted the course for a world that has arrived at a historic crossroads.

BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- As the world heads into the second month of 2021, it is still struggling to handle a ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, a deep economic recession, as well as a turbulent and shifting global order.

Against the backdrop of growing risks and uncertainties, Chinese President Xi Jinping has, on an array of bilateral and multilateral diplomatic occasions, offered China's solutions to those daunting challenges.

His pledges and proposals, ranging from promoting global vaccine cooperation and jointly building the Belt and Road, to practicing multilateralism, have charted the course for a world that has arrived at a historic crossroads.