尊重各國人民自主選擇發展道路的權利

一個國家的發展道路合不合適，只有這個國家的人民才最有發言權。習近平用中國民間的俗語做比喻説，"鞋子合不合腳，自己穿了才知道"。意思是説，走什麼樣的發展道路，是一個國家的內部事務，任何外國無權干涉，無權指手畫腳，更無權通過強制或顛覆等手段把別國拉到自己劃定的軌道上來。在國際關係中，中國歷來堅持國家不分大小、強弱、貧富一律平等，尊重各國人民自主選擇發展道路的權利，承認各國文化傳統、社會制度、價值觀念、發展理念等方面的差異，努力推動不同文明的發展模式取長補短、相互促進、共同發展，反對以一種模式來衡量豐富多彩的世界。

Respecting the rights of all peoples to choose their own development path

It is the people of a country that are best placed to judge whether the development path they have chosen for themselves is suitable. Xi Jinping once used a folk saying as a metaphor: "No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches." By this he meant that it is an internal affair of a country to choose its own path, and no other country has the right to interfere or to prescribe or impose a certain track on others by force or sabotage. China has always held that all countries, regardless of their size, strength or level of development, are equal in international relations. It respects the right of the people of all countries to independently choose their development path; recognizes the differences in their cultures and traditions, social systems, values and concepts of development; and promotes different civilizations learning from one another's models of development for common development. And it opposes the attempt to use one single model to gauge our rich and varied world.