Yunus, a former banker, who pioneered the microcredit movement, which provides very small loans to millions of the world's poorest people, said that Xi still remembered their first meeting.

　　“I was very impressed that someone at this position was thinking about something I do far away with the poor women in the village. So I always admire him for that,“ Yunus said.

　　He also said he believes that the vision proposed by Xi of building a community with a shared future for mankind arises from the idea that “no matter where we are in the boat together, if this boat sinks, we are finished“.

　　It's not about one country or another country, Yunus said, but rather “as a human being on this planet, we have to save this planet. That's the No 1 goal“.

　　Yunus said he has been promoting something similar in the notion of creating a world of “three zeros — zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions.

　　“It's our collective responsibility to protect this (planet),“ he said.