The 15th World Socialism Forum opened in Beijing on Monday, bringing together nearly 90 delegates from 35 countries, including leaders of foreign communist parties, prominent Marxist scholars, and socialist thinkers, to explore development paths and global governance. 

The two-day event is being hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 
Under the theme "At the Crossroads of World History: The Choice of All Nations," participants discussed a wide range of topics, from Chinese modernization and the rise of the Global South, to reforming global governance, upholding fairness and justice, and safeguarding the postwar international order. 

Hasan Tarique Chowdhury, general secretary of Bangladesh Afro Asian People's Solidarity Organization, said China's modernization experience and its model of socialism with Chinese characteristics set ambitious goals for other nations to learn from. 
"So this is the sample for the other nations who want to develop socialism in their own countries on the basis of shared development, on the basis of global cooperation, denying the theory of unipolarity and accepting the theory of multipolarity," he said. 

"Now the Western ideas of liberal capitalist development cannot provide good answers to the questions of the 21st century. So that's why it's very important to pay more attention to the ideas which are being developed by China,” said Alexander V. Lomanov, deputy director and chief researcher at Russian Academy of Sciences. 

Other delegates said the spirit of cooperation, equality, and a desire for shared development embodied at the forum will be vital in shaping a more just and peaceful global order.