The pump[By Zhai Haijun/China.org.cn]

As Asian countries are now standing at a historic juncture, embracing both opportunities and challenges, Chinese President Xi Jinping's keynote speech at the Boao Forum of Asia on Saturday offered them an enthralling vision of the region's new future and means to achieve it.

While the Asian countries have already reached consensus on a peaceful and prosperous future, how to realize that goal remains a question of the generation.

Xi's Boao keynote speech is especially noteworthy, because it has shed lights on how to fulfill the vision of building a community of common destiny for a new Asia in the future.

The first and foremost goal for Asia's new future is to maintain peace. This is why Xi called for joint efforts of the Asian countries to pursue peace and stability, urging that "the Cold War mentality should be discarded."

Asia is still being festered by profound and complex threats. Some are the old issues left over from history and others are news ones associated with current disputes. Traditional and non-traditional security threats are also compromising a prospect of a peaceful and safe Asia.

Seeing peaceful dialogues as the only solution, China has signed good-neighborly and friendly cooperation treaties with eight neighboring countries, and is working to conclude the same treaty with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

"China stands ready to sign such a treaty with all its neighbors to provide strong support for the development of bilateral relations as well as prosperity and stability in the region," said Xi.