I'm a football fan. The Chinese football team has been working hard, but only once has they reached the World Cup, and it was Milu who also served as the head coach of the Mexican national football team to lead the Chinese team to set this record.

I heard that a Mexican sports official once asked the leader of the Chinese diving team what it was like to win a gold medal. Two years ago, under the guidance of Chinese coaches, Mexico's "diving princess" Espinosa and her teammates won all eight gold medals in diving at the 2011 Pan American Games. The Mexican friends got a taste of winning the gold medal. We wish the Mexican diving team many more gold medals in the future! I wish China and Mexico more "gold medals" in cooperation!

- "Promoting Common Development for a Better Future: Speech to the Mexican Senate" (June 5, 2013)

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Speaking of the "miracle coach" Milou, Mexican fans and Chinese fans will not forget the miracle he created.

In the 1986 Mexico World Cup, the "Straw Hats" led by Milou broke into the quarterfinals of the World Cup, and Milu's "86 team" became a classic of Mexican football. In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, Milu's "02 team" is also a classic of Chinese football. On October 7, 2001, with Yu Genwei's goal, the Chinese team defeated the Oman team at Shenyang Wulihe Stadium and won the World Cup finals for the first time. The only Serbian to have led five different football teams to the World Cup finals, was selected by the Global Times as one of the 60 foreigners to influence China. Mexicans praised Milou, who has made a name for himself in his country, for "having once again performed miracles" and believes that China, the world's most populous country, has "great significance for the World Cup itself" by entering the World Cup finals.

Speaking of diving, Chinese may only know our "dream team", in fact, there is also a "Mexican dream team". In the 2011 Pan American Games, the Mexican diving team won 8 gold medals in one fell swoop, of which Espinosa, the "diving princess", won 4 gold medals. Leading the Mexicans to taste the taste of winning the gold medal was Ma Jin, a national sports coach from China. As a member of the Chinese Aid Mexico Coaching Team, Ma Jin not only manages the training of the players in their spare time, but also has to worry about the equipment, game arrangements, and even the lives of the players. Espinosa was initially unconvinced of Majin, but as her grades improved, she saw Majin as a truly trustworthy person. On Ma Jin's birthday, the "Diving Princess" and her boyfriend gave Ma Jin a necklace pendant with two children, a man and a girl, on which they hoped that Ma Jin would treat them as their own children. After becoming a Mexican celebrity, Ma Jin also became a messenger of friendship between China and Mexico. The former president of Mexico has received Ma Jin many times, and the Mexican government also awarded her the "Aztec Eagle" medal in recognition of her contribution to Mexico's diving cause and her role in promoting friendly relations between China and Mexico. Ma Jin believes that diving is a major highlight of China-Mexico sports exchanges, and the friendly development of China-Mexico relations will provide a better environment for her to carry out sports exchange activities in Mexico and be more conducive to the development of her work.

From Milou leading the Chinese team to the World Cup, to the Chinese diving coach helping Mexican athletes win gold, Xi Jinping's telling of these two sports stories is to illustrate that "cooperation is strong, isolation is weak", in today's world, no country can develop without interdependence, and only by working together can we achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

After telling this story, Xi Jinping mentioned an old Chinese saying - "A flower blooming alone is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in spring", and borrowed the famous phrase of Mexican poet Alfonso Reyes - "Only if it is beneficial to the world, can it benefit the country". What is it like to win a gold medal? If everyone cooperates for a win-win situation, they can all taste it. Xi Jinping uses sports as a metaphor for development: development by oneself is not as good as development by everyone. As he put it: "Strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation can produce the positive effect of 'one plus one is greater than two'." ”