Meng Zhongjie, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of East China Normal University, emphasized the Global South's crucial role in human progress. Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, called for new solidarities amid the evolving global order. Narayan Kaji Shrestha, former Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, advocated for the Global South to forge a unique, inclusive, and sustainable path to modernization, avoiding Western models and actively building a just global order.