Abstract: General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the “Global Civilization Initiative” at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting. Composed of four “joint advocacies”, it constitutes a systematic ethical narrative. It is necessary to analyze the global ethical vision embedded in the Global Civilization Initiative from the perspectives of historicity, synchronicity, and totality. This vision embodies an ethical narrative of cognitive reconstruction, goal formation, core support, and logical mutual verification: namely, respecting the diversity of world civilizations as it deconstructs the theory of a single civilization, championing the common values of all humanity as it constructs a “theory of symbiotic order”, attaching importance to the inheritance and innovation of civilizations as it upholds the theory of cultural subjectivity, and strengthening international people-to-people exchanges and cooperation as it advocates a “theory of equal dialogue”. The Global Civilization Initiative has shaped a new paradigm for the ethical understanding of global civilization, provided an ethics-of-interaction solution of “mutual learning among civilizations” for the exchange and coexistence of world civilizations, and opened a new path for a new order of human civilization, thereby revealing profound moral-philosophical significance concerning international fairness and justice, peaceful development, and human well-being.

Key words: Global Civilization Initiative, ethical narrative, moral philosophy, Eurocentrism, new model for human advancement