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China's peaceful rise benefits world: scholar
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-29 08:37
China's strategy to develop itself peacefully is conducive to safeguarding
world peace and promoting common development, said a Chinese military scholar in
an article.
Xiong Guangkai, author of the article "Firm Adherence to Peaceful Development
and Appropriate Response to Diversified Security Threats," stressed that China
firmly sticks to a peaceful development approach.
China is trying to create a peaceful international environment for the
benefit of its own growth and is trying to make its due contribution to world
peace, stability and prosperity.
The article acknowledged that China is playing an active role within various
bilateral and multilateral mechanisms.
In recent years, China has engaged in creating a friendly neighborhood with
adjacent countries. It has thoroughly addressed its border issues with Russia
and other northwestern neighbors according to the principle of mutual
understanding and mutual accommodation. China, the Philippines and Vietnam made
breakthroughs in jointly exploring resources in the South China Sea. The
Declaration on Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea was signed between
China and the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).
Xiong described China as a country taking up a bigger role under multilateral
frameworks, including the APEC, the ASEAN plus China (10+1), and the ASEAN plus
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (10+3).
The country has become an important part of the international cooperation on
combating terrorism, the major mediating force and organizer of the tri-party
and the six-party talks aimed at resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue,
and a major player in the UN Security Council, the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, and the ASEAN Regional Forum.
"China is cooperating with its neighbors and other countries in a bid to
maintain the peace and stability of Asia and the world atlarge." said the
article.
Xiong noted in the article that China's peaceful development isboosting the
world's economic growth.
Figures show that China's imported commodities totaled 1.7698 trillion U.S.
dollars from its entry into the World Trade Organization on Dec. 11, 2001 to
Sept. 2005, nearly 500 billion U.S. dollars per annum. The import volume
generated about 10 million jobs in those exporting countries.
At the present pace, the imported commodities are expected to surpass 3
trillion U.S. dollars in the next five years, a huge impetus to global economic
growth and prosperity.
The article highlighted China's concrete efforts in seeking peace and
development and assuming greater responsibilities.
China determined not to depreciate its currency amid the East Asian financial
crisis in 1997. Generous disaster relief was donated by the country to those
areas damaged by the tsunami of the Indian Ocean in 2004, to the
earthquake-shaken regions of Pakistan and the southern part of the United States
swept by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"As peace, development and cooperation remain the mainstream ofthe current
world, China will unswervingly stick to a road of peaceful development." the
article said.
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