CHINA
China's Peaceful Development Road
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-22 11:42
China on Thursday, December 22, 2005 issued a white paper on its peaceful
development, stating that it is the inevitable way for the country to
achieve modernization. The 32-page white paper, titled "China's Peaceful
Development Road" and published by the Information Office of China's
State Council, fully explains the inevitability for the country to pursue
peaceful development. The following is the full text of the white paper.
China's Peaceful Development Road
I. Peaceful Development Is the Inevitable Way for China's Modernization
To achieve peaceful development is a sincere hope and unremitting pursuit
of the Chinese people. Since the policies of reform and opening-up were
introduced at the end of the 1970s, China has successfully embarked on a
road of peaceful development compatible with its national conditions and
characteristics of the times. Along this road, the Chinese people are
working hard to build China into a prosperous, powerful, democratic,
civilized and harmonious modern country, and continually making new
contributions to human progress with China's own development.
Looking back upon history, basing itself on the present reality and
looking forward to the future, China will unswervingly follow the road of
peaceful development, making great efforts to achieve a peaceful, open,
cooperative and harmonious development.
- Striving for a peaceful international environment to develop itself,
and promoting world peace through its own development;
- Achieving development by relying on itself, together with reform and
innovation, while persisting in the policy of opening-up;
- Conforming to the trend of economic globalization, and striving to
achieve mutually beneficial common development with other countries;
- Sticking to peace, development and cooperation, and, together with all
other countries, devoting itself to building a harmonious world marked by
sustained peace and common prosperity.
Peace, opening-up, cooperation, harmony and win-win are our policy, our
idea, our principle and our pursuit. To take the road of peaceful
development is to unify domestic development with opening to the outside
world, linking the development of China with that of the rest of the
world, and combining the fundamental interests of the Chinese people with
the common interests of all peoples throughout the world. China persists
in its pursuit of harmony and development internally while pursuing peace
and development externally; the two aspects, closely linked and
organically united, are an integrated whole, and will help to build a
harmonious world of sustained peace and common prosperity.
China's road of peaceful development is a brand-new one for mankind in
pursuit of civilization and progress, the inevitable way for China to
achieve modernization, and a serious choice and solemn promise made by
the Chinese government and the Chinese people.
- It is an inevitable choice based on its national conditions that China
persists unswervingly in taking the road of peaceful development. During
the 100-odd years following the Opium War in 1840, China suffered
humiliation and insult from big powers. And thus, ever since the advent
of modern times, it has become the assiduously sought goal of the Chinese
people to eliminate war, maintain peace, and build a country of
independence and prosperity, and a comfortable and happy life for the
people. Although it has made enormous achievements in development, China,
with a large population, a weak economic foundation and unbalanced
development, is still the largest developing country in the world. It is
the central task of China to promote economic and social development
while continuously improving its people's life. To stick to the road of
peaceful development is the inevitable way for China to attain national
prosperity and strength, and its people's happiness. What the Chinese
people need and cherish most is a peaceful international environment.
They are willing to do their best to make energetic contributions for the
common development of all countries.
- It is an inevitable choice based on China's historical and cultural
tradition that China persists unswervingly in taking the road of peaceful
development. The Chinese nation has always been a peace-loving one.
Chinese culture is a pacific culture. The spirit of the Chinese people
has always featured their longing for peace and pursuit of harmony. Six
hundred years ago, Zheng He (1371-1435), the famous navigator of the Ming
Dynasty, led the then largest fleet in the world and made seven voyages
to the "Western Seas," reaching more than 30 countries and regions in
Asia and Africa. What he took to the places he visited were tea,
chinaware, silk and technology, but did not occupy an inch of any other's
land. What he brought to the outside world was peace and civilization,
which fully reflects the good faith of the ancient Chinese people in
strengthening exchanges with relevant countries and their peoples. Based
on the present reality, China's development has not only benefited the
1.3 billion Chinese people, but also brought large markets and
development opportunities for countries throughout the world. China's
development also helps to enhance the force for peace in the world.
- It is an inevitable choice based on the present world development trend
that China persists unswervingly in taking the road of peaceful
development. It is the common wish of the people throughout the world and
an irresistible historical trend to pursue peace, promote development and
seek cooperation. In particular, further development of
multi-polarization and economic globalization has brought new
opportunities for world peace and development, and thus it is possible to
strive for a long-term peaceful international environment. Meanwhile,
China is clearly aware that the world is still troubled by many factors
of instability and uncertainty, and mankind still faces many severe
challenges. However, there are more opportunities than challenges, and as
long as all countries work together we can gradually attain the goal of
building a harmonious world of sustained peace and common prosperity. For
many years, China has consistently followed an independent foreign policy
of peace, the purpose of which is to safeguard world peace and promote
common development. As early as in 1974, when China resumed its
membership in the United Nations, Deng Xiaoping proclaimed to the world
that China would never seek hegemony. Since the policies of reform and
opening-up were introduced, China, keeping in view the changes in the
international situation, has upheld the important strategic judgment that
peace and development are the theme of the present times, and declared on
many occasions that China did not seek hegemony in the past, nor does it
now, and will not do so in the future when it gets stronger. China's
development will never pose a threat to anyone; instead, it can bring
more development opportunities and bigger markets for the rest of the
world. Facts prove that China's economic development is becoming an
important impetus for economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region and even
the world as a whole. It has become the national determination of China
to safeguard world peace and promote common development.
At present, the Chinese people are working hard to build a moderately
well-off society in an all-round way. Not long ago, the Fifth Plenary
Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China set
the main targets for China's economic and social development from 2006 to
2010, of which the principal economic target is to double the 2000
per-capita GDP by 2010 on the basis of optimizing its structures,
increasing economic returns and reducing consumption; and enhance
substantially the resource utilization ratio, and by 2010 reduce the 2005
per-unit GDP resource consumption by around 20 percent. To attain this
target, China, guided by the scientific concept of development with
people first, overall coordination and sustainable development at the
core, will promote the overall development of its economy, politics,
culture and society. While seeking development by relying primarily on
its own strength, China sticks to the policy of opening-up, engages in
extensive international economic and technological cooperation, and
shares with all other countries the fruits of mankind's civilization;
respects and gives consideration to others' interests, works with other
countries to solve the disputes and problems cropping up in cooperation,
and strives to achieve mutual benefit and common development; abides by
its international obligations and commitments, actively participates in
international systems and world affairs, and endeavors to play a
constructive and locomotive role; and gets along with all other countries
equally and develops friendly relations with them on the basis of the
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
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