China’s strategic choice is peaceful development
Sep 14, 2011
SITUATED in the East, China, a country with an ancient civilization and a population of over 1.3 billion, is making big strides in its advance toward modernisation.
By Sun Heping
SITUATED in the East, China, a country with an ancient civilization and a population of over 1.3 billion, is making big strides in its advance toward modernisation.
China has declared that it takes a path of peaceful development and is committed to upholding world peace and promoting common development and prosperity for all countries.
At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century and on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China declared again that peaceful development is a strategic choice made by China to realise modernisation, make itself strong and prosperous, and make more contribution to the progress of human civilization.
China’s overall goal of pursuing peaceful development is to promote development and harmony domestically and pursue cooperation and peace internationally.
This means China will endeavor to make life better for its people and contribute to human progress through hard work, innovation and reform and growing long-term friendly relations and promoting equality and mutually-beneficial cooperation with other countries.
As a member of the international community, China has great hope for the future world, and adopts the thinking on international relations and foreign policies that conform to peaceful development.
The path of peaceful development will have its global impact manifest over time. Its success calls for both the untiring efforts of the Chinese and understanding and support from the international community.
China’s peaceful development has broken away from the traditional pattern where a rising power was bound to seek hegemony. With a keen appreciation of its historical and cultural tradition of several thousand years, the nature of economic globalization, changes in international relations and the international security landscape in the 21st century as well as the common interests and values of humanity, China has decided upon peaceful development and mutually beneficial cooperation as a fundamental way to realise its modernisation, participate in international affairs and handle international relations.
In the ever-changing world of today, all doctrines, systems, models and paths are subject to the test of the times and practice. As national conditions vary from country to country, there is no such thing as a fixed mode of development which claims to be the only effective one and applicable to all. A path of development is viable only when it suits the national conditions of a country.
China’s path of development has taken shape in the Chinese environment. China is fully aware that taking the path of peaceful development is an important and long-term process and that the current domestic and foreign environments are going through profound and complex changes. It will thus apply its own successful experience, draw on the practices of other countries, and stay alert about new problems and challenges.
China cannot develop itself in isolation and global prosperity and stability cannot be maintained without China. China’s achievements are inseparable from its friendly cooperation with the outside world. In pursuing development, it needs the understanding and support from the rest of the world.
We are deeply appreciative to all the countries including Uganda and peoples who have shown understanding and solicitude for and given support and help
The writer is the Chinese Ambassador to Uganda
SITUATED in the East, China, a country with an ancient civilization and a population of over 1.3 billion, is making big strides in its advance toward modernisation.
China has declared that it takes a path of peaceful development and is committed to upholding world peace and promoting common development and prosperity for all countries.
At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century and on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China declared again that peaceful development is a strategic choice made by China to realise modernisation, make itself strong and prosperous, and make more contribution to the progress of human civilization.
China’s overall goal of pursuing peaceful development is to promote development and harmony domestically and pursue cooperation and peace internationally.
This means China will endeavor to make life better for its people and contribute to human progress through hard work, innovation and reform and growing long-term friendly relations and promoting equality and mutually-beneficial cooperation with other countries.
As a member of the international community, China has great hope for the future world, and adopts the thinking on international relations and foreign policies that conform to peaceful development.
The path of peaceful development will have its global impact manifest over time. Its success calls for both the untiring efforts of the Chinese and understanding and support from the international community.
China’s peaceful development has broken away from the traditional pattern where a rising power was bound to seek hegemony. With a keen appreciation of its historical and cultural tradition of several thousand years, the nature of economic globalization, changes in international relations and the international security landscape in the 21st century as well as the common interests and values of humanity, China has decided upon peaceful development and mutually beneficial cooperation as a fundamental way to realise its modernisation, participate in international affairs and handle international relations.
In the ever-changing world of today, all doctrines, systems, models and paths are subject to the test of the times and practice. As national conditions vary from country to country, there is no such thing as a fixed mode of development which claims to be the only effective one and applicable to all. A path of development is viable only when it suits the national conditions of a country.
China’s path of development has taken shape in the Chinese environment. China is fully aware that taking the path of peaceful development is an important and long-term process and that the current domestic and foreign environments are going through profound and complex changes. It will thus apply its own successful experience, draw on the practices of other countries, and stay alert about new problems and challenges.
China cannot develop itself in isolation and global prosperity and stability cannot be maintained without China. China’s achievements are inseparable from its friendly cooperation with the outside world. In pursuing development, it needs the understanding and support from the rest of the world.
We are deeply appreciative to all the countries including Uganda and peoples who have shown understanding and solicitude for and given support and help
The writer is the Chinese Ambassador to Uganda