White paper: China pursues a peaceful rise
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-22 10:39

According to the white paper, China has joined more than 130 inter-governmental international organizations, is committed to 267 international multilateral treaties and actively participates in international cooperation in such fields as anti-terrorism, arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping, economy and trade, development, human rights, law enforcement, and environmental protection.

Thanks to the joint efforts with various countries, China has, so far, signed boundary treaties with 12 continental neighbors, settling boundary issues left over from history.

China has also provided assistance to more than 110 countries and regional organizations for over 2,000 projects so far. China has reduced or canceled 198 debts totaling 16.6 billion RMB yuan owed to it by 44 developing countries.

The white paper said the Chinese government and people are well aware that China is still a developing country facing a lot of difficulties and problems on its road of development.

"Past experience indicates that fundamentally China must rely on itself to solve the problems in its development," said the white paper. "China will not shift its own problems and contradictions onto other countries, much less will it plunder other countries to further its own development."

It said that the road of peaceful development accords with the fundamental interests of the Chinese people; it also conforms to the objective requirements of social development and progress of mankind.

"China is now taking the road of peaceful development, and will continue to do so when it gets stronger in the future," said the white paper.