Chinese FM urges China, EU to jointly safeguard peace, development

PARIS Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged China and the European Union (EU) to jointly uphold the trend of peace and development, while calling for solidarity, cooperation, openness and inclusiveness. In his speech at the French Institute of International Relations here on Sunday, Wang said that China’s development has not only benefited the Chinese people, but also the whole world. Commitment to peace and harmony, he added, is deeply rooted in the mindset of the Chinese and has also been the cultural inspiration behind China’s active pursuit of a community with a shared future for mankind. Over the past more than 70 years since the People’s Republic of China was founded, especially the past over 40 years since the country’s reform and opening up, the Chinese people have made remarkable achievements along the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. China has accomplished leapfrog development with its comprehensive national strength growing continuously, and the Chinese people have become the true masters of their country with their livelihoods improving incessantly, Wang said. Wang said that China has always been a constructor of world peace, constantly injecting positive energy into the evolution of the international situation, a defender of the international order, constantly adding stability to the global governance system, and a promoter of globalization, making important contributions to building an open world. The development path chosen by the Chinese people, Wang said, meets their aspirations and the trend of peaceful development, which is beneficial not only to China but also to the world. China will stick to it unswervingly, he added. Facing an everchanging international environment, China has decided to give full play to the advantages of its superlarge market and the potential of its domestic demand, so as to build a new development pattern marked by the domestic cycle as the main body and the mutual reinforcing of both the domestic and international cycles, said Wang. China will further expand domestic demand and open up wider, share more of China’s development dividends with the world so as to drive the world’s common recovery with China’s recovery and drive the world’s common development with China’s development, he said.

China will continue to adhere to the path of peaceful development, Wang said. Adhering to the new model of statetostate relations featuring dialogue and partnership, not confrontation or alliance, China will build more extensive global partnerships, he said. On open development, Wang said that China will build an open economy of a higher level with allrange, multilevel, diversified patterns of open cooperation. Also, on cooperative development, Wang said that China will pursue greater security, better development and meet common challenges through cooperation. (Xinhua)