Temat: Senior Chinese diplomat: China remains developing country

BEIJING, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese diplomat Wu Jianmin said here Friday international worry about the so-called "threat" posed by China's fast-growing economy is unnecessary, as it is still a developing country.

Wu, who is now president of the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU), told a China-EU relations conference that although China's economic aggregate ranked fourth in the world, its per capita GDP was slightly over 1,000 U.S. dollars, ranking below the world's top 100 and far below the average level of developed countries.
Besides, internal affairs remained the government's top priority, which was reflected in the 2007 government work report, said Wu. In the 36-page report, only one page was devoted to international affairs.
It is one-sided for some Europeans to claim they lost their jobs to Chinese, said Wu. China imported commodities worth 90 billionU.S. dollars from the EU in 2006, resulting in one million new jobs in Europe.
Wu said China-EU relations were at an all-time high and he hoped the two sides could conduct more cooperation in the fields of climate change, environmental protection and energy efficiency.

He also appealed to the European Union for more dialogue and communication with China so to sustain the development of relations.
Serge Abou, head of the EU delegation to China, said the EU did not consider China as a threat, but as a force for peace and opportunity.
The EU needed a prosperous and stable China as China needed for Europe, said Abou, adding a more powerful and richer China would complement the EU.
The conference, co-sponsored by the CFAU and the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), marks the EU's 50th anniversary.
More than 50 government officials, experts and scholars from China, France, the Netherlands and the EU delegation to China attended the two -day conference.

Source: BiznesChiny.pl