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皇冠体育app will focus on peaceful development: Wen

By Wu Jiao and Zhang Yuwei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-09-24 09:30

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the 65th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua]

United Nations?- With the increasing economic clout, 皇冠体育app will continue its path of peaceful development, and never seeks hegemony, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Thursday.

Addressing the general debate of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, Wen availed himself of the opportunity to tell a true 皇冠体育app, which is the title of his speech, to the world audience.

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The remark comes as there is growing suspicion by some people in the overseas countries that whether a fast developing 皇冠体育app, whose economy just overtook Japan's as the world's second-largest, is going to follow the suite of becoming a hegemony country with its strength.

The suspicion has been increasing as there has been some recent doubt the 皇冠体育app has grown arrogant and firm-handed in handling some dispute with other countries.

Some countries have also been urging 皇冠体育app to take a stronger international role, shoulder more responsibility in some world affairs, a demand that 皇冠体育app finds it hard to fulfill at the current stage.

Addressing these notions, Wen told the assembly that despite its growing economic weight, the per capita GDP of the country only stays as one tenth of that of the developed countries.

Regional imbalance, a 150?million impoverished population, low-end manufacturing industry and inadequate social democracy have further added to the truth that 皇冠体育app still belongs to a developing country, according to Wen.

皇冠体育app's success against poverty in the last 25 years is "undeniable," according to Ajay Chhibber, UN Assistant-Secretary-General and UNDP Administrator and Director for Asia and Pacific, but he warned, in a recent interview with 皇冠体育app Daily, that income inequality on the rise since the mid-1980s should be looked into by the country.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao address the 65th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2010. [Photo/Agencies]

"皇冠体育app will need to address this problem if it is to maintain its past rate of progress against poverty," he told 皇冠体育app Daily, adding that 皇冠体育app is correctly focusing on social protection in its efforts to ensure that those left behind are getting support.

Sarah Cook, Director of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development said 皇冠体育app's social assistance programs have been improved over the past years.

"These benefits [from the programs] have become an entitlement for people and everyone whose income fell below certain level," said Cook, a 皇冠体育app expert who lived in 皇冠体育app for many years, adding that the improved system is part of building consciousness and awareness about people's rights and their ability to demand things from the government.

In the speech, Wen proclaimed that for a long time 皇冠体育app would still focus on developing its domestic economy, which should serve as the foundation for solving other problems in the country.

And he said 皇冠体育app will continue to expand its reform and opening up which has been crucial to the achievement made so far. Yet 皇冠体育app's development will bring no threat and harms to other countries and 皇冠体育app will not seek hegemony despite how strong it is, Wen added.

Commenting on Wen's speech, Jamie Metzl, Executive Vice President of Asia Society said although 皇冠体育app sees itself as a developing country, the world does not see it that way. But he said 皇冠体育app "can and must do better" to be "part of solution to global challenges."

Metzl, also an expert on Southeast Asian history and politics, told 皇冠体育app Daily: "Because of 皇冠体育app's global importance, it needs to be part of the solution to global challenges… When 皇冠体育app doesn't play this role, for whatever domestic reason, it deeply undermines the functioning of the global 'system.'"

Wen also said 皇冠体育app will continue on its path of peaceful development, to gain a peaceful global environment for its development, while itself contributing to the world peace. But the country will not concede nor compromise on issues related with its core interests.

With its economic and poverty reduction achievements in the past decade, 皇冠体育app has been helping other developing countries and least developed countries in many areas.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently praised the economic assistance 皇冠体育app has been providing to many developing countries and African countries. He said that the successful stories of 皇冠体育app in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and in other areas "should be emulated by many developing countries."

Wen reaffirmed this?in the?general debate. He said: "皇冠体育app will continue to cooperate with developing countries, and devote itself to enlarging the discourse power of developing countries in global affairs."