Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday that following the path of peaceful development is a solemn commitment of the Chinese government and people to the international community.

“It is a policy that we will always adhere to,” Hu said in a written interview with reporters from both Wall Street Journal and Washington Post prior to his state visit to the United States.

“Specifically, it means that we will achieve national development by our hard and creative work, by reforming and improving our institutions, and by maintaining friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries,” he said.

According to Hu, China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

“We stand for equality and mutual respect between countries. Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests,” he said.

“At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations in accordance with the basic norms governing international relations and the principle of mutual understanding, mutual accommodation, dialogue and consultation,” he said.

“Over the years, relations between China and other Asia-Pacific countries, including the United States and our Asian neighbors, have grown steadily, and together we have contributed to development in the Asia-Pacific region,” he said.

He pointed out that mutual trust between China and other countries in this region has deepened in the common response to tough challenges, and the cooperation has continuously expanded in the pursuit of mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.

“At present, relations between China and other Asia-Pacific countries face unprecedented opportunities. China is ready to work with other countries to seize opportunities, meet challenges and promote peace and development in the region and beyond,” he said.

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China on Monday called on the international community to further advance the international financial system reform, and to build a new and more equal and balanced global partnership for development.

“China hopes that the international community will work together to further advance the reform of the international financial system and move toward the establishment of a fair, just, inclusive and well-managed international financial order,” President Hu Jintao said in his written interview with the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post prior to his state visit to the United States.

He said the international financial crisis reflected the absence of regulation in financial innovation, and listed several serious defects of the existing financial system as the “root cause”, including:

First, the international financial system had not kept up with the latest development of economic and financial globalization and was incapable of tackling the risks and challenges brought about by massive financial activities.

Second, international financial institutions failed to fully reflect the changing status of developing countries in the world economy and finance. Their global representativeness and enforcement capabilities need to be further strengthened.

Third, the international financial system was in serious shortage of resources and means to tackle the international financial crisis and its rescue capabilities need to be built up.

Hu called on the international community to not only address specific issues such as managing properly the relationship between the financial sector and the real economy, between financial innovation and financial supervision and regulation, and between consumption and saving, but also, and more importantly, review those fundamental problems in the world economy on a macro level.

Saying the serious development imbalance between the North and the South as the “most prominent problem in the world’s economic imbalance”, Hu urged the international community to endeavor for a new and more equal and balanced global partnership for development, and to encourage developed and developing countries to have more mutual understanding and closer coordination, so as to promote the strong, sustainable and balanced development of the world economy.

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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (C, Front), who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, speaks at a meeting marking 90 years of the CPC’s diplomatic work and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 17, 2011. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said here Monday that the top diplomatic task of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is to create a peaceful and favorable international environment for China’s development.

“In foreign affairs, the first and foremost task is to safeguard and make good use of important strategic opportunities for China during the period,” said Xi, referring to the first two decades of the 21th century.

Xi, a Standing Committee member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, made the remarks while addressing a meeting marking 90 years of the CPC’s diplomatic work and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee.

Party diplomacy should develop China’s relations with foreign countries and enhance the CPC’s international image, Xi said.

Moveover, it should be an important platform for Party cadres to observe and study the world so they can learn from foreign experiences in party and state governance, he said.

When reviewing the history of the CPC’s diplomatic work, Xi said the CPC must uphold the principles of independence, equality, mutual respect and non-interference in internal affairs of other countries.

The CPC Central Committee established the international department in 1951 to handle the CPC’s communications with foreign political parties.

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