UN Official: China Becoming a 'People Superpower'

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UN Official: China Becoming a 'People Superpower'

China is the world's richest nation in human resources, making it a "people superpower", Maurice Strong, the United Nations Under Secretary-General, said in Beijing Sunday.

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China is the world's richest nation in human resources, making it a "people superpower", Maurice Strong, the United Nations Under Secretary-General, said in Beijing Sunday.

People were a national's fundamental resource on which all development depended, and China's international strength was people, Strong told the on-going 2002 International Human Resources Forum.

Strong said China was moving rapidly toward greater integrationwith the global economy, benefiting from the opening-up of its economy and membership of the World Trade Organization, through which the whole nation was improving its knowledge and technical capacities.

This could be seen in the increasing exports of China-made products and the growing number of foreign companies moving their plants to China, he added.

China's unprecedented economic growth provided a great magnet for foreign companies and investors. More than 400 of the Fortune 500 companies had invested in China.

"I am confident based on the evidence that China is on the pathway to success in cultivating its future human capital," said Strong.

In addition, Strong noted that human resource development in a rapidly changing world required a continuing, lifelong process of learning, adaptation and experience, both within and outside the workplace.

"China has also wisely recognized this," he said, expressing the hope that the concept of lifelong study could be further spread in China.

"Formal education is an essential, but not sufficient part of this process. More and more must occur not only in preparation fora career, but throughout one's career," he added.

The three-day forum is co-sponsored by the China Reform and Development Forum Committee, the UN-Global Compact China Center and the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, with the support of the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General and UN Human Resources Bureau.

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