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China to Face Up to Challenges of Globalization, Vice-Premier
Chinese Vice-Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday morning that economic globalization has been an objective trend and China will face the challenges with courage and grasp opportunities brought about by the trend.
Wen made this remark while addressing the opening session of the 2001 annual meeting of China Development Forum, which opened here Sunday morning.
He said China will continue to carry out the strategy of economic restructuring, and improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth in order to sharpen China's competitive edge in the international market.
China will stimulate in a massive manner scientific and technological innovation and stick to the open-up policy, Wen said.
In the process of participating in economic globalization, he said, the Chinese government will shoulder due responsibilities and further transfer its functions and improve the way for playing these functions.
"The Chinese government has as always dedicated to the establishment of a just and rational international economic order and will, together with the governments and people of other countries, strive for this goal with unremitting efforts," Wen said.
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, should have equal rights to participate in the formulation of the "rule of games" in international affairs.
The rational opinions and requests of developing countries should be given adequate attention in order to bring them opportunities to share the benefits from economic globalization, Wen said.
The forum, sponsored by the Development Research Center of the State Council, has its theme run as "the role of government in the rapidly globalizing economy."
Attending the meeting are over 100 participants, including officials from Chinese government departments, leaders of financial circles and other big companies, chairmen and CEOs of some of the world's top 500 businesses, and representatives from related international organizations and non-governmental organizations, and Chinese and foreign scholars.
They will discuss the government's leading role in social and economic reforms, self-improvement of the government, and how to realize development and stability.
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