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Three Tasks for the Chinese People in the New Century: Vice-Premier
The three major tasks for the Chinese people in the new century are to continue to promote the modernization drive, accomplish the reunification cause, and maintain world peace and promote common development, said Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen Monday in Beijing.
He made the remarks in a keynote speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the International Forum on China and the World in the 21st Century, which is sponsored by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, is being attended by over 200 former political leaders, experts and scholars from all over the world.
Qian introduced to the Forum China's domestic and foreign policies in the 21st century.
He said that modernization is China's central task, and opening and reform is the fundamental policy to ensure the accomplishment of this task.
Qian said that the strategic restructuring of the economy in China is an all-round readjustment of the industrial, regional, urban and rural, and ownership structures.
He said that reunification of the motherland is the shared aspiration of all Chinese people, it has a bearing on the national dignity of the Chinese people and China's state sovereignty and territorial integrity.
"One country, two systems" is the only good model for the reunification between the two sides across the Taiwan Straits, he said. Within the framework of "one country, two systems", more flexible policies than those for Hong Kong and Macao may be applied to Taiwan.
"We cannot afford to renounce the use of force, because that would encourage 'Taiwan independence' elements, making a peaceful reunification impossible to achieve," he said.
He said so long as the Taiwan authorities agree to solve the Taiwan Issue under the "one-China" principle, "we can wait patiently."
Talking about foreign policies, he said that China has consistently pursued an independent foreign policy of peace and the basic purposes of China's foreign policy are to safeguard world peace and promote common development.
Qian said that China stands for democracy in international relations, and sovereign equality of all states, and China opposes hegemonism and power politics. Arms expansion and stronger military alliances will not ensure security. China stands for a new security concept based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation.
"We maintain that all countries should increase economic and technological exchanges and cooperation and gradually change the unfair and irrational international economic order so as to achieve common development," he said.
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