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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- China will stick to
its independent foreign policy of peace and expand exchange and cooperation with
other countries on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, Chinese President
Hu Jintao said here Sunday.
The development of China needs a
peaceful international environment and such development is conducive to world
peace and development, Hu said, adding that China will "stick to the path of
peaceful development."
China will always be a firm force in maintaining
world peace and promoting common development, the President said at a grand
gathering to mark the birth centenary of late leader Deng Xiaoping,held in the
Great Hall of the People.
At the same time, China will always put its state
sovereignty and national security in the first place, and steadfastly safeguard
the nation's political, economic, cultural and defense security, he said.
The Chinese people will work with the people of other
countriesin the world to promote global multipolarization and the
democratization of international relations, push economic globalization toward
common prosperity, oppose hegemonism and power politics, fight terrorism in all
forms, and devote to the establishment of a new, just and rational international
political and economic order, he said. Enditem
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