Special Report: President Hu attends Outreach Session of G8
Summit
Backgrounder: Key facts
about G8 summit
Backgrounder: Toyako, venue
for 2008 G8 summit
SAPPORO, Japan, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President
Hu Jintao said Tuesday that the causes for soaring food prices are multi-faceted
and complex, urging the international community to increase cooperation and take
comprehensive measures to maintain world food security.
Hu made the remarks at a meeting of leaders of five
developing countries on the eve of an outreach session of the Group of Eight
(G8) summit.
Being all major grain producers and consumers, "we
should jointly encourage the international community to act more actively to
ensure food security," said President Hu in the presence of leaders of India,
Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.
Calling on concerted efforts to support and
facilitate the Task Force on Global Food Security Crisis to work out an
international cooperation framework on food security, the Chinese president said
that the five nations also need to "increase coordination and carry out
technological exchanges and cooperation in such practical areas as planting,
disease and pest prevention and grain reserves."
Hu dismissed the argument stressing the so-called
"responsibility of big developing countries," which blames the development of
big developing countries for hikes in world food prices.
There are in fact multi-faceted and complex factors
behind the price hikes, said Hu.
"Developing countries suffer most from rising food
prices and we the five countries have also been affected to varying degrees," he
said.
Hu also expressed China's readiness to share
experience in agricultural development with other developing countries and
provide help as its capacity allows so as to raise the integrated agricultural
production capacity of developing countries.
The Chinese president arrived here late Monday for
the outreach session of the Group of Eight (G8) summit scheduled for Wednesday
in the northern Japanese resort of Toyako.
Leaders of China, India, Brazil, S
Africa, Mexico meet before G8 outreach session
SAPPORO, Japan, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Leaders from China,
India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico gathered in Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido,
northern Japan, Tuesday to exchange views on the issues of common concern.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and leaders of the other four
developing countries were meeting on the eve of an outreach session of the Group
of Eight (G8) summit, slated for Wednesday in the northern Japanese resort of
Toyako. Full story
Chinese president leaves for G8 summit
outreach session
BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao
left here Monday afternoon for Japan to attend the Outreach Session of the Group
of Eight (G8) Summit, at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Hu's entourage included Ling Jihua, member of the
Secretariat of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director
of General Office of CPC Central Committee, Wang Huning, member of the
Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of Policy Research Office
of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor Dai Bingguo, Foreign Minister Yang
Jiechi, Minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission
Zhang Ping, Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai, Minister of Commerce Chen
Deming, Director of the President's Office Chen Shiju and Assistant Foreign
Minister Liu Jieyi. Full story
Japan summit to test G8 leaders on
climate change, world economy and security
TOYAKO, Japan, July 6 (Xinhua) -- When the leaders of the
Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations gather in Hokkaido, Japan, this week
for their annual summit, they face the challenge of showing greater resolve to
fight global warming, remedying the world economy and easing tensions in the
world's hot spots.
The host country Japan has put talks on climate change
high on the agenda of the meeting in the northern resort of Toyako, building on
the outcome of last year's summit in Germany, where leaders agreed to seriously
consider a target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Full story
G8 summit opens with focus on Africa
on Day 1
TOYAKO, Japan, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The three-day summit of
the Group of Eight (G8) kicked off on Monday with the first session bringing
together leaders of the industrialized nations and their counterparts from seven
African countries.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who is playing host
for the G8 annual gathering, greeted other G8 leaders and the African leaders at
the start of a working lunch at the hilltop Windsor Hotel in Toyako, a resort
town on the northern island of Hokkaido. Full story
