Get on the train, Xi tells Mongolians
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“WELCOME aboard China’s train of development!” Xi Jinping, president of the world’s second largest economy, told Mongolian lawmakers yesterday.
“China is willing to offer opportunities and room to Mongolia and other neighbors for common development,” Xi said in a speech at the State Great Hural of Mongolia, the country’s parliament.
“You can take a ride on our express train or just make a hitchhike, all are welcome,” the Chinese president said.
China has the largest number of neighboring countries in the world and sees this as a valuable asset. “A good neighbor is not to be traded for gold,” said Xi, citing a Chinese proverb.
China has always regarded its neighbors as cooperative partners and sincere friends for common development, peace and stability, he said. “We will continue to adhere to the foreign policy of developing good-neighborly relationship and partnership with our neighboring countries, and the policy of bringing harmony, security and prosperity to them.”
“We will uphold the guidelines of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy,” he added.
The president stressed that China will seek a fair distribution of interests in its cooperation with developing countries.
“We will never do things that could result in ‘one wins and the other loses’ or ‘one wins more and the other gets less.’ We will take into consideration the other side’s interests in some specific projects,” Xi said.
He added: “China will surely do what it has said and deliver on what it has promised.”
As China is growing, Xi went on, some people in the world had begun to worry about where the country is going and whether it will constitute a threat.
Path of peaceful development
“It is either out of misunderstanding or is simply a distortion,” he said. “China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development and in the meantime, it will push for peaceful development among all countries.”
Asia, the world’s most dynamic region in terms of economic development, was also a place rife with a host of sensitive issues, he said. A major task for Asian countries is to correctly handle relations with neighbors, get along well with each other, achieve common development, and properly resolve controversies and disputes.
Countries in the region should respect each other’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Chinese president said.
Xi called on Asian nations to carry out mutually-beneficial cooperation, expand shared interests, work together to push for the construction of free trade areas and deepen regional economic integration.
On China-Mongolia relations, Xi said: “No matter how the international landscape changes, the two sides should firmly grasp the main direction of bilateral relations, give more consideration to each other as strategic partners, and resolutely support each other on issues concerning the other’s major core interests and major concerns, such as sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.”
China and Mongolia should be good friends whose cooperation will bring tangible benefits to both peoples, he said.
Xi called for more people-to-people exchanges so as to create a more favorable social atmosphere for bilateral relations.
Xi arrived in Ulan Bator on Thursday for a two-day state visit during which the two countries announced the upgrading of their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership, and pledged to almost double their annual trade to US$10 billion by 2020.
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