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China has always adhered to the Five Principles of Peaceful International Relations in its relations with all countries, including socialist countries. On this basis, China has established and developed relations with many countries in the world. Friendly and cooperative relations. For example: In Asia, China has successfully resolved border issues left over from history with Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia and other countries, and resolved the issue of dual nationality of overseas Chinese with Indonesia. It has established an image of peace and has become a key player in consolidating regional peace and strengthening Asia. An example of unity among nations. According to statistics, by the time of Premier Zhou's death in 1976, more than 90 countries had confirmed the Five Principles of Peaceful International Cooperation in documents jointly issued with our country. On this basis, more than 100 countries had established diplomatic relations with our country. Multiple.
At the same time, the Five Principles have also crossed the ideological divide and won the recognition of Western countries. In the 1950s, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, France, Belgium and other countries introduced this principle in relevant documents. After the 1970s, Japan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany, Australia, and the United States successively accepted this principle and wrote it into friendship treaties or joint statements signed with China. Over the past 50 years, the Five Principles of Peacekeeping Operations have been written into more than 160 international documents. A principled agreement signed between two countries has been accepted by almost all countries in the world, which is very rare in the history of international relations.
Since the promulgation of the "Five Principles of Peaceful Deployment", Chinese leaders' diplomatic thoughts have been of the same origin, and they have always stood on the fundamental and long-term stance of the Chinese people and the people of the world. For example, foreign aid. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, despite its own difficult circumstances, it has provided a large number of assistance projects to many countries in the world, especially some newly independent countries, focusing on benefiting people's livelihood. It has built hospitals, schools, roads, and also provided assistance to many countries. Poor countries have sent large numbers of medical teams.
According to statistics, there are eight main methods of China’s foreign aid, namely: complete projects, general supplies, technical cooperation, human resources development cooperation, foreign aid medical teams, emergency humanitarian aid, foreign aid volunteers and debt relief. Among them, complete projects are China's most important form of foreign aid. They refer to engineering projects in which China helps recipient countries build production and civil fields by providing aid funds such as free aid and interest-free loans. By the end of 2009, the Chinese Communist Party had helped developing countries build more than 2,000 complete sets of various projects closely related to the production and life of local people, involving industry, agriculture, culture, education, health, communications, electricity, energy, transportation and other fields.
China began to implement human resources development cooperation projects in 1953. Currently, about 10,000 people from developing countries are trained in China every year. In addition, China has also trained a large number of management and technical personnel on site for recipient countries through technical cooperation and other means.
In 1963, China sent its first medical team to Algeria. So far, China has dispatched foreign aid medical teams to 69 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania. Foreign aid medical teams refer to China sending teams of medical personnel to recipient countries, providing some medical equipment and medicines free of charge, and providing fixed-site or touring medical services in recipient countries. Foreign aid medical teams generally work in backward areas in recipient countries that lack medical treatment and medicine, and the conditions are very difficult. By the end of 2009, China had sent more than 21,000 medical team members to foreign countries, and Chinese doctors had treated 260 million patients from aided countries. In 2009 alone, for example, China had 60 overseas medical teams and 1,324 medical team members, providing medical services in 130 medical institutions in 57 developing countries.
For many years, China has actively participated in foreign emergency rescue operations and played an increasingly important role in international emergency humanitarian relief. Emergency humanitarian assistance means that when relevant countries and regions suffer from various severe natural disasters or humanitarian disasters, China proactively or at the request of the affected country provides emergency relief materials, cash transfers or dispatches rescue personnel to reduce the loss of life and property of the people in the disaster area. , to help disaster-stricken countries cope with the difficult situations caused by disasters. In order to make rescue operations more rapid and effective, the Chinese government formally established a humanitarian emergency disaster relief assistance emergency mechanism in September 2004.
In order to further reduce the debt burden of countries with economic difficulties, the Chinese government has announced six times that it will exempt the heavily indebted poor countries and the least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China from the due interest-free loan debts to China.
Debt relief means China exempts some developing countries from maturing government debts owed to China. The Chinese government has never put any pressure on recipient countries to repay their debts to the Chinese government. When recipient countries encounter difficulties in repaying maturing interest-free loans, the Chinese government has always adopted a flexible approach and extended the repayment period through bilateral negotiations. By the end of 2009, China had signed debt cancellation protocols with 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania, and had canceled 380 maturing debts, amounting to 25.58 billion yuan.
The world today is in a period of great development, transformation and adjustment. The concepts of peace, development and cooperation have become more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The world is becoming multi-polar and economic globalization is developing in depth. The economies of various countries are increasingly interdependent. Emerging market countries and developing countries are growing rapidly. The international economic order is undergoing profound changes. At the same time, it should also be noted that since the international financial crisis, the pace of world economic recovery is still slow, the foundation is still weak, there are still many uncertainties, and the deep-seated impact of the crisis has not been eliminated. International and regional hot-spot issues have emerged one after another, the problem of uneven development between the north and the south has become more prominent, and various forms of protectionism have resurfaced. Human survival and development are facing a series of new global challenges such as climate change, energy security, and food security.
Chinese leaders have stated on many occasions on different occasions that China is willing to actively participate in discussing and solving major issues in world economic development and work with other countries to address challenges. The stable development of relations between China and Russia illustrates this point. China and Russia are both important emerging market countries in the world. The sustained and stable development of the two countries not only provides development opportunities for each other, but also helps promote the development of the world economy. In recent years, with the joint efforts of both parties, the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has achieved strong recovery, and China and Russia have become each other's major trading partners. Not long ago, during President Hu Jintao's visit to Russia, he agreed with President Medvedev to strive to increase the trade volume between the two countries to US$100 billion by 2015 and to US$200 billion by 2020. This has laid a solid foundation for further economic cooperation and development between the two countries.
The development of relations between China and Germany also illustrates this point. In 2004, the two countries announced the establishment of a partnership with global responsibility within the framework of the China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Close economic cooperation is an important pillar of Sino-German relations. With the joint efforts of the two countries, economic and technological cooperation has achieved fruitful results and brought tangible benefits. Last year, the trade volume between the two countries exceeded US$140 billion, accounting for nearly one-third of the total trade between China and the EU. Germany has established more than 7,000 companies in China, with actual investment exceeding US$17 billion, ranking first among EU countries. Germany is also the country from which China has introduced the most technology from Europe. The two parties have signed more than 15,000 technology introduction contracts, with the contract value exceeding US$50 billion. Especially in response to the international financial crisis, the two countries communicated closely and coordinated actions, making positive contributions to the recovery of the world economy.