CHINA’S INTERNATIONAL ROLE

WHAT INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES SHOULD CHINA TAKE?

Wu Jianmin

People’s Daily, February 16, 2011

Data released by the Japanese Cabinet Office on Feb. 14 showed its gross domestic product is 400 billion U.S. dollars less than that of China, which confirmed China’s status as the world's second largest economy for the first time. In fact, there had been such expectation in last year, which triggered increasing cries demanding China to assume greater international responsibility.

China is a responsible and reasonable big country. In the globalized world, China's development is inseparable from the world, and the world's prosperity and stability is inextricably linked with China. What international responsibility should China bear is worth thinking about. In my opinion, we bear responsibility in the following four aspects:

First, we need to address China's problems well. According to U.N. standards, 150 million Chinese people are still living below the poverty line. Lifting these people out of poverty is a very arduous task. Development is the key to solving the problems China faces. If China is doing well, the world is doing well; if China has big troubles, the world will suffer. Therefore doing a good job in China is our primary responsibility.

Second, we need to fulfill duties and responsibilities imposed by the "U.N. Charter" and more than 300 international conventions it joined. We have kept a good record in fulfilling these duties and responsibilities.

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