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THE TRENDS OF PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT

we need to cooperate in our response, working together to turn pressure
into motivation and crises into opportunities. Faced with complex
international security threats, fighting alone is of no use, and putting
blind faith in military force won’t get anyone anywhere. Cooperative
security, collective security, and common security constitute the only
correct choice for solving these issues.
As the trends toward world multipolarity and economic
globalization deepen, and cultural diversification and the application by
societies of information and communications technology (ICT) continue
to progress, never before has humankind been better positioned to take
strides toward the goal of peace and development. Cooperation that is
mutually beneficial is a realistic way to see this goal achieved.
The world’s destiny must be in the hands of the people of all
countries. Matters that fall within a country’s sovereignty can only be
managed by the government and people of that country, just as world
affairs can only be addressed by the governments and peoples of all
countries through joint discussion. This is the principle of democracy in
the handling of international affairs. It should be universally observed by
the international community.

Faculty Members and Students,
Last November, the Communist Party of China held its 18th
National Congress. According to the blueprint mapped out at that
Congress for the country’s development over the coming period, China
will double its 2010 GDP and urban and rural per capita income by 2020.
We will have completed the building of a moderately prosperous society
in all respects by the time the Party celebrates its centenary in 2021, and
will have built China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous,
strong, democratic, culturally advanced, and harmonious by the time we
mark the PRC’s centenary in 2049. At the same time, we are also soberly
aware that as a large developing country with over 1.3 billion people,
China will still encounter great and grave risks and challenges on its path
of development. If we are to achieve the goals already set we must make
continuous and exacting efforts.
Chinese national rejuvenation has been the greatest dream of the
Chinese people since the coming of modern times. We refer to it as the

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