Commentators Applaud President Hu Jintao's New Year Message

International media, foreign government officials and overseas Chinese praised Chinese President Hu Jintao's 2012 New Year message–Jointly Promoting World Peace and Development. Hu's speech showed China is willing and determined to promote peace, development and cooperation and will continue to contribute to the well-being of humanity, they said.

Hu's speech, with its proposal for peaceful development, was in line with both the world's development trends and the benefits of African people, said Rangarirai Shoko, Editor-in-Chief of New Ziana, Zimbabwe's official news agency. African countries identified with and supported Hu's views. They are eager to safeguard world peace, promote economic growth and improve people's living standards along with China.

Hu's calls for peace and development showed China's willingness to shoulder responsibilities for and make contributions to the world as a country with a growing global status, said a senior official from the Netherlands' Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.

Thanks to the concerted efforts of the Chinese people, China achieved stable economic growth in 2011 in keeping with its reform and opening-up policy, said Mohamad el-Saket, former Arab League Ambassador to China. Since peace and development are the overriding themes of the 21st century, China will continue its friendly cooperation with other countries, he said. In particular, China will share its successful experience with other developing countries to promote common development.

Nour Suleiman, Chief Economic Editor of Manifesto, a newspaper of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said an increasing number of people in the Arab country were in favor of expanding economic and trade cooperation with China, the world's second largest economy. At a time when the world economic recovery is beset with rising factors of instability and uncertainty, China and the UAE should expand mutually beneficial cooperation and make joint efforts to overcome difficulties in economic development.

U.S. financial news agency Bloomberg highlighted Hu's comments on balancing growth and inflation. "We will continue to manage well the relationship between stable and relatively quick economic growth, structural adjustment and inflation. Global interdependence is deepening while instability and uncertainty in the world's economy's revival is increasing," it quoted Hu as saying in the speech.

Wu Huiqiu, President of the Washington D.C.-based National Association for China's Peaceful Unification, said Hu promised China will speed up economic restructuring as well as the change in economic development pattern in a bid to improve people's living standards. His vows to make progress while maintaining stability and give priority to people's livelihoods demonstrated the Chinese Government's vision of governing for the people.

Wu Jiansheng, Secretary General of a writers association in the Philippines, said the principles of "peaceful reunification" and "one country, two systems" Hu stressed in his speech, underlined the Chinese Government's determination to promote the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Straits, safeguard the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation and broaden shared interests between compatriots on both sides of the straits. His words made overseas Chinese confident about the development of cross-Straits relations.

An Indonesian scholar of Chinese origin said Hu's New Year speech delivered a positive message that China will safeguard world peace and promote common development. As far as China and Indonesia are concerned, flourishing trade ties and increasing cultural exchanges have helped enhance friendship between people in the two countries, the scholar said.


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