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China’s Peaceful DevelopmentInformation Office of the State CouncilThe People’s Republic of ChinaSeptember 2011, BeijingContentsI.The Path of China’s Peaceful Development: What It Is About II.What China Aims to Achieve by Pursuing Peaceful Development III.China’s Foreign Policies for Pursuing Peaceful Development IV.China’s Path of Peaceful Development Is a Choice Necessitated by History V.What China’s Peaceful Development Means to the Rest of the World Situated in the East, China, a country with an ancient civilization and a population of over 1.3 billion, is making big strides in its advance toward modernization. What path of development has China chosen? What will China’s development bring to the rest of the world? These issues are the focus of the whole world.China has declared to the rest of the world on many occasions that it takes a path of peaceful development and is committed to upholding world peace and promoting common development and prosperity for all countries. At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century and on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China declared solemnly again to the world that peaceful development is a strategic choice made by China to realize modernization, make itself strong and prosperous, and make more contribution to the progress of human civilization. China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development.I. The Path of China’s Peaceful Develop-ment: What It Is AboutOver the past 5,000 years, people of all ethnic groups in China, with diligence and wisdom, have created a splendid civilization and built a unified multi-ethnic country. The Chinese civilization has a unique feature of being enduring, inclusive and open. The Chinese nation has endeavored to learn from other nations and improved itself through centuries of interactions with the rest of the world, making major contribution to the progress of human civilization.In the mid-19th ce