Chinese Premier pledges “peaceful development”

Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, has pledged that “China will stay on the path of peaceful development.”

Speaking at the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Wen promised to continue reforms in key areas such as food and product safety, environmental safeguards and protection of intellectual property. Moreover, China will “build a harmonious society in all aspects” by deepening reform of the socialist market system, by speeding up development and social programmes, and by expanding what he labelled “people’s democracy.”