ABSTRACT
China’s opening up has also been promoted continuously, and the achievements have drawn the attention of the world. China’s path adheres to the concept of keeping abreast with the times and asserts that the development of practice, the emancipation of the mind, and the reform and opening up know no boundary. China’s path advocates “diversification” and thus is fundamentally different from the stagnating and conservative “centralised” Western path. China has chosen the path of peaceful development because China has a peace-loving cultural tradition. Thus, China needs not follow the same old disastrous road of seeking hegemony as the Western powers did, and has an incentive to proactively safeguard world peace and stability. The Chinese people want, more than anything else, to live in peace and harmony with the people of other countries, and to work with them to promote, defend, and share peace together.
