FM: Premier elaborates China's policies at UN forum

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-26 23:29

Wen also expressed China's willingness to cooperate with the United States in addressing the crisis, while calling on the international community to show solidarity and make joint efforts in maintaining the stability of the financial market.

Wen's opinions were echoed by the participants at the meeting, who agreed that China was an important player in stabilizing the world economy and financial system.

Talking about the recent tainted milk formula scandal in China, which has drawn world attention to food safety in the country, Wen stressed that the Chinese government attaches great importance to food safety and has adopted effective measures to ensure product quality and food safety.

He said China will never try to pursue corporate profit or economic growth at the expense of people's health and lives.

Wen noted that China's exports will not only meet international standards, but also meet the specific requirements of the importing countries.

China is willing to step up cooperation with the Unites States and other nations to ensure food safety, he added.

On China-US relations, Wen said the two countries share broad common interests and that China and the United States are not rivals but partners in cooperation.

Wen called on both sides to enhance dialogue and communication, deepen mutual trust and cooperation, and efficiently handle sensitive issues such as the Taiwan issue, in order to ensure a healthy and stable development of bilateral relations.

This is in accordance with the fundamental interests of the two peoples and is conducive to world peace, stability and development, and also conforms to the trend of history, Wen said.

He said the Chinese government has always attached importance to china-US relations and will go all out to maintain and develop the constructive and cooperative bilateral relations, irrespective of which party comes to power in Washington.

During his stay in New York, the Chinese premier also met with representatives of overseas Chinese associations and the heads of local Chinese-language media.

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