Joining hands

President Hu Jintao's participation at the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent testifies to China's long-term commitment toward a sustained, healthy and stable development of the organization.

The summit, scheduled to begin Wednesday, will pave the way for intensified cooperation among member states in politics, security, economy and culture, and seek to expand the bloc's relations with other countries and groups.

Regional security and closer effort to combat the "three evil forces", the key precepts of the organization ever since its inception in 2001, will top its agenda.