Harmonious diplomacy

Nation should increase constructive dialogue and strategic cooperation with foreign partners to facilitate modernization

The next five years will be a "period of important strategic opportunities", although the situation in 2011, the starting year of the country's 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), remains extremely complicated, Premier Wen Jiabao said in his Government Work Report delivered to the ongoing Fourth Session of the 11th National People's Congress.

As Wen's report highlights, the decades-old international order is expected to undergo some profound adjustments in the post-crisis era, which will cause both opportunities and challenges for the peaceful rise of China.