Historical and future choice

China's road of peaceful development pursues modernization and harmony at home and cooperation and peace abroad

The White Paper on China's Peaceful Development, issued by the State Council Information Office on Wednesday, is China's authoritative and strategic declaration of its will to adhere to a peaceful development road. It maps out the nation's strategy to realize its long-anticipated modernization as well as its efforts to make contributions to world peace and development.

The white paper first raises the world's concerns over China's development and then answers these concerns by outlining what kind of development road China has chosen and what China's development means for the world.