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China's peaceful development, a strategic choice based on the historical trend of peace, development and cooperation, is the inevitable way for China's modernization.

Zhang Deguang, the first secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China's former ambassador to Russia

There have been various doubts about China's development, with some accusing it of being assertive, and some labeling it as energy thirsty. Yet the White Paper on Peaceful Development gives clear and pertinent responses to the international community's doubts on China's peaceful development.