China's global responsibility growing

Since it is now the second-largest economy in the world, China accepts that it should pay a bigger UN membership fee and bear a greater share of the international body's peacekeeping costs.

With China's membership fee due to increase to 7.29 percent of the UN budget in the coming three years, Wang Min, China's deputy permanent representative to the world body, said that as long as the membership fee has been calculated in a just, impartial and reasonable manner, China will shoulder its responsibilities as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

After the new adjustment, China will rank third, after the United States and Japan, in terms of its membership fee, while its share of peacekeeping costs, 10.2 percent, will be the second-largest after the US.