China out to make overseas friends

China upholds peaceful development and cooperation to actively advocate a new type of international relations and the push to build a community of shared future for mankind, a senior Chinese official said in Sochi, Russia, on Thursday.

Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said in a speech during the Valdai Discussion Club that the country will continue its opening-up policy and actively make friends in the international community.

The Valdai Discussion Club, inaugurated in 2004 as an annual event, is named after Lake Valdai in Russia, where the first meeting took place. This year's session opened on Monday and ended on Thursday.