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Ambassador's Message
THIS October 1st marks the 59th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. On this auspicious occasion, I wish to join the people of all walks of life in China to extend warmest congratulations to the birthday of our great motherland. I would also like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to all friends in Bangladesh for their warm greetings and best wishes on this special occasion.
Since the founding of New China in 1949, the Chinese people became their own masters and began the socialist construction Thirty years ago, the Chinese people embarked upon the historic drive of reform, opening-up and modernization and have made steady economic growth and phenomenal progress through unremitting efforts. The overall national strength of China has increased remarkably and the life standard of its people improved steadily. Between 1978 and 2007, China's GDP grew from USS 147.3 billion to USS 3,010 billion, ranking No.4 in the world, with an average annual growth rate of 9.8%. Its Import and export volume went up from USS 20.6 billion to USS 2173.8 billion, and its foreign exchange reserve soared from USS 167 million to USS 1530 billion. During this period, the number of its poor rural population dropped from 250 million to 20 million.
Meanwhile, we are fully aware that despite the success in its development, China remains the world's largest developing country with per capita GDP USS 2280 ranking behind the 100th place. The Chinese people are yet to live a well-off life, and China still faces daunting challenges. Therefore, it requires sustained and unremitting efforts to transform the country and make life better for its people. In the next twelve years, we vyUl strive to make new progress in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. We aim to raise China's GDP per capita to US$3,000 and establish a well off society by 2020. To realize these goals, China has adopted a new concept of development in line with its national conditions and the requirement of the times. That is, to pursue a scientific outlook on development that makes economic and social development people-oriented, comprehensive, balanced w apji susta.iqahle. _
' The year of 2008 marks a special signifi-
cance for the Chinese people. In this year, Chinese Government and people have met big difficulties caused by devastating natural disasters, a heavy snow storm in February and an earthquake in May. However, under the leadership of Chinese Government and with the help from the international community, the 1.3 billion Chinese people recovered from the disasters and successfully held one truly exceptional Olympic Games in Beijing,which brought China in a new way to the spotlight of the world arena. During the 17-day events, China fulfilled her promises to hold “Grei n Olympics High-tech Olympics and F.umanistic Olympics” The truly exceptional games under the theme of "One World, One Dream" will be shining forever in the Olympic history.
As the Beijing Olympic Games showed to the world, China has always cherished peace and harmony. China believes that "the strong should not oppress the weak, and the rich should not bully the poor" and advocated that, “all nations live side by side In perfect harmony". China holds high the banner of peace, development and cooperation. It pursues an independent foreign policy of peace and commits itself firmly to peaceful development. It seeks to accelerate its development by upholding world peace. The world peace is, in turn, enhanced by China's development. China firmly pursues a strategy of opening up for mutual benefit and win-win outcomes. It genuinely wishes to enter into extensive cooperation with other countries. China's development requires a long-term stable international environment, especially a stable neighboring environment. China's development will certainly contribute to the prosperity of the neighboring countries. China firmly observes the guideline of “being a good neighbor and partner" and the policy of “fostering an amiable, peaceful and prosperous neighborhood", and work with other peoples in the region to create and enjoy profound friendship, mutual beneficial cooperation and common prosperity.
China and Bangladesh are close neighbours enjoying traditional and time-tested friendship. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1975, we have gained fruitful and genuine cooperation of 'm'Jfual benefit in all fteYd4politics, econ-
omy, culture, social development, etc. We share basically identical views on most international and regional issues and conduct close coordination with each other in the international arena. In recent yeas, interaction of all levels between the two countries continues to expand and intensify, while the bilateral trade volume in 2007 amounted to about USS 3.45 billion. Just several days back, Hon'ble Chief Adviser to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed made a successful visit to China, during which the top leaders of China and Bangladesh agreed to take further steps to enhance the bilateral relations. I firmly believe that, with our joint efforts, the Comprehensive Partnership of Cooperation featuring longterm friendship, equality and mutual benefit between China and Bangladesh will be promoted to a new level in the days to come. I sincerely hope that the people of China and Bangladesh will together enjoy economic development, social progress and prosperity.