BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- China has injected positive energy into world peace and development, according to a white paper released by the State Council Information Office Friday.
"China's development path has unique Chinese characteristics, and a broad and farsighted global vision. It is dedicated to the interests of all of humanity," said the paper, titled "China and the World in the New Era."
Over the past 70 years, while working hard to realize their own development, the Chinese people have contributed to world peace and added momentum to the common development of all countries, it noted.
China contributes solutions to world peace and development, safeguards world peace through real actions, and promotes common development worldwide, it said.
In the 1950s, China, India and Myanmar jointly proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. These have become basic norms for international relations and fundamental principles of international law.
In recent years, China has proposed a raft of significant international concepts and initiatives, including a global community of shared future, a new model of international relations, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Since reform and opening up in 1978, China has cut its armed forces by over 4 million, figures from the paper show.
Over the six decades since China began to provide foreign assistance in the early 1950s, it has provided 166 countries and international organizations with nearly 400 billion yuan in aid, and dispatched over 600,000 aid workers, of whom more than 700 sacrificed their lives for the development of other countries.
