The People’s Republic of China always adheres to the independent path of peaceful development since its founding in 1949. China has devoted undivided attention and all-hearted efforts to seek development domestically and has engaged in maintaining world peace and in realizing common development with various countries globally. China has forged ahead down the path of peaceful development through difficulties and hardships.Experienced extensive and profound transformations in fields of thoughts,economy and society, China has increasingly closely connected with the world. Peaceful development is a brand-new approach that China as the largest developing country in the world exploits for global modernization process, which reflects the deep and inherent basis and logic of the Chinese civilization. This remarkable Chinese invention has epoch-making significance for encouraging various countries all over the world to construct human community with a shared future, which has been proved over time.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Zheng Yifan

From:Asia-Pacific Security and Maritime Affairs.2021.No.5.