The worry that China's rapid development will pose a challenge to the international system is groundless, though the country's integration into the international system is bound to bring some impacts on the system, says a Chinese researcher.

Tao Wenzhao, researcher from the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, refuted such viewpoint by expounding China's efforts in the fields such as its obligations in the United Nations, international non-proliferation, human rights and environmental protection.

China's reform and opening-up in the past years is a process of integration into the international system. Tao quoted the observation of Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of China's reform and opening-up, that China must be open to the rest of the world, including international organizations, as no country could achieve modernization in seclusion.

China, as the only developing country among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, has been faithfully playing its role in the UN, he said, quoted by Thursday's China Daily.

Starting from 1988, China has been taking an active part in the peach-keeping operations of the UN, he added.

Besides, China is an important member of the world non-proliferation system. "The country, from the moment it possessed a nuclear arsenal, declared that it would never use nuclear weapons under any circumstances and has stuck to the principle ever since," said Tao.

In addition, China formulated whole sets of rules and regulations in controlling export of sensitive materials, technologies and equipment involving nuclear related items, biology, chemicals and missiles.

Since its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, China is efficiently implementing its WTO commitments, he said.

Concerning environmental protection, China is the member of Kyoto Protocol and a series of environmental protection organizations. The growth mode for its economy is put on an energy-saving and environment-friendly basis.

Facing the rapid development of the economic globalization, China enjoys its own advantage with low-cost labor force, Tao noted. The labor-intensive industries have moved to China quickly, which helped improve the country's employment.

"It is certainly important that high-tech and innovation factors should be emphasized in future development" and "labor intensive industries will remain a vitally important factor in propelling China's economy for a fairly long time to come."

Tao said China's economic progress has been in keeping with the process of globalization and China is a beneficiary from this process.

Being the beneficiary, how can China be expected to challenge the current international system and try to topple it, Tao noted.

Source: China Daily