China’s international policy and military strategy has always been active defence. This is the basic strategic choice china has made according to the norms governing its international relations and to its external secure environment. It also reflects the continuation and distillation of china’s outstanding military tradition in the new era.

China’s military tradition is characteristically one of seeking peace. Under this peaceseeking policy, internally, it resolutely defends national unification and oppose any intention of seperation. Externally, we follow a goodneighborly policy and defencive strategy, seeking driendly and harmonious relations through what is known nonoffensive approach and securing peace through selfdefence. The great wall is symbolic of such defensive concept. Ever since its founding, the people’s republic of china has been consistently seeking prosperity through unification, seeking peace through prosperity and seeking development through peace. With the passage of time, it will be even more apparent to the world that china is determined to defend its national security and it’s capable of doing so and china is an important force in safeguarding regional and global peace.

Meanwhile, china’s socialist system and independent foreign policy of peace have determined the international defence policy and military strategy to be one of active defence. China does not seek hegemony and power politics. Neither does it expend its military influence overseas. China’s stratedic fronteer will not go beyond its natural boundaries. Likewise, china’s military force will not develop in excess of its needs to defend the country. China’s repeated disarment has fully demonstrated to the world the peaceful orientation and defensive nature of china’s military strategy as well as china’s rational strategic military thinking and updated concept of security under the theme of our times, that is, peace and development.

China’s disarment decision id made out of its own will, rather than under any external pressure. It is a conscious act rather that blind move. It is a constructive act taken out of high sense of responsibility for china’s own development, the security of asianpacific region and the sustainable world peace. China’s disarment act is unilateral, carrying no prerequisites, having nothing to do with any other country. China has no intention whatsoever to use disarment as a means or prerequisite to force other countries to reduce their military troups with china. China’s disarment is not symbolic, but actual and substantial. China has shown to the world with its disarment its nonengagement in arms race and its sincerity in building a peaceful world.