China, the Most Ideal Partner for International Cooperation

In recent years, China’s development achievements have captured the world’s attention and I can feel the vigorous momentum of this development every time I visit China. China is becoming an incomparable power of the world. China’s development and advancement are closely related to the following factors:

1. Diligence. The Chinese working people, even the elderly, start to work as early as the sun rises and will not rest until sunset. They are amazingly diligent.

2. Self-control. The Chinese people have high sense of responsibility and the sense of being master of their own affairs, and can properly deal with different matters and always fulfill their duty.

3. Sparing time. Time is money; time is a treasure. The Chinese people nearly utter no meaningless word or take useless action; they plunge into well-arranged working schedule whole-heartedly.

4. Self-confidence. The word China in Chinese means the centre of the world. With the ancient China’s four great inventions, the Chinese people are naturally proud of their nation and self-confident.

5. Self-reliance. The Chinese people, men and women, old and young, all strive unceasingly to become stronger, and thus have made numerous inventions and creations.

6. Chinese culture of long tradition and with profound historic connections. The Beijing Olympics in 2008 further boosts the spirit of the Chinese people and enhanced their image.

7. Reform and opening-up have given new impetus to China’s development.

8. Incorporating things of diverse nature. China has actively imported brainpower from abroad, absorbed and learnt advanced technologies and management expertise from countries all over the world to accelerate its own development.

9. Properly coping with blockade. Despite blockade by the West, China helped construct the Tanzania-Zambia railway, and successfully developed its nuclear weapons.

10. Opening to the outside world and keeping up with the times.

Algeria has maintained a long-term, constructive and positive cooperative relationship with China in the past, at present, and will do so in future. The Chinese people are the staunch friends of Algeria and its people forever.

China provided the Algerians with steady economic, military, personnel and material assistance as much as it could during the Algerian revolutionary war, while the Chinese media giving their support for our revolution through active reporting. China is one of the first countries that recognized the Algerian provisional government. The Chinese leaders attach great importance to China’s relations with Algeria, and the Algerian delegations’ visits to China have always received great care and high courtesy. Leaders of the two countries share profound mutual trust. After President Abdelaziz Bouteflika assumed office in 1999, the development of the relations between the two countries has been more highlighted; the cooperation between the two countries has been upgraded to a new high and the bilateral relations have developed into greater depth and width.

The relationship between the two countries has experienced a healthy progress from the start till now, and the two countries have effectively conducted close coordination regarding national and regional issues. The reasons are as follows:

1. Feeling close to each other. Algeria and China have similar historical experience, and suffered from colonial rule and invasion.

2. Identical claims. Both countries oppose the old unjust world order and hope to establish a just and rational new international order.

3. Sharing the same sense of justice. Both countries support the liberation movement of the people all over the world.

4. Facing similar situations. Algeria and China have been caught in the crack of the Cold War and had common experience.

5. Choosing similar ways of development. The two countries, which used to be under the highly centralized planned economy of socialist system, are now striding forward to a free and open market economy, only in different steps. China’s successful transformation and reform are proved to be valuable experience from which Algeria can learn, and moreover, the two countries are faced with good opportunities of cooperation in multiple areas.

(Translated from Chinese text)

The author is the president of the Algeria-China Friendship Association.