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China is no threat to others: official

BEIJING: Senior Chinese diplomat Wu Jianmin said here on Friday international worry about the so-called ``threat'' posed by China's fast-growing economy is unnecessary, as it is still a developing country.

Mr. Wu, who is now president of the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU), told a China-E.U. relations conference that although China's economic aggregate ranked fourth in the world, its per capita GDP was slightly over 1,000 U.S. dollars, ranking below the world's top 100 and far below the average level of developed countries.

Besides, internal affairs remained the Government's top priority, which was reflected in the 2007 government work report, said Mr. Wu. In the 36-page report, only one page was devoted to international affairs.

It is one-sided for some Europeans to claim they lost their jobs to Chinese, said Mr. Wu. China imported commodities worth $90 billions from the E.U. in 2006, resulting in one million new jobs in Europe. — Xinhua

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