A Chinese envoy to the United Nations on Monday called for efforts to practice multilateralism and seek common security, at a Security Council briefing by the chairperson-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the UN, said that at present, the global security landscape continues to deteriorate, marked by worsening geopolitical conflicts, frequent flare-ups of hotspot issues, a significant rise in unilateralism and protectionism, and interlocking, compounding security threats, both traditional and non-traditional.
In this context, it is crucial for the UN and regional organizations, including the OSCE, to further strengthen cooperation and make due contributions to the maintenance of international peace and security. Under the current circumstances, it is important for the international community to champion a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, said Fu.
He called on the international community to advance global security governance and to strive for universal and common security.
"Various forms of confrontation and injustice are happening in the world today, not because the purposes and principles of the UN Charter have become anachronistic, but because of the failure to safeguard and implement them effectively. The international community should practice true multilateralism, abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, stand resolutely behind the international system with the UN at its core, the international order underpinned by international law, and the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter, and defend the authority of the UN and its status as the principal platform for global security governance," said Fu.
Dialogue and negotiations are the only viable pathway to resolve the Ukraine crisis, said Fu, noting China supports all efforts conducive to peace and will continue to play, in its own way, a constructive role in the political settlement of the crisis.
Fu said China encourages the involved parties to play their parts in developing a balanced, effective, and lasting European security framework.
Chinese envoy to UN calls for protecting common security, practicing multilateralism
Chinese envoy to UN calls for protecting common security, practicing multilateralism
Chinese envoy to UN calls for protecting common security, practicing multilateralism
Highlighting the "Future Energy" as a key direction for China's strategic emerging industries, the country's nuclear energy development, guided by its three-step strategy, has seen major strides in the past year, said a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
In a recent press briefing, Xin Feng, also deputy general manager of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), updated the media on the progresses China has achieved under the strategy.
"China's three-step strategy for nuclear energy development -- from the thermal reactor to the fast reactor and the fusion reactor -- was formulated in 1983 as a medium- and long-term plan. For the thermal reactor, over the past year, our 2.0 version of the Hualong One technology has been approved. This is a unified and fully self-owned intellectual property based third-generation nuclear power technology solution. And the Linglong One small modular reactor also successfully completed its cold-state functional test last year and is expected to be put into commercial operation this year," he said.
For the second and third steps, Chinese researchers and engineers have achieved milestones in the past year with the government support, Xin noted.
"Then for the fast reactor, last year, a closed-cycle system for an integral fast reactor successfully achieved preliminary standard design. We will continue to solve its engineering technology challenges. As for the fusion reactor, in 2025, with national support, we established the China Fusion Energy Company in Shanghai. And our Huanliu-3, a platform for conducting research and development of fusion technology, made a big stride, with an iron temperature in it achieving 117 million Celsius and an electron temperature reaching 160 million Celsius. We will continue to adhere to the development strategy and focus on technological research and engineering technology development," Xin said.
The fourth session of the 14th NPC and the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC kicked off in Beijing on March 5 and March 4, respectively.
The "two sessions" -- which refer to the annual meetings of China's supreme organ of state power, the National People's Congress (NPC), and its top political advisory body, the National Committee of the CPPCC -- are a key event on the country's political calendar and offer a window into the country's development direction.
China's nuclear energy development makes great strides with three-step strategy: CPPCC member
