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Since the participation in APEC in 1991, China has fully taken part in various APEC activities in the spirit of cooperation and played an active role in the cooperation of APEC in recent years.
In the past 7 years, Chinese President Jiang Zemin has himself taken part in each APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and issued important speeches. He elaborated China's initiatives, principles and positions on the economic cooperation and the development of APEC, making profound contributions to the healthy development of APEC.
In November 1993, President Jiang took part in the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Seattle, and raised the important question "What kind of a world are we going to usher into the 21st century?"
During the meeting, President Jiang made important speeches on the three agenda items of the vision for the Asia-Pacific region, priorities for regional economic cooperation, means and mechanisms for regional economic cooperation. President Jiang pointed out that the world was approaching the 21st century. "What kind of a world are we going to usher into the 21st century?" is a very important question that our current leaders should ponder and answer. He said that it would be a good thing to have genuine peace and prosperity for mankind after joint efforts. The leaders would not be able to account for it to the world people if the world continued to be chaotic, insecure and plagued by economic troubles at the turn of this century. President Jiang also raised the guiding principles for regional economic cooperation: mutual respect, equality and mutual interest, opening to each other and common prosperity.
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