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From the Opium War and the First Sino-Japanese War after the 1840s, China'sWar on Foreign Invaders 1900 to the Japanese War of Aggression against China in1930s, China was subject to the butchering of the then strong powers in the Westand East and their extremely barbarian economic depredation. This, coupled withfeudal corruption and years of successive civil strife and chaos, led to theloss of China's sovereignty and the horrendous suffering of her people, hernational strength failing and people barely surviving. The grave disasters andthe harsh facts have ingrained deeply into the Chinese nation the value of peaceand the importance of development. Such a historic experience has shaped thepsychology of the Chinese people in our quest for peace and hope for stability,consolidating our belief in following a path to peaceful development.

After the founding of New China in 1949, we have made arduous explorations inthe course of our development, going through both the joys of success and thefrustrations of failure. Starting from 1978, China has embarked on a new journeyof transforming from a planned to a market economy, from cloistered up toopening up, from exclusive self-sustaining to integration into globalization. Byfollowing a path of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in anindependent and self-reliant manner, we have scored glorious achievements thatattracted worldwide attention. Practice has amply demonstrated that it is rightto adhere to a path of peaceful development, as it conforms to both China'sreality and the trend of the times. China will unswervingly march onwardalongside this path to peaceful development.