Great security challenges ahead

Editor's Note: At a recent forum organized by the University of International Relations in Beijing, experts reviewed China's security situation. Four scholars share their views on national security with China Daily's Pan Yixuan. Experts follow:

Cooperation will ensure sustainable growth

China's economy, like the global economy, will remain stable while growing slowly but may face greater challenges next year. The global economic growth rate this year is expected to surpass 2 percent, higher than expectations, but the wealth gap could widen.

Given its relatively sustainable development model, China should be able to make more achievements and develop further. Of course, it has to address the problems at home, such as environmental pollution. Therefore, China needs to change its old policy of not attending to potentially major problems until they start getting or get out of control.

China also has to play a more active role in international relations. For example, the United States, instead of accepting China as a market economy according to World Trade Organization rules, has ordered investigations into many Chinese exports. The European Union, too, refuses to grant market economy status to China. To ensure China gets the recognition and respect it deserves for contributing about 30 percent to global growth over the past five years, as well as enjoys greater say in international relations, Beijing has to strengthen its diplomacy.

Cooperation between China and the rest of the world will ensure sustainable global growth and allow China to continue playing an active role in globalization, by further opening up its market and implementing the Belt and Road Initiative. And to address its domestic problems, China should first boost research and development in technologies and change its development model.

Tao Jian, head of University of International Relations