Ruan Guoqin, wife of Wang Wei, the missing Chinese pilot in the April 1 plane collision incident caused by a US reconnaissance plane, expressed Thursday her support for Chinese government's decision to allow the crew members of the US plane to leave China.

"China needs peace, as does the world," said Ruan.

Ruan, now hospitalized in Beijing, said the US side must take full responsibility for the April 1 incident, in which her husband 's fighter jet was rammed and destroyed by the US reconnaissance plane.

Ruan and Wang's parents were too grieved at the news that they had to be sent to hospital. And until now, she still dares not to tell the news to her six-year-old son.

Ruan told Xinhua reporters that the missing of her husband and the crash of the fighter jet is not merely a matter that involves only herself and her family, but a matter that affects the country and the government.

She said the US should stop dispatching its reconnaissance aircraft to the vicinity of the Chinese coast.

The Chinese government's decision to allow 24 crew members of the US plane to leave China is a proof of the country's generosity and humanitarianism.

The US crew can get together with their families soon, Ruan said. "I understand the feeling of family members of the crew to long for a reunion."

She hoped no future disturbance from US military planes ever again intrudes upon Chinese people's peaceful life.

Ruan and Wang, both from Huzhou city, in east China's Zhejiang Province, married in 1992. Ruan works at a naval airport.

(Xinhua 04/13/2001)