Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng said Tuesday that China will be actively involved in the new round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a member of the global trade body.
However, China holds that the new round of talks should be conducive to the establishment of a new international economic order that is fair, just and rational, beneficial to global economic development and trade and investment facilitation, and favorable to striking a balance between interests of developed and developing countries.
The minister made the remarks at a press conference sponsored by the on-going Fifth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress.
(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2002)
