China's first book on non-traditional security was published in Beijing Wednesday.

The book is to give readers more ideas on non-traditional security problems and to promote academic research in this field.

Lu Zhongwei, the book's chief editor and head of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said international non-traditional security threats, including terrorism, drug trafficking, ecological and environmental problems, organized or trans-national crimes, illegal immigration and money laundering, have worsened since the 1990s.

Non-traditional security problems, which arrive from non-military factors and may affect the development, stability and security of any country, have gradually become the focus of scholars, media and politicians in many countries as they can affect regional and global development, stability and security.

The book, collating research achievements of more than 20 experts and scholars, elaborates areas of non-traditional security, the relationship between traditional and non-traditional security, how to deal with non-traditional security threats and possible threats to China.

(Xinhua News Agency November 6, 2003)