Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the general debate of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the United States, Sept. 23, 2010. [Shen Hong/Xinhua]

CHINA STICKS TO REFORM AND OPENING-UP

In order to realize the strategic goal of basically achieving modernization by the middle of this century, China will forge ahead in the coming decades with the already 32-year-old basic policy of reform and opening-up, the Chinese premier said.

The guideline "has benefited people across the country" and "there is no reason whatsoever for us to deviate from it," Wen said.

Terming development as Beijing's "top priority," he said China's progressing industrialization and urbanization will draw hundreds of millions of farmers into towns and cities and thus "create more domestic demand than ever."

The trend will "open up broad market and development space and serve as a powerful engine sustaining the growth of the Chinese economy and the world economy at large," Wen continued.

Meanwhile, China will be "even more open to the world" and adhere to the long-term strategy of practicing with other countries "mutually beneficial cooperation for win-win progress," he said.

Commenting on international finance and trade, the Chinese premier stressed that his country is "against protectionism in all its manifestations."

"We are committed to promoting the establishment of a fair, equitable, inclusive and well-managed new international financial order and an open and free international trading regime," he said.

China will also continue to deepen institutional reform, boost education, science and technology and promote its fine culture in order to improve peoples' well-being in an all-around way, he said.