“If the slowdown in growth affects employment and incomes, and approaches the lower-limit of a reasonable range, we will stabilize policies and the market’s longterm expectations for China. It looks like economic growth has been adjusted lower, but in reality achieving this target will not be easy.”

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at a press conference in Beijing, March 15, 2015.

“The practical cooperation between China and Russia is based on mutual need, it seeks win-win results and has enormous internal impetus and room for expansion.”
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a press conference in Beijing on March 8, 2015.

“When the wind of change blows, some build walls while others build windmills.”

“The world order established after World War II must be maintained, not overturned, otherwise prosperity and development could be jeopardized.”

“The flowers of different civilizations together make up the garden of human society.”

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23, 2015.

“It took less than three hours to fly from Beijing to Taiwan, but the step took 65 years.”
Zhang Zhijun, Director of the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office, quoted in the Shanghai Daily, June 25, 2014.

“The Chinese people are fond of tea and the Belgians love beer. To me, the moderate tea drinker and the passionate beer lover represent two ways of understanding life and knowing the world, and I find them equally rewarding.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a speech at the College of Europe in Bruges on April 1, 2014.