China stays committed to promoting peace talks on Ukraine issue: spokesman

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China stays committed to promoting peace talks on Ukraine issue: spokesman

2025-04-18 16:24 Last Updated At：21:17

China has always been committed to promoting peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian at a press briefing in Beijing on Friday.

Lin made the statement in response to a media query about the China-related remarks made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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"China's position on the Ukraine issue is consistent and clear. China has been committed to ending the conflict and promoting peace talks. China has never provided lethal weapons to any party of the conflict, exercising strict export control over dual-use articles for both military and civilian purposes. The Ukrainian side is well aware of this and has publicly stated that most of the components of the weapons imported by Russia come from Western countries including the United States. China firmly opposes groundless accusations and political manipulation," said Lin.

Concrete steps to take for firmly implementing China's landmark private sector promotion law: official

2025-05-02 07:53 Last Updated At：08:17

China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will work with relevant departments and local authorities to take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the newly passed private sector promotion law, a landmark legislation concerning a vast economic force in the country, said an NDRC official.

China's top legislative body -the National People's Congress - passed the private sector promotion law on Wednesday, establishing a legal backing for the steady and healthy growth of the key sector, including more than 57 million private firms and over 100 million self-employed individuals.

This landmark law is China's first fundamental legislation dedicated to the private sector. It will bolster confidence among the vast community by improving the business environment, fostering innovation, and ensuring fair competition, according to NDRC, the country's top economic planner.

"The private sector promotion law has actively responded to the key concerns in the development of the private sector. Efforts are made to establish and improve relevant systems and enhance the enforceability of the systems, from ensuring fair competition, improving investment and financing environment, supporting technology innovation, focusing on regulated operation, optimizing services and guarantees, and improving rights and interest protection, to strengthening legal accountability, so as to ensure that all forms of ownership can equally utilize production factors by the law, participate in market competition fairly, receive equal legal protection, further unleash their complementary advantages, and pursue common development," said Liu Min, deputy director of Private Sector Development Bureau under NDRC.

Liu added NDRC will continue to work together with relevant departments and local authorities to improve supporting systems and mechanisms and take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the private sector promotion law.

"We will make continuous and increasing efforts to remove barriers to market access and to fair competition, to address the issue of overdue payments to private enterprises, to protect the lawful rights and interests of private businesses and entrepreneurs by the law, to implement various relief policies, to help private enterprises shoulder their responsibilities of the era, so as to help translate legal systems into concrete actions and tangible outcomes that promote the high-quality development of the private sector," said Liu.