2011-03-01 (China Military News cited from and written by ) -- This year marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Foreign Liaison Office of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the predecessor of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense, People’s Republic of China (PRC). Maj. Qian Lihua, director-general of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense of the PRC, recently received an interview.

Qian Lihua noted that China persists in taking the road of peaceful development and is committed to development of good-neighborly friendship and cooperation of mutual benefit with neighboring countries. China has properly resolved border disputes with most of the land-locked neighboring countries through state diplomacy including military diplomacy, signed agreements and accords with certain countries to promote military mutual trust concerning border areas, opened direct hotlines between the navies, the air forces and the neighboring military area commands of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the military of the Republic of Korea (ROK), carried out joint patrols with the Vietnamese Navy in the Beibu Bay, and established defense consultation and dialogue mechanisms with such countries as Pakistan, India, Thailand and Singapore.

Qian Lihua said that Chinese military actively participated in the Asia-Pacific multilateral security dialogue and cooperation mechanisms represented by the ASEAN Regional Forum, and greatly deterred the "three forces" (namely terrorism, separatism and extremism) at home and abroad and enhanced the region’s capability in jointly coping with new threats and new challenges in particular through the cooperation in defense and security fields within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Qian Lihua also indicated the Chinese government actively fulfilled its responsibilities and obligations of maintaining international security, and firmly supported international arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation efforts, and had acceded to 22 international arms control treaties.