China committed to peaceful development: vice premier

China is committed to a peaceful foreign policy and will steadfastly fulfill its international obligations, Vice Premier Liu Yandong said at the opening ceremony of the fifth World Peace Forum (WPF) in Beijing on Saturday.

Today's era calls for win-win cooperation, inclusive co-existence, openness and sharing, Liu said.

The theme of this year's Forum, "The order of Common Security: Cooperation, Inclusiveness and Open access," is highly relevant to the reality and needs of today, she said.

Liu noted that Chinese President Xi jinping has proposed building a new type of international relations featuring win-win cooperation.

"It contributes China's wisdom and proposal for coping with the complex and grim security threats and building a common security order," she said.

The vice premier suggested countries build partnerships of equality and mutual trust, stick to win-win cooperation and abandon the zero-sum mentality, increase dialogue and consultation to strive for peace and security, and deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges to encourage mutual learning among cultures.

"The aspiration for peace and development runs deep in the genes of the Chinese nation," said Liu.

Before the opening ceremony of the forum, Liu met with former French Prime Minister Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin, former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, former Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, former European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and former Russian Secretary of the Security Council Andrei Kokoshin.

The WPF was founded in 2012 as China's first high-level non-governmental seminar focusing on international security. Endi