【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ong on investment. strong on dialogue.i made that clear as leader of the opposition when i visited beijing and chongqing three years ago.and i repeat it as prime minister here in china’s capital today.in the argument about how to react to the rise of china.i say it’s an opportunity.i choose engagement not disengagement.dialogue not standoff.mutual benefit, not zerosum game.partnership not protectionism.britain is the country that argues most passionately for globalisation and free trade.free trade is in our dna.and we want trade with china. as much of it as we can get.that’s why i have with me on this visit one of the biggest and most highpowered delegations a british prime minister has ever led to china.just think about some of the prizes that the rise of china could help to bring within our grasp.strong, and sustainable growth for the global economy.vital progress on the doha trade round which could add $170 billion to the global economy.a real chance to get back on track towards a legally binding deal on emissionsunprecedented progress in tackling poverty.china has lifted 500 million people out of poverty in just thirty years.although there is still a long way to go – that’s more people lifted out of poverty than at any time in human history.you can see the results right across this enormous country.when i worked in hong kong briefly in 1985, shenzhen was barely more than a small town, surrounded by paddy fields and waterways.today it is a city larger than london. it makes most of the world’s ipods and one in ten of its mobile phones.and there are other benefits too in tackling the world’s most intractable problems.i wele the fact, for example, that more than 900 chinese doctors now work in african countries and that in uganda it is a chinese pharmaceutical firm that is introducing a new antimalarial drug.so i want to make the positive casefor the world to see china’s rise as an opportunity not a threat.but china needs to help us to make that argumentto demonstrate that as your economy grows, so do our shared interests, and our shared responsibilities.we share an interest in china’s integration into the world economy, which is essential for china’s development.if we are to maintain europe’s openness to china, we must be able to show that china is open to europe.so we share an interest in an international system governed by rules and norms.we share an interest in effective cooperative governance, including for the world economy.we share an interest in fighting protectionismand in a coordinated rebalancing between surplus and deficit countries.these interests, those responsibilities are both economic and political.let me take each in turn.economic responsibilitiesfirst, economic responsibilities.let’s get straight to the point.the world economy has begun to grow again after the crisis.but that growth is very uneven.led by china, asia and other emerging markets are growing quickly.but in much of the advanced world growth is slow and fragile and unemployment stubbornly high.we should not be surprised at this.the crisis has damaged many advanced economies and weakened their financial sectors.they face major structural and fiscal adjustments to rebalance their economies.this is true of my own country.we know what steps we need to take to restore the public finances and rebalance our economy towards greater saving and investment and greater exports.and we have begun to take them.but for the world economy to be able to grow strongly again – and to grow without creating the dangerous economic and financial instabilities that led to the crisis, we need more than just adjustment in the advanced world.the truth is that some countries with current account surpluses have been saving too muchwhile others like mine with deficits have been saving too little.and the result has been a dangerous tidal wave of money going from one side of the globe to the other.we need a more balanced pattern of global demand and supply, a more balanced pattern of global saving and investment.now sometimes when you hear people talk about economic imbalances, it can seem as though countries that are successful at exporting are being blamed for their success.that’s absolutely not the case.we all share an interest and a responsibility to cooperate to secure strong and balanced global growth.there is no greater illustration of this than what happened to china as the western banking system collapsed.chinese exports fell 12 per centgrowth dropped to its lowest point in more than a decadeand some 20 million jobs were lost in the chinese export sector.changes in the structure of our economies will take time.what is important is that the major economies of the world have a shared vision of the path of this change: what actions countries should avoid。 what actions countries need to take and, crucially, over what period it should happen.this is why the g20 – and the meeting in seoul – is so important.together we can agree a mon approach.we can mit to the necessary actions.we can agree that we will hold each other to account.and just as china played a leading role at the g20 in helping to avert a global depressionso it can lead now.i know from my discussions with premier wen how mitted china is to actions to rebalance its economy.china is already talking about moving towards increased domestic consumptionbetter healthcare and welfaremore consumer goods as its middle class growsand in time introducing greater market flexibility into its exchange rate.this can not be pleted overnightbut it must happen.let’s be clear about the risks if it does notabout what is at stake for china and for the uk – countries that depend on an open global economy.at the worst point of the crisis, we averted protecti