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China keeps extending its nuclear forces and in two years it will most likely have submarine-launched nuclear weapons in its nuclear arsenal, according to a draft report prepared by a special commission on the U.S.-China relations on request of the U.S. Congress.
China has had a largely symbolic ballistic missile submarine capability for decades but now Beijing is on the cusp of attaining a credible nuclear triad of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and air-dropped nuclear bombs, the draft report says.
The report also notes that China is party to many major international pacts and regimes regarding nuclear weapons and materials. But it remains outside of key arms limitation and control conventions. Experts suggest the U.S. Department of State to see to that China join such conventions.
China does not disclose data on its nuclear weapons, but according to the Arms Control Association, a private group in Washington, China is estimated to have a total of 240 nuclear warheads.
China intends to double GDP by 2020
China must speed up transformation of its economic development model and double the county's GDP by 2020, said Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, when delivering his speech to delegates of the 18th CPC National Congress.
In response to the on-going changes, both in the Chinese and global economies, we must speed up creation of a new model for growth and secure its further development, aimed at improving its quality characteristics, he said.
When reporting he also said that the concept of scientific development will be the core of the countrys modernization processes for many years on.
The General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee set a target to double the country's GDP and a per capita income of urban and rural residents by 2020, compared to the 2010 index.
China opens Communist Party congress as leadership change begins
China's Communist Party has begun a week-long congress that will see a new group of leaders unveiled.
More than 2,000 delegates are attending the meeting, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, which begins the once-in-a-decade power transfer.
President Hu Jintao is first on the agenda, delivering a work report on achievements and future goals. The party forum will approve a "fifth generation" of Chinese leaders, who will be in power for the next decade.
No formal schedule for the meeting has been revealed, but it will last a week.
The delegates choose a central committee, which then chooses the country's highest decision-making body, the Standing Committee of the Politburo.
Likely incoming General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee is 59-year-old Xi Jinping, now vice-chairman. In March 2013 at a session of the National Peoples Congress, he may take over as President and paramount leader of the People s Republic of China.
The process takes place behind closed doors, with the make-up of the top bodies in reality decided ahead of time.
Voice of Russia, TASS, Chicago Tribune, BBC
China has had a largely symbolic ballistic missile submarine capability for decades but now Beijing is on the cusp of attaining a credible nuclear triad of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and air-dropped nuclear bombs, the draft report says.
The report also notes that China is party to many major international pacts and regimes regarding nuclear weapons and materials. But it remains outside of key arms limitation and control conventions. Experts suggest the U.S. Department of State to see to that China join such conventions.
China does not disclose data on its nuclear weapons, but according to the Arms Control Association, a private group in Washington, China is estimated to have a total of 240 nuclear warheads.
China intends to double GDP by 2020
China must speed up transformation of its economic development model and double the county's GDP by 2020, said Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, when delivering his speech to delegates of the 18th CPC National Congress.
In response to the on-going changes, both in the Chinese and global economies, we must speed up creation of a new model for growth and secure its further development, aimed at improving its quality characteristics, he said.
When reporting he also said that the concept of scientific development will be the core of the countrys modernization processes for many years on.
The General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee set a target to double the country's GDP and a per capita income of urban and rural residents by 2020, compared to the 2010 index.
China opens Communist Party congress as leadership change begins
China's Communist Party has begun a week-long congress that will see a new group of leaders unveiled.
More than 2,000 delegates are attending the meeting, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, which begins the once-in-a-decade power transfer.
President Hu Jintao is first on the agenda, delivering a work report on achievements and future goals. The party forum will approve a "fifth generation" of Chinese leaders, who will be in power for the next decade.
No formal schedule for the meeting has been revealed, but it will last a week.
The delegates choose a central committee, which then chooses the country's highest decision-making body, the Standing Committee of the Politburo.
Likely incoming General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee is 59-year-old Xi Jinping, now vice-chairman. In March 2013 at a session of the National Peoples Congress, he may take over as President and paramount leader of the People s Republic of China.
The process takes place behind closed doors, with the make-up of the top bodies in reality decided ahead of time.
Voice of Russia, TASS, Chicago Tribune, BBC
