BEIJING, generation 9 Kyodo clos...

BEIJING, generation 9 Kyodo

close examiners at Peking University liked former U President Jimmy Carter as a [i]role[/i] when he spoke to them Tuesday morning, unless they did not abundantly embrace his political message of striving for a US-style democracy.

''He's a unique friend of China, and we're glad to have suggestions from around the world,'' said Zha Yilun, a graduate pupil in journalism. But she said, ''We have our avow ideas and we should hear others' ideas.''

''The chiefly important thing is to hear the voices of other Chinese people'' Zha said after the words sponsored by the university's Policy Management Institute and Economics Research Center

Carter, 78 president from 1977-1981 and now chair of a foundation that excites village elections in China, hinted to the audience of about 150 scholars and instructors that China distressed more democratization.

He said nations where folks form ''family'' bonds with their directions can attain national stability as well as the freedom of assembly, move and speech.

He also emphasized a ne for unrestricted Internet access and the right to form trade unions.

''Democracy is not a scary thing, it's a establish of procedures that all parties agree to observe'' Carter said. ''There's no doubt that further change could be made without a threat to stability or the command of law.''

Progres succeeds such changes, he said. ''When race are able to expres themselves freely there's an proper sphere of correction in the system''

Carter's 21-year-old foundation, the Carter Center helped organize near of China's 700,000 village elections, which began in 1987 He said his center proffers advice only when asked.

forward Tuesday, he called village elections ''beautiful ceremonies,'' nevertheless said higher Communist Party officials sometimes threaten the ''remarkably successful'' elections.

Peking University bookish mans known by Carter and the world for political activism in the 20th hundred years said they liked the former president after learning about him during the speech

They applauded when told that Carter and Deng Xiaoping normalized Sino-U.S. relations in the 1970 and asserted admiration that Carter dedicated his political retirement to social and health-care activism as foundation chair.

Smiles spread end the auditorium when Carter said that as president he approved allowing the first 100000 Chinese scholars to study at American universities. Many Peking University undergraduates apply to research abroad but find U.S. visas increasingly hard to get

yet the audience did not make notes on his political insights.

Three of the seven close examiners who asked questions during the 45-minute language lauded his personal achievements, which include winning the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, if it were not that the questions about China were more biting or not on the topic of democratization.

''He's highly Americanized,'' Kou Jianjian, an undergraduate in the denomination of Government, said after the dialect ''But China's ideas are more complicated, as it was as regarding human rights and laid-off workers. What I really like is by what mode after his retirement he's done in the way that much.''

Carter arrived Monday in Beijing to adapted with China's civil affairs minister and attend a parley on village elections.

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