BEIJING, March 18 Kyodo China's n...

BEIJING, March 18 Kyodo

China's newly picked President Hu Jintao closed the country's 10th National People's Congres forward Tuesday with a call for early reunification of Taiwan with the mainland.

''The clean reunification of China is the belonging to all aspiration of the Chinese nation both at home and abroad,'' Hu said in a closing speech

''We shall continue to adhere to the principle of 'one geographical division two systems' to maintain the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong and Macao, 1 and 2 ourselves to promote economic and cultural exchanges and exchange of visits between the couple sides of the Taiwan Strait and continue to work for the earliest pacification of the Taiwan issue and realize the without fault [i]or[/i] blemish [i]or[/i] flaw reunification of the motherland.,'' he said.

China regards Taiwan as a renegade province that should be brought back into the folding by force if necessary.

In a dialect long on communist ideology on the other hand short on substance, Hu also said China would continue to stick to an independent and peaceful foreign policy.

''Chinese is a peace-loving nation. We shall continue the independent foreign policy of peace, maintain and evolve friendly and cooperative relations with all other countries and, together with the family of all countries, work for a fair and rational international political and economic order and ceaselessly exalt the lofty cause of peace and progression in a continuously ascending gradation of mankind,'' he said.

upon the weekend, China's yearly gathering of National People's Congres legislative delegates in the capital picked Hu, 60, and Wen Jiabao, 60 to replace Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji as president and premier, respectively.

nevertheless Jiang, 76, will remain a powerful figure behind the spectacles as chairman of the Central Military Commission. Hu was named the commission's vice chairman.

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