Abstract:During Hu Jintao's time,important progress was made in China's neighboring diplomacy,which enjoyed a degree of continuity.The guiding principle of “doing good to neighbors and regarding neighbors as partners” has been continuously practiced until present time.China is now attaching more importance to harmonious relations with neighboring countries,and the objectives of China's effort to build its relations with neighboring countries have become more and more specific and pragmatic.Furthermore,China has been increasing its investment,intensifying its operations,and strengthening its capacity for building good relations with neighboring countries,so as to share its “development dividend” with the whole neighboring area.Based on a thorough reading and analysis over Hu Jintao's speeches on foreign policy,which have been collected and compiled in the Anthology of Hu Jintao,this paper concludes that Hu Jintao has made eight major contributions in the field of China's neighboring diplomacy.In Hu Jintao's time,China's relations with neighboring countries was deepened to an unprecedented degree,as neighboring countries' economic and trade dependency on China is larger than China's dependency on them.On the other hand,neighboring areas accounted for a less share in China's overall external trade during Hu's time,so China began to examine its neighboring areas from a broader picture,so as to upgrade theoretic innovations on its diplomacy.The series of ideas about neighboring diplomacy that were proposed during Hu's time have laid solid foundations for the creation and development of new ideas,mentalities,and strategies of China's neighboring diplomacy after the 18th national congress of Chinese Communist Party.
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