China, India capable of achieving win-win results(2)

China and India are both world's great ancient civilizations with splendid cultures, and now they are both leading emerging economies and important countries with shared responsibilities in safeguarding regional and global security and prosperity.

The potential for bilateral cooperation is huge, as China has become one of India's top trading partners with a shared goal to raise their annual trade volume to 100 billion U.S. dollars in 2015.

New Delhi has also said it intends to attract more Chinese investments and encourage Indian firms to explore the vast Chinese market.

Meanwhile, the people-to-people exchange between the two sides has a vast room to grow, given annually there are only 20,000 Chinese nationals traveling to India and 300,000 Indians coming to China.

With their growing global clouts, the two nations' cooperation in regional and world affairs is carrying more significance.

It is notable that both China and India are committed to building a multipolar world and fostering a fairer international political and economic order, with similar aspirations and converged interests on issues such as climate change and food security.

The Western media's hype of the so-called "Dragon-Elephant" rivalry ignores the historical fact that both Beijing and New Delhi are longtime advocates of the rights and interests of developing nations.

We have no reason to doubt that the two nations, which were capable of jointly holding high the banner of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in 1950s, will also be able to forge a new-type cooperative partnership between world's major countries in the new century.

Despite disputes and deficiencies in their relations, policies and actions taken by leaders of the two nations have showed they are blazing a new trail for positive interaction toward achieving win-win results.

Moreover, it is also an obligation for them to keep a cooperative and healthy relationship because neither the region nor the world could afford to see the two countries constantly at odds.