Li Peng Quotes

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

Except for a few oil-rich countries, no developing country has successfully modernized without slowing population growth.

China is still a developing country with a myriad of tasks and challenges.

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

China has come a long way from being a nation of opium addicts to the status of a global power

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol for many other countries in the world.

There is no denying the fact that China has been able to convert its economic might into commercial and technological capability.

I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

China's development benefits other countries.

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.