As an integral part of the world, China is playing a bigger role in contributing to world prosperity and thus stability. Wang Yiwei, Associate Professor at the Center for American Studies, Shanghai-based Fudan University, recently wrote in the Global Times that China is improving its capabilities to cope with a variety of challenges, known and unknown, in an effort to promote the common development of humanity. The article follows:

China has, on one hand, deeply integrated with the current world political and economic systems. On the other hand, it is ready for a historical mission to help reform the old systems

Along with world uncertainty, China's development is also challenged by many changing social factors during its ongoing economic transition. Despite China's unremitting efforts to clarify its future road, the international community, particularly the Western World, has shown signs of worry. This anxiety actually sprouts from the unstable situation of the world as a whole, as well as some Westerners' fear of losing their status quo and influence. When China is even more closely tied to the rest of the world, this anxiety will of course exert more external pressure.

Dialectically, the world is full of absolute uncertainties. They are not necessarily attributable to catastrophes and other natural disasters any longer, but move in their own regular pattern, which is firstly manifested in the economic sector.

A declining U.S. dollar, but surging prices of energy and raw materials, have unexceptionally illustrated the rising imbalance and unsure elements of the world economy. Due to the state of China's present-day economic structure, in addition to its inconvertible currency, the country is not yet capable of helping to eventually dispel this threat.

Politically, the world is far from stabilized as a result of regional conflicts, as well as traditional and non-traditional security threats of common concern. World peace and regional stability are still affected by hegemonism and power politics. China is finding its own method to sustain world peace and development via its active diplomacy.

Likewise, our living environment is threatened by a swelling world population that exceeds its capacity by one third, according to a just released Global Environment Outlook (Fourth Edition) compiled by the United Nations Environment Program. It is obvious that, the pace at which men exploit this planet and consume resources has placed the humankind in an endangered situation. As it is believed, only a united international community can achieve more on curbing further damages. China's ruling Communist Party has proposed at its 17th National Congress, held in October, putting environmental protection on equal footing with major political, economic, cultural, and security issues. It is pledged that China will help and coordinate with other countries to better protect our planet.

Today's world is undergoing various adjustments in a total reshuffle. The process of globalization has stretched to more sectors beyond the traditional economy, security, politics and environment fields. Given the new variation formed through globalization, the world is facing profound and comprehensive challenges.

Against this background, China has to devise more measures to enhance its capabilities in risk resistance and crisis management to take on bigger challenges and to grant realization of development goals. While the developed Western world is turning away mounting obligations to China-from curbing climate change to pushing forward the Doha Round of free trade talks, China is forced to shoulder more than it should. Developing nations that are not satisfied with today's status quo also hope China could promote the establishment of a new international order. In addition, domestic demands swing between equilibrium and rapid prosperity. China is therefore doubly challenged by inner and external pressure.

Amid a complicated and swiftly changing pattern of world relations, China has, on one hand, deeply integrated with the current world political and economic systems. On the other hand, it is ready for a historical mission to help reform the old systems. Also at its 17th National Congress, the Communist Party of China pledged that China will "continue to take an active part in multilateral affairs, assume our due international obligations, play a constructive role, and work to make the international order fairer and more equitable."

In reality, China has placed more concern on the improvement of its own countermeasures against uncertain challenges. At the same time, it has been actively engaged in the establishment of broad international cooperation frameworks to guard against any manmade threats to human progress.

Uncertainty not totally negative since it could stimulate people to search for new development modes. In this process, China's active role in securing world peace and development will be able to remove worries against its rapid development and help it win more respect and support from the rest of the world.