中国外经贸部副部长龙永图12月19日在日内瓦阐述了中国政府对新一轮多边贸易谈判的立场。龙永图代表中国首次以正式成员身份出席了世界贸易组织总理事会会议,并在会上发了言。他说,中国一向支持在充分考虑发展中国家利益和合理要求的基础上,启动新的多边贸易谈判。中国主张新的多边贸易谈判的目标应当是:“第一,有利于建立公平、公正和合理的国际经济新秩序;第二,有利于世界经济的发展和贸易投资便利化;第三,有利于发达国家和发展中 Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Long Yongtu set forth his position on the new round of multilateral trade negotiations in Geneva on December 19. Long Yongtu represented China for the first time as an official member of the WTO General Council meeting and made a statement at the meeting. He said that China has always supported the launching of new multilateral trade negotiations on the basis of full consideration of the interests and reasonable demands of the developing countries. China advocates that the goal of the new multilateral trade negotiations should be: "First, it is conducive to establishing a fair, just and reasonable new international economic order; second, it is conducive to the development of world economy and trade and investment facilitation; thirdly, Developed and developing