President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to advance the Peaceful China Initiative to a higher level to ensure steady and sustained progress in Chinese modernization. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in his recent instruction on the initiative. His instruction was conveyed at a working conference on the initiative held on Monday in Beijing. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, China has made significant progress in building a safe country, further consolidating a sound environment in which people live and work in peace and society remains stable and orderly, Xi said, adding that China has become one of the safest countries in the world. On the new journey, China should firmly implement a holistic approach to national security and uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership in this area, Xi said. He stressed better coordinating d...