The following are some figures and facts in the white paper titled "China's Endeavors for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation," issued Thurdday by the Information Office of China's State Council, or the cabinet:

-- Right after its first nuclear test in 1964, the Chinese government issued a statement, solemnly proposing to the governments of all countries the convocation of a world summit to discuss the issue of complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons.

-- In the 1990s, China closed down a nuclear weapon research and development base in Qinghai Province.

-- In January 1994, China formally presented a draft text of the Treaty on the No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons to the other four nuclear-weapon states.

-- In May 2000, China, together with the other four nuclear-weapon states, issued a joint statement declaring that their nuclear weapons are not targeted at any country.

-- In July 1996, the Chinese government declared a moratorium on nuclear test, and has all along honored such commitment.

-- By the end of June 2005, China has received 95 on-site inspections by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the conclusions of which have all demonstrated that China has strictly implemented its obligations under the Convention.

-- Since its accession to the Amended Protocol on Landmines, China has conducted a comprehensive survey of old or obsolete landmines, and has implemented a phased program of modification or destruction of such landmines. To date, hundreds of thousands of old or obsolete landmines have been destroyed.

-- In the 1990s, China conducted two large-scale de-mining operations in the border areas, thus basically eliminating landmine problems within its borders.

-- China made the decision to downsize its military personnel by one million in 1985. By 1987, the size of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had been reduced from 4.238 million to 3.235 million and further reductions followed thereafter. By 1990, the number of armed forces had been cut down to 3.199 million, downsized by a total of 1.039 million. Since 1990, China's armed forces have undergone a series of adjustments and their size has continued to shrink. China decided in 1997 to once again downsize its military by 500,000 within three years, reducing its military size to the level of 2.5 million. In 2003, China decided to further cut down the number by 200,000 within two years and to reduce its military size to the level of 2.3 million.

-- From 1979 to 2004, the percentages of China's defense expenditure to its financial expenditure of the same period followed a downward curve on the whole. It was 17.37 percent in 1979, and 7.76 percent in 2004, down by about 10 percentage points.

-- In 2004, China's defense expenditure registered 219.986 billion yuan, accounting for 1.61 percent of that year's GDP and 7.76 percent of that year's financial expenditure and amounting to only 5.77 percent of that of the United States, 41.03 percent that of the United Kingdom, 75.65 percent that of France and 63.97 percent that of Japan.

-- China's defense budget for 2005 is 247.756 billion yuan.

-- Based on control lists for nuclear, biological, chemical and missile exports, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs jointly compiled the Export Licensing Catalogue of Sensitive Items and Technologies covering 658 items and technologies, of which 34 percent have had their customs code determined.

-- Since the end of 2002, the Chinese government has dealt with scores of cases of various types concerning illegal export of sensitive items and technologies. Competent authorities have put the companies involved in these cases on a "watch list" so as to prevent the recurrence of similar activities.