Listening to China's worries is good: daily

Beijing, March 15 : It's time for the world to 'keep an open ear' for China's worries, said an editorial in a Chinese daily, adding that listening to Beijing's concerns 'will be good for the world at large'.

The word "worries" was used as many as 13 times during Premier Wen Jiabao's press conference after theNational People's Congress concluded.

"Justice is the top item in China's long list of worries. It outweighs other anxieties, as it spells out the root cause for many other thorny domestic problems including corruption, income distribution, the hukou (residency permit) system, housing price bubbles and inflation," the Global Times editorial said Monday.

China is also concerned over the safety of its huge US Treasury bond holdings, the global economic outlook, and over the West's growing "but needless" worries about China.

"Now it is time for the world to keep an open ear to China's worries. Chinese' own sentiment toward their developing nation should have many complicated layers... Everyone is in the same boat, as the post-financial crisis world is intertwined more closely than ever before.

"Listening to China's worries will help China mitigate those concerns, and will be good for the world at large," the editorial said.