Full text of White Paper on Arms Control
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Annexes

Annex I: List of Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Treaties That China Has Joined

In the Nuclear Field

Additional Protocol II to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (signed in August 1973, the instrument of ratification deposited in June 1974)

Additional Protocols II and III to the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty (signed in February 1987, the instrument of ratification deposited in October 1988)

Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in China (signed in September 1988, effective since September 1989)

Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (acceded in February 1989)

Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof (acceded in February 1991)

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (acceded in March 1992)

Convention on Nuclear Safety (signed in 1994, ratified in April 1996)

Protocols I and II to the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (signed in April 1996, the instrument of ratification deposited in October 1997)

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (signed in September 1996)

Protocol Additional to the Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the IAEA for the Application of Safeguards in China (signed in December 1998, entered into force in March 2002)

In the Chemical Field

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (signed in January 1993, the instrument of ratification deposited in April 1997)

In the Biological Field

Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (acceded in November 1984)

In the Conventional Field

Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and Protocols I-III (signed in September 1981, the instrument of ratification deposited in April 1982; the amended Article 1 of the Convention ratified in June 2003, the instrument of ratification deposited in August 2003)

Amended Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices Annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (Amended Protocol II) (the instrument of ratification deposited in November 1998)

Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons Annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol IV) (the instrument of ratification deposited in November 1998)

Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crimes (signed in December 2002)

In Other Fields

The Antarctic Treaty (acceded in June 1983)

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (instrument of accession deposited in December 1983)

Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space (acceded in December 1988)

Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (acceded in June 2005)

Annex II: Laws and Regulations of China on Non-Proliferation Export Control

In the Nuclear Field

Regulations of the PRC on the Control of Nuclear Export (promulgated in September 1997, revised in June 2001)

Regulations of the PRC on the Control of Nuclear Dual-Use Items and Related Technologies Export (promulgated in June 1998)

Measures on the Administration of Approval for Transfer and Transit of Nuclear Items (For Trial Implementation) (promulgated in January 2000)

In the Biological Field

Regulations of the PRC on the Export Control of Dual-Use Biological Agents and Related Equipment and Technologies (promulgated in October 2002)

In the Chemical Field

Regulations of the PRC on the Administration of Controlled Chemicals (promulgated in December 1995)

Controlled Chemicals List (promulgated in May 1996, supplemented in June 1998)

Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Regulations of the PRC on the Administration of Controlled Chemicals (promulgated in March 1997)

List of New Chemicals Controlled in Category 3 (promulgated in June 1998)

Measures on the Export Control of Certain Chemicals and Related Equipment and Technologies (promulgated in October 2002)

In the Missile Field

Regulations of the PRC on the Export Control of Missiles and Missile-Related Items and Technologies (promulgated in August 2002)

In the Arms Export Field

Regulations of the PRC on the Administration of Arms Export (promulgated in October 1997, amended in October 2002; the Military Products Export Control List promulgated in November 2002)

Sensitive Items

Measures on the Administration of Export Registration for Sensitive Items and Technologies (promulgated in November 2002)

Provisional Measures on the Administration of Export Licenses on Sensitive Items and Technologies (promulgated in December 2003)

Export Licensing Catalogue of Sensitive Items and Technologies (promulgated in December 2003)

Other Related Laws and Regulations

Foreign Trade Law of the PRC (promulgated in May 1994, amended in April 2004)

Administrative Punishments Law of the PRC (promulgated in March 1996)

Customs Law of the PRC (promulgated in January 1987, amended in July 2000)

Amendments to the Criminal Law of the PRC (promulgated in December 2001)

Regulations of the PRC on the Import and Export Control of Technologies (promulgated in December 2001)

Regulations of the PRC on the Import and Export Control of Goods (promulgated in December 2001)

Annex III: Agreements on Disarmament and Confidence-Building Measures Between China and Relevant Countries

Agreement Between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of India on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquility Along the Line of Actual Control in the China-India Border Areas (signed in September 1993)

Agreement Between China and Russia on the Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities (signed in July 1994)

Joint Statement by the President of the People's Republic of China and the President of the Russian Federation on No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons and Detargeting of Strategic Nuclear Weapons Against Each Other (signed in September 1994)

Agreement on Confidence-Building in the Military Field Along the Border Areas Among China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan (signed in April 1996)

Agreement on Confidence-Building Measures in the Military Field Along the Line of Actual Control in the China-India Border Areas (signed in November 1996)

Agreement on the Mutual Reduction of Military Forces in the Border Areas Among China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan (signed in April 1997)

Agreement Between the Ministry of National Defense of the PRC and the Department of Defense of the USA on Establishing a Consultation Mechanism to Strengthen Military Maritime Safety (signed in January 1998)

Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties in the South China Sea (signed in November 2002)

Protocol Between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of India on Modalities for the Implementation of Confidence-Building Measures in the Military Field Along the Line of Actual Control in the China-India Border Areas (signed in April 2005)