Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China does not seek hegemony and will not seek to replace US leadership in the world. "Some people in the US contend that a stronger China is bound to follow the beaten path to seek hegemony and pose a so-called threat to the US' leading position in the world," Wang said. Wang stressed that China's development path will differ from that of a traditional power. This is a path with Chinese characteristics, which determines that China will not repeat the old path in which a strong power would surely seek hegemony, said Wang, adding that China will neither become another United States, nor challenge or replace the United States. China will stick to the path of peaceful development, and that has been written into China's constitution and the constitution of the Communist Party of China, Wang added.