Chinese President Jiang Zemin said Tuesday that the United States should "bear full responsibilities" for the collision between Chinese and US military planes.

"We have sufficient evidence," Jiang said while meeting with visiting Prime Minister Abdullah Bin Khalifa Al-Thani of the State of Qatar.

"It is the US plane that violated flight rules by displaying dangerous moves, bumped into and destroyed our plane, and as a result the pilot is missing," Jiang said.

A US military surveillance plane collided with a Chinese military jet in the airspace near the waters of South China's Hainan Province during its spy flight. The Chinese jet was crashed after the US jet displayed dangerous moves. The US plane along with its 24-member crew is now landed at an airport in Hainan.

Meanwhile, Jiang urged the United States to stop reconnaissance flights in the airspace off China's coastal areas, to prevent recurrence of the April 1 air collision incident.

Only by doing so will it be favorable to the development of Sino-US relations, Jiang said.

"What is the most precious is human life," he said. "I am deeply concerned about the safety of the pilot and has time and again given instructions to search for and rescue the pilot at all costs and with utmost efforts," he said.

"We cannot understand why the United States often sends its planes to make surveillance flights in areas so close to China," Jiang said.

"And this time, the US plane bumped into our plane, invaded the Chinese territorial airspace and landed at our airport in violation of international laws and practices," he said.

(Xinhua)