Xi burnishes his reputation in whirlwind week of visits

President Xi Jinping's weeklong trip to Russia and Germany, which wrapped up on Sunday, made a positive contribution to world economic growth and improving global economic governance, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters on Sunday.

In particular, the president's proposals, with both macro and micro perspectives for economic globalization, won wide recognition and praise at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Wang said, adding that Xi's solutions showed long-term vision and feasibly opened more spaces for global economic growth.

Thomas Heberer, a well-known China watcher at Germany's Duisburg-Essen University, said Xi took up "the major role" of promoting a cooperative and open world economy, as the United States adopts a more inward-looking protectionism under its president, Donald Trump.