Building a bridge of cooperation

'It is a great pleasure to be with you in Hamburg, the City of Bridges, to discuss ways of building a bridge of cooperation to advance our shared prosperity," President Xi Jinping said in his speech at the G20 Leaders Summit in Hamburg on Friday.

He proposed openness and innovation and working together as the ways to push forward global economic development and provide fresh impetus for global growth, and urged greater efforts to improve the world's economic governance.

At the G20 Hangzhou Summit in September last year, participants reached a consensus on building an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world economy, transmitting a positive signal of their shared willingness to seize opportunities and overcome difficulties. With the joint efforts of various parties, the momentum of world economic growth has been consolidated over the past year. In April, the International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for world economic growth this year to 3.5 percent, and all the G20 economies are expected to witness positive economic growth for the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis.