Xi offers insights for building shared future

Delivering a speech at the closing of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that China will never seek development at the expense of other countries.

His pledge that China's development poses no threat to any country is a counterblast to those trying to indict China as a threat, for as he observed, "Only those who are accustomed to threatening others see everyone as a threat."

He clarified that China hopes to help build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world with lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity and called for China's efforts to this end not to be misinterpreted or distorted.