Xi clears doubts over further reform

Editor's note: In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping vowed to safeguard economic globalization and deepen reform and opening-up. Four experts share their views with China Daily on the possible impact of the speech. Excerpts follow:

China will further open up but not due to US pressure

China will take measures to further open up to the outside world, Xi said in his highly-anticipated keynote address at the Boao Forum for Asia. But amid the escalating China-US trade conflict, some people have wrongly assumed Xi made the remarks with the Trump administration's accusations in mind. But a review of China's policies shows the country will deepen reform and opening-up because of its development needs, not because of any other country's demand or coercion.