World will benefit as China opens wider

The visit by Xi Jinping to Guangdong province in December 2012, immediately after he was elected general secretary of the18th Communist Party of China Central Committee, signaled the new leadership's resolve to carry on reform and opening-up. Standing in front of Deng Xiaoping's statue in Shenzhen, one of the country's first special economic zones whose trailblazing efforts were supported by Deng, he said the country must have the courage to continue on this path.

This week, President Xi inspected Guangdong again, saying that its development over the past four decades proved that reform and opening-up are the way forward, and the country will unswervingly and unremittingly deepen reform and expand opening-up following the blueprint the Party has charted.

If Deng's endorsement of reform and opening-up unveiled China to the world, Xi's wholehearted endorsement of it as the right path for the country is of both national and international significance.