China's message in Davos a call for collective action

What Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan told the global leaders and business elite attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, was a candid declaration of Beijing's policy and position, as well as a rallying call for concerted efforts to oppose protectionism and unilateralism.

Reaffirming the pro-globalization, pro-multilateralism stance that President Xi Jinping put forward in his widely acclaimed speech at the forum in Davos two years ago, Wang firmly positioned Beijing as a still-steadfast proponent of economic globalization.

China is fully committed to preserving economic globalization and "wishes to work with all countries for common development", Wang said. But he made it clear that China will continue to adhere to a development path that suits its own conditions and is in keeping with the trend of the times.