Xi addresses Eastern Economic Forum Plenary Session

He stressed that the international landscape is going through profound transformation, the COVID-19 pandemic keeps raging with frequent flare-ups, and the world economy faces a daunting recovery.

"This presents regional cooperation in Northeast Asia with both stern challenges and important opportunities," he said, adding that it is only right that all parties ground themselves in regional realities while adopting a global perspective, join hands to tide over the difficult time and plan for common development.

"We need to offer each other help to overcome the pandemic challenge," Xi said, calling for intensifying cooperation in vaccine research, development and production, providing more public goods to the international community, firmly rejecting any politicization of COVID vaccines and origins-tracing, and striving to build a global community of health for all.

He called on all parties to redouble their efforts to advance mutually-beneficial cooperation, deepen the collaboration between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union, support the innovative development of the digital economy, jointly tackle global climate change, and promote social and economic development in the region.