Open economy 'benefits all', Xi says

Joint efforts needed for a bright future, he tells APEC business leaders meeting

President Xi Jinping sent a strong message of pursuing open global economies, supporting free trade and building a multilateral trade system in a highly anticipated speech delivered at the APEC CEO Summit in Vietnam on Friday.

He called economic globalization an irreversible historical trend, telling the business leaders from the Asia-Pacific region who had gathered in coastal Da Nang, "In pursuing economic globalization, we should make it more open, more inclusive, more balanced, more equitable and more beneficial to all."