Opening up for a better world

In his keynote speech at the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on April 26, President Xi Jinping said "we firmly believe that a more open China will form more benign interactions with the world" and help it become more progressive and prosperous, giving a clear message that China is committed to further opening its economy to the outside world.

As a country that proposed - and is propelling - the Belt and Road Initiative, China has decided to further open up its economy to fulfill the objective requirements of its own reform and development. All the promises and all the moves China has made demonstrate that it remains committed to helping boost the world economy. And that is why the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative is so full of vigor.

Economic development is the solution to many problems, and opening-up is an important driver of development. In the four decades of reform and opening-up, China, while catching up with the times, has established close links with the rest of the world. And experience shows, the more actively a country integrates with economic globalization, the more capable it becomes of pushing globalization toward open, inclusive, balanced and win-win development.