COMMON DEVELOPMENT

From May 7-10, the first China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) was held in Haikou, the capital of South China's Hainan province.

A total of 70 countries and regions attended the four-day expo, and 2,628 brands of 1,505 enterprises from home and abroad participated in the exhibitions.

In his congratulatory message to the expo, Xi said the expo, serving as a global platform of displaying and trading high-end consumer products, is conducive to all countries sharing opportunities provided by the Chinese market and conducive to global economic recovery and growth. It will also enable China to offer the world more quality consumer products.

Apart from the CICPE, other high-end international expos such as the decades-old Canton Fair and the 3-year-old China International Import Expo have also demonstrated China's commitment to wider opening-up and mutual benefits.

China has done its best to promote South-South cooperation and provide assistance for developing countries, Xi said in a phone conversation with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in early May, adding that this is China's consistent practice as well as its moral responsibility.

Indeed, by pushing forward such proposals as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China has been taking the lead to inject fresh momentum into the global economy, and deliver confidence to the international community.

Since the first China-Europe freight train left southwest China's Chongqing Municipality in March 2011, China has launched the service in more than 60 cities domestically, connecting them with major European countries, which has recorded more than 40,000 trips.

Just as Xi said in late April at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021, "the BRI is a public road open to all, not a private path owned by one single party."

"Going forward, we will continue to work with other parties in high-quality Belt and Road cooperation," Xi said, adding, "We will act in the spirit of openness and inclusiveness as we work with all willing participants to build the BRI into a pathway to poverty alleviation and growth."

Jose Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of Spain, said the BRI was born to meet the needs of the times, which has not only become an important international cooperation platform, but also provided a great opportunity for the world economy to recover from the pandemic.

China, through the further implementation of the policy of reform and opening up and the development of the BRI, will inject impetus to other countries' economic development, said Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the Fatherland party of Ukraine.

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