CIIE's key global role hailed

President Xi calls for intl solidarity; dividends to be huge, Premier Li says

China will always provide important opportunities for global development, and the nation will remain committed to high-level opening-up and driving economic globalization in a more open, inclusive, balanced and win-win direction, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday.

In a letter to the sixth China International Import Expo, which opened in Shanghai on Sunday and runs through Friday, the president emphasized the need for various nations to stand in solidarity and jointly seek development amid the sluggish global economic recovery.

The CIIE, first held in 2018, has leveraged the strengths of China's huge market and serves as a platform for international procurement, investment promotion, people-to-people exchanges and open cooperation, which has contributed to fostering a new development pattern and global economic growth, Xi noted.