Fair seen as boosting exchanges, opening-up, friendship

President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter on Sunday to the 20th Western China International Fair, stressing that unity fosters shared success, and collaboration drives common progress.

Xi said China is ready to take the fair as an opportunity to further enhance mutual understanding, strengthen friendship and deepen cooperation with friends from various countries.

The president expressed the country's willingness to uphold the multilateral trading system and ensure the stable and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains with the rest of the world, in order to inject new impetus into the prosperity and development of the world economy.