Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the opening ceremony of the 4th China International Import Expo (CIIE) has demonstrated China's resolve to share market opportunities with the world, advance high-level opening-up and inject strong impetus into promoting global economic recovery, foreign experts and scholars have said.

In his speech on Thursday, Xi made fresh pledges to open the Chinese market wider as the country has fully delivered on its accession commitments to the World Trade Organization.

Greek scholar Pelagia Karpathiotaki, a Beijing-based researcher at China's University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), said Xi's speech brought relief to and sent an optimistic message to the world. Read more>>