President calls for boosting transportation cooperation(2)

On global transport cooperation

- Countries should advance global transport cooperation and writing a new chapter featuring connectivity of infrastructure, unfettered flows of trade and investment, and interactions between civilizations

- Countries should pursue an open world economy, reject discriminatory or exclusive rules and systems

- Countries should strengthen both hard connectivity of infrastructure and soft connectivity of institutions and rules, and develop four-dimensional connectivity of land, sea, air and the Internet

- Only when countries develop together can there be true development

- Countries should scale up support for developing transport infrastructure in the least developed countries and landlocked developing countries

- More should be done to develop smart transport and smart logistics and promote deep integration of new technologies like big data, the Internet, artificial intelligence and blockchain with the transport sector

- More efforts should be made to foster a green and low-carbon way of transport

- In the context of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, countries should advance cooperation in such areas as poverty reduction, health, transport and logistics, and infrastructural development

- China will set up a Global Innovation and Knowledge Center for Sustainable Transport, as a contribution to global transport development

- China will not change course in its pursuit of a new system of open economy of higher standards

- China will not waver in its resolve to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation

- China's door of opening-up will only open wider, and will never be closed