国内英语资讯:Reform and opening-up successful, Hong Kong playing key role: experts_时事

国内英语资讯:Reform and opening-up successful, Hong Kong playing key role: experts

"Reform and opening-up in the new era needs Hong Kong's participation, and will also enable Hong Kong to make further accomplishment. Today, Hong Kong continues to be the most open and competitive city in the world and a major global financial, trading and shipping center," he said.

Li Zhaoxing, Honorary President of Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs and former foreign minister of China, said Hong Kong is truly essential and unique in the historic process of the country's reform and opening-up and the Hong Kong compatriots have made an enormous contribution in this regard.

Participants also believe China has been taking growing responsibility on the global stage.

In the last decade China successfully entered some main economic institutions as a major pillar of global prosperity, while it took rising responsibility in building a more peaceful and stable globalization, said former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

The Belt and Road Initiative is a symbol for China's ambition to internationalize its economy and take responsibility in the global balance of powers, and the project could have a massive impact on the future of cross-border stability, he noted.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said that China's reform and opening-up has benefited neighbors, including Japan, and Japan's cooperation with China, for example in the Belt and Road Initiative, will be meaningful not only to China, but also to Japan.