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President Xi Jinping underlined China's commitment to opening up wider to the world and promoting joint efforts to build a community with a shared future for humanity during his speech at a grand gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up in Beijing on Tuesday, China Daily reported. 

The practice of reform and opening-up over the past 40 years has shown that openness brings progress, while seclusion leads to backwardness, Xi said.

“China cannot develop itself in isolation from the world, and the world needs China for global prosperity,” Xi said.

“Bearing in mind China's internal and international imperatives, we have stayed committed to the fundamental national policy of opening-up, followed a proactive approach to opening up, and entered a new stage of comprehensive, multi-level and wide-ranging opening-up, thus creating a sound international environment and broader development space for China,” he said.

China's development over the past 40 years has effectively served the cause of world peace and development, Xi said.

The reform and opening-up in the past four decades has shown that leadership of the Party is the most essential attribute of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the greatest strength of this system, Xi said.

“It is by upholding the centralized, unified leadership of the Party that we have been able to achieve the historic transformation, usher in a new era of reform and opening-up, and embark on a new journey of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” he said.

“The country has maintained its social stability over a long period, making it one of the countries that provide the greatest sense of safety in the world,” Xi said.

China has bid farewell to the problems that plagued its people for thousands of years, including hunger, shortage and poverty, Xi said.

The Chinese leader emphasized that the country has lifted 740 million people out of poverty in the 40 years, reducing the poverty headcount ratio by 94.4 percentage points.

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