China should promote its own development while continuing with and expanding its opening-up policy, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that China is willing to deepen pragmatic cooperation with other Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries in defense and security so as to contribute to long-term regional stability and prosperity.

People visit the booths of Chinese exhibitors at Hanover Fair 2018 in Hanover, Germany, April 24, 2018.

Guangdong recently unveiled the latest foreign trade statistics from the first quarter of 2018, indicating that the province’s import and export value was experiencing stable growth.