Opening of the 9th BRICS Summit

The 9th BRICS Summit opened on the morning of September 4 in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and heads of state and government from Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa attended and delivered speeches at the opening session.

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the opening session of the conference. Photo: CCTV

In his opening speech at the conference, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized that after 10 years of cooperation, despite the geographical distance, BRICS member countries have still strengthened cooperation and achieved the goal of mutual win. The reason for cooperation to have such rapid development as it is today is to find the right path of cooperation.

Xi Jinping affirmed that in the context of complex changes in the world, cooperation between BRICS countries plays a very important role. The Chinese President called for strengthening economic cooperation, financial cooperation, communication, connectivity, and cooperation in production capacity...

Mr. Xi Jinping said: "Member countries also need to step up the exploitation of domestic resources, markets, and labor to promote the connection of development strategies, oppose protectionism, promote reforms in global economic management, and promote cultural and people-to-people exchanges."

Agreeing with the Chinese President, Russian President Putin said that it is necessary to expand and deepen substantive cooperation in various fields, build an open world economy, and oppose protectionism. The Russian President emphasized that BRICS needs to play a constructive role in maintaining peace and stability in the world in the context of many international and regional hot spots.

At this year's conference, in addition to the five BRICS member countries, host country China also introduced a dialogue mechanism with developing countries by inviting five more representatives: Egypt, Mexico, Guinea, Tajikistan and Thailand.

China calls this the BRICS+ mechanism, thereby promoting cooperation between BRICS and developing countries, as a preparation step for the group's expansion in the near future to enhance the role and influence of BRICS in the international arena, in which China will play a leading role./.

According to VOV