 President Doris Loithard and Mr. Hausen, heads of state and government, deputy heads of state and your spouses, heads of international organizations, Dr. Klaus Schwab and Mrs. Schwab, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, I'm delighted to come to Davos. The small, beautiful town in the Alps is indeed an important window through which we can take the pulse of the global economy. People from around the world come here to exchange ideas and insights which will broaden their vision. This makes the WEF animating a cost-effective brainstorming event which I would like to call Schwab Economics. As you know, in 10 days' time, the Chinese will celebrate the Lunar Chinese New Year. Around this time, it is all bus in China. People visit their relatives and friends. In this way, they will strengthen their bond and friendship. So this time, my wife and I and the other members of the delegation come to Davos to pay our respect, to say New Year's greetings to Switzerland and the whole world. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. These are the words used by Charles Dickens to describe the world after the Industrial Revolution. Today, we also live in a world of contradictions. On the one hand, with growing material wealth and advances in science and technology, human civilization has developed as never before. On the other hand, however, frequent regional conflicts, global challenges like terrorism and refugees, as well as poverty, unemployment, and the widening income back have all added to the uncertainties of the world. Many people are wondering what has gone wrong with our world. To answer this question, one must first track the source of the problem. Some people blame economic globalization for the chaos in our world. Economic globalization was once viewed as the treasure cave found by Alibaba in the Arabian Nights, but now it has become the Pandora's box in the eyes of many. The international community finds itself in a heated debate on economic globalization. So today, I wish to address the global economy in the context of economic globalization. The point I want to make is that many of the problems troubling the world are not caused by economic globalization. For instance, the refugee waves from the Middle East and North Africa in recent years have become a global concern. Several million people have been displaced, and some small children lost their lives while crossing the rough sea. This is indeed heartbreaking to us. It is war, conflict, and regional turbulence that have created this problem. And the solution to this problem lies in making peace, promoting reconciliation, and restoring stability. The international financial crisis is another example. It is not an inevitable outcome of economic globalization. Rather, it is the consequence of excessive chains of profit by financial capital and grave failure of financial regulation. There is no point in blaming economic globalization for the world's problems, as that is simply not the case, and it will not help solve the problems. From the historical perspective, economic globalization results from growing social productivity and is the natural outcome of scientific and technological advances. It is not something created by any individuals or any countries. Economic globalization has powered global growth and facilitated the movement of goods and capital, advances in science, technology, and civilization, and interactions among peoples. But we should also recognize that economic globalization is a double-edged sword. When the global economy is under downward pressure, it is hard for us to make the cake of global economy bigger. As a matter of fact, it may even shrink and this will strain the relations between growth and distribution, between capital and labor, and between efficiency and equity. Both developed and developing countries have felt the punch. The voices against globalization have laid bare the pitfalls in the process of economic globalization, and we need to take that seriously. The Chinese tend to say, honey melons, hen from bitter vines, sweet dates, grow on thisles and thorns. In a philosophical sense, nothing is perfect in the world. One would fail to see the full picture if he claims something is perfect simply because of its merits, or if he views something as useless just because of its defects. It is true that economic globalization has created new problems, but this is no justification to write off economic globalization altogether. Rather, we should adapt to and guide economic globalization, cushion its negative impact, and deliver its benefits to all countries and all nations. There was a time when China also had doubts about economic globalization, and was not sure whether China should join the World Trade Organization. But we came to the conclusion that integration into the global economy represents a historical trend. To grow its economy, China must have the courage to swim in the vast ocean of the global market. If one is always afraid of bracing storm and exploring the new world, he will get drowned in the ocean sooner or later. So what China did is to take a brave step forward to embrace the global market. We have had our fair share of choking in the water, and we have encountered whirlpools and choppy waves. But we have learned how to swim in this process. It has proved to be the right strategic choice. Whether you like it or not, the global economy is the big ocean that you cannot escape from. Any attempt to cut off flows of capital, technologies, products, industries, and people between economies, and channel the waters in the ocean back into isolated lakes and creeks. This is simply not possible, and indeed it runs counter to the historical trend. The history of mankind tells us that problems are not to be feared. What should concern us is refusing to face up to the problems and not knowing what to do about them. In the face of both opportunities and challenges of economic globalization, the right thing to do is to seize every opportunity, jointly meet challenges, and chart the right course for economic globalization. At the APEC Economic Leaders meeting in late 2016, I spoke about the need to make the process of economic globalization more invigorated, more inclusive, and more sustainable. We should act proactively and manage economic globalization as appropriate, so as to release its positive impact and rebalance the process of economic globalization. We should follow the general trend, proceed from our respective national conditions, and embark on the right pathway of integrating into economic globalization at the right pace. We should strike a balance between efficiency and equity to ensure that different countries, different social strata, and different groups of people all share in the benefits of economic globalization. This is a responsibility that leaders of our times must take on, and the people around the world expect nothing less from us. Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, at present the most pressing task before us is to steer the global economy out of difficulty. The global economy has remained sluggish for quite some time now. The gap between the poor and the rich and between the south and the north is widening. The root cause is that three critical issues in the economic sphere have not been effectively addressed. First, lack of robust driving force makes it difficult to sustain steady global growth. The global growth is now at its slowest pace in seven years, and growth of global trade is even slower than that. Short-term policy stimulus has proved ineffective, and fundamental structural reform is just unfolding. The global economy is now in a period of moving toward new growth drivers, with the role of traditional engines for growth further weakening. Despite the burgeoning new technologies such as artificial intelligence and 3D printing, new sources of growth are yet to emerge, and a new path for the global economy remains elusive. Second, inadequate global economic governance makes it difficult to adapt to new developments in the global economy. Madame Christian Lagarde recently told me that emerging markets and developing countries already contribute to 80% of global growth. In the past few decades, the global economic landscape has changed profoundly, but the global governance system has not embraced those new changes and is therefore inadequate in terms of representation and inclusiveness. The global industrial landscape is also changing, and new industrial chains, value chains and supply chains are taking shape. Trade and investment roles have not kept pace with these developments, resulting in acute problems such as closed mechanisms and fragmentation of roles. The global financial market needs to be more resilient against risks, but the global financial governance mechanism fails to meet the new requirement and is unable to effectively resolve problems such as frequent volatility in the international financial market and the build-up of asset bubbles. Third, uneven global development makes it difficult to meet people's expectations for better lives. Dr. Schwab observes in his book The Fourth Industrial Revolution that this round of industrial revolution will have extensive and far-reaching impacts, such as growing inequality, particularly a possible widening gap between return on capital and return on labour. The richest 1% of the world's population owns more wealth than the remaining 99% combined. Inequality in income distribution and uneven development space are worrying. Over 700 million people in the world are still living in extreme poverty. For many families to have warm houses in their food and secure jobs is still a distant dream. This is the biggest challenge facing the world today. It is also what is behind the social turmoil in some countries. All this shows that there are indeed problems with global growth, governance and development models and these problems must be addressed. And the founder of the Red Cross, Harry Dunon, said, Our real enemy is not the neighbouring country. It is hunger, poverty, ignorance, superstition and prejudice. We need to have the vision to dissect these problems. More importantly, we need to have the courage to take actions to address them. First, we should develop a dynamic innovation-driven growth model. The fundamental problem plaguing the global economy is the lack of driving force for growth. Innovation is the primary force guiding development. Unlike the previous industrial revolutions, the fourth industrial revolution is unfolding at an exponential rather than linear pace. We need to relentlessly pursue innovation only with the courage to innovate and reform. Can we remove bottlenecks blocking global growth and development? With this in mind, G20 leaders reached an important consensus at the Hangzhou Summit. That is to take innovation as a key driver and foster a new driving force of growth for both individual countries and the global economy. We should foster a new development philosophy and rise above the debate about whether there should be more fiscal stimulus or more monetary easing. We should follow a multi-pronged approach to address both the symptoms and the underlying problems. We should adopt new policy measures and advanced structural reform to create more space for growth and sustain its momentum. We should develop a new growth model and seize the opportunities presented by the new round of industrial revolution and digital economy. We should meet the challenges of climate change and aging population. We should also address the negative impact of IT application and automation on jobs. When cultivating new industries and new forms and models of business, we should always find ways to create new jobs in order to restore confidence and hope to our peoples. Second, we should pursue a well-coordinated and interconnected approach to develop a model of open and women cooperation. Today, mankind has become a close-knit community of shared future. Countries have become mutually dependent with extensive converging interests. All countries enjoy the right to development, yet at the same time they should view their own interests in a broader context and refrain from pursuing their own interests at the expense of others. We should commit ourselves to growing an open global economy to share the opportunities and interests through opening up and achieving women outcomes. We should not develop a habit of retreating to the harbor whenever encountering a storm, for this will never get us to the other shore of the ocean. We must redouble efforts to develop global connectivity to enable all countries to achieve interconnected growth and share prosperity. We must remain committed to developing free trade and investment, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation through opening up, and say no to protectionism. Pursuing protectionism is just like locking oneself in a dark room, while wind and rain may be kept outside, so are light and air. No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war. Third, we should develop a model of fair and equitable governance in keeping with the trend of the times. As the Chinese saying goes, people with patissuteness attend to trivial matters, while people with great vision attend to governance of institutions. There is a growing call from the international community for reforming the global economic governance system, which is a pressing task for us. Only when it adapts to new dynamics in the international economic architecture can the global governance system sustain global growth. Countries big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor are all equal members of the international community. As such, they are entitled to participate in decision-making, enjoy rights and fulfill obligations on an equal basis. Emerging markets and developing countries deserve greater representation and voice. The 2010 IMF quota reform has entered into force, and its momentum should be sustained. We should adhere to multilateralism to uphold the authority and efficacy of multilateral institutions. We should honour promises and abide by rules. One should not select or bend rules as he sees fit. The Paris Agreement is a hard-won achievement, which is in keeping with the underlying trend of global development. All signatories should stick to it instead of walking away from it, as this is a responsibility we must assume for future generations. Fourth, we should develop a balanced, equitable and inclusive development model. As the Chinese saying goes, a just cause should be pursued for common good. Development is ultimately for the people. To achieve more balanced development and ensure that people have equal access to opportunities and share in the benefits of development, it is crucial to have a sound development philosophy and model and make development equitable, effective and balanced. We should foster a culture that values diligence, frugality and enterprise and respects the fruits of hard work of all. Priority should be given to addressing poverty, unemployment, the widening income gap and the concerns of the disadvantaged to promote social equity and justice. It is important to protect the environment while pursuing economic and social progress so as to achieve harmony between man and nature and harmony between man and society. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development should be implemented to realize balanced development across the world. A Chinese adage reads, victories ensured when people pull their strength, success is secured when people pull their heads together. As long as we keep to the goal of building a community of shared future for mankind and work hand in hand to fulfill our responsibilities and overcome difficulties, we will be able to create a better world and deliver better lives for our peoples. Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, thanks to 38 years of reform and opening up, China has become the world's second largest economy. A right path leads to a bright future. China has come this far because the Chinese people have under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, blazed a development path that suits China's actual conditions. This is a path based on China's realities. China has, in the past years, succeeded in embarking on a development path that suits itself by joining on both the wisdom of its civilization and the practices of other countries in both East and West. In exploring this path, China refuses to stay insensitive to the changing times or to blindly follow in others' footsteps. All roads lead to Rome. No country should view its own development path as the only viable one. Still less should it impose its own development path on others. This is a path that puts peoples' interests first. China follows a people-oriented development philosophy and is committed to bettering the lives of its people. Development is of the people, by the people, and for the people. China pursues the goal of common prosperity. We have taken major steps to alleviate poverty and lifted over 700 million people out of poverty. And good progress is being made in our efforts to finish building a society of initial prosperity in all respects. This is a path of pursuing reform and innovation. China has tackled difficulties and challenges on its way forward through reform. China has demonstrated its courage to take on difficult issues, navigate treacherous rapids, and remove institutional hurdles standing in the way of development. These efforts have enabled us to unleash productivity and social vitality. Building on progress of 30 odd years of reform, we have introduced more than 1,200 reform measures over the past four years, injecting powerful impetus into China's development. This is a path of pursuing common development through opening up. China is committed to a fundamental policy of opening up and pursues a win-win opening-up strategy. China's development is both domestic and external-oriented. While developing itself, China also shares more of its development outcomes with other countries and peoples. China's outstanding development achievements and vastly improved living standards of its people are a blessing to both China and the world. Such achievements in development over the past decades all themselves to the hard work and perseverance of the Chinese people, a quality that has defined the Chinese nation for several thousand years. We Chinese know only too well that there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and no pile will fall from the sky. For a big country with over 1.3 billion people, development can be achieved only with the dedication and the tireless efforts of its own people. We cannot expect others to deliver development to China, and no one is in a position to do so. When assessing China's development, one should not only see what benefits the Chinese people have gained, but also how much efforts they have put in. Not just what achievements China has scored, but also what contribution it has made to the world. Then one will reach a more balanced conclusion about China's development. Between 1950 and 2016, despite its modest level of development and living standards, China provided more than 400 billion yuan of foreign assistance, undertook over 5,000 foreign assistance projects, including nearly 3,000 complete projects, and we have held over 11,000 training workshops in China for over 260,000 personnel from other developing countries. Since it launched reform and opening up, China has attracted over US$1.7 trillion for investment and made over US$1.2 trillion of direct, outbound investment, making huge contribution to global economic growth. Since the outbreak of the international financial crisis, China contributed to over 30% of global growth every year on average. All these figures are among the highest in the world. These figures speak for themselves. China's development is an opportunity for the world. China has not only benefited from economic globalization, but also contributed to it. Rapid growth in China has been a sustained and powerful engine for global economic stability and expansion. The interconnected development of China and a large number of other countries has made the world economy more balanced. China's remarkable achievement in poverty reduction has contributed to more inclusive global growth. And China's continuous progress in reform and opening up has lent much momentum to an open world economy. We Chinese know only too well what it takes to achieve prosperity, so we applaud the achievements by others, and we wish them a better future. We are not jealous of others' success, and we will not complain about others who have benefited so much from the great opportunities presented by China's development. We will open our arms to the people of other countries and welcome them aboard the express train of China's development. Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, I know you are all closely following China's economic development, and let me give you an update on that. China's economy has entered what we call a new normal, in which major changes are taking place in terms of growth rate, development model, economic structure, and drivers of growth. But the economic fundamentals sustaining sound development remain unchanged. Despite a sluggish global economy, China's economy is expected to grow by 6.7% in 2016, still among the highest in the world. China's economy is far bigger in size than in the past, and it now generates more output than it did with double-digit growth in the past. Household consumption and the service sector have become the main drivers of growth. In the first three quarters of 2016, added value of the tertiary industry took up 52.8% of the GDP, and domestic consumption contributed to 71% of economic growth. Household income and employment have steadily risen, while per unit GDP, energy consumption continues to drop. Our efforts to pursue green development are paying off. The Chinese economy faces downward pressure and many difficulties, including acute mismatch between excess capacity and an upgrading demand structure, lack of internal driving force for growth, accumulation of financial risks, and growing challenges in certain regions. We see this as temporary hardships that occur on the way forward. And the measures we have taken to address these problems are producing good results. We are firm in our resolve to forge ahead. China is the world's largest developing country with over 1.3 billion people, and their living standards are not yet high. But this reality also means China has enormous potential and space for development. Guided by the principle and the vision of innovative coordinated green, open, and shared development, we will adapt to the new normal, stay ahead of the curve, and make coordinated efforts to maintain steady growth, accelerate reform, adjust economic structure, improve people's living standards, and fend off risks. With these efforts, we aim to achieve medium-high rate of growth and upgrade the economy to higher end of the value chain. China will strive to enhance the performance of economic growth. We will pursue supply-side structural reform as the general goal, shift the growth model, and upgrade the economic structure. We will continue to cut over capacity, reduce inventory, deleverage financing, reduce cost, and strengthen weak links. We will foster new drivers of growth, develop an advanced manufacturing sector, and upgrade the real economy. We will implement the Internet Plus Action Plan to boost effective demand and better meet the individualized and diverse needs of consumers. And we will also do more to protect the ecosystem. China will boost market vitality to add new impetus to growth. We will intensify reform efforts in priority areas and key links, and enable the market to play a decisive role in resources allocation. Innovation will continue to feature prominently on our growth agenda. In pursuing the strategy of innovation-driven development, we will bolster the strategic emerging industries, apply new technologies, and foster new business models to upgrade traditional industries. And we will boost new drivers of growth, and revitalize traditional ones. China will foster an enabling and orderly environment for investments. We will expand market access for investors, build high-standard pilot free trade zones, strengthen protection of property rights, and level the playing field to make China's markets more transparent and better regulated. In the coming five years, China is expected to import $8 trillion of goods, attract $600 billion of foreign investment, and make $750 billion U.S. dollars of outbound investment. Chinese tourists will make $700 million overseas visits. All this will create a bigger market, more capital, more products, and more business opportunities for other countries. China's development will continue to offer opportunities to business communities in other countries. China will keep its door wide open and not close it. An open door allows both other countries to access the Chinese market, and China itself to integrate with the world. And we hope that other countries will also keep their door open to Chinese investors and keep the playing field level for us. China will vigorously foster an external environment of opening up for common development. We will advance the building of the free trade area of the Asia Pacific, and negotiations of the regional comprehensive economic partnership to form a global network of free trade arrangements. China stands for open, transparent, and win-win regional free trade arrangements, and opposes forming groups that are exclusive or fragmented in nature. China has no intention to boost its trade competitiveness by devaluing the IMB. Still less will it launch a currency war. Over three years ago, I put forth the Belt and Road Initiative. Since then, over 100 countries and international organizations have given warm responses and support to the initiative. More than 40 countries and international organizations have signed cooperation agreements with China. And our circle of friends along the Belt and Road is growing bigger. Chinese companies have made over 50 billion US dollars of investment and launched a number of major projects in these countries along the route, spurring the economic development of these countries and creating many local jobs. The Belt and Road Initiative originated in China, but it has delivered benefits well beyond its borders. In May this year, China will host in Beijing the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which aims to discuss ways to boost cooperation, build cooperation platforms, and share cooperation outcomes. The forum will also explore ways to address problems facing global regional economy, create fresh energy for pursuing interconnected development, and make the Belt and Road Initiative deliver greater benefits to people of countries involved. Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, world history shows that the road of human civilization has never been a smooth one, and that mankind has made progress by some mounting difficulties. No difficulty, however daunting, will stop mankind from advancing. When encountering difficulties, we should not complain about ourselves, blame others, lose confidence, or run away from responsibilities. Instead, we should join hands and rise to the challenge. History is created by the brave, let us boost confidence, take actions, and work together for a bright future. Thank you. Mr. President, it was a very, very important speech. At a historical moment, the history of mankind presently is characterized by mastering enormous pressures coming from the transformational forces, technological, economic, transformational forces which reshape the world. It would be presumptuous, Mr. President, to summarize your speech, but I would like just to remind us of three very important commitments you made here which fulfill us with confidence for the future. First, your commitment and your determination to continue the economic development of China, to continue to have China as an important force in the global economy, as a driving force by preparing very well for the new normal through the necessary structural reforms. But it was also so important to hear from you, Mr. President, your commitment to globalization. We are living in a global interdependent world. We cannot recreate artificial borders. Globalization is a win-win situation. We have a common destiny as a mankind, as a humankind. So your commitment also to a fair, innovative, open and inclusive world is crucial. And I would say, I know, Mr. President, there is a Chinese dream. Let's have a global dream, a dream of a world which remains innovative, which remains open, which is fair and which is inclusive. Mr. President, we are also living in a new world. You mentioned the forced industrial revolution. We cannot go back to old policies. We cannot just take recipes which may have worked in the old world, but which will not be appropriate anymore in order to face the new challenges. For example, the impact technology has on employment. And here, we need new ideas, and new worlds we're refreshing, because you are committed to approach global governance, global cooperation in a new way. We thank you again for joining us here in Davos. President Xi, I can tell you, we here as a community of global leaders, we are committed to the same objectives, to make this world a better world, to give everybody a better, more fulfilled, healthier, and, I would say, a life where he feels really included into the society. That's what we are struggling for. That's what we are here for. It all is on us to make it happen. And here, we join forces with you. Mr. President, I would like to wish you, the first lady, Professor Pan, your delegation and the Chinese people, a very happy, healthy, successful new year. And I hope that you leave Davos with a good memory, because what we need in the world is sunshine, and your speech has brought us some sunshine into our discussions. Thank you.