Chinese President Xi Jinping said China welcomes Singapore's deep involvement in fostering a new development paradigm when meeting with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday on the sidelines of the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. 

Both sides should promote the optimization and upgrading of cooperation projects in the fields of digitalization and green development, complete the follow-up negotiations on the upgrade of the China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement as soon as possible, and improve the level of trade and investment freedom between the two countries, Xi said.