President Xi: China has been and will remain an ideal, secure, promising investment destination

China has been and will remain an ideal, secure and promising destination for foreign investors, President Xi Jinping said on Friday as he met with representatives of the international business community in Beijing, according to a press release by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

China has been advancing high-standard opening up, and its door will only open wider, Xi said. He added that embracing China is embracing opportunities, believing in China is believing in a better tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future.

Xi said foreign businesses are important participants in the Chinese modernization drive, in the country's reform, opening and innovation, and in its interconnectivity with the world and integration into economic globalization. 

In this process, foreign businesses have thrived and generally enjoyed handsome returns, achieved win-win results and forged profound friendship with the Chinese people, he said.

Foreign businesses, especially multinational companies, play an important role and bear significant responsibility for maintaining the global economic order, according to Xi.

They are expected to safeguard the multilateral trading system, maintain the stability of global industrial and supply chains, protect the international environment for openness and cooperation, and advance economic globalization in the right direction, he added.

More than 40 global chairmen and chief executive officers of foreign businesses as well as representatives of business councils attended the meeting.