Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a Virtual BRICS Summit on Monday and delivered an important statement, calling on BRICS countries to forge ahead in solidarity and cooperation. 

The summit was chaired by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, the UAE's Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Khaled bin Mohamed, and the representatives of India and Ethiopia.

In his statement titled "Forging Ahead in Solidarity and Cooperation," Xi noted that transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the world, while hegemonic behavior, unilateralism and protectionism are becoming increasingly rampant.