Chinese President Xi Jinping will chair and deliver remarks at the 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting, which will be held in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, from November 18 to 19.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, chose Shenzhen for his first domestic inspection tour after taking the Party's top post in 2012.

During the trip, Xi said reform and opening up was the source of vitality in the development of modern China, and "a magic tool" for the Party and the Chinese people to keep pace with the times.

Xi returned to Shenzhen in October 2018 to mark the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up, and again in October 2020 for the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

Here are some of his key remarks made during these visits.