Xi urges BRICS members to deepen strategic partnership, open up 2nd ‘Golden Decade’. In his speech to the BRICS summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed that the BRICS countries should have a keen grasp of current trends, and deepen their strategic partnership. President Xi said consolidating a cooperation framework underpinned by economic, political and security ties and people-to-people exchanges will turn the vision of a second "Golden Decade" into a reality.