Chinese President Xi Jinping sought Monday to reassure Asian business and political leaders that his country only aspires to peace and that he is confident its economic growth will remain robust despite a recent slowdown.

China’s growth and other indicators are within reasonable expectations, Xi told a business conference on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum.

“I want to emphasize that I am fully confident about the future of China,” Xi said in a keynote address at the CEO conference. “I am deeply convinced the Chinese economy will sustain its sound growth.”

Speaking with numerous poetic and rhetorical flourishes, Xi cut a relatively genial figure compared with his dour predecessor Hu Jintao, who he succeeded in March as the top leader of the world’s most populous country and second-largest economy.

（from： cbc.ca）