UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday put forward a four-point proposal on global development.
All countries should enhance their development capacity, the environment for development should be improved, the development partnership between rich and poor countries should be optimized, and coordination mechanism for development should be strengthened, Xi said.
The Chinese president made the proposal when addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit at the UN headquarters in New York.
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