Xi urges continuous efforts to promote high-quality BRI development

BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping Friday called for efforts to continue promoting the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through joint efforts.

The BRI should aim for high-standard, sustainable and people-centered progress, said Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, while addressing a high-level symposium on the initiative.