President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the second China International Import Expo in Shanghai on Tuesday. He announced the opening of the expo and delivered a keynote speech.

Xi extended warm welcome to all guests to the second CIIE and said he believes that all friends could come with pleasure and return with satisfaction.

China has made major progress in expanding import to promote consumption and cutting tariffs as part of the country's efforts to further open up its market, Xi said.

All of the five measures to expand opening-up announced at the previous CIIE have been generally implemented, Xi said.

Countries should uphold the concept of putting humanity first and should not let their own interest override that of mankind, the president said.

Xi urged resolute opposition to protectionism and unilateralism in a bid to jointly build a world economy of openness and cooperation.

He proposed continuous reduction of trade barriers and further improvement of global value and supply chains to jointly nurture market demand.

He called on countries to oppose knowledge blockade to avoid creating or even widening technological divide.

Xi also urged jointly strengthening protection of intellectual property rights.

Xi put forward three proposals for economic globalization at the opening of the second China International Import Expo.

-- Jointly building an open and cooperative world economy;

-- Jointly building an open and innovative world economy;

-- Jointly building an open and sharing world economy.