President Xi Jinping on Thursday attended via video link the opening ceremony of the Second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference and delivered a keynote speech (full text). Here are some highlights.

On global transport cooperation

- Countries should advance global transport cooperation and writing a new chapter featuring connectivity of infrastructure, unfettered flows of trade and investment, and interactions between civilizations

- Countries should pursue an open world economy, reject discriminatory or exclusive rules and systems

- Countries should strengthen both hard connectivity of infrastructure and soft connectivity of institutions and rules, and develop four-dimensional connectivity of land, sea, air and the Internet