BEIJING: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is attending a Roundtable Summit together with other world leaders in Beijing for the two-day Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.
The second and final day of the forum was held at the picturesque Yanqi Lake International Conference Center in the northeast suburbs of Beijing.
Najib, in a post on his Facebook, said he was enjoying "good discussions thus far at the Belt and Road Forum".
He said he also had "the pleasure of sitting next to President Xi (Jinping) during lunch attended by more than 30 world leaders".
Xi, addressing the leaders, urged major multilateral institutions to join his new Belt and Road Initiative, stressing the importance of rejecting protectionism in seeking global economic growth.
According to a Reuters report, Xi said it was necessary to coordinate policies with the development goals of institutions including the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Asean, African Union and the European Union.
"We need to improve policy coordination and reject beggar-thy-neighbour practices," Xi said.
"This is an important lesson that can be drawn from the global financial crisis and is still very relevant to the development of the world economy today," he said.
"We need to seek win-win results through greater openness and cooperation, avoid fragmentation, refrain from setting inhibitive thresholds for cooperation or pursuing exclusive arrangements and reject protectionism."
"In a world of growing interdependency and challenges, no country can tackle the challenges, also the world's problems, on its own," Xi said.
Leaders from 29 countries attended the Belt and Road forum, as well as the heads of the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and World Bank.