Delivering a speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit which opened in the Chilean capital Friday, the Chinese president said China's own experience with development showed that every country must go through an evolving process that today's development is the continuation of that of yesterday and the groundwork of that of tomorrow.

"When a country lays down its plans, chooses its strategies, decides on its approaches and implements its measures toward its long-term goals of development, it should take into account both its present and future needs of development and address both the current concerns of the people and the interests for their long-term development, " said the Chinese president, who arrived here Thursday for a state visit and attending the 12th APEC Economic Leaders Meeting.

-- Promoting a healthy development of the developing countries and maintain a steady economic growth in the world.

It is essential to first ensure the development of the developing countries. The developed countries should pay greater attention to the needs of the poor countries and make real effortsto accelerate their development, thus narrowing the widening North-South gap.

"Without this, there can be neither win-win cooperation nor sustainable development. As far as APEC is concerned, we should take it as a key task of the organization to promote the development of the developing members," he said.

The developed countries should reduce and forgive the debts owed by the developing countries and provide them with more official assistance with no strings attached. They should help thedeveloping countries make a good use of their human resources, enhance their capacity to develop science and technology, tap their market potential and build an indigenous capacity for self-development, he added.

They should take more vigorous steps to revamp the international economic, trade and financial systems, roll back trade protectionism of one kind or another, and create a favorable external environment for the development of the developing countries.

"While North-South dialogue should be strengthened on an equal footing, South-South cooperation should be carried out on a broader scale with multiple forms of economic and technical cooperation and efforts to minimize the potential risks of economic globalization to the developing countries, thus achieving the goal of common development and prosperity," the Chinese president said.

-- Cultivating and acting on a scientific mentality of development and strive for an all-round economic and social progress along with a comprehensive development of man.

"Given the conditions of the modern era, we should put people on top of our priority list and strive to achieve a comprehensive,balanced and sustainable development. We should take the comprehensive development of man as our objective, upholding the fundamental interests of the people, meeting their rising materialand cultural needs and ensuring that they reap the benefits of development, " the Chinese president said in the speech.

"We should focus on economic development as our central task, move forward economic, political and cultural development and realize both economic prosperity and overall social progress. We should promote a coordinated development between urban and rural areas, among different regions, between economic and social development, between domestic development and opening to the outside world and achieve a harmonious development between man andnature," Hu said.

-- Pursuing economic development on the basis of resource conservation and building a circular economy.

"Development should be pursued on the basis of high technology content, good economic returns, low resource consumption level, minimum pollution of the environment and fullest play of human potential," the Chinese president said.

" We should optimize the economic structure, change the way of achieving economic growth, pay closer attention to the conservation and comprehensive utilization of resources, advocate an environment-friendly way of production, life and consumption and bring about a virtuous cycle in both our ecological and socio-economic systems," Hu said.

We should put in place a conservation-oriented management system throughout the process of exploitation, processing, distribution and consumption of resources with a view to building a resource effective national economy and a resource effective society.

A well-protected eco-system underpins the growing productive forces and better lives for the people. On the one hand, we must respect laws of nature and plan our economic and social development according to how much nature could sustain. On the other hand, we should actively go for protecting the natural environment, minimizing pollutant discharge, increasing wastes recycling, accelerating pollution control and ecological rehabilitation, preserving bio-diversity and resolutely stopping all practices that are detrimental to nature, he added.

-- Stepping up economic and technical cooperation with the other countries and fostering a fair and equitable environment for competition.

Lasting peace and sustainable development in the world cannot be obtained unless the fruits of economic development are shared in a just, fair and reasonable manner. Exchange of experience among countries and their mutual emulation and cooperation in finance, technology, management expertise and human resources are of major significance for greater economic growth in the world.

"We should broaden the scale of international cooperation, increase market access, ease restrictions on technology export, further liberalize trade and investment and remove all kinds of trade barriers. We should build an open and rule-based multilateral trading regime through equal-footed dialogue in the spirit of seeking common ground while putting aside differences," said the Chinese president.

APEC should renew its commitment to the Bogor Goals, actively step up bilateral and regional free trade arrangements in keeping with WTO rules and APEC principles, and endeavor to accelerate economic growth in this region and increase the members' resilience to economic volatilities.

"We should promote exchanges among business communities of the region, encourage our companies to explore deeper into our respective markets, find better ways for high-tech cooperation andexpand mutual investment. We call for the enlargement of the basisof international economic decision-making, thereby allowing a fuller participation by the developing countries in that process and the international cooperation in general," the Chinese president said.

The three-day APEC Chief Executive Officers Summit, which opened Friday, will explore the theme of "Succeeding in a Global World: New Challenges for Business", along with distinguished panelists, economists, academics and opinion leaders of the Asia-Pacific region.