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BEIJING, Jan. 2-- Chinese President Xi Jinping's New Year speech on Tuesday demonstrates that China is committed to safeguarding world peace and promoting global development, foreign scholars and officials have said. Domestically, China has scored remarkable development achievements, a prominent example being its anti-poverty battle, which offers inspirations to many other countries, experts said. In his speech, Xi pledged to achieve the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects in the "milestone" year. He also pledged to lift all rural residents living below the current poverty line out of poverty and eliminate poverty in all poor counties. Tom Watkins, an advisor to the Michigan-China Innovation Center, said Xi in the speech "grasps the notion that we all need to take a broad view of the world," adding that China "can take a bow for its effort to end poverty within its borders and around the globe." Milenko Djuric, director of Public Relations and International Cooperation Center at the College of Tourism in Belgrade, said China's poverty reduction campaign "is a very good example of what we can strive to do here in Europe and in the rest of the world to help people ... overcome poverty." In Xi's speech, the president also said that China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development, safeguard world peace and promote common development. Senior Bangladeshi parliament member Rashed Khan Menon highlighted this part of Xi's speech, saying that China can play an important role in safeguarding world peace. | 
