Elekta President and CEO Richard Hausmann said the Shanghai expo is an ideal opportunity for the company to showcase its groundbreaking technologies, further enhance its brand image as a global leader in precision and personalized cancer treatment sector, and reaffirm its commitment to China.

Tan's counterpart in Didi, Cheng Wei, said by deepening strategic partnership, DiDi and Grab reaffirm their shared commitment to innovating localized solutions to global urban development challenges from the world's fastest growing marketplaces.

As nation sharpens focus on growth, foreign firms ramp up investments, expand operationsAs China's ongoing two sessions — the annual sittings of the nation's top legislature and top political advisory body — reaffirm the economic policy's thrust on steady growth, multinational corporations operating in China said they are optimistic about their long-term business prospects.

Economists have revised up forecasts for China's GDP growth this year and many predicted that the central government will likely reaffirm the importance of stabilizing growth during the two sessions, and the country is capable of achieving 5 percent or even higher growth this year.

Amid the global energy crisis, climate observers are paying close attention to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to find out if the country plans to reaffirm its climate commitments and emissions targets, or recalculate them.

"The emphasis on manufacturing, research and development, supply chain digitization and productivity all reaffirm the government's longstanding emphasis on upgrading to higher-quality growth－continuing the transition away from earlier emphasis on the quantity dimension of the growth experience.

The members were unanimous that the multilateral trading system is now as important as ever, and said that the Riyadh Initiative on the Future of the World Trade Organization provided an additional opportunity to discuss and reaffirm the objectives and the founding principles of the multilateral trading system as well as demonstrate the leaders' ongoing political support for the necessary reforms of the WTO.

The notable recovery of China's foreign trade, FDI inflows, social consumption and the holding of the CIIE reaffirm the country's strong commitment to continuous opening-up and demonstrate its desire to share its market opportunities with the world and contribute to global economic recovery, said Gu Chunyuan, chairman of ABB China.

"We reaffirm our ambition to be recognized as a premium brand in China, as the unique French premium brand," said DS China Managing Director Nicolas Monnot.

"The first CIIE represents a great opportunity for us to introduce and reaffirm our commitment to the country.

California "will use every legal tool at its disposal to defend today's national standards and reaffirm the facts and science behind them," he said.

Ministerial dialogue sees both sides reaffirm commitment to win-winChina and Russia should deepen bilateral cooperation in the financial sector for more win-win results, officials from the two sides said on Monday.

Experts: Chinese currency's gains reaffirm global investor confidenceChina's renminbi moved to the strongest value against the US dollar in more than two years on Thursday, as global investors continued to have faith in the nation's strong economic recovery.

Many believe that the government should tolerate a higher fiscal deficit of more than 3 percent this year to firmly reaffirm its expansionary policy stance and help stabilize market confidence.

The joint statement said, for instance, that BRICS nations reaffirm the role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its 2015 Paris Agreement as the fundamental legal basis and main channel for international cooperation on addressing climate change, and are committed to promoting the full and effective implementation of the Convention and the Paris treaty.