President Xi Jinping spoke about reform and opening-up, innovation, poverty relief and other issues during his visit to South China's Guangdong province from Oct 22-25. Here are the highlights of his statements during the trip.

On reform and opening-up

"I’m visiting Shenzhen as it marks the 40-year anniversary of opening-up and reform in order to tell the world that China will not stop its opening-up and reform. China will certainly deliver a bigger miracle that draws worldwide attention."

"The development of Guangdong in the past four decades proved that reform and opening-up is the sure way to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics and decides China's fate."

"We should stay true to our founding mission of reform and opening-up, draw on successful experiences in the past 40 years and raise quality and level of opening-up and reform."

"We should be people-oriented. People's happiness should be the criteria for evaluating the result of opening-up and reform. The fruits of opening-up and reform should benefit the general public."