Xi's climate speech wins global acclaim By CHEN WEIHUA in Brussels, REN QI in Moscow,,REN QI and ANGUS MCNEICE in London | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-04-24 06:32 Share CLOSE President Xi Jinping addresses the Leaders Summit on Climate via video link from Beijing on Thursday. Xi delivered an important speech titled "For Man and Nature: Building a Community of Life Together" at the two-day event hosted by the United States. [Photo/Xinhua] President Xi Jinping's speech on Thursday at the Leaders Summit on Climate, where he set out China's ambitious pledges, has won praise from world leaders and experts. In the speech, Xi talked about how man and nature should build a community of life together and vowed the country will take aggressive measures to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, including to begin phasing out coal.