Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday China must preserve and innovate traditional cultures as well as exchange cultures among different civilizations to make the world a better place.

Xi attended the International Conference in commemorating the 2565th Anniversary of Confucius and the fifth Congress of the International Confucian Association, which opened on Wednesday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

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"Promoting the exchanges and integrations of different civilizations is an inevitable path to make the world and people's lives better," Xi delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the conference.

Xi highlighted the importance of the preservation and innovation of traditional culture as well as of the civilization exchange with the world.

"History has repeatedly proved that any move that aims to resolve differences among civilizations is doomed to failure and wreck havoc on civilizations," said Xi.

"Don't feel displeased or try to transform, assimilate or even replace other civilizations when they are different from your own," Xi told the audience.

He also stresses the roles of ideology and culture in maintaining peace and promoting development.

"All countries and nations should learn and draw on the strength and quintessence of others' ideology and culture. This is an important condition to encourage dignity, confidence and strength of native ideology and culture," he said, while stressing that every nation should value and maintain its own ideology and culture.

"Any kind of civilization, no matter which country or nation it originated from, is fluid and open," Xi said, arguing that such flow is an important rule for the spread and development of civilizations.

Confucianism originated from China has long been part of human civilization, Xi said.

Xi called on people to treat traditions in a scientific way and seek to carry forward traditional culture while developing current ones.

This is the first time for China's highest leader to attend the conference of Confucius and give a speech. This will become an important reference for the world to observe the political style and cultural value of the Communist Party of China.