BEIJING - Overseas experts and scholars have expressed appreciation of China's commitment to promoting international cooperation in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and making vaccines a global public good.

China will strive to provide 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world throughout this year and offer $100 million to COVAX, President Xi Jinping said Thursday in a written message to the first meeting of the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation, which was jointly held by 23 countries via video links.