DALIAN, June 24 -- Innovation-driven cooperation is an inevitable choice to overcome the global growth dilemma, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Wednesday.

Li called for deepening connectivity and collaboration, and pooling innovation strengths more extensively.

Meanwhile, he said that technological progress should serve the common good and advance joint governance more effectively.

Li made the remarks while addressing the opening plenary of the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as the Summer Davos, in northeast China's coastal city of Dalian.