The co-founder of a Russian NGO called Informational Culture, Ivan Begtin first discovered the data leak but the authority did not pay enough attention.
Washington believes equipment made by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's third largest smartphone maker, could be used by the Chinese state to spy.
Chinese civilisation is an "open system" that has continuously had exchanges and learned from other cultures, including Buddhism, Marxism and Islam, Xi told the forum.