Work together to create an open and inclusive cooperative environment
Throughout the history of the development of human society, the world economy will prosper when it is open, and it will decline when it is closed.
At the 2020 China International Trade in Services (Services Trade Fair) Global Service Trade Summit, President Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech that countries should strengthen the development of service trade, innovate cooperation methods, deepen cooperation fields, and actively seek the greatest common divisor of development benefits. Keep making the "cake" bigger.
"Seeing China's efforts to create an open and inclusive environment"
According to data released by the World Trade Organization, the service industry has become a pillar industry of the global economy, accounting for 65% of the global GDP. 2/3 of the employment in developing countries and 4/5 of the developed countries come from the service industry.
Because of its unique characteristics of light assets and soft elements, the service industry needs an open, transparent, inclusive, and non-discriminatory industry development ecology. It also requires countries to work hard to reduce the barriers to “on the border” and “behind the border” that restrict the flow of factors. Cross-border interconnection.
China takes the stage and the world sings.
The Service Trade Fair brought together 22,000 companies and institutions from 148 countries and regions to participate in the exhibition.
Ruth Mendes, a reporter from La Reforma de Mexico, said: “The Service Trade Association promotes service consumption and service trade, and builds a platform for companies from various countries to strengthen international exchanges, obtain new orders, and expand new markets. It demonstrates China’s role in promoting global service. Unremitting efforts in trade cooperation.” Ronny Lins, director of the Brazil China Research Center, believes that in the face of global challenges, no country or individual can stand alone. Only by adhering to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and adhering to multilateralism can we find satisfaction. s solution.
As a leading company in the global snowmaking equipment industry, Italy Tianbing Group participates in the International Winter Sports (Beijing) Expo every year.
For the first time this year, the Winter Expo will be merged with the Service Trade Fair, and the group is actively preparing to expand the scale of participation and investment.
Feynman, general manager of the Group's China branch, met many new friends during the exhibition-"I feel the sincerity of everyone's exchanges and cooperation. Under the current difficult situation, I see China's efforts to create an open and inclusive environment."
China is Russia's largest source of tourists.
Russia’s “World Without Borders” Tourism Association, which has just participated in this session of the Service Trade Fair, revealed that Russia and China’s tourism associations are jointly developing a social network platform. The needs of Chinese tourists and the voices of Chinese tourism companies can be passed on to their Russian counterparts through the platform. , To help Russian tourism companies to better serve Chinese tourists.
Shabalala, President of South Africa's Standard Bank, believes that the Service Trade Association provides a good platform for South-China service trade cooperation.
"Under the background of the epidemic, this year the global capital market, including economic development and business environment, are facing great challenges. China's economy has shown strong resilience, and we look forward to fintech cooperation becoming the focus of South-China cooperation."
"The confidence in deepening the Chinese market is stronger"
The more complicated the situation is, the more determined it is to open up.
Establish and improve the negative list management system for cross-border service trade, promote the construction of pilot open platforms for the innovative development of service trade, expand characteristic service export bases, develop new business models and models of service trade, and support Beijing to build a comprehensive demonstration zone for the expansion of the national service industry... A series of important measures and propositions demonstrate to the world China's confidence and actions to create a higher-level new pattern of reform and opening up.
As one of the important achievements of the Service Trade Association, the Summit Forum on New Trends in the Open Development of Service Trade released the book "Service Industry: Institutional Opening to Promote Reform and Deepening". Wider areas and deeper openings.
At the Service Trade Fair, promoting the opening and reform of the financial service industry, expanding international exchanges and cooperation in food, and promoting Chinese medicine to go global... Open cooperation has become a strong voice of the times.
Asson Si, adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Thai Senate, said that China is an important driving force for economic globalization.
ASEAN is willing to work with China to create an open and win-win cooperation model and a balanced and inclusive development model, so that people from all over the world can share the fruits of economic globalization.
"China has taken practical actions to make foreign-funded enterprises in China more at ease and comfortable to operate, so that more enterprises that have not yet arrived in the Chinese market are speeding up."
Pang Xingjian, senior vice president of Schneider Electric of France, believes that China has made unremitting efforts to promote the liberalization and facilitation of global service trade and has achieved positive results.
"Schneider Electric is a beneficiary of an open world economy. We hope to see a more open, free, and orderly market. China's holding of a service trade conference to promote development through openness and win-win cooperation through cooperation will further help the development of China's service trade. , Enterprises from all over the world will also benefit from it. Our confidence in deepening the Chinese market will become stronger."
The Italian Education Center participated in various online and offline activities of the education section of this session of the Service Trade Fair.
Otorani, the secretary-general of the center, said that the Service Trade Association provides a valuable opportunity and platform for international education cooperation.
"I have participated in almost all education industry exhibitions held in China, and have witnessed the continuous expansion of China's education service sector. The tremendous development of China's education internationalization and related service markets has provided new opportunities for the development of the education industry in Italy and other countries." .
"Created more development opportunities for foreign companies"
At present, economic globalization is facing a countercurrent, protectionism and unilateralism are on the rise, and the world economy is in a downturn.
In the face of "headwinds" and "returning waves," China firmly stands on the right side of history.
Through the platform of the Service Trade Fair, more foreign companies have entered China's opening door and saw a new world that nourishes the prosperity and development of the world economy.
Hideki Ozawa, chairman and CEO of Canon (China) Co., Ltd., said that China's economic opening level is getting higher and higher, and the hard conditions and soft environment are getting better and better.
"This year, China adjusted its market access negative list again. The further expansion of open areas has confirmed the consumption potential of the Chinese market, created more development opportunities for foreign-funded enterprises, and continuously boosted the confidence of the international community in the world economy and multilateral cooperation."
Savi, a professor of economics at Benha University in Egypt, believes that promoting the development of the service industry and trade in services will effectively boost the confidence of countries in coping with the economic downturn and achieving economic recovery.
China advocates jointly creating an open and inclusive environment for cooperation, improving the business environment, and improving the level of service trade with the service trade association, which will help accelerate the recovery of the global economy and continue to contribute to the development of the world economy.
At present, the global epidemic of new crown pneumonia has not yet been fully controlled, and all countries are facing the arduous task of fighting the epidemic, stabilizing the economy, and protecting people's livelihood.
China's full effort to achieve economic stabilization and recovery does not rely on building its own walls and beggars its neighbors. It is not pursuing "one family alone", but is always committed to strengthening cooperation with other countries and creating an open and inclusive environment for cooperation.
Argentina’s Deputy Secretary of State Maria Apolito said frankly: “Argentina is proud to be able to participate in the Service Trade Fair. Against the background of the pandemic raging around the world, China has sent a signal of positive economic recovery to the world by hosting the Service Trade Fair, reflecting China’s The willingness to continue to open up and work with all countries for mutual benefit and win-win results."
At the Service Trade Fair, the booth of the "Belt and Road" legal and commercial integrated service platform was particularly eye-catching.
Marek Hrubek, director of the Globalization Research Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, believes that this reflects China's emphasis on the business environment, and institutional construction is particularly important for future international cooperation.
The sea does not lose sight of water, so it can become a big one.
Faced with the changing world, China will only open its door wider and wider.
Using the Council of Trade in Services as a bridge, China contributes Chinese wisdom to promoting open cooperation and world economic recovery. It also declares China's confidence and strength to create a new situation of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation through higher-level reform and opening up.
Working together and moving forward hand in hand, the world will surely step out of this difficult period in human history and jointly create a better future.
(Our reporter Yan Huan, Han Shuo, Zhao Yipu, Li Yingyan, Liu Junguo, Liu Xuxia, Huang Peizhao, Hua Fang, Yin Xinyu, Ge Wenbo, Ding Xuezhen, Yu Yang, Zhang Yuannan)