During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, how can China's opening-up step be greater and more stable?

(Economic Observation) During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, how can China's opening-up step be greater and more stable?

　　China News Service, Beijing, November 6th (Chen Jing) From the promulgation and implementation of the Foreign Investment Law, the expansion of the pilot free trade zone, to the release of the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port"; from the holding of a national exhibition with the theme of imports to The financial market has been opened up in a "fast and steady" period. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, a series of major measures have helped China build a new pattern of all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging opening up.

On June 1, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council proposed to take the lead in implementing the policy of expanding the opening up of the financial industry in Hainan Free Trade Port.

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　　In the next stage, how can China's opening-up step be greater and more stable?

　　The "Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Long-Term Goals for 2035" (hereinafter referred to as the "Proposals") issued a few days ago outlines a specific route for China's opening to the outside world in the future. .

　　During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's business environment has been continuously optimized, attracting more and more companies to continue to expand their investment in China.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, "improving the national treatment plus negative list management system before foreign investment access" and "protecting the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-funded enterprises in accordance with the law" are still the focus of continuous optimization of the business environment.

　　Zong Changqing, Director of the Department of Foreign Investment of the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, stated that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China will continue to reduce the negative list of foreign investment access, further promote the opening of rules and standards, strengthen intellectual property protection, and increase protection against counterfeiting and infringement. We will improve the investigation and handling efforts of foreign companies, improve the complaint work network of foreign companies, effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign companies, and ensure that domestic and foreign companies are treated equally and compete fairly.

　　In the field of trade, the "Proposal" proposes to comprehensively increase the level of opening up, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, promote trade innovation and development, and enhance the overall competitiveness of foreign trade.

　　In this regard, Yu Miaojie, secretary of the Party Committee of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University and a distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars, believes that to promote trade liberalization, in addition to the usual methods of reducing tariffs and facilitation of customs clearance, we must also focus on the development of free trade pilot zones.

　　The "Suggestion" proposes to make good use of important exhibition platforms such as China International Import Expo.

The analysis believes that the third China International Import Expo will be held offline as scheduled, which is of great significance to promote trade and investment and promote economic recovery.

It also injected great confidence and energy into the troubled global economy, giving enterprises in trouble a chance and space to show.

　　The door of China's opening up opens wider and wider, and everyone is a beneficiary.

It is precisely because of this that countries around the world have paid special attention to this CIIE.

　　Yu Miaojie believes that from an international perspective, China’s holding of the CIIE will help other countries expand their exports to China, slow down the negative impact of the epidemic on other countries, and help other countries get rid of the dilemma of high unemployment, which shows that China has always emphasized "A single flower does not bloom in spring, and a hundred flowers bloom in the garden".

　　It is precisely in keeping with this good wish that since the beginning of this year, while preventing and controlling the epidemic, steadily promoting the resumption of work and production, and stabilizing domestic economic development, China has also launched multiple measures to maintain the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain, and continue to increase the stability of foreign trade and foreign investment. Become a "stabilizer" and "safe haven" for global multinational investment, injecting new momentum into world economic and trade cooperation.

　　According to the latest data from the Ministry of Commerce of China, due to China’s various policies and measures including stabilizing foreign investment this year, China’s actual use of foreign capital was US$103.26 billion from January to September, a year-on-year increase of 2.5% (equivalent to RMB 718.81 billion, an increase of 5.2%). ), for the first time to realize the "double turn positive" of the two cumulative indicators of the US dollar and the RMB, showing a growth pattern against the trend.

　　During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the construction of the "Belt and Road" has made great contributions to promoting economic and trade cooperation between China and countries along the route.

　　The latest data shows that China has signed 200 cooperation documents for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" with 138 countries and 30 international organizations, and jointly carried out more than 2,000 cooperation projects; the cumulative total of trade in goods between China and countries along the route has exceeded 7.8 trillion US dollars. , Direct investment in countries along the route exceeded US$110 billion.

　　"The "Proposal" contains rich content about promoting the high-quality development of the joint construction of the'Belt and Road', which reflects that my country's construction of the'Belt and Road' has moved from the overall layout of the'freehand' to the stage of meticulous and delicate'Meticulous Painting'." Zhang Wei, vice president of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce of China, told China News Agency that "the country is a through train."

　　Zhang Wei believes that in the next stage, in addition to continuing to improve the level of cooperation in various fields, we should also explore the establishment of institutional and policy guarantees for third parties to participate in the "Belt and Road" initiative.

Specifically, it is necessary to properly handle disagreements with third-party enterprises in the interests of enterprises, and establish a mechanism for communication platforms in areas where there may be differences in areas such as market share, profit arrangements, intellectual property protection, technology transfer, and business information security of enterprises. Reaching an agreement on sensitive and important issues, so that the rights and interests of enterprises from participating countries are fully protected.

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