[Ten-Year Strategy] How does China expand its economic and trade "circle of friends"?

　　China News Service, Beijing, September 20

　　Reporter Li Jinlei

　　"The door of China's opening will not be closed, it will only open wider and wider!"

　　This sentence has been declared by General Secretary Xi Jinping on many occasions.

Over the past ten years, despite the scum of unilateralism, protectionism, and anti-globalization, China has unswervingly continued to promote a higher level of opening up, strived to expand the "circle of friends", and built a new dual-cycle development pattern, which not only activated the The surging spring tide of China's development has also activated a pool of spring water in the world economy.

The "circle of friends" is getting bigger and bigger

　　"Reform does not stop, and opening does not stop." After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping chose Guangdong, the frontier of opening up, as the first stop of his local inspection, sending a signal that "reform and opening up will never end".

　　As one of the five new development concepts, open development focuses on solving the problem of internal and external linkage of development.

In 2015, Xi Jinping pointed out at the second plenary session of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee that my country's overall level of opening up is not high enough, and its ability to make good use of both domestic and international markets and resources is not strong enough to deal with international economic and trade frictions. , The ability to fight for the right to speak in the international economy is still relatively weak, and the ability to apply international economic and trade rules is not strong enough, which needs to be accelerated.

　　To this end, he demanded that we must adhere to the basic national policy of opening up, pursue a mutually beneficial and win-win opening strategy, deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, improve the layout of areas open to the outside world, foreign trade layout, and investment layout, form a new system for opening up, and develop higher-level An open economy, which promotes innovation, promotes reform, and promotes development by expanding opening up.

　　In the past decade, China's opening to the outside world has been impressive, and a new pattern of all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging opening-up has been accelerated.

　　The total value of trade in goods has ranked first in the world for five consecutive years.

In 2021, the total trade in goods will reach a record high of US$6.05 trillion.

By 2021, the total trade in goods + services will grow to US$6.9 trillion, ranking first in the world for two consecutive years.

　　The negative list of foreign investment access has been reduced for five consecutive years, and the number of restrictive measures in the country and in the pilot free trade zone has been reduced to 31 and 27 respectively. The higher level of opening has attracted more international investors to cast a vote of confidence in China.

In 2021, China's actual use of foreign capital will exceed 1.1 trillion yuan, a record high, ranking second in the world in attracting foreign investment for four consecutive years.

　　The "circle of friends" is getting bigger and bigger.

The "circle of friends" of China's joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has expanded to 149 countries and 32 international organizations.

China has also joined the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and the world's most populous and largest free trade zone has officially set sail.

In addition, 19 free trade agreements have been signed with 26 countries and regions, with free trade partners covering Asia, Oceania, Latin America, Europe and Africa, and new breakthroughs have been achieved in the promotion strategy of free trade areas.

Focus on building a new development pattern

　　"I feel that the current situation is very different. The environmental conditions for large inflows and large outflows have changed, and new ideas for leading development must be proposed according to the new situation." Based on such thinking, in April 2020, Xi Jinping proposed to Establish a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other.

　　"We emphasize the construction of a new development pattern, not to engage in construction behind closed doors, but to continue to expand and open up." He has repeatedly emphasized that China's door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider.

Taking the domestic big cycle as the main body, it is by no means closed doors and closed operations, but by giving full play to the potential of domestic demand, the domestic market and the international market can be better connected, and the two domestic and international markets and resources can be better used to achieve stronger and more sustainable development. continuous development.

　　Building a new development pattern is an open domestic and international dual cycle, not a closed domestic single cycle.

　　Today, the open highlands cover east, west, north, south, and center.

China has deployed and constructed 21 pilot free trade zones and the Hainan Free Trade Port, creating a series of new highlands and experimental fields for opening to the outside world.

　　There are also more and more open platforms.

The China International Import Expo, Service Trade Fair, Consumer Expo, etc. have become the best demonstration windows for opening up, and become a vivid practice of China's smooth domestic and international dual circulation, constantly proving that China not only "sells the world", but also "buys the world" and "benefits the world". worldwide".

　　Openness is a distinctive sign of contemporary China.

China is not only a "world factory", but also a "world market", which not only develops itself, but also benefits the world.

　　Converted at the average annual exchange rate, China's total economic output will account for 18.5% of the world economy in 2021, an increase of 7.2 percentage points over 2012, ranking second in the world.

From 2013 to 2021, China's average contribution rate to world economic growth will exceed 30%, ranking first in the world.

In the process of continuous opening up, China's economy has become the biggest engine of world economic growth.

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