China News Service, Beijing, March 11 (Reporter Liu Liang) As an important window to observe China's development trend in the coming year, the National Two Sessions have received great attention from foreign companies in China, and many business opportunities have been keenly captured by them.
Continue to reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, comprehensively cancel restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, and relax market access for telecommunications, medical and other service industries... Many measures to expand opening up to the outside world have been included in this year's government work report.
On March 6, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held an economic-themed press conference, which attracted great attention from Chinese and foreign media.
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China's continuous efforts to optimize the business environment for foreign businesses are obvious to all.
In just over half a year since the launch of the "24 Foreign Investment Policies" aimed at increasing efforts to attract foreign investment, more than 60% of the policy measures have been implemented or have made positive progress.
Xiao Song, global executive vice president of Siemens, told a reporter from China News Service that China's commitment to continuously optimizing the business environment and fulfilling high-level opening-up will help increase the confidence of foreign companies in China.
"When various market entities fully compete, cooperate together, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results in a large market, the Chinese market will unleash greater potential."
Kao (China) Chairman Zhu An will say that with the implementation of favorable policies and measures, foreign-funded enterprises will usher in a more stable investment environment and wider space for cooperation.
The global economy is still facing considerable pressure this year, and foreign companies in China are very concerned about how the Chinese economy will develop.
In their view, the expected full-year growth target of “around 5%” is a pragmatic number and a positive signal.
"This growth target is in line with China's economic trends and development patterns." Cai Menghong, general manager of Herbalife China, said that China's economy has the advantages of large-scale market demand and numerous high-quality workers, and foreign companies will also benefit from high-quality development.
Akihiro Fukaishi, chairman and president of Epson (China) Co., Ltd., believes that the Chinese economy has such growth potential.
He believes that China is in a critical period of accelerating the conversion of old and new driving forces and promoting high-quality development, and will breed and release more power sources to promote economic growth.
Under this circumstance, those hot words from the Two Sessions that are closely related to China's new development momentum have become important references for foreign companies to lay out new tracks.
"Artificial intelligence +", trade-in of consumer goods, intelligent connected new energy vehicles, etc. have high hopes.
"New productivity is becoming a powerful engine for China to promote high-quality economic development. This is highly consistent with Siemens' strategy and also provides us with broad market opportunities and new business growth points." Xiao Song said that Siemens will promote artificial intelligence and digital technology. The application of cutting-edge technologies such as twins has helped China accelerate the cultivation of new productive forces.
China's new energy vehicle production and sales account for more than 60% of the world's share, and foreign car companies are vying to enter the market.
Hyundai Motor said that in the context of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, it is seizing opportunities in China's new energy vehicle market and accelerating its layout in key areas such as hydrogen energy, electrification, and smart mobility.
Toyota Motor is focusing on the market potential unlocked by trade-in of consumer goods.
The relevant person in charge of the company said that China's automobile market is currently very large, and a considerable number of vehicles have long service lives and high energy consumption and emissions. Promoting the replacement of old fuel passenger vehicles with new ones is a long-term strategy for high-quality development.
It is expected that relevant policy objects will be extended to energy-saving vehicles to jointly promote the high-quality development of the automobile industry.
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