At 9 am on May 22, the third meeting of the 13th National People's Congress held an opening meeting in the Great Hall of the People. Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council made a government work report.
Li Keqiang: Promote a higher level of opening to the outside world and stabilize the basic foreign trade and foreign investment.
Li Keqiang: In the face of changes in the external environment, we must unswervingly expand opening up, stabilize the supply chain of the industrial chain, and promote reform and development by opening up.
Li Keqiang: To promote basic stability of foreign trade. Focusing on supporting enterprises to increase orders and stabilize job security, increase credit supply, expand coverage of export credit insurance, reduce import and export compliance costs, and support export products for domestic sales. Accelerate the development of new formats such as cross-border e-commerce and enhance the international freight capacity. Promote a new round of pilot development of service trade innovation. The third session of the Expo will be well-planned, imports will be actively expanded, and a larger market facing the world will be developed.
Li Keqiang: Actively use foreign capital. Significantly reduce the negative list of foreign investment access and introduce a negative list of cross-border service trade. Give the Pilot Free Trade Zone greater autonomy for reform and opening up, speed up the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, set up a Pilot Free Trade Zone and a comprehensive bonded zone in the central and western regions, and increase the service industry to expand and open comprehensive pilot projects. Create a market environment in which domestic and foreign enterprises are treated equally and fairly.
Li Keqiang: High-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road”. Insist on mutual consultation, joint construction and sharing, follow market principles and internationally accepted rules, give play to the main role of enterprises, and develop mutually beneficial cooperation. Guide the healthy development of foreign investment.
Li Keqiang: Promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. Resolutely maintain the multilateral trading system and actively participate in WTO reforms. Promote the signing of regional comprehensive economic partnership agreements, and promote China-Japan-South Korea and other free trade negotiations. Jointly implement the first phase of China-US economic and trade agreement. China is committed to strengthening economic and trade cooperation with other countries to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
(Organized according to the webcast text)