(The 3rd CIIE) Observation of CIIE: The three major exhibitions reflect the new thinking of China's economic upgrading and share the responsibility of China's connection to the world
China News Service, Shanghai, November 7th, title: China CIIE Observation: The three major exhibitions reflect the new thinking of China's economic upgrading and share the responsibility of China's connection to the world
China News Agency reporter Li Jiajia
"China's foreign trade has always been an important driving force for China's economic development. Therefore, the three major exhibitions are simultaneously developed, not to cut the times, but to deepen and advance the times." Recently, in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency, the whole country Said Zhou Hanmin, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Democratic National Construction Association, and chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Democratic National Construction Association.
Data map: Visitors try cosmetics in the Consumer Goods Pavilion of the CIIE.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yin Liqin
The three major exhibitions are the China International Import Expo (CIIE), China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) and China International Trade in Services Fair (Service Trade Fair).
In the field of goods trade, the CIIE focuses on imports, the Canton Fair focuses on exports, and the Service Trade Fair focuses on service trade. The three complement each other and together form a platform for the comprehensive development of "Made in China" and "Services in China" in the new era. The epitome of expanding and opening up.
Over the past 60 years, the Canton Fair has achieved remarkable results. Its venues have been relocated several times to the current two major exhibition halls, Liuhua and Pazhou. The name has also been renamed "China Import and Export Fair", but the purpose is always the same: let the world know China, and let China know the world .
Zhou Hanmin pointed out that today's Canton Fair has truly become a bridge between China and the world, so it is necessary to maintain the scale and function of the Canton Fair.
However, the endurance of the Canton Fair has also left a deep mark of the times.
According to Zhang Yimin, a professor at China Europe International Business School, the Canton Fair, which is dominated by labor-intensive products, presents an extensive trade growth method. With China’s rapid economic growth and per capita wages, China’s advantage in cheap labor has begun Lost, this way of trade growth and economic growth is in urgent need of change.
The most emblematic thing about China's integration into the world was on December 11, 2001, when China formally joined the World Trade Organization and integrated into the vast ocean of world trade.
That year, China's total foreign trade imports and exports totaled approximately US$500 billion.
While stepping up its integration into the world, China is also undergoing rapid transformation.
An outstanding performance is that foreign trade at that time no longer simply focused on trade in goods, but at the same time technological trade and service trade.
Today, China not only ranks first in world trade in goods, but also ranks among the top ten in world trade in services.
As a result, the Service Trade Fair, formerly known as the "Beijing Fair", was born. As the only international, national and comprehensive exhibition in the field of China's service trade, it also presents a new trend of China's opening up.
"The Service Trade Fair is an important measure for China to expand into new areas of trade," Zhou Hanmin said.
Zhang Yimin believes that industrial development has brought about an increase in the income level of residents, which naturally brings demand for services. This is the transformation of China's trade growth mode and economic growth mode from demanding quantity to quality, and a projection and progress of China's economic transformation and upgrading. .
In recent years, China has proactively expanded the service industry market opening, carried out service trade innovation and development pilots, continuously promoted the expansion of service trade scale and enhanced competitiveness; continuously reduced the negative list of foreign investment, continued to optimize the business environment, and entered service providers from all over the world The Chinese market creates convenience.
As the new crown epidemic continues to spread this year, the holding of the Service Trade Fair has added certainty to the world.
The following CIIE continued to increase this certainty. Just as Chinese President Xi Jinping said in the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the third CIIE, China will uphold openness, cooperation and unity. , The belief of win-win, unswervingly and comprehensively expand opening up, will more efficiently realize the interconnection of internal and external markets and the sharing of factor resources, making the Chinese market a world market, a shared market, and everyone’s market, and injecting more positive into the international community energy.
Zhou Hanmin believes that the CIIE, as the world's only sovereign state-hosted expo focusing on imports, demonstrates its unique functions.
One is to let the world see that China’s economy integrates into the world in two ways; China’s development should target the people’s pursuit of a better life; the CIIE plays a role in both import and export, turning exhibits into commodities, trade and Simultaneous investment, turning exhibitors into investors, also serves the goal of trinity in the development of international trade, with simultaneous development of goods, technology and services.
He further pointed out that the three major exhibitions reflect the basic trend of China's foreign trade, "jointly shouldering China's heavy responsibility of connecting the world, and cannot be partial, but must have greater linkages." (End)