Focus interview: How to create opportunities? How to solve the problem?
CCTV News
(Focus Interview): The sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic has severely impacted countries and also caused heavy damage to the world economy.
This global trade event, held as scheduled in such a special period, embodies China's sincere desire to share market opportunities with the world and promote the recovery of the world economy, and has attracted strong attention from all parties.
In the keynote speech at the opening of this CIIE, President Xi Jinping proposed that China will uphold the beliefs of openness, cooperation, unity, and win-win, and unswervingly expand its opening up in an all-round way, so as to achieve more efficient domestic and foreign market connectivity and element resource sharing. , Let the Chinese market become a world market, a shared market, and everyone’s market, injecting more positive energy into the international community.
How to "create opportunities in opening up and solve difficult problems in cooperation", the CIIE is a vivid case.
On the evening of November 4, the third China International Import Expo opened.
At the opening ceremony, President Xi Jinping firstly used "full implementation" to evaluate the implementation of the series of measures to expand opening up announced at the last CIIE.
Over the past year, China has continued to expand imports.
The overall plan for the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port and the implementation plan for the further expansion of reform and opening up in Shenzhen were released and implemented, and measures such as negotiating and signing high-standard free trade agreements, cultivating import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones, protecting intellectual property rights, and high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative Positive progress has been made.
The full implementation of a series of measures to expand opening up is the strong support given by China's extremely resilient economy.
Faced with a complex and severe situation, China is coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and intensifying macro-policy response. China's economy has shown an improvement trend. The first three quarters of this year achieved positive growth, of which foreign trade increased by 0.7% and actual use of foreign capital increased. 5.2%, which played a positive role in promoting the recovery of the world economy.
Although China's economy is showing an improvement, from a global perspective, economic globalization is facing a countercurrent, economic and trade frictions one after another, protectionism is closed and walls are being built, the new crown epidemic is coming in surprise, and the world economy is struggling amidst uncertainty.
However, the general trend of opening up and cooperation among countries has not changed.
President Xi Jinping called on all countries to join hands to jointly respond to risks and challenges, strengthen cooperation and communication, and jointly expand opening up.
Then, in the face of risks and challenges, how to do a good job of common openness?
In his speech, President Xi Jinping gave the direction with three "commitments": to promote the common openness of cooperation and win-win; to promote the common openness of cooperation and sharing; to promote the common openness of cooperation and governance.
Li Gang, director and researcher of the Academic Committee of the Academy of the Ministry of Commerce, said: "Only on the basis of openness can we achieve win-win cooperation. Both developed and developing countries must share their respective responsibilities. To build an open world economy, there must be a This kind of global common governance, that is, the global governance concept that President Xi has been emphasizing, to discuss, build and share together."
To achieve common openness, all countries need to join hands.
This epidemic reminds us that all countries are a community of shared destiny, and no one can stand alone in the face of major crises. Unity and cooperation are the inevitable choice to deal with challenges.
President Xi Jinping used the metaphor of "hand in hand instead of punching" to call on all countries to trust each other and promote economic globalization toward a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction.
Achieving common opening requires a constructive attitude to reform the global economic governance system.
Facing the challenges brought about by economic globalization, unilateralism and protectionism should not be allowed to undermine the international order and international rules.
We must adhere to the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, safeguard the multilateral trading system based on the World Trade Organization, improve global economic governance rules, and promote the construction of an open world economy.
The principles emphasized by President Xi Jinping in his speech reflect China's position of adhering to globalization and multilateralism.
While advocating the common openness of the world, China is also building a new development pattern that is more open.
Starting next year, China will embark on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, and China will enter a new stage of development.
To adapt to the new situation and new requirements, China proposes to build a new development pattern in which domestic and international cycles are the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promote each other.
President Xi Jinping particularly emphasized that this is by no means a closed domestic cycle, but a more open domestic and international double cycle.
Li Gang said: "The dual cycle must be opened up, the two markets must also be opened up, and the two international and domestic factors must also be better utilized, and the international rules should be better used to develop oneself, and at the same time use one's own development to drive global development and benefit the world. People of all countries."
The more open domestic and international dual-cycle pattern was particularly evident at this year's CIIE.
After three years of development, the CIIE will transform exhibits into commodities, transform exhibitors into investors, exchange ideas and ideas, connect China and the world, and become the four major platforms for international procurement, investment promotion, cultural exchanges, and open cooperation, and become an international shared world. public product.
This year, companies from all over the world participated actively, and the exhibition area was expanded by nearly 30,000 square meters.
In the newly established public health and epidemic prevention zone, many Fortune 500 companies and leading companies in the industry participate.
Under the global epidemic, this CIIE can attract companies from all over the world to participate actively, which also shows that the Chinese market has great vitality and potential.
China has a population of 1.4 billion and a middle-income group of more than 400 million. It is estimated that the cumulative import volume of goods in the next 10 years is expected to exceed US$22 trillion.
China's vast domestic market is continuing to stimulate a steady stream of innovation potential.
President Xi Jinping's proposal to "make the Chinese market a world market, a shared market, and everyone's market" has been widely resonated by all parties.
In order to make the Chinese market a “world market, a shared market, and everyone’s market”, on the basis of fully implementing the series of measures to expand opening up proposed by the second CIIE, President Xi Jinping once again offered The world announced that China will uphold the belief of openness, cooperation, unity and win-win, and expand its opening up in four aspects: building a new highland of opening up, promoting innovative development of foreign trade, continuously optimizing the business environment, and deepening bilateral and multilateral regional cooperation.
Li Gang said: "To implement a higher level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation is the intrinsic and essential requirement of a higher level of open economic new system and new structure. How to reflect higher standards of trade in this process? For investment liberalization, we must use specific measures to expand opening up to make everyone full of confidence in China and full of expectations for the Chinese market."
In the future, China will issue a negative list of cross-border trade in services, continue to expand opening up in areas such as the digital economy and the Internet, and intensify reforms and innovations in trade and investment liberalization and facilitation.
Compress the "Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Imports in China" to create a good environment for the free flow of technological elements across borders.
After the epidemic, China has introduced various policies to help companies benefit from alleviation, and treat companies registered in China equally.
China will continue to improve an open and transparent foreign-related legal system, strengthen intellectual property protection, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-funded enterprises, and is willing to negotiate and sign high-standard free trade agreements with more countries.
Although the new crown pneumonia epidemic has increased the uncertainties and instability of the world economy, China is still accelerating the pace of opening up, and the general trend of opening up and cooperation among countries has not changed.
China is not only an advocate, but also a practitioner on the right path of openness and cooperation.
The scheduled convening of the third CIIE is a vivid footnote.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which closed a few days ago, made a comprehensive plan for the development of China during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. It clearly stated: Implementing a high-level opening to the outside world and opening up a new situation of win-win cooperation.
"Openness brings progress, and closure inevitably lags behind." In the future, China will surely create more opportunities for the development of all countries and make greater contributions to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.