On September 2, as the world's largest trade fair in the field of service trade, the Service Trade Fair once again arrived as scheduled.
In the evening, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the World Trade in Services Summit, announcing important measures to expand the opening up and innovative development of China's service industry.
Why does President Xi attach so much importance to the Service and Trade Fair? What important messages are released in this year's speech?
"Current Affairs News Eye" for you to interpret.
This year, the Service Trade Fair has sparked new sparks
The full name of the Service Trade Fair is the China International Service Trade Fair. It has been held in Beijing since 2012 and has become one of my country’s three major exhibition platforms open to the outside world: Beijing Service Trade Fair focuses on service trade, and Shanghai International Import Expo focuses on goods imports. Guangzhou Canton Fair focuses on the export of goods.
This year, the seventh session of the Service Trade Fair, under the continuous impact of the epidemic, burst out new sparks.
△On September 2, the Global Service Trade Summit of the Service Trade Association was held at the National Convention Center.
(Photo by CCTV reporters Shi Yilong and Liu Ruilin)
"High specifications" are maintained.
At the opening of the 2019 Service Trade Fair, President Xi sent a congratulatory letter.
Last year, President Xi delivered a speech for the first time through a video method to improve the standards of the Service Trade Fair.
This year, President Xi continued his video speech.
The "circle of friends" expanded.
Last year, a total of 148 countries and regions companies and organizations signed up to participate in the exhibition.
This year, this number has risen to 153, and the number of companies has increased by 52% over the previous year.
The world's top 500 and industry-leading companies accounted for 18%, an increase of 9 percentage points from last year.
See you for the first time in the "dual venue".
In addition to the previously fixed National Convention Center, Shougang Park has been added to the Service Trade Fair this year.
The comprehensive exhibition is set up at the National Convention Center to showcase the advantages and latest achievements of global service trade.
As the epitome of my country's industrial development and reform and opening up, Shougang Park has undertaken 8 special exhibitions.
"Digitalization" has become the theme.
The theme of this year's Service Trade Fair is "Digital opens up the future, service promotes development".
Focusing on the digitization of trade in services that has been accelerating since the outbreak of the epidemic, this year's Service Trade Fair has set up a digital service area for the first time to showcase the latest achievements in service areas such as unmanned driving, smart transportation, building digitization, and new audio-visual services.
When it comes to service trade, Xi Jinping uses three "important"
In his speech at the Global Service Trade Summit on September 4 last year, President Xi Jinping said that China has overcome many difficulties and organized such a major international economic and trade event to work together with everyone to overcome the difficulties and jointly promote the development of global service trade. Prosperity promotes the rapid recovery of the world economy.
One year later, in the context of repeated global epidemics and the fragile recovery of the world economy, the Service Trade Fair was held again, demonstrating the Chinese government's high attention to the development of service trade and its firm confidence in expanding high-level openness.
In his speech that evening, President Xi used three "important" in a row: Service trade is an important part of international trade and an important field of international economic and trade cooperation, and plays an important role in building a new development pattern.
Service trade is about building a new development pattern.
On January 11 this year, Xi Jinping talked about it many times during his speech at a seminar for key provincial and ministerial leaders.
He said that to continue to deepen the openness of factors such as commodities, services, capital, and talents, it is necessary to enhance the competitiveness of my country's export products and services by participating in international market competition.
When "China Service" and "Global Service" form a powerful and unimpeded convection that meets needs, the world will help China's high-quality life with high-quality services, and China will also provide new opportunities for the world with its own new development.
Let Beijing lead China's service industry and make another major move
In his speech last year, President Xi Jinping clearly put forward a three-point initiative to promote the opening and cooperation of the global service industry, and solemnly announced a series of important measures to expand the opening up of China's service industry.
The most notable of these is that Beijing will build a comprehensive demonstration zone for the expansion of the national service industry and establish a free trade pilot zone featuring technological innovation, open service industry, and digital economy.
The construction of the "two districts" has become a new beacon for the development of Beijing.
In less than a year, the leading departments of 16 districts and 9 key areas in Beijing have respectively formulated work plans for advancing the construction of the "two districts".
In his speech this year, President Xi Jinping announced four important measures, including: increasing the level of openness, advancing the implementation of the cross-border service trade negative list nationwide, exploring the establishment of a national service trade innovation development demonstration zone; expanding cooperation space and increasing To support the development of the service industry in countries under the “Belt and Road” initiative, and to share the achievements of China’s technological development with the world.
In order to make better use of Beijing's leading role, President Xi announced: Support Beijing and other places to carry out the first trial of international high-level free trade agreement rules; establish the Beijing Stock Exchange to create a main position for service-innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Xi Jinping: "Strengthening the Construction of Rules in the Service Field"
China's road to opening up to the outside world must not only attach importance to the openness of factors such as goods and services, but also expand the institutional openness of rules and standards.
In January this year, President Xi Jinping emphasized at the World Economic Forum "Davos Agenda" dialogue meeting that China will focus on promoting the opening of rules, regulations, management, and standards, and continue to create a market-oriented, legalized, and international business environment. .
An important sign of high-level institutional openness is to actively participate in the formulation of international rules and improve the ability to grasp international rules.
In his speech last year, President Xi said that China will actively comply with the actual needs of the development of service trade, promote the coordination of service rules at the multilateral and regional levels, continuously improve global economic governance, and promote inclusive growth of the world economy.
In his speech this year, President Xi emphasized that we will strengthen the establishment of rules in the service sector, and support Beijing and other places to carry out the first trial of international high-level free trade agreement rules to create a digital trade demonstration zone.
Rely on rules to win respect, rely on rules to win the market, and rules to integrate the world.
President Xi's emphasis on strengthening the construction of rules in the service sector not only directly refers to the present, but also leads the future.
Deepen the reform of the NEEQ and serve the "small, special and specialized" enterprises
The establishment of the Beijing Stock Exchange was a blockbuster measure announced by President Xi Jinping that evening.
This is closely related to deepening the reform of the New Third Board.
The New Third Board is an important platform for my country's capital market to serve small and medium-sized enterprises and the private economy.
The 2019 Central Economic Work Conference clearly proposed to steadily advance the reform of the Growth Enterprise Market and the New Third Board.
According to statistics, as of the end of May this year, the NEEQ has served 13,400 enterprises and 7,519 listed companies.
Among them, modern service industry and advanced manufacturing accounted for 71.3%.
Coincidentally, in November 2018, when Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the first CIIE, he also announced an important measure related to this-the establishment of a science innovation board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and a pilot registration system.
More than two months later, the sixth meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform deliberated and approved the relevant overall implementation plan and implementation opinions.
On July 22 this year, the Sci-tech Innovation Board celebrated its two-year birthday.
There are 313 listed companies with a total market value of 4.95 trillion yuan. The initial public offering has raised more than 380 billion yuan, and the average daily turnover is more than 20 billion yuan.······The Science and Technology Innovation Board handed over a beautiful "transcript" .
The Beijing Stock Exchange is also worth looking forward to to deepen the reform of the New Third Board, to help "small, special and specialized" enterprises, and to help modern service industries.
Regarding the expectations of this session of the Service Trade Fair, President Xi Jinping used 8 words in his speech-"Distinctive Features and Effective".
Speaking of how to solve the current problems facing the world economy, international trade and investment, he mentioned a "golden key", which is also eight words-"peace, development, cooperation, and win-win".
Producer丨Shen Yong
Chief Author丨Gong Xuehui Yu Zhenyi
Vision丨Chen Kuo Zhang Jing
Editor丨Wang Jiyang Yu Mingli