In this early autumn, the eyes of the world once again converge on Beijing - from August 31 to September 5, the 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services will be held as scheduled.

  On August 31, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services.

  From the Beijing Fair in 2012 to 2019, to the Service Trade Fair since 2020, the Service Trade Fair has become a leading event in the field of global service trade in the past ten years. Exhibition platform.

  After ten years of service trade fair, it tells the stories of "cooperation, peers, and win-win".

  In the early morning, in Yangpu Port, Hainan, freighters were staggered and busy.

  Benefiting from the series of policies for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, more and more international ships are listed in the "China Yangpu Port".

  "In the early days of the terminal's opening, small cargo ships with short distances were the mainstay. There were only a few ships in a week, and the operating container volume in a month was only about 20,000 TEUs." Xiang Yang has been in charge of container loading and unloading operations at Yangpu Port for several years. After feeling the rapid development of the terminal, "now our monthly operation volume has reached 60,000 to 70,000 TEUs, which is three times the original amount. There were not a few foreign trade ships in a month before, but now there are more than a week. Wages are nearly three times higher than before.”

  In July 2021, the "Hainan Cross-border Service Trade Negative List" was announced.

As China's first negative list in the field of cross-border service trade, the list clearly lists 70 special management measures in 11 categories for overseas service providers.

  It is worth mentioning that all fields outside the list will be treated equally and equally for domestic and foreign service providers in the Hainan Free Trade Port, with a higher degree of openness, transparency and predictability.

  "The list relaxes the access restrictions in the field of service trade, and makes high-level opening arrangements in the fields of professional services, transportation services, finance, etc. This degree of openness is not a requirement of bilateral agreements, but our initiative, which exceeds Our commitment when we "joined the WTO" (joined the World Trade Organization)." The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said.

  China's hosting of the Service Trade Fair not only opens the door of the Chinese market to global service trade enterprises, but also opens up development space for global service trade in the future.

  President Xi Jinping emphasized that China will actively respond to the actual needs of the development of trade in services, promote the coordination of service rules at multilateral and regional levels, continuously improve global economic governance, and promote inclusive growth of the world economy.

  In 2021, the theme of the CIFTIS is "Digital Opens the Future, Service Promotes Development"; this year, the theme of the CIFTIS is "Service Cooperation Promotes Development, Green Innovation Welcomes the Future".

  The themes of the two sessions are focused on development and the future.

  China knows very well that only by working together to overcome the difficulties can we bring broader development space to all countries and a more prosperous future for mankind.

  At the 2022 Service Trade Fair, more than 400 Fortune Global 500 and international leading companies will participate offline, and the overall internationalization rate will reach 20.8%, an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from the previous session; 71 countries and international organizations will appear at the comprehensive exhibition, the United Arab Emirates , Switzerland, Italy and other 10 countries set up exhibitions in the name of countries for the first time.

  Germany Trade and Invest is participating for the second time this year.

Unlike last year, this time they joined the economic promotion agencies of Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia as well as two German companies to form a German national pavilion at the Service Trade Fair.

  Zhu Dewei, the representative of its Beijing office in China, said: "Under the theme of this year's Service Trade Fair, people can interpret "digitalization" and "green future" from different perspectives. Not only China's outstanding enterprises will be displayed around this theme, and We will highlight the development and trends in this field in the national and regional pavilions, and we will also set up a booth in the German pavilion to provide relevant consultation for companies that want to settle in Germany.”

  Zhu Dewei said that the German Federal Trade and Invest is looking forward to the holding of this service trade fair.

"The Service Trade Fair is one of the two major exhibitions where the German Federal Trade and Invest has set up a pavilion in China. It is also the only exhibition where we will hold forums with the economic promotion agencies of different federal states in Germany. It is not difficult to see that this exhibition is very important. Our significance."

  The 2022 Service Trade Conference will showcase the latest achievements in the field of service trade at home and abroad, and promote the formation of more international cooperation.

  Go fast alone, go far.

  On the way forward, no matter how many thorns and bumps there are, it will not stop the pace of development of trade in services, let alone the confidence and action of China and the world to work together!

  In 2020, the construction of Golden Chi Industrial Park in Thailand started.

The general manager Wanna Lo Lakle hopes that the industrial park can create a convenient development platform for foreign companies investing in Thailand.

  In the past 30 years, she has traveled to and from China hundreds of times and witnessed the earth-shaking changes in China. Wanna said with emotion: "China's achievements in opening up are inseparable from the close exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises, and the Service Trade Fair is a big platform for Chinese and foreign enterprises to exchange and cooperate. ."

  In the year of its construction, Jinchi Industrial Park participated in the online business negotiation activities of the Service Trade Fair, and successfully connected with Chinese photovoltaic enterprises, applying the world's leading photovoltaic technology to the construction of the park.

  "The CIFTIS helps us accurately connect with Chinese corporate customers, especially those with advanced environmental protection technologies. We invite these companies to settle in through CIFTIS and carry out substantial cooperation, which has brought us a big step forward on the road of low carbon and environmental protection. It can be said that we are the direct beneficiaries of the Service Trade Fair." Wanna was full of praise for these "Chinese services".

She hopes to look for greater business opportunities at this year's service trade fair online meeting.

  In Wanna's view, in recent years, the "Thailand 4.0" national development strategy implemented by the Thai government has been integrated with China's "Belt and Road" initiative in multiple directions. The service trade between the two countries has entered a period of rapid development, and the Service Trade Fair has played a very important role. the impetus.

  "Thailand, from the government to the private sector, attaches great importance to the CIFTIS, and representatives from government departments and enterprises actively participate in the fair every year." Wan Na is full of expectations, "We believe that the CIFTIS will help us enter China faster and move towards world."

  "Under the background of economic globalization, the economies of various countries are interdependent and their interests are unprecedentedly intertwined. Treating each other with sincerity and sharing benefits is the fundamental plan." At the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services Global Services Trade Summit, President Xi Jinping said that all countries It is necessary to strengthen the connection between the development of trade in services, actively seek the greatest common divisor of development interests, and continue to make the "cake" bigger.

  Welcome customers from five continents, and count the world's benefits.

In the past ten years, China has imported more than 4 trillion US dollars of services, adding about 18 million jobs to global trading partners every year, and making positive contributions to promoting the opening, inclusiveness and growth of the global economy.

  At this moment, in the vast space, 45 Beidou satellites are providing positioning and navigation, transportation, emergency search and rescue and other services for more than half of the world's countries and regions.

  On the vast land, an average of more than 40 China-Europe trains shuttle between China and 200 European cities every day, providing important support for the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain.

  As President Xi Jinping said in this year's congratulatory letter-

  "China is willing to work with other countries in the world to adhere to genuine multilateralism, adhere to inclusiveness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation, and work together to promote an open and shared service economy, so as to inject impetus into the recovery and development of the world economy."

  Director system丨Qian Wei and Wang Shanshan

  Producer丨Zhang Ou

  Producer丨Xinglai

  Editor-in-Chief: Ning Lili

  Editor丨Yang Caiyun

  Vision丨Jiang Yuhang

  Proofreading丨Cheng Yu