(Year-end special) "Overseas Chinese" see new opportunities
China News Agency, Beijing, December 29 (Reporter Wu Kan) 2022 is coming to an end. In this year, under the background of continuous deep adjustment of the world economic structure and chills in global trade, China's economy has faced difficulties and achieved high-quality Development has taken solid steps.
Overseas Chinese businessmen are seizing opportunities to integrate into the Chinese market and promote Sino-foreign economic and trade exchanges.
"The opportunities brought by the high-quality development of China's economy have made overseas Chinese full of confidence." Wu Hao, president of the Russian Overseas Chinese Youth Federation, said that the fundamentals of China's long-term economic growth have not changed and will not change. The effect of the policy continues to emerge. Next year, the Chinese economy will further release its development potential. Overseas Chinese will continue to contribute to the promotion of Chinese-style modernization and the new development pattern of "big cycle and double cycle".
This year, the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China has aroused great attention and enthusiastic responses among overseas Chinese. The report of the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China sent a new signal of China's opening-up policy, and also made overseas Chinese see new opportunities to return to China to start businesses.
In the view of Chen Zhengxi, the founding president of the China General Chamber of Commerce in Italy, the deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to "steadily expand rules, regulations, management, standards and other institutional openings" and "accelerate the construction of a trading power" has drawn a clear picture for China's further opening up. The road map also makes overseas Chinese businessmen feel very excited.
"China's determination to expand high-level opening up will not change, and its determination to share development opportunities with the world will not change. This will give Chinese businessmen and investors from all over the world a 'reassurance'." Gai, president of the Northeast European Association and Chamber of Commerce Lin said that Chinese businessmen have the ability to make good use of both domestic and international resources and markets, and can turn their advantages into a driving force to participate in China's high-level opening up and promote high-quality development.
From the implementation of the new version of the negative list of foreign investment access in the national and pilot free trade zones, further relaxation of foreign investment market access, to the implementation of foreign investment law enforcement inspections, to ensure the implementation of the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises, to the implementation of the "Encouraging Foreign Investment Industry Catalogue ( 2022 Edition)"... Since the beginning of this year, China has taken frequent measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, providing foreign-funded enterprises with more convenient industrial facilities and a continuously optimized business environment.
Qi Bin, vice chairman of the Thailand-China Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Association, has a deep understanding of the optimization of the business environment. He invested in a medical project in China this year, and it took only five months from the signing of the project to the completion of the factory building.
He said: "Nowadays, it is more convenient for enterprises to handle affairs, operating costs are reduced, and market vitality is constantly being stimulated. I believe that as China's marketization, rule of law, and internationalized business environment become more and more perfect, China will continue to become a hot spot for investment."
This year, China successfully held large-scale exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo, the Service Trade Fair, and the Consumer Expo, building an international platform for global companies to open and cooperate.
Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese companies are also active in these exhibitions. They promote their brands, look for opportunities, quickly connect with the Chinese market, and share development opportunities.
At the 5th CIIE, Chia Tai Group’s booth covers an area of 500 square meters, exhibiting more than 110 products.
Xue Zengyi, senior vice chairman of Chia Tai Group's agricultural, animal husbandry and food enterprise in China, said: "With the help of the platform of the CIIE, we can leverage our advantages in the field of agricultural, animal husbandry and food, integrate global resources, and introduce more agricultural and animal husbandry products to the Chinese market. .”
During the second Consumer Expo, more than 70 Chinese businessmen from 16 countries and regions went to Hainan to seek business opportunities, and Zhai Jingli, vice president of APP (China) of Jinguang Group, was one of them.
She said: "The group plans to continue to increase the intensity and breadth of investment in Hainan, make efforts in digital transformation and green transformation, launch a series of green cycle transformation projects, continuously enhance the added value of products, and improve supporting service capabilities."
This year, overseas Chinese affairs departments in various places have organized many institutional overseas Chinese-related intelligence and capital introduction activities, which have built a platform for matching, negotiating and establishing cooperation between overseas Chinese businessmen and enterprises.
The 2022 Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurship Development Fair was held in Wuhan in November, and a total of 194 projects were signed, with a total amount of over 161 billion yuan (RMB, the same below); the 2022 Overseas Chinese Elite Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit was held in Hangzhou in November, and a total of 194 projects were signed at the meeting There are 25 projects, with an investment of about 2.195 billion yuan; the 8th Overseas Chinese Industry Fair was held in Shenzhen in September, with a total of 125 specialized and new enterprises, and over 1,000 specialized, special and new exhibits were unveiled.
Yu Peng, chairman of Hubei Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Association and chairman of Weipeng Group, has participated in and organized overseas Chinese entrepreneurial development fairs for many years. Opportunities for cooperation with overseas Chinese are a window for overseas Chinese to understand China's opening-up policy and capture China's development opportunities. The overseas Chinese affairs department actively builds platforms, optimizes services, promotes better development of talent recruitment, and provides a broader opportunity for overseas Chinese to seek in-depth cooperation and career development. space.” (End)