China reaffirms openness to foreign investors after years of Covid-19
Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang opens the China Development Forum in Beijing on March 26, 2023. © Caroline Chen / AP
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The Chinese economy is starting to get its head out of the water after three years weighed down by health restrictions. For the first time since the pandemic, the China Development Forum was organized in Beijing until Monday, March 27, where foreign and especially American entrepreneurs were able to exchange with Chinese leaders. On this occasion, they had a message to convey: the second economic power remains open and welcoming.
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China is doing better economically, and it is making it known: Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang has hammered that the market of the second world power remains accessible for foreign companies and that foreign investment remains welcome.
The day before, it was the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs who played the luxury VRP: Qin Gang argued that the current context was suitable for companies, at a time of economic recovery in China, made a priority in recent weeks by Beijing.
Economic recovery, opportunity and cooperation were the themes of this forum held in the Chinese capital for the first time since the pandemic.
If the Chinese leaders have never declared it openly, these calls of the foot were intended primarily at American entrepreneurs, represented in Beijing by the CEO of Apple Tim Cook or the bosses of Boeing or the semiconductor giant Qualcomm.
Beijing is therefore playing appeasement and showing openness while Sino-American relations have continued to strain in recent months, between diplomatic quarrels and threats of decoupling.
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