China News Service, Beijing, March 7 (Reporter Zhang Suma Shuaisha) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Foreign Minister, said in response to a question from a China News Service reporter on the 7th that China’s engine is still strong, and China is still the next country.
On the same day, the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress invited Wang Yi to answer questions from Chinese and foreign reporters on issues related to "China's foreign policy and external relations."
At the meeting, a reporter from China News Service asked: How will China’s diplomacy better serve China-style modernization?
There are some voices from the outside world that are worried about China's business environment or even pessimize China's economic development prospects. What is your response?
On March 7, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held a press conference in Beijing. Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, answered questions from Chinese and foreign reporters on issues related to "China's foreign policy and external relations."
Photo by China News Service reporter Cui Nan
Wang Yi said that last year, China's economy grew at a rate of 5.2%, contributing one-third of global growth.
China’s engine is still strong, and China will be the next one.
Wang Yi asked everyone to pay attention to several new trends:
First of all, China's development not only achieves reasonable quantitative growth, but also achieves effective qualitative improvement.
Emerging industries are booming, green transformation has achieved remarkable results, social expectations have steadily improved, and new productive forces have accelerated.
Secondly, China’s ultra-large-scale market with a population of more than 1.4 billion is expanding globally. New demands and new business formats are explosively emerging, and the space for its own development and foreign cooperation is rapidly expanding.
Third, China’s door to opening up is opening wider and wider, and high-level and institutional opening-up has become increasingly valuable. China’s overall tariff level has been reduced to a level comparable to that of developed countries in the WTO, and the negative list for foreign investment access has been reduced to less than 31 items. , manufacturing access has been fully liberalized, the opening up of the service industry has been accelerated, and the rate of return on foreign investment is still among the best in the world.
"China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's development cannot be separated from China. Slandering China will definitely backfire on itself, and misjudgment of China will miss opportunities." Wang Yi said.
He pointed out that economic diplomacy is also an important part of foreign work, and we will continue to launch measures to facilitate the exchanges of personnel between China and foreign countries, including more payment conveniences.
"I would like to tell you that starting from March 14, China will further implement a visa-free policy for six countries: Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg," Wang Yi said. We hope that more countries will also grant visas to Chinese citizens. Conveniently, we will jointly build a fast network for cross-border personnel exchanges, promote the accelerated resumption of international passenger flights, allow Chinese citizens to leave at any time, and make foreign friends feel at home.
Wang Yi said that we will also organize more "local tours of envoys in China" to build more bridges for local governments and enterprises to open up and cooperate.
We are willing to cooperate with the competent authorities to promote the negotiation and signing of more high-standard free trade agreements, expand the global free trade zone network, and maintain the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain supply chain data chain.
We will work together to successfully host international cooperation platforms such as the China International Import Expo, China Service Trade Fair, Consumer Expo and Chain Expo, optimize the market-oriented, legal and international business environment, and bring more stable expectations to investors and partners from various countries. , longer-term benefits.
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