China News Service, March 7 (Xinhua) The second session of the 14th National People's Congress held a press conference on March 7. 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."
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.
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China News Service reporter: 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?
Wang Yi: Yesterday, many Chinese ministers answered relevant questions, and I would also like to answer this question.
As we all know, China's economy grew at a growth rate of 5.2% last year, contributing one-third of global growth.
China’s engine is still strong, and China will be the next one.
I would also like to draw your 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 cannot develop without the world, and the world cannot develop without China.
Badmouthing China will definitely backfire on itself, and misjudging China will miss opportunities.
Economic diplomacy is also an important part of our external work. We will continue to launch measures to facilitate the exchanges of people 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. We hope that more countries will also provide visa convenience to Chinese citizens and jointly create a cross-border The fast network for personnel exchanges has accelerated the resumption of international passenger flights, allowing Chinese citizens to leave at any time and making foreign friends feel at home.
We will also organize more "local tours for 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.