Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2nd China International Import Expo and delivered a keynote speech
Initiative to jointly build open cooperation, open innovation, open and shared world economy, announced that China has taken new measures to promote a higher level of opening up
Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, November 5th (Reporter Jiang Wei, Yang Yijun, Zhu Chao) The 2nd China International Import Expo opened on the 5th at the Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center. President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Openness, Cooperation, Destiny and Commonness", emphasizing that countries should build a world economy with open cooperation, open innovation, open and shared, and reopen the door to China's openness with a more open mind and initiatives. It will only grow bigger and bigger. China adheres to opening up to promote reform, promote development, promote innovation, and continue to promote a higher level of opening up.
At 9:30 in the morning, Xi Jinping and the foreign leader entered the venue.
In the warm applause, Xi Jinping announced that the second China International Import Expo was officially opened. Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech.
Xi Jinping pointed out that a year ago, we successfully hosted the first China International Import Expo here. Today, more friends are coming. I believe that all of you can come and enjoy with satisfaction. Last year, at the inaugural Expo, I announced five measures to expand China's opening up and proposed a three-point opening requirement for Shanghai. Over the past year, these open measures have been basically implemented.
Xi Jinping emphasized that economic globalization is a historical trend. Although there will be some reversing waves, although there will be many shoal reefs, the momentum of the big rivers will not be blocked. No country can solve the problems facing the development of the world economy. All countries should adhere to the concept of human priority, and take a more open mindset and initiatives to jointly expand the global market, make the global sharing mechanism a reality, and work together in a global way to make the economic globalization more powerful. Ok, the smaller the resistance, the better.
Xi Jinping made several initiatives:
First, build an open and cooperative world economy. In the face of contradictions and frictions, consultation and cooperation are the right way. As long as they treat each other as equals, mutual understanding and mutual accommodation, there is no problem that cannot be solved. We should persist in pursuing development with openness, persisting in "handling" rather than "relaxing hands", insisting on "demolition of walls" rather than "building walls", and resolutely oppose protectionism and unilateralism.
Second, build an open and innovative world economy. Countries should strengthen innovation and cooperation, promote deep integration of science and technology with the economy, strengthen the sharing of innovation results, support enterprises to independently carry out technical exchanges and cooperation, and allow the source of innovation to flow in full. We should work together to strengthen intellectual property protection, rather than engage in intellectual blockades to create and even expand the technological divide.
Third, build an open and shared world economy. We should jointly safeguard the international order based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, adhere to the core values and basic principles of the multilateral trading system, and promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. Increase support for LDCs so that development results can benefit more countries and people.
Xi Jinping stressed that standing at a new historical starting point, China's opening door will only grow wider. We will continue to promote reform, promote development, and promote innovation through openness, and continue to promote a higher level of opening up.
First, continue to expand market opening. China's middle-income group is the largest in the world, with a huge market scale and huge potential, and the prospects are limitless. The Chinese market is so big, everyone is welcome to take a look. China will actively build a more active domestic market, pay more attention to the role of imports, further reduce tariffs and institutional costs, foster a number of import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones, and expand imports of high-quality products and services from various countries.
Second, continue to improve the open pattern. China will continue to encourage the free trade pilot zone to boldly test and boldly accelerate the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, continue to promote the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the regional integration of the Yangtze River Delta, and the construction of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. A new national strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin will be formulated to enhance the open linkage effect.
Third, continue to optimize the business environment. China will continue to accelerate the pace of reform in key areas and important areas in response to the prominent contradictions that constrain economic development, and provide institutional guarantees for high-level openness and high-quality development with the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. We will continue to improve the market-oriented, rule-of-law, and international business environment, relax foreign market access, continue to reduce negative lists, improve investment promotion and protection, information reporting systems, and improve the intellectual property protection legal system.
Fourth, continue to deepen bilateral and multilateral cooperation. China supports the necessary reforms to the World Trade Organization to enhance the authority and effectiveness of the multilateral trading system. It is hoped that the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement will be signed into force as soon as possible. China is willing to negotiate high-standard free trade agreements with more countries to accelerate the negotiation process of the China-Europe Investment Agreement, the China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Agreement, and the China-GCC Free Trade Agreement. China will actively participate in the cooperation of the UN, the G20, APEC, BRICS and other mechanisms to promote economic globalization.
Fifth, continue to promote the "One Belt, One Road". China will uphold the principle of building, building, and sharing, adhere to the concepts of openness, greenness, and cleanliness, strive to achieve high standards, benefit the people's livelihood, and achieve sustainable goals, and promote the quality development of the “Belt and Road”.
Xi Jinping pointed out that facing the future, China will adhere to the new development concept, continue to implement the innovation-driven development strategy, focus on cultivating and expanding new kinetic energy, and constantly promote the transfer mode, adjust the structure, increase the momentum, promote the high-quality development of the economy, and bring the world economic growth. New and more opportunities. I believe that China's economic development prospects will be brighter and more bright.
Xi Jinping finally stressed that from the long-term perspective of history, China's development is a great undertaking for the progress of all mankind. China will open its arms to provide more market opportunities, investment opportunities and growth opportunities for countries to achieve common development. I hope that everyone will work together to contribute to the building of an open world economy and building a community of human destiny.
During Xi Jinping's speech, the audience repeatedly gave warm applause.
Subsequently, French President Mark Long, Greek Prime Minister Mizotakis, Jamaican Prime Minister Holnis, Serbian Prime Minister Bona Beach, Italian Foreign Minister Dimayo, and WTO Director-General Azevedo delivered speeches respectively. They spoke highly of China's holding of the second Expo, which is considered to highlight the vision of Chinese leaders, reflects China's openness, tolerance, and determination and sincerity to promote economic globalization and free trade and investment cooperation through practical actions. .
Mark Long said that China's reform and opening up has achieved remarkable achievements in the past 40 years. It is the greatest event in human history and has become one of the important turning points of the contemporary international order. China's success is attributed to its own efforts and to economic globalization. China is both a beneficiary of globalization and a shaper. The ancient Silk Road is continuing today, linking Europe and China more closely. China’s success story shows that China needs to be open to the world and the world needs to be open to China. Openness is also a choice for Europe. The countries highly appreciate and are very much looking forward to China's further expansion of its initiatives. In globalization, countries are facing the problem of uneven development. Recourse to unilateralism, protectionism, the use of tariff weapons and the law of the jungle can not solve the problems facing the current world. This is not a choice of France, nor a choice of Europe. There is no winner in the trade war. China’s interests as an important trading partner of all countries and multilateralism, free trade and the multilateral trading system should be upheld. The EU regards China as an important partner and is willing to work with China to maintain strong multilateralism and contribute to building a more balanced international order in the spirit of mutual respect, mutual trust and mutual benefit.
Foreign leaders attending the meeting said that China is an important engine of economic globalization and a stable factor in international trade. The achievements of China's opening up to the outside world strongly prove that in the era of the increasingly interdependent and destiny of the country and the country in the 21st century, only by opening to the outside world rather than self-enclosure, active cooperation, rather than being a neighbor, mutual benefit and win-win, not harming others, can each achieve their own And the sustainable development of the global economy. China's continued expansion of opening up to the outside world will create more development opportunities for the world. The parties are willing to seize the opportunity of China's development and opening up, strengthen exchanges and cooperation, and build a "Belt and Road" to embrace a brighter future.
Before the opening ceremony, Xi Jinping took a group photo with foreign leaders and cordially met with representatives of the world's top 500 entrepreneurs, representatives of the foreign think tanks of the "70-year China Development and Human Destiny Community" forum, and foreign ministers attending the WTO Small Ministerial Conference. And the head of the delegation.
Ding Xuexiang, Li Qiang, Yang Jiechi, Hu Chunhua, Huang Kunming, Wang Yi, Zhao Kezhi, He Lifeng, etc. participated in the above activities.
Hu Chunhua presided over the opening ceremony.
The 2nd China International Import Expo was held from November 5th to 10th. A total of 181 countries, regions, and international organizations attended the conference, and more than 3,800 companies participated.
On the same day, the Hongqiao International Economic Forum was held, with more than 4,000 guests from all walks of life in the world. (Transferred from the November 6th "China Sports News" 01 version