2023-09-04 01:50:41
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 3rdTopic: Jointly promote openness and cooperation to create a better future——President Xi Jinping’s video speech to the 2023 China International Fair for Trade in Services Global Service Trade Summit has aroused enthusiastic international response
President Xi Jinping delivered a video speech to the 2023 China International Service Trade Fair Global Service Trade Summit in Beijing on the 2nd. People from many countries said that President Xi Jinping’s speech demonstrated China’s determination and responsibility to promote high-level opening up and share development opportunities with the world, and injected confidence and strength into countries’ joint efforts to cope with global economic challenges and jointly create prosperity and development prospects.
Opening up to the outside world at a high level stimulates new momentum
“This year marks the 45th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up. China will persist in promoting high-level opening up, comprehensively promote Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, and provide new opportunities for countries to open up and cooperate.” President Xi Jinping mentioned the term “opening up” many times in his speech. word.
British trade envoy to China Tom Duke (Chinese name Du Tao) said after listening to President Xi Jinping’s speech that China’s promotion of high-level opening up “will bring many opportunities to the UK and other foreign partners. We look forward to these cooperation to the world. benefit businesses and people.”
The UK is the guest country of this year’s CIFTIS, and it has formed the largest exhibition group since its participation. Du Tao said: “The UK and China are very complementary in service trade, and we look forward to sharing the achievements of Chinese-style modernization in the field of technical services.”
“Expanding the network of high-standard free trade zones facing the world”, “expanding the opening up of service areas such as telecommunications, tourism, law, and professional examinations”, “relaxing market access for the service industry, and orderly promoting the opening process of cross-border service trade”… Thailand opened Cai Weicai, senior vice president of Bank of Thailand, said that President Xi Jinping put forward a series of new measures to “create a more open and inclusive development environment” in his speech. He said that the holding of the service trade fair reflects the Chinese government’s determination to relax the market access of the service industry and improve the level of openness in cross-border service trade, which is of great significance to service trade suppliers at home and abroad. Kaitai Bank is looking forward to further expanding the Chinese market.
“The world economy prospers when it is open, and declines when it is closed.” These words of President Xi Jinping left a deep impression on Singaporean political commentator Ong Desheng. Weng Desheng said that the service trade fair has witnessed the growing “friend circle” of China’s service trade, which shows that most countries in the world are eager to open up and cooperate. “Globalization is at a crossroads. It is a choice whether to protect the interests of a small number of people or continue to insist that globalization benefits the majority.”
At present, the service industry and service trade have become the focus of China’s high-level opening up. The latest data show that in the first seven months of this year, China’s total import and export of services reached 3,666.91 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.1%.
Konstantinos Belhutesfa, a professor at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, said that China’s continuous opening up to the outside world and the continuous improvement in the scale and quality of opening up have promoted the rapid growth of Africa-China trade. China’s high-level opening up “will inject more Chinese impetus into Africa and help Africa develop independently.”
Open up a new situation by deepening mutually beneficial cooperation
“Strengthen the bond of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation”, “Promote linkage and integration through service cooperation”, “Strengthen the development path driven by innovation”, “Cultivate development momentum through service innovation”…Facing the current lack of momentum for world economic recovery, “decoupling and broken chains” The situation that erodes the foundation of global cooperation, President Xi Jinping emphasized “cooperation” and “innovation” many times in his speech, and proposed a series of practical cooperation measures.
Saudi Arabia’s Ajlan Brothers Holding Group participated in the Service Trade Fair for the first time last year, and further expanded its booth area this year. “The Service Trade Fair has always been an important window to showcase China’s high-level opening-up achievements, providing an international exchange and cooperation platform for companies from all over the world,” said Mohammad Al-Ajlan, vice chairman of Ajlan Brothers Holding Group, and President Xi Jinping’s speech Let him have more expectations for service trade cooperation under the framework of the “Belt and Road”.
Aguilan said that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. This year’s CIFTIS focuses on demonstrating the achievements of the digital transformation of the service industry and promoting innovation and cooperation under the “Belt and Road Initiative”. These are in line with the economic transformation goals of Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030”. In the future, more Middle Eastern companies will strengthen cooperation and exchanges with Chinese companies. He believes that China’s initiative to expand the import of high-quality services and encourage the expansion of the export of knowledge-intensive services will play a role in promoting the optimization and modernization of industrial structures in many countries around the world.
Talking about “promoting linkage and integration through service cooperation”, Kenyan international affairs expert Cavens Adhill said that Kenya, as an important node of the “Belt and Road” in East Africa, has benefited a lot from the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”. From the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, the first phase of the Nairobi-Malaysia Railway, to energy, telecommunications and other infrastructure projects, China has become an important provider of construction and engineering services in Kenya, playing an important role in promoting the connectivity of local infrastructure. At the same time, the cooperation between Kenya and China in the field of education is booming. More and more Kenyan young people regard China as the first choice for studying abroad in higher education. The exchanges and communication between the two peoples are constantly strengthening.
Andrés Angulo, a scholar of international relations and political science at the Christian Humanities University of Chile, said that China’s opening up has benefited Latin American countries, and the CIFTIS is a vivid case. For a country like Chile that needs to unleash its commercial potential, developing the services sector is crucial. In many fields including agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and e-commerce, services are the key to increasing product value, and the Service Trade Fair is an excellent opportunity to obtain important services and promote their own services.
At present, the global service trade and cooperation in the service industry are developing in depth, the process of digitization, intelligence, and greenization is accelerating, and new technologies, new formats, and new models are emerging one after another. President Xi Jinping emphasized in his speech that we will strengthen the innovation-driven development path. Accelerate the cultivation of new kinetic energy for the digitalization of service trade, promote the reform of the basic data system, and promote the innovation and development of digital trade reform. Build a national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market, and support the service industry to play a greater role in green development. Promote the integrated development of service trade and modern service industry, high-end manufacturing, and modern agriculture, and release more innovation vitality.
Abdul Sattar Eshra, Secretary-General of the Egypt-China Business Council, has visited China many times and has been paying close attention to China’s progress in using advanced technology to realize industrial green transformation and intelligent upgrading. “China is promoting service trade to be smart, clean and green,” Eshra said. Many countries, including Egypt, hope to participate in the Service Trade Fair, because they can see “a panoramic image of clean and advanced service technologies” here.
Build a better future with high-quality development
“Provide new development impetus for the world with China’s big market opportunities” “Provide more and better Chinese services for the world with high-quality development”… President Xi Jinping’s important discussion on “sharing the achievements of Chinese-style modernization” has attracted people from many countries. Feeling looking forward to.
Gianpaolo Bruno, chief representative of the Beijing Office of the Italian Foreign Trade Commission, said after listening to President Xi Jinping’s speech that China is moving towards a higher end of the global value chain, and we are paying close attention to this, because it implies great potential for cooperation with China in the high-end field. Chance.
Cai Weicai, senior vice president of Thailand’s Kaitai Bank, said that we are delighted to see that many Chinese companies have invested in ASEAN to set up factories and expand the local market. As China further opens up to the outside world, the closer integration of the Chinese market and the ASEAN market will be a bright spot in the future development of the global economy. He pointed out that in the past few years, China has opened its doors to companies from all over the world through large platforms such as the Service Trade Fair and the Import Expo, and has made positive contributions to promoting global trade exchanges and cooperation.
“Philippine Star” columnist Li Tianrong said that listening to President Xi Jinping’s speech, he deeply felt China’s determination to take the road of sustainable development. “I believe that the Philippines and other ASEAN countries will benefit from Chinese-style modernization. China’s continuous provision of high-quality services, improvement of technological levels, promotion of green development, and economic growth will help improve the service quality, technical level, and knowledge of ASEAN countries. The depth and momentum of economic development will help these countries embark on their own path of green development.”
“Chinese-style modernization is worthy of careful study and reference by the whole world.” Kenyan international affairs expert Cavens Adhir believes that China’s modernization path will not only effectively promote its own sustainable development, but will also bring benefits to other parts of the world. “In the spirit of common prosperity, China shares the fruits of development and joins hands with the world to achieve sustainable development.”
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