Look at the news knows reporter Zhang Qing
2021-12-08 10:00
Huo Jianguo is a participant in the negotiations on China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the former president of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, and the current vice president of the China WTO Research Association. In the years of China's accession negotiations, he would go to Geneva at least once a year to attend the WTO Working Group Meeting.
Recalling the hardships of the 15-year "WTO accession" long-distance run, Huo Jianguo described it as "very complicated." This degree of complexity lies in the huge gap between China's economic system at that time and some of the principles of fair competition and non-discrimination required by the WTO at that time, and there are more contents that need to be improved in China, and there is no way to start, so a process of talking about reform and domestic system benchmarking has been formed.
By 1994, the negotiations had entered the second half, a crucial period in the struggle for interests between the United States and Europe. "Market share and actual trade interests you fight for more than i, Europe and the United States are concerned about the entry of their strong products, asking you to let go, so the second half has become more acute, more difficult." Huo Jianguo said.
At that time, Huo Jianguo was the deputy director of the Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the State Economic and Trade Commission, and he was specifically responsible for coordinating and promoting many issues involved. He said frankly that the difficulties at that time were concentrated in market access, which would involve the interests of many sectors, but the determination of the country to reform was very large.
For example, in 1992, there was a great shortage of home appliances in China, and the State Council decided to introduce 14 color TV production lines, at that time some competent departments expressed opposition, but the State Council finally adhered to the policy of introduction.
After seven or eight years, we found that all the domestic color TV production and export volume are the largest and strongest, "dancing with wolves" to make local enterprises "stronger and stronger in the Vietnam War", "WTO accession" for 20 years, is China's continuous familiarity with, understanding of the international process, at the same time, it is also a benchmarking process, through benchmarking, China can successfully enter the international market, into the world economy.
Huo Jianguo also said: "Take the IT industry, after China's 'accession to the WTO', Jiangsu Kunshan, Guangdong and other places have increased their layout efforts, whether it is Taiwan or US capital have entered the land relatively smoothly, more, thus driving the rapid development of the IT industry, but also laid a strong foundation for domestic e-commerce, digital economy, digital trade and so on in the later period." ”
Huo Jianguo stressed that maintaining a level playing field is very conducive to the development and development of enterprises, and closed to the country or always thinking of protecting themselves, in fact, this industry and this enterprise may become weaker.