Source: People's Daily
Highlighting China's Vigorous Vitality and Great Potential (People's Times)
The door of China's opening up will not be closed, but will only be opened wider and wider. China's economy continues to recover steadily, becoming a huge gravitational field attracting international commodities and factor resources, and also providing broad market opportunities for other countries.
Not long ago, the 130th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) came to an end in Guangzhou. This is an international event held simultaneously online and offline: online, about 60,000 booths, about 26,000 Chinese and foreign enterprises "cloud" terminal exhibition, screen-to-screen remote communication, meet new customers, discover new business opportunities, build a low-cost and efficient connection to the global "trade bridge"; offline, the exhibition area of 400,000 square meters, about 7,800 enterprises to participate in the exhibition, face-to-face in-depth exchanges, for the willingness to cooperate with the docking of procurement is high. With the COVID-19 pandemic still spreading, the world's largest physical exhibition highlights the vitality and great potential of China's economy.
In his congratulatory letter to the Canton Fair, President Xi Jinping pointed out: "Since its establishment 65 years ago, the Canton Fair has made important contributions to serving international trade, promoting internal and external connectivity, and promoting economic development. "Sixty-five years of ups and downs, uninterrupted, the annual turnover from the beginning of the 87 million US dollars, to the pre-epidemic 59 billion US dollars, an increase of nearly 680 times, the Canton Fair has become an important platform for China's opening up and international trade cooperation, known as China's foreign trade barometer and weather vane." In a sense, the history of the Canton Fair is the history of China's continuous expansion of opening up to the outside world and its integration into the world economy, and it is also the history of enterprises from all countries sharing China's development opportunities and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.
At present, the century-old changes in the world and the epidemic of the century are intertwined and superimposed, and the world economy and trade are facing profound changes. This canton fair revolution is new and courageous, for the first time to promote the domestic and international double circulation as the theme, the first time to implement online and offline integration exhibition, the first time to hold a national international trade forum at the Canton Fair - the first Pearl River International Trade Forum, the first offline to set up a "rural revitalization characteristic products" exhibition area, the first time to introduce third-party public overseas warehouses, shipping and other services... From the main trade in goods to the all-round trade in goods, services and technology, from export promotion to equal emphasis on imports and exports, to promote trade balance, from exhibition-based to the combination of exhibitions and conferences, from offline to online and offline integration. A number of "first" attempts, multiple significant changes, the Canton Fair innovation mechanism, enrich the format, expand the function, and strive to build An important platform for China's all-round opening up, promoting the high-quality development of international trade, and connecting domestic and international double cycles.
The Canton Fair will drive enterprise innovation and lead enterprises to extend to both ends of the "smile curve". Upgrading the functions of the online platform, optimizing offline exhibition services, and organizing more enterprises with strong innovation ability, great development potential, high technical content and high added value of products to participate in the exhibition are precisely to play a leading role in innovation. Taking the selection of the Export Product Design Award of the Canton Fair as an example, a total of 943 companies participated in the 1972 product evaluation, a record high, new technologies, new materials, new processes emerge in an endless stream, intelligent, branding, high-end gradually become a new trend. More and more Chinese manufacturing and Chinese brands are emerging here and going to the world stage, leading China to continue to move upstream in the global value chain.
The Canton Fair will give full play to the advantages of the platform and build a new development pattern of services. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "We are building a new development pattern, which is by no means a closed domestic single cycle, but an open and mutually reinforcing domestic and international double cycle. "This canton fair adopts the two-wheel drive strategy of domestic and foreign investment promotion, which not only helps Chinese enterprises to protect orders and expand the market, but also holds a series of double-cycle docking activities." Scientific understanding and accurate grasp of the relationship between the domestic cycle and the domestic and international double cycle, so that the domestic market and the international market are better connected, and achieve a higher level of mutual benefit and win-win results with all countries in the world, we can inject a strong impetus into accelerating the construction of a new development pattern.
Sail together in the same boat and sail through the wind and waves. China will always hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win results, continuously expand its opening up to the outside world and raise the level of opening up, join hands with all countries in the world, uphold genuine multilateralism, and promote the construction of a high-level open world economy.
Rosanne