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(The 3rd CIIE) CIIE Observation: The three main exhibits reflect the new thinking of China’s economic improvement and share responsibility for China’s connection to the world.
China News Service, Shanghai, November 7. Title: China CIIE Observation: The three main exhibits reflect the new thinking on China’s economic improvement and share responsibility for China’s connection to the world
China News Agency reporter Li Jiajia
“China’s foreign trade has always been an important driving force for China’s economic development. Therefore, the three major exhibitions are held simultaneously, not to cut the era, but to deepen and advance the era.” Recently, in an exclusive interview with a reporter for the China News Agency, the whole country Said Zhou Hanmin, a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, vice president of the National Democratic Construction Association and president of the Shanghai National Democratic Construction Association.
The three main exhibitions are the China International Import Expo (CIIE), the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), and the China International Trade Services Fair (Services Trade Fair). In the field of merchandise trade, the CIIE focuses on imports, the Canton Fair focuses on exports, and the Services Fair focuses on trade in services. The three complement each other and together form a platform for the comprehensive development of “Made in China” and “Services in China” in the new era. The epitome of expanding and opening up.
Over the past 60 years, the Canton Fair has achieved remarkable results. Its venues have been moved several times to the two main current exhibition halls, Liuhua and Pazhou. The name has also been rebranded as “China Import and Export Fair”, but the purpose is always the same: for the world to know China and for China to know the world. .
Zhou Hanmin pointed out that today’s Canton Fair has truly become a bridge between China and the world, so it is necessary to maintain the scale and function of the Canton Fair.
However, the resistance of the Canton Fair has also left a deep imprint of the times. According to Zhang Yimin, professor at China Europe International Business School, the Canton Fair, which is dominated by labor-intensive products, presents an extensive business growth method. With China’s rapid economic growth and per capita wages, China’s advantage in cheap labor has begun. Lost, this mode of business and economic growth is in urgent need of change.
The most emblematic of China’s integration into the world was on December 11, 2001, when China formally joined the World Trade Organization and joined the vast ocean of world trade. That year, China’s total foreign trade imports and exports amounted to approximately US $ 500 billion.
While accelerating its integration into the world, China is also undergoing a rapid transformation. An outstanding performance is that foreign trade at that time was no longer simply focused on trade in goods, but at the same time on technology trade and trade in services. At present, China not only ranks first in world trade in goods, but is also in the top ten in world trade in services.
As a result, the Service Fair, formerly known as the “Beijing Fair”, was born, the only international, national and comprehensive exhibition in the field of China’s service trade, also introducing a new trend of opening China. “The Service Fair is an important measure for China to expand into new trade areas,” said Zhou Hanmin.
Zhang Yimin believes that the increase in income level of residents caused by industrial development naturally generates demand for services. This is the transformation of China’s trade growth mode and economic growth mode from demanding quantity to quality, and the projection and progress of China’s economic transformation and improvement. .
In recent years, China has proactively expanded the service industry market opening, launched pilot development and innovation projects in services trade, and continuously promoted the expansion of the scale of services trade and improved the competitiveness; has continually narrowed the negative list of foreign investment, continued to optimize the business environment, and entered service providers around the world. The Chinese market creates convenience. As the new corona epidemic continues to spread this year, the celebration of the Service Fair has added certainty to the world.
The following CIIE continued to increase this certainty. As Chinese President Xi Jinping said in the opening speech at the opening ceremony of the third CIIE, China will uphold openness, cooperation and unity. , The belief of win-win, expand the openness unswervingly and comprehensively, will more efficiently realize the interconnection of internal and external markets and factor resource exchange, making the Chinese market a world market, a shared market and everyone’s market, and injecting more positive energy into the international community.
Zhou Hanmin believes that the CIIE, as the only exhibition in the world organized by a sovereign state that focuses on imports, demonstrates its unique functions. One is to let the world see that China’s economy is integrated into the world in two ways; China’s development should be aimed at seeking a better life for the people; The CIIE plays a role in both import and export, turning exhibitions into commodities, trade and Simultaneous investment, which turns exhibitors into investors, also plays the trinity role in the development of international trade, with the simultaneous development of goods, technology and services.
In addition, he noted that the three main exhibits reflect the basic trend of China’s foreign trade, “jointly assuming China’s great responsibility to connect the world, and it cannot be partial, but must have a greater linkage.”
