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China will always be here to stay like an ocean that never fears winds and s

時間:2018-11-13 03:16:20來源:大公報

  The first China International Import Expo (CIIE) opened in Shanghai yesterday morning.  At the opening ceremony, President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote address, entitled: Work Together for an Open Global Economy.  Facing the ever-flowing Huangpu River, President Xi sent the world the strongest message of [China] expanding opening up that despite rising winds and storms "China is an ocean and will always be here to stay!"

  The Shanghai CIIE sets a precedent for a country to hold such a large scale international import expo.  As President Xi pointed out in his keynote address: The CIIE is the world's first import expo held at the national level, an innovation in the history of global trade.  It is an important decision made by China to pursue a new round of high-level opening-up, and is China's major initiative to still widen market access to the rest of the world.  It demonstrates China's consistent position of supporting the multilateral trading system and promoting free trade.  It is a concrete action by China to advance an open world economy and support economic globalisation.

  China's new round of opening-up to the outside world with the Shanghai CIIE as the milestone will be high-level and proactive opening-up.  For, in China today, the market, consumers and ordinary people can afford and demand for more good-quality imported goods.  China's economic restructuring and upgrading also needs to be pushed forward by fair and reasonable international trade rules and experience, besides, this is also in line with China's consistent advocate for global economic integration, opening-up and common development.  The Shanghai CIIE is a restart and new beginning point of China's higher-level, more proactive opening-up in future.  A platform is set for global good-quality goods, advanced technologies, fine equipment and capital, talents and rules, and China's doors open ever wider to welcome capable international enterprises to take seats.  Why not come quickly and happily to share China's development opportunities and work together for a beautiful future of the world?

  China's expansion of opening-up is based on principle, strength and confidence.  President Xi in his speech yesterday unambiguously put forward three fundamental ideas: It is important for all countries to open wider and expand the space for mutually beneficial, to pursue innovative growth and speed up the transformation of growth drivers, and to pursue inclusive development for the benefit of all.  He pointed out: "The history of economic cooperation and international trade testifies to the law that 'economies make progress through exchange and inter-connectivity and fall behind because of seclusion and closedness'.  Efforts to reduce tariff barriers and open wider will lead to inter-connectivity in economic cooperation and global trade, while the practices of beggaring thy neighbour, isolation and seclusion will only result in trade stagnation and an unhealthy world economy."

  In his keynote address yesterday, President Xi Jinping also put forward a series of concrete measures and policies to ensure the expansion of opening-up, including strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights, which foreign enterprises surely like to see and hear.  Nevertheless, for the Chinese people, President Xi's emotional words in the end of his speech sound like a declaration that is more enlightening and exciting than whatever policies and measures.  President Xi spoke with passion: "China is the world's second largest economy.  We have a market of more than 1.3 billion consumers who live on the land of over 9.6 million square kilometers.  To use a metaphor, the Chinese economy is not a pond, but an ocean.  The ocean may have its calm days, but big winds and storms are only to be expected.  Without them, the ocean wouldn't be what it is.  Big winds and storms may upset a pond, but never an ocean.  Having experienced numerous winds and storms, the ocean will still be there!  It is the same for China.  After going through 5,000 years of trials and tribulations, China is still here!  Looking ahead, China will always be here to stay!"

  In the first years after the new China was founded in 1949, many things were waiting to be done.  There was no tariff threat as the volume of foreign trade was pitifully tiny.  Yet China was here to stay.  Before the start of reform and opening up 40 years ago, the country's economy was on the verge of collapse having gone through the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution.  Yet China was still here to stay.  Today, China is guided by the socialist modernisation path in a new era with Xi Jinping as the core, and has enormous determination and strength dedicated to further reform and opening up.  In spite of rising winds and waves, a China that has experienced numerous winds and storms will surely always be here to stay!

06 November 2018

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