Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 28 (Reporters Yang Yijun and Sun Yi) On the morning of March 28, President Xi Jinping met with representatives from the international business community at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Xi Jinping welcomed the arrival of representatives from the international business community and expressed his appreciation for their long-term commitment to cooperation with China. Xi Jinping stressed that over the past 70 years of the founding of New China, especially over 40 years of reform and opening up, has created the "two miracles" of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. It is due to the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the unity and struggle of the Chinese people, and it is also inseparable from the support and help of the international community, including the contributions made by foreign-funded enterprises in China. Reform and opening up has enabled China to quickly enter the world market and make great strides to catch up with the times. One important thing is to actively utilize foreign capital. Foreign-invested enterprises invest in China, driving China's economic growth and employment, promoting China's technological and management progress, and promoting China's reform and opening up. Practice has proved that foreign-funded enterprises are important participants in Chinese modernization, important participants in China's reform, opening up and innovation and creation, and important participants in China's connectivity with the world and integrating into economic globalization. In this process, foreign-funded enterprises generally received generous returns, and enterprises continued to grow and grow, achieving mutual benefit and win-win results, and also forged deep friendship with the Chinese people.
Xi Jinping pointed out that for many years, China has been a major contributor and stability anchor to world economic growth and is comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization. Opening up to the outside world is China's basic national policy. China is promoting high-level opening up to the outside world and steadily expanding institutional opening up such as rules, regulations, management, and standards. The door to opening up will only open wider and wider, and the policies to utilize foreign capital will not change. China is the second largest consumer market in the world, with the largest middle-income group in the world, and contains huge investment and consumption potential. China is committed to high-quality development, and the green, digital and intelligent transformation is accelerated, and the industrial supporting capabilities are strong. It is the best application scenario for the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. China has formed a relatively sound legal and policy system and working system for the utilization of foreign investment, promoted the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, and actively created a first-class business environment for market-oriented, law-based and internationalization. China has maintained political stability and social stability for a long time and is recognized by the safest countries in the world. These show that China's career stage is big, the market prospects are broad, the policy expectations are stable, and the security situation is a fertile ground that is conducive to foreign-funded enterprises' investment and development. China was, is, is, and will inevitably be an ideal, safe and promising investment destination for foreign businessmen. Walking with China is walking with opportunities, believing in China is believing in tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future.
Xi Jinping stressed that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has formulated a roadmap and timetable for deepening the reform of the foreign investment and foreign investment management system. China will focus on lowering the market entry threshold and further expand opening up; ensure that foreign-invested enterprises in China enjoy national treatment equally, maintain fair competition in the market; strengthen communication with foreign investors, provide as much convenience as possible for their trade and investment in China, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises in accordance with the law. At the same time, China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development and strive to create a good external environment for the development of foreign-funded enterprises.
Xi Jinping pointed out that multilateralism is an inevitable choice to solve the difficulties and challenges facing the world, and economic globalization is an unstoppable historical trend. China adheres to true multilateralism, promotes inclusive and inclusive economic globalization, actively participates in global economic governance, and is committed to building an open world economy. Foreign-invested enterprises, especially multinational corporations, play an important role in maintaining the world economic order and also bear important responsibilities. We must jointly maintain the multilateral trading system, jointly maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, jointly maintain the international environment of open cooperation, and promote economic globalization in the right direction.
More than 40 global chairman, CEO and representatives of business associations from foreign-funded enterprises attended the meeting. FedEx Group President Rui Sibo, Germany's Mercedes-Benz Group Chairman Kang Linsong, France's Sanofi Group CEO Paul Han, UK's HSBC Holdings Group CEO Ai Qiaozhi, Japan's Hitachi Productions Chairman Toshiaki Higashihara, South Korea's SK Hynix President Guo Luzheng, Saudi Aramco President Nasser, and Saudi Aramco President Nasser spoke one after another.
They said that under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, China has achieved stable economic growth through comprehensively deepening reforms and expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, which is admirable. From "Made in China" to "new quality productivity", China empowers industrial transformation and upgrading with scientific and technological innovation, and will achieve higher quality and more sustainable development, and China's economic prospects are bright. Against the backdrop of intensifying protectionism, China has continuously expanded its opening up, injecting stability into the global economy, becoming an oasis of certainty and a hotbed for investment and business development. China's development is the core driving force of the world economy, and China's broad opportunities and growth space are exciting. We highly appreciate the Chinese government's creation of a fair and good business environment for foreign-funded enterprises. We will unswervingly expand investment and cooperation with China, deepen our Chinese market, actively participate in the Chinese modernization process, build a bridge for Sino-foreign exchanges and cooperation, support the opening of the global market, maintain international free trade, and contribute to the development of the world economy.
Cai Qi, Wang Yi, He Lifeng and others attended the meeting.
