■The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes that China adheres to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, firmly pursues the open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, constantly provide new opportunities for the world with China's new development, and promote the construction of an open world economy, so as to better benefit people of all countries. As an important window and platform for China to expand its opening up, the CIIE has developed into a global shared international public product, allowing the world to share China's development opportunities
successfully held the CIIE for four consecutive years, conveying a positive signal and a firm voice to the world: China continues to expand its opening up, measures are strong, steps are firm, trustworthy, and will do what it means.
After the first CIIE, the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone was officially established, Shanghai Stock Exchange officially established Science and Technology Innovation Board and piloted the registration system, and the national strategy of integration in the Yangtze River Delta was officially implemented.
. The series of measures announced by China in recent years have been implemented and achieved practical results. The Foreign Investment Law came into effect on January 1, 2020, and has made significant progress in expanding imports and promoting consumption and further reducing tariffs; China's negative list for foreign investment access has been continuously reduced, and the openness has continued to increase; the number of national free trade pilot zones has increased to 21; the domestic approval of the " Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement " (RCEP) was the first to complete and fully implemented; the " Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port ", "Negative List of Cross-border Service Trade in Hainan Free Trade Port" and "Implementation Plan for Shenzhen to Further Expand Reform and Opening-up" was issued; the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has made positive progress. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that China adhere to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, firmly pursue a mutually beneficial and win-win opening-up strategy, constantly provide new opportunities for the world with China's new development, promote the construction of an open world economy, and better benefit people of all countries.
China has issued an initiative to the world and is willing to work with all countries to jointly build an open world economy, jointly build an open cooperation, jointly build an open innovation, and jointly build an open and shared world economy. Under the epidemic environment, China, as the main economy, has maintained positive growth in goods trade, making important contributions to ensuring the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain and promoting the recovery of the world economy.
As an important window and platform for China to expand its opening up, the CIIE is the first national-level exhibition in the world with import-themed. China has a population of more than 1.4 billion and a middle-income group of more than 400 million. It imports goods and services about US$2.5 trillion each year. The market size is huge. The CIIE allows the world to share China's development opportunities.
First, the CIIE is a grand event for international procurement. The first CIIE attracted 172 countries, regions and international organizations to participate, and more than 3,600 companies participated in the exhibition, with a total exhibition area of 300,000 square meters, and more than 400,000 domestic and foreign buyers attended the conference to negotiate procurement. At the 4th CIIE, the exhibition area increased to 366,000 square meters. At the 4th CIIE, the intended transaction amount in one year increased from US$57.83 billion to US$70.72 billion, which effectively promoted international trade .
Second, the CIIE is a grand event for investment promotion. The 4th CIIE will have 95 supporting on-site activities for policy interpretation, docking and signing, and investment promotion in six categories. A total of 760 exhibitors and 766 buyers from 55 countries participated in the trade and investment matching meeting online and offline. The CIIE has turned exhibits into commodities and exhibitors into investors. The corporate exhibition has become a "big show" for global high-quality and new products. Entrepreneurs fully exchange ideas and concepts, promoting new international investment.
Third, the CIIE is a big platform for cultural exchanges and open cooperation. The Hongqiao International Economic Forum has a wide range of topics, great influence and fruitful results. At the 4th CIIE, more than 150 government officials, envoys to China, well-known scholars at home and abroad, Fortune 500 and industry executives participated in the discussion and speeches, and more than 2,000 guests from all walks of life attended the meeting. Through full exchanges and communication, a consensus on cooperation and vision was formed.
Fourth, the exhibition format of the CIIE keeps pace with the times. By combining online and offline methods, the content of national exhibitions and enterprise exhibitions is richer, forming a new organizational form of exhibitor alliances, and on-site service guarantees strictly adhere to the bottom line of epidemic prevention and strive for excellence. The CIIE has become a globally shared international public product, and the quality of exhibitions is constantly improving, and the more you do it, the better.
We also see that as an important platform for international procurement, investment promotion, cultural exchanges and open cooperation, the CIIE will continue to be held every year in the new round of high-level opening up to the outside world, adhering to the concept of high-quality exhibitions and playing a more important role.
Recommended for this: First, the CIIE should better combine with strategic emerging industries, such as new generation information technology , artificial intelligence , biotechnology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, green and environmental protection and other emerging industries that are key to developing in the country, display more new products, new technologies and new services, display more specialized, new achievements of enterprises, and promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing.
Second, Hongqiao International Economic Forum has added new fields and new content, such as free trade zone , digital economy and other fields. my country has accelerated the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port , implemented the strategy of upgrading the free trade pilot zone, and expanded the global high-standard free trade zone network. China has applied to join the " Digital Economy Partnership Agreement " (DEPA), and there are many rules that need to be sorted out, piloted and practiced. There are many entrepreneurs and industry insiders at the CIIE, and they can communicate widely.
Third, better serve the "Belt and Road" initiative and national strategies such as regional coordinated development. The exhibition planning and post-conference summary and service opening up of the CIIE will be clearly classified and described the source and structure of visitors, and the statistical data will be more detailed and have a better fit.
Fourth, forming a database of CIIE exhibitions and Hongqiao International Economic Forum over the years, making it easier to trace, query, learn and improve. On the premise of protecting intellectual property rights, a database of exciting contents of national exhibitions and enterprise exhibitions, a database of exciting speeches and conference summary for high-level forums, and a database of satisfaction assessments of exhibitors and visitors, etc. At the same time, a problem-oriented approach is adopted to find shortcomings and shortcomings, and continuously improve the quality of exhibitions.
Author: Sun Yuanxin (Deputy Dean of the Free Trade Zone Research Institute of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Editor: Qian Yichen
