The four major new business opportunities release their attraction, and foreign investment deeply cultivates the Chinese market with confidence

The series of favorable policies and guidelines released by the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference are accelerating their transformation into tangible market dividends, injecting strong impetus into China's attraction of foreign investment. The "new business opportunities" contained in the super large scale market, service industry development, innovation ecology, and open highland outline a new picture of high-quality development of the Chinese economy and become the core driving force for attracting foreign investment to deeply cultivate China. Many foreign-funded enterprises have expressed that, against the backdrop of constantly changing international economic and trade environment, China's stable policy expectations and continuously expanding opening-up dividends have strengthened their confidence in investing in and rooting in China.

In order to make the four major business opportunities truly land and generate "gold", the national government departments are launching a series of practical measures. The Ministry of Commerce has clearly stated that this year it will launch three key measures to enhance the reputation of "investing in China": more "refined" activities, improving the accuracy of docking around new tracks such as future industries that foreign investment is concerned about; Better service, turning the enterprise's "demand list" into a "service list"; The platform is better, enhancing the level of open platforms such as pilot free trade zones and economic development zones. The warmth of these policies quickly turned into market spring, and multinational corporations rooted in China were the first to perceive it. McDonald's China CEO Zhang Jiayin said that thanks to the continuously optimized business environment, the restaurant scale of McDonald's China has almost doubled in the past five years. By 2026, the company plans to open more than 1000 new restaurants and continue to increase investment in digitalization and innovation. She is confident in the long-term development of the Chinese market.

The opening up of the service industry has opened up new growth opportunities for foreign investment. By 2025, the per capita service consumption expenditure of Chinese residents will reach 46.1% and continue to increase. The government work report proposes to expand market access and open up areas with a focus on the service industry, and further expand pilot projects for opening up value-added telecommunications, biotechnology, foreign-owned hospitals, and other fields. Harald Schmidt, Global Production President of Germany's Baode Group, is full of expectations for this. He believes that further opening up of China's service industry will bring new space for enterprises in industrial services, digital solutions, and support the company's upgrade from a "manufacturing base" to a "regional headquarters+research and development center+service center".

The continuous optimization of the innovation ecosystem attracts foreign investment to invest more research and development resources in China. Song Weiqun, global executive vice president of GE Healthcare, said that China has become one of the core engines of global AI innovation. Over the past decade, more than 170 local innovative products have been successfully introduced to the market in China. In the future, smart devices and AI driven medical ecological innovation will be strengthened around clinical needs.

In addition, the open highland is providing a higher level of carrying space for foreign investment. Maersk CEO Ke Wensheng stated that leveraging the strategic position of Shanghai Lingang New Area as an international logistics hub and increasing investment in logistics infrastructure can further connect the Chinese and global markets. Data shows that recent surveys conducted by foreign institutions on multinational corporations indicate that over 90% of the surveyed companies will continue to invest in China, and nearly 70% of corporate executives have confidence in their development in China in the next 3 to 5 years.

Professional analysts point out that China's proposal of "four new business opportunities" precisely meets the global capital's demand for seeking deterministic returns. Against the backdrop of increasing complexity and uncertainty in the external environment, China has become a key factor for long-term foreign investment through the demand side certainty provided by its super large market, the supply side certainty provided by its complete industrial system, and the institutional certainty provided by its continued expansion of openness. The logic of foreign investment in China is undergoing a profound qualitative change, from simply utilizing cheap factors for 'in China, for China' to utilizing innovative ecosystems and open highlands for 'in China, for the world'. This not only contributes to the upgrading of China's industrial structure and high-quality economic development, but also wins strategic initiative for multinational corporations in global competition, achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.