China firmly expands high-level opening-up and shares opportunities with the world
Recently, at Tianjin Pengruili Hospital, the first foreign-owned tertiary comprehensive hospital in China, a Mongolian female patient showed a significant decrease in tumor marker levels after completing her first chemotherapy. It's very convenient to make an appointment here. The medical team is professional and enthusiastic, and they quickly provide a diagnosis and treatment plan
Since its opening over a year ago, Tianjin Pengruili Hospital has received more than 300 foreign patients from 24 countries and regions. We not only serve Chinese patients and foreign nationals in China, but also open up new channels for overseas clients to seek medical treatment in China, "said Dean Liu Dan.
The 2026 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.
China's opening-up policy in the medical and health field has sent a positive signal to the international investment community, "said Pan Xiyuan, Executive Chairman of Singapore's Pengrui Group. With the continuous expansion of China's opening-up scope, fields, and levels, the demand for international medical and health services continues to grow, providing a broad market space for hospital development.
Currently, the global economic recovery is weak and uncertainty continues to rise, while China continues to emphasize expanding high-level opening-up through its five-year plan. In the next five years, China will adhere to open cooperation and mutual benefit, steadily expand institutional openness, build a new system of higher-level open economy, and share opportunities and common development with countries around the world.
On the second assembly line of Airbus Tianjin A320 series aircraft, the assembly work of the first batch of aircraft is progressing in an orderly manner. At the same time, Airbus' business in China is also extending upstream in the value chain - the value-added telecommunications business license obtained last year will enable it to provide digital services such as aircraft health monitoring and predictive maintenance for Chinese airlines.
Xu Gang, Executive Vice President of Airbus Global and CEO of Airbus China, said that Airbus is confident in the thriving Chinese aviation market, strong and stable Chinese supply chain, and high-quality business environment. China's insistence on high-level opening up to the outside world has provided Airbus with a more stable and resilient development environment
According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, there will be 70392 newly established foreign-invested enterprises in China by 2025, a year-on-year increase of 19.1%; The actual use of foreign investment in high-tech industries was 241.77 billion yuan, among which the actual use of foreign investment in e-commerce services, medical equipment and device manufacturing, and aerospace and equipment manufacturing increased by 75%, 42.1%, and 22.9% respectively.
Previously, foreign investment focused on China's' demographic dividend ', but now it pursues' innovation dividend' and 'market certainty', "said Zhang Shuibo, a professor at the Department of Management and Economics at Tianjin University." Foreign investment is reshaping China from a simple production base to a composite node of market, research and development, supply chain resilience, and global innovation collaboration, with investment behavior concentrated in the service industry, high-tech, and specialized fields.
South Korean semiconductor equipment company STI's billion yuan intelligent manufacturing base project has landed in Guangzhou, German automotive parts giant Schaeffler Group has invested 1 billion yuan to build a humanoid robot intelligent factory in Taicang, Jiangsu, and American company Eli Lilly has announced a $3 billion investment in China over the next decade to build a localized oral dosage form manufacturing and supply system... Since the beginning of this year, foreign investment in China has continued to increase.
The "2026 China Business Environment Survey Report" released by the American Chamber of Commerce in China in January 2026 shows that nearly 60% of the surveyed American companies plan to increase their investment in China. The "2025/26 Business Confidence Survey Report" recently released by the German Chamber of Commerce in China shows that 93% of the surveyed companies stated that they will continue to deeply cultivate the Chinese market.
In the view of Yan Bing, director of the Institute of International Economics at Nankai University, foreign investment behavior is deeply integrated with China's innovation ecology and institutional environment. This reflects that China's attractiveness is upgrading from the 'market dividend' to the 'innovation dividend' and the 'institutional opening-up dividend'
In 2019, China included "institutional opening-up" in its government work report for the first time, which is an upgrade of China's continuous promotion of international economic and trade rules integration after joining the World Trade Organization; In 2022, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will officially come into effect; In 2023, China will introduce measures to align with international high standards and promote institutional openness; In 2024, China will completely lift restrictions on foreign investment in the manufacturing sector; In 2025, the Hainan Free Trade Port will be fully closed and operated, becoming an important gateway for China's high-level opening-up to the outside world... A series of policy measures have released clear signals for China to expand its opening-up with higher quality, higher level, and larger scope.
Shan Zefeng, Executive Deputy Director of the Management Committee of China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone, believes that China not only stabilizes its strategic direction and institutional logic in the long term, but also adapts its tools and strategies in accordance with the times.
In the new era of opening up to the outside world, it is no longer simply about opening up channels and policy concessions, but relying on rules, regulations, management, and standards to form lasting competitiveness. "In Dan Zefeng's view, the government work report has emphasized the creation of a" market-oriented, rule of law, and international "business environment for many years, sending a clear signal that China adheres to a long-term policy orientation.
The outline of the 15th Five Year Plan proposes that the high-level opening-up system and mechanism will be more sound, and a more fair and dynamic market environment will be accelerated.
In the eyes of Ivan Monich, a Russian teacher at the International Business School of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, the opportunities shared by China and the world during the 15th Five Year Plan period belong to those global participants who can deeply integrate into the value chain and participate as partners in China's economic transformation.
Cai Wenxi, a lecturer at the School of Economics at Nankai University in South Korea, believes that China's continued supportive policies can help improve market access, reduce uncertainty, provide actionable strategic guidance for global investors, and further strengthen the long-term "China opportunity".