Composing a New Chapter of Mutual Benefit and Win Win with a New Attitude - The 2026 Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit Gathers Cooperation Forces

Against the backdrop of accelerating changes over the past century and advancing technological innovation, how can the world economy grasp new trends in development? How can global economic and trade cooperation move towards a new direction? How can artificial intelligence promote the transformation and upgrading of the production and supply chain?

On the afternoon of the 18th, at the 2026 Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, more than 800 Chinese and foreign guests from 51 countries and regions gathered together, focusing on the theme of "moving towards the new and linking the future", to discuss new opportunities for mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, and to stimulate new vitality for diversified cooperation.

Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz Perez stated at the opening ceremony that China has taken the lead in the fields of photovoltaics, electric vehicles, and robotics. The EU and China should continue to work together to address major global challenges, strengthen friendly and pragmatic cooperation through dialogue and consultation, and achieve more balanced and sustainable bilateral trade.

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, Jay Chou, stated that China's vast market size, complete industrial system, leading digital innovation capabilities, and increasingly close cooperation with developing countries continue to create broad opportunities for global common development. China is a pivotal global trading partner, actively playing a role in promoting synergy between trade, investment, and innovation, and supporting sustainable development.

Warm AI playmates, convenient and practical new energy vehicles, intelligent real-time translators... As Chinese technological innovation achievements that are close to daily life are integrated into global household life, intelligent technology is driving the transformation and upgrading of the production and supply chain, and assisting in the innovative development of trade and investment.

"In cross-border trade, AI is playing an increasingly significant role." Liu Zhen, Vice President of Kwai Technology Co., Ltd., said that AI tools not only effectively improve the speed of language translation and commodity screening, but also reduce trial and error costs, effectively enhance the resilience and security of the industrial chain supply chain, and promote more inclusive and inclusive economic and trade cooperation.

AI is empowering the flexible manufacturing ecosystem and creating value for global trade cooperation. How embodied intelligence moves from the manufacturing chain and service chain to the value chain will become the key to future intelligent manufacturing. ”Tan Min, Chief Brand Officer of Shenzhen Youbisxuan Technology Co., Ltd., said.

Seeing the vivid practice of China's technological innovation empowering people's livelihoods and connecting the world, Youssef Ruiz, Co CEO of Atijarivafa Bank in Morocco, said that for the African market, it is necessary to integrate customers into global trade through digitization and intelligence. For example, AI can plan the optimal logistics route, predict obstacles, improve payment efficiency, and so on.

Service trade is an important component of global trade and an important area of international economic and trade cooperation. China's new round of opening-up is accelerating its shift towards the service industry.

In the view of Craig Allen, former president of the US China Business Council and senior advisor to the Cohen Group, China's strong domestic market and continuously unleashed domestic demand potential are not only related to China's economic development, but also to the health of the global trading system. Nowadays, Chinese consumers expect higher quality goods and higher levels of service, which brings broad development opportunities to global multinational enterprises.

Some British service companies are in a global leading position in their respective fields, which can help Chinese companies better connect with the local market, "said Tao Kri, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in China. At the same time, many enterprises are looking forward to a more resilient development environment. China shares development opportunities and adheres to the concept of open cooperation, which maintains the confidence of foreign investment.

Facing the global business community, this summit also released the Beijing Initiative for the 2026 Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit, which mainly includes cultivating new quality productive forces and expanding new space for global economic growth; Promote open cooperation in industrial and supply chains, and build a safe, stable, efficient, and smooth global industrial ecosystem; Empowering economic and trade cooperation with artificial intelligence, and jointly building a new ecosystem of digital and intelligent development; Promote the deep integration of the service industry and manufacturing industry, and lead the global industrial upgrading and upgrading; Deepen global business cooperation and promote global sustainable development.

Ren Hongbin, President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade will continue to play its functional role, build more practical and effective economic and trade promotion platforms, continuously weave a dense service network for enterprises, expand its international circle of friends, and make new contributions to promoting China's high-level opening-up to the outside world.