Continuously expanding openness and providing new opportunities for the world

Opening up is a distinctive symbol of Chinese path to modernization. The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized "adhering to opening up to the outside world and promoting win-win cooperation in multiple fields", and made a series of specific arrangements for expanding high-level opening up to the outside world in 2026. In the context of profound and complex changes in the current international environment, this demonstrates the confidence and responsibility of a major country that adheres to open cooperation and mutual benefit, and declares a strong signal that China's high-quality development provides new opportunities for the world.

The continuous expansion and upgrading of the Chinese market will provide new opportunities for market development to the world. The market is the rarest resource in the world today. The Chinese market has a huge scale. China has a population of over 1.4 billion, including a large middle-income group, and the total retail sales of consumer goods are expected to exceed 50 trillion yuan by 2025. The Chinese market has considerable potential. It is expected that in the next 10 years, the middle-income group in China will exceed 800 million people, and the diversified demand for high-quality living among the people will continue to grow. The potential of the super large market will be further released. The Chinese market has an open attitude. Currently, China imports over 20 trillion yuan annually and is a major export destination for nearly 80 countries and regions. The cumulative intended transaction volume of the CIIE held for 8 consecutive years has exceeded 580 billion US dollars. In the next step, China's open door will continue to widen, facilitating the entry of high-quality products and services from more countries into the Chinese market and sharing the vast opportunities of the Chinese market.

Deepening international cooperation in industrial and supply chains will provide new opportunities for symbiotic development for the world. China has been the world's largest manufacturing country for many years, with the largest and most complete production and manufacturing system in the world. It continues to provide high-quality, high priced, stable and reliable product supply to the world, becoming a "key link" in the global industrial and supply chains. Taking the new energy industry as an example, China has built the world's largest renewable energy system, which has led to a cumulative reduction of over 80% in the cost of photovoltaic power generation per kilowatt hour over the past 10 years. The distributed photovoltaic and microgrid projects implemented by Chinese companies in sub Saharan Africa not only light up the nights in Africa, but also save a lot of energy import costs for relevant countries, enabling them to allocate more funds to development and people's livelihoods. Next, China will further guide the rational and orderly cross-border layout of industrial and supply chains, in line with the industrialization vision of countries in the global South, deepen cooperation in areas such as new energy, new infrastructure, and green minerals, and make positive contributions to promoting economic growth, cooperative development, employment expansion, and improvement of people's lives in more countries, writing a new chapter.

The continuous optimization of China's investment environment will provide new opportunities for investment and development for the world. Attracting and utilizing foreign investment is a long-term policy of China's opening-up to the outside world. In recent years, China has continuously relaxed market access for foreign investment, actively aligned with international high standard economic and trade rules, steadily expanded institutional opening-up, and continuously optimized the business environment. The vitality of China's innovation field is surging, and the potential of China's large market is being unleashed, bringing many new investment opportunities and attracting multinational enterprises to set up research and development centers and innovation centers in China. Many foreign-funded enterprises have stated that China has become a testing ground for global innovation, and only by staying in China can they keep up with the pace of innovation. Next, China will focus on the service industry to expand market access and open up areas, promote domestic reinvestment of foreign capital, support foreign-funded enterprises to accelerate localized production, and participate in upstream and downstream supporting cooperation in the industrial chain. At the same time, we will deepen the reform of the system and mechanism for promoting foreign investment, fully implement national treatment, optimize the entire process service system, and continue to build a market-oriented, rule of law, and international business environment, so that foreign-funded enterprises are willing to come, stay, and develop well.

The high-quality joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" will provide the world with new opportunities for mutual benefit and win-win results. Since 2013, the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" has moved from China's initiative to international practice, from "freehand brushwork" to "meticulous painting". The China Laos Railway has sent more than 62.5 million passengers in its four years of operation, and the cumulative number of China EU trains has exceeded 120000. The "Qiankai Shanghai" maritime transport has achieved two-way connectivity, and a large number of livelihood projects in agriculture, education, health, poverty reduction, disaster prevention and mitigation have taken root... The construction of major landmark projects and "small and beautiful" livelihood projects has been comprehensively promoted. The "the Belt and Road" has become the world's most extensive and largest international cooperation platform. The results of cooperation have promoted "hard connectivity", "soft connectivity", and "heart to heart connectivity" in more than 150 countries and regions. Next, China will adhere to the guiding principles of jointly building and sharing, opening up, green and honest, high standards, and sustainable benefits for people's livelihood, strengthen the docking with the national development strategy of joint construction, improve the three-dimensional connectivity network layout, deepen and expand cooperation in major landmark projects, deeply cultivate "small and beautiful" brands such as fungus, Guangmingxing, Luban Workshop, steadily expand cooperation in green development, artificial intelligence, digital economy, health and other fields, promote high-quality joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" to go deep and solid, and make new and greater contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.