Chinese Association of Foreign Investment Enterprises New Year Tea Party held in Beijing

On January 19th, the Chinese Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment held a Chinese New Year tea party in Beijing. Ling Ji, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative for International Trade Negotiations, attended and delivered a speech. More than 300 representatives from foreign embassies and consulates in China, foreign business associations, multinational corporations, and Chinese and foreign investment promotion agencies attended, including Singapore's Ambassador to China, Chen Haiquan, Sweden's Ambassador to China, Oskar, Switzerland's Ambassador to China, Martin, President of the US China Business Council, Tan Sen, and President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, Yan Ci.

Ling Ji stated that during the 14th Five Year Plan period, China attracted over 700 billion US dollars of foreign investment, ranking first among developing countries. Foreign funded enterprises have played an important role in China's high-level opening-up and high-quality development. The certainty of high-quality development of the Chinese economy, the certainty of China's foreign investment utilization policy, the certainty of China's economic and trade relations with other countries, and the certainty of maintaining the multilateral trading system will provide stable expectations for the development of foreign-funded enterprises in China. The "15th Five Year Plan" proposal outlines a blueprint for China's development in the next five years and provides a "list of opportunities" for foreign-funded enterprises. We hope that foreign-funded enterprises will have firm confidence, continue to invest in China, deeply cultivate China, and share development opportunities.

Tan Sen, President of the US China Business Council, stated that the US business community is willing to support China's high-quality development and expand mutually beneficial areas. Yan Ci, President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, stated that the Chamber and its member companies will continue to play a constructive role in promoting China's long-term sustainable economic growth. Representatives of foreign-funded enterprises attending the meeting expressed that the vitality of China's super large market is strong, the business environment continues to optimize, and they are full of confidence in the development prospects in China. They are willing to expand long-term investment in China and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results in the process of high-quality economic development in China.