The last issue of "China ** News" in 2023 arrived as scheduled. As a leader in the field of foreign trade and economic cooperation, we always pay attention to the process of China's reform and opening up, and advocate for the expansion of high-level opening up. In the past 2023, China's high-level opening-up measures have been frequent and there are many bright spots, from the in-depth implementation of the promotion strategy of the pilot free trade zone to the continuous promotion of the process of joining the CPTPP and DEPA, from the comprehensive cancellation of foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector to the special clean-up of regulations and measures containing unreasonable differential treatment between domestic and foreign investment, from continuing to hold the Canton Fair, the Trade in Services Fair, the International Import Expo, and the Digital Trade Fair to holding the first Chain Expo. From the holding of the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to the release of the "Vision and Actions for Unswervingly Promoting the High-quality Development of the Belt and Road Initiative - Development Prospects for the Belt and Road Initiative in the Next Ten Years" ......We tried to find ten key words for 2023 to comment on the high level of opening up in this year
First stand and then break. In addition to "stability" and "progress", the key words of China's economy that have attracted much attention are "first established and then broken". That is to say, those who should be established should be actively erected, and those who should be broken should be resolutely broken on the basis of establishment. Judging from the analysis of experts and scholars, "first establish and then break" is to take into account stability and progress, and "first establish and then break" focuses on "standing". That is to say, it is necessary to take into account the new and the old, the stable and the progressive, the current and the long-term, and avoid problems such as "breaking before it is established", "only breaking but not standing", or "breaking" too quickly but "standing" lags behind. In the face of the complex situation of the current economic development, in order to promote the economic recovery next year, it is necessary to prepare more detailed and solid response measures, and take the initiative and positive actions to deal with the uncertainty of the future.
High-level opening-up.
Today's China has come from reform and opening up, and will also follow the road of reform and opening up to the future. This year marks the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up, and continuing to promote high-level opening-up is a high respect for reform and opening up. The experience of the past 45 years tells us that the more open the more we develop, and the high-level opening up is a strong support for high-quality development. This requires a shift from the flow of goods and factors to the opening up of institutions such as rules, and from the opening of the real sector such as manufacturing to the opening of services such as finance and digital. From the current point of view, the practical significance of high-level opening up is to open up more actively and take the initiative to provide one-way opening measures to all parties in order to win the initiative for future development.
Pilot Free Trade Zone.
2023 marks the 10th anniversary of China's construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone. The number of pilot free trade zones has increased from 1 to 22, covering the eastern, central and western regions, bringing a new atmosphere to China's expansion of high-level opening-up, the construction of a unified national market, and the coordinated development of regions. The construction process of the pilot free trade zone reflects China's experience in promoting reform and opening up, from local pilot projects to promotion and replication, and it has progressed step by step, steady and steady. In the past ten years, the pilot free trade zone has played an important role in foreign trade and foreign investment, and the optimization of the business environment, and has achieved important results. In the future, the continuous and in-depth implementation of the upgrading strategy of the pilot free trade zone needs to play a strategic breakthrough role in institutional opening-up and inject new momentum into the high-quality development of China's export-oriented economy.
Integration of domestic and foreign trade.
It is beneficial to promote enterprises to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, whether it is to cope with the current lack of external demand, the changing and complex international environment, or to base on long-term high-quality development. As far as China's current situation is concerned, with the continuous advancement of high-level opening up and the acceleration of the construction of a unified national market, an enterprise will face an increasingly fierce international competition environment regardless of whether it goes abroad or not. Therefore, enterprises need to regard the domestic and international markets as a game of chess for the development of the overall consideration, with the help of the first department, trade promotion agencies, smoothly pass the capital pass, the standard pass, the channel pass, the supervision of the four passes, to build the integration of domestic and foreign trade management capabilities, so as to further enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.
U.S.-China relations. China-US relations are currently the most important bilateral relations in the world, and the economic and trade relations between the two sides play the role of ballast. In the outgoing year of 2023, whether it is the exchange of high-level visits between China and the United States, or the frequent contacts between the business circles of China and the United States, it has left considerable room for people's imagination. In fact, the economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States is very broad, such as the abolition of tariffs, the promotion of green, low-carbon and sustainable development, state, provincial, city and local cooperation and other areas of common concern, which is conducive to enhancing mutual trust, setting a benchmark, and enhancing confidence, so as to continue to expand to high-tech, high-chain industrial chain and other fields. In the coming 2024, we hope that the two sides will continue to take practical measures in an appropriate manner to continue to deepen economic exchanges and build a solid ballast stone for China-US relations.
New quality productivity.
As a new economic concept, the new quality productivity has attracted great attention from the academic circles and the industry as soon as it was proposed, and a heated discussion has been launched around accelerating the formation of the new quality productivity. New quality productivity, as the name suggests, is different from traditional productivity, innovation-driven is its main feature, involving new fields and high technology content. Innovation and openness are twin brothers, and in this sense, high-level opening-up plays an important role in accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces. Therefore, in addition to speeding up the construction of original technology sources, in-depth implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, and accelerating the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, China should also open the door and make good use of global innovation factor resources to accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.
The Belt and Road Initiative has celebrated its 10th anniversary. In the past ten years, the continuous promotion of the "Belt and Road" has not only accelerated the economic and trade ties between China and the co-construction countries, and the amount of investment has been expanding, but also promoted the modernization process of developing countries in the co-construction countries, and has become the most extensive and largest international cooperation platform in the world today. At this time, China announced eight actions to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, which clarified a new direction, opened up a new vision and injected new impetus into the Belt and Road Initiative, bringing new opportunities for Chinese and foreign enterprises to expand the Belt and Road market, especially in Shanghai, creating a "Silk Road E-commerce" Cooperation Pilot Zone to inject new momentum into the development and cooperation of Silk Road e-commerce.
The first chain of the industrial chain.
The industrial chain is a macro-level word, while the ** chain is a micro-level word. With the increasing refinement of the global industrial division of labor, it is difficult to have any product that is completely the product of a single company or a single country, so the importance of international cooperation in the first chain is also becoming increasingly prominent. In recent years, due to the epidemic, geopolitics and other reasons, the global industrial chain has been reconstructed at an accelerated pace, so that actively carrying out industrial chain cooperation and improving the resilience and security level of the industrial chain have become important topics for China's economic development. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) actively held the first Chain Expo from November 28 to December 2 this year, and issued the "Beijing Initiative for the Interconnection of Global Industrial Chains", which was highly recognized by the international business community.
China's foreign trade will face many challenges in 2023, and the data will fluctuate, but the "new three" exports of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products will let the world see the new advantages and potential of China's foreign trade. First of all, the "new three" reflects the positive effect of China's manufacturing transformation and upgrading, and is the change of China's comparative advantage in the global industrial division of laborSecondly, the "new three" reflects the positive results of China's opening up, and the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain are completeFinally, the "new three" also reflects the trend of industrial innovation and integration brought about by the continuous opening up of the Chinese market. We can believe that in the future, China will rely on its large-scale, comprehensive and competitive industrial system and digital technology advantages, and will produce more "new three things".
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The advent of ChatGPT has triggered a wave of large-scale model competition on a global scale, and Chinese technology companies have also performed well in it, releasing their own large-scale model products one after another. The biggest significance of ChatGPT's success is to make people more aware that open cooperation is an important driving force for the development of the digital economy. It is precisely because of the use of global intellectual resources and data resources that ChatGPT has been able to develop rapidly. From the perspective of strengthening the competitiveness of China's large models, the first thing to do is to open up and break down the barriers of different platformsThe second is to take advantage of the rich scenarios and expand the vertical field in depth. It is foreseeable that the application of large models is not only limited to content production, but also in empowering the real economy such as manufacturing.
*: China ** News Author: Zhang Fan.