Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has coordinated the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes unseen in the world in a century, profoundly summed up the practical experience of China's opening up to the outside world, and pointed out that"The door of China's opening up will not be closed, it will only open wider and wider." "We will adhere to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, insist on opening up to promote reform, development, and innovation, and continue to promote a higher level of opening up".Since the new era, China has implemented a more proactive opening-up strategy, built a new system of higher-level open economy, formed a new pattern of opening up to the outside world on a larger scale, in a wider field and at a deeper level, and promoted the common prosperity and development of the world economy in the process of Chinese-style modernization.The China-Europe train, known as the "steel camel team", has crossed mountains and rivers and set up a new open channel. It is continuously injecting new development vitality into the ancient Silk Road and driving more regions to become new highlands for opening up.

On June 15, with the sound of the siren, the X8011 China-Europe train, loaded with goods, departed from Chongqing Tuanjie Village Central Station. On the same day, Chongqing's first full-course timetable import train set off simultaneously in Duisburg, Germany, and Chongqing's China-Europe train officially entered the full-course timetable.

　　Chongqing is the first place of the China-Europe train (Yuxin-Europe) and an important node of the new land-sea channel in the west.In April this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Chongqing, he gave important instructions for Chongqing to focus on promoting high-quality development and strive to build an important strategic fulcrum for the development of the western region in the new era and a comprehensive hub for inland opening. Chongqing is making every effort to build a comprehensive transportation system with north-south connection, land-sea linkage, openness and sharing, and the release of economic potential will reach a new level.

　　Chongqing's connection with the world is just a microcosm of China's opening up to the outside world.Today's China has an unprecedented depth of integration with the world. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has raised the flag and designed the layout, deeply grasped the development trend of China and the world in the new era, and promoted the innovation of opening up theory and practice. my country's opening up has reached a new height.

　　Gu Xueming, Dean, Institute of Open and Innovative Development, Shenzhen University：

China has maintained its position as the largest country in global trade in goods for seven consecutive years.

In 2023, China's actual utilization of foreign capital reached 1.1 trillion yuan (RMB), ranking second in the world.

In terms of foreign investment, it has been among the top three in the world for 11 consecutive years, and the flow of funds has covered 155 countries and regions around the world.

　　Great achievements cannot be achieved without the guidance of thought.In the second decade of the 21st century, the world is facing great changes unseen in a century, a new round of scientific and technological and industrial revolution is in the ascendant, trade protectionism and "anti-globalization" are on the rise, and China, which is approaching the center of the world stage, is facing more challenges. Where is China going now?

In December 2012, Comrade Xi Jinping, who had just been elected General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, went to Guangdong, the forefront of reform and opening up, for the first time."Reform and opening up is the key to determining the fate of contemporary China"A major judgment, issued."Reform does not stop, opening up does not stop"The Mobilization Order. Since then, General Secretary Xi Jinping has declared to the world on many occasions:China's determination to expand its high-level opening up to the outside world will not change, and its determination to share development opportunities with the world will not change.

　　Institute of Open and Innovative Development, Shenzhen UniversityDean Gu Xueming:General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly declared China's confidence and determination to unswervingly expand opening up in the process of accelerating Chinese-style modernization. His open concept provides a fundamental follow for the road of opening up after the 18th National Congress of our country.

On the coast of the South China Sea, Hainan Free Trade Port has entered a stage of development. The one-stop aircraft maintenance industry base in Haikou Airport Free Trade Zone is full of aircraft waiting for maintenance, which come from all over the world.

　　Hainan Free Trade Port One-stop Aircraft Maintenance Industry Base Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Jiang Kun:Combined with the preferential policies of Hainan Free Trade Port, about 10% to 15% of maintenance costs can be saved.

　　Free trade port, is the world's highest level of open form.The special policy here has allowed Hainan to open up the market. The construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics in Hainan is a new major responsibility and mission entrusted to Hainan by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core of reform and opening up.

In 2018, at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of a special economic zone in Hainan, General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly announced the news when he delivered an important speech.

　　Xi Jinping:Here, I solemnly announce that the Party Central Committee has decided to support the construction of a pilot free trade zone on the entire island of Hainan, and support Hainan to gradually explore and steadily promote the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics.

Since the construction of Hainan free trade port, a series of innovative systems and mechanisms have been tried first, and it is becoming one of the most open, attractive and dynamic regions in China.

　　Only an open China can become a modern China.The Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of 2018 was first proposed"Promoting a shift from commodity and factor flow openness to institutional openness such as rules". In the new era, China has not only set up free trade ports, but also 22 pilot free trade zones. These open platforms connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, actively promote institutional innovation, and further promote high-level institutional opening up.

General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the construction of free trade pilot zones and free trade ports, and has repeatedly issued important instructions and instructions, emphasizing:It is necessary to "put institutional integration and innovation in a prominent position" and "steadily promote institutional openness in rules, regulations, management, and standards".

In the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, institutional innovations such as the first negative list of foreign investment access, the first international trade "single window", and the first batch of free trade accounts continue to emerge.

　　China's open door is opening wider and wider, and the level of openness is getting higher and higher.

　　Institute of Open and Innovative Development, Shenzhen UniversityDean Gu Xueming:Since the construction of the pilot free trade zone, more than 300 institutional innovations have been replicated and promoted at the national level, and more than 2800 have been replicated by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. A good situation has been formed in which the dividends of reform are shared and the results of opening up are inclusive.

　　Opening up and reform always go hand in hand and promote each other.General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out,"Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important magic weapon for my country's continuous new achievements in development"With the steady expansion of institutional opening up, China's foreign trade and foreign investment also has more and more broad space for development.

Guangzhou Nansha Port Phase III Wharf, cranes are busy grabbing all kinds of containers for shipment, ready to go to sea.

　　Zhu Jiaming, Director of Transportation Center of Guangzhou Port Production Business Department:After the operation, the ship will carry the goods to ports in Singapore, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Nowadays, China is deeply embedded in the global value chain division of labor, "you have me, I have you" is the general trend. At the same time,Intensive landing of foreign investment projects, but also reflects China's "magnetic attraction" of the growing.

In Xuchang, Henan Province, the German Ebeh Group's annual production of 500000 sets of automobile exhaust systems took only 92 days from inspection, contract signing to trial production.

Suzhou, Jiangsu, the global investment promotion conference, the world's top 500 enterprises came to 429. A number of new energy, high-end equipment, biomedicine and large health industry projects signed landing.

　　Global Vice President of Panasonic Holdings Co., Ltd., Zhelang Ben:If we cannot compete in the Chinese market, we will also lose the global market in the near future.

The Foreign Investment Law was promulgated and implemented, the national version of the negative list of foreign investment access was reduced from 93 to 31, restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector will be completely lifted, and access to telecommunications, medical and other service industries will be continuously relaxed......A series of opening-up measures have been accelerated, and the field of opening up has become wider and wider, so that investment opportunities in China in the new era continue to emerge.

　　Ren Lin, director and researcher of the Global Governance Office of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences:The trade protectionism of western developed countries is getting stronger and stronger, which has created many closed and exclusive small circles. However, in such an international environment, we can still maintain a high level of openness, and at the same time expand our openness to a wider and more new areas.

In the midsummer month, everything is flourishing. On July 3, in Kazakhstan, President Xi Jinping and President Tokayev of Kazakhstan jointly attended the opening ceremony of the China-EU Trans-Caspian Express.

The Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor runs through Kazakhstan and is the shortest transport route between China and Europe. For the first time, Chinese vehicles arrived at the ports along the Caspian Sea by direct road transportation. The construction of this intermediate corridor radiates the entire Eurasian continent, which is of great significance.

　　Eleven years ago, in Kazakhstan,Xi JinpingChairman for the first timeproposedCo-construction"Silk Road Economic Belt"The Initiative.

　　Xi Jinping:In order to make the economic ties of Eurasian countries closer, mutual cooperation deeper, and development space broader, we can use innovative cooperation models to jointly build the "Silk Road Economic Belt", which is a major cause that benefits the people of all countries along the way.

A month later, Indonesia, thousands of miles away, also ushered in a new historical moment. Here, President Xi Jinping proposed the initiative of jointly building the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

　　TenOver the years,Our country haswithMore than 150 countries and 32 international organizations have signed more than 200 cooperation documents to jointly build the "Belt and Road.China and the countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road" continue to strengthen policy communication, facility connectivity, smooth trade, financial integration, and people-to-people communication. China's foreign exchanges have become more balanced and it has truly "friends all over the world".

　　China's door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider and wider.Since 2023, China's visa free "circle of friends" has continuously added new members, concluded visa free agreements with Thailand, Singapore and other countries, and tried out unilateral visa free policies for Hungary, Switzerland and other countries. The world is seeing a more open and confident China.

　　American tourists:Everything is connected in an orderly manner, and the Chinese are very friendly and willing to help others.

　　Visitors to Costa Rica:I think it is very convenient and fast to pay by foreign card. It can be completed in less than a minute or even about ten seconds.

　　German tourists:The scenery here is unbelievable, so magnificent.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has persisted in opening up to the outside world on a larger scale, in a wider field, and at a deeper level, and has built platforms for international economic and trade cooperation such as the Expo, the Service Trade Fair, and the Consumer Expo. we will solidly promote the high-quality development of "Belt and Road Initiative" and sign 22 free trade agreements with 29 countries and regions,China will continue to promote high-quality development with a high level of opening up to the outside world, continuously release new momentum and new advantages of its huge market, and inject vigorous momentum into enhancing the resilience of the world economy.

memorabilia

　　In 2013:President Xi Jinping Proposes "the belt and road initiative" Initiative

　　In 2014:China-funded Silk Road Fund

　　In 2015:China becomes net exporter of capital for the first time

　　In 2016:G20 summit held in Hangzhou

　　In 2017:The First "the belt and road initiative" International Cooperation Summit Forum Held in Beijing

　　In 2018:First China International Import Expo opens

　　In 2019:Promulgation of the Foreign Investment Law of the People's Republic of China

　　In 2020:The General Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port was issued.

　　In 2021:The First China International Consumer Goods Expo Held in Hainan

　　In 2022:Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) comes into force

　　2023:China announces that it will completely abolish restrictions on foreign investment in the manufacturing sector.

　　2024:Visa-free "circle of friends" continues to add new members