The open development of China's service trade brings new opportunities to multinational companies

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 2: The open development of China's service trade will bring new opportunities to multinational companies

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhu Chao and Li Chunyu

China accelerates the construction of a new development pattern to bring a new picture of service trade development. How can China multinational companies share new opportunities for the Chinese market?

As one of the summit forums of the China International Services Trade Fair in 2022, with the theme of "Sharing Service Trade Development Opportunities to promote the growth of world economic recovery", the "Summit Forum of Service Trade Conveniences at the perspective of multinational companies" is in Beijing on the 1st The National Convention Center is held.

Yu Bin, deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said in a keynote speech that China is one of the fastest -growing economies of service trade. Although facing many challenges, China's service trade has maintained an average annual growth rate of 4.6%, which is higher than that of the global service trade growth rate of 2.8 percentage points during the same period. In the first half of this year, the scale of China's service trade had exceeded the level before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, a year -on -year increase of 21.6%.

"With the stable development of China's economy and the continuous improvement of the level of opening up to the outside world, the prospect of service trade is broad, and the proportion of the added value of the service industry still has a huge room for improvement." Yu Bin said that Chinese enterprises and consumers are professional and specialized and consumers are professionalism and consumers. The demand for high -quality services is rapidly expanding, and the effective supply of mid -to -high -end services has a gap, which will provide strong demand support and more development opportunities for multinational companies to operate in China.

Hua Maya, the director of the World Bank China, Mongolia, and South Korea, said that China's recent expansion of open open policy measures, such as joining the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) and the continuous advancement of the "CPTPP Agreement" (CPTPP "(CPTPP ) And the "Digital Economic Partnership Agreement" (DEPA) shows that China will open the service industry as a priority, which will inject power into the global economic recovery after the epidemic.

The guests agreed that the current global service trade development and digital technology revolution interact with each other, and the rapid development of digital trade has become a new engine for service trade growth, which will also bring new opportunities for the development of multinational companies.

Qian Yan, a senior vice president of Qualcomm, said that digital technology has opened a new space for service trade. 5G is essential for the future of digital. In -depth cooperation with Chinese manufacturers in Qualcomm has promoted the industry's earliest commercial landing of a group of 5G IoT terminals, widely used in the fields of epidemic prevention and control, remote medical care, and smart rescue, and worked together to achieve remarkable results in pioneering overseas markets.

During the forum, a research report on "Consumption -leading and Effective Expansion and Good Meeting Domineering" was also released. The report pointed out that the new stage effectively expands and better meets the six major strategic priorities in domestic demand, which is to lead innovation as the leading, digital transformation as a channel, the main force of middle -income groups, focusing on youth groups, and large central cities as the core And take green development as an opportunity.

The "Summit of Service Trade Conveniences at the perspective of multinational companies" is co -sponsored by the State Council Development Research Center and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, attracting international organizations and institutions, the world's top 500 enterprises, and central and national government agencies, local government departments, national high -end think tanks, etc. About 200 guests at home and abroad attended the meeting.

[Editor in charge: Zhou Chuqing]

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