President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech (Full text) via video at the opening ceremony of the fourth China International Import Expo and the Hongqiao International Economic Forum on Thursday. Here are some highlights:
On China's past
China's opening-up pledges made at 3rd CIIE basically implemented (Read more)
China's overall tariff level has dropped to 7.4 percent from 15.3 percent in 2001, lower than the 9.8 percent the country promised when entering WTO (Read more)
China has provided the international community with about 350 billion face masks, more than 4 billion protective garments, 6 billion test reagents and 1.6 billion doses of vaccines (Read more)
On China's future
China will remain resolute in expanding high-level opening up, sharing development opportunities with the world and making economic globalization more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial for all
China will steadfastly uphold true multilateralism (Read more)
China to unswervingly share market opportunities with world
China will steadfastly advance high-level opening-up (Read more)
China to unswervingly safeguard common interests of all countries
China open to negotiations over industrial subsidy, SOE
China to open more import promotion demo zones
China to develop 'Silk Road e-commerce' (Read more)
China to expand opening-up of telecom, medical sectors
China to implement stress tests for high-level opening-up in free trade zones
China supports equitable distribution of critical medical supplies globally
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