On the afternoon of December 5, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee accelerated the construction of the free trade zone for the 19th collective study. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed during his presidency that standing at the new historical starting point, realizing the "two hundred years" struggle goal and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation must adapt to the new trend of economic globalization and accurately judge the international New changes in the situation, profound understanding of the new requirements for domestic reform and development, and more active and proactive actions, promote a higher level of opening up to the outside world, accelerate the implementation of the free trade zone strategy, accelerate the construction of a new open economy system, and actively win the economy with openness to the outside world. Take the initiative to develop and win the initiative of international competition.
Researcher Li Guanghui of the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Institute of the Ministry of Commerce explained this issue and discussed opinions and suggestions.
The comrades of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee listened carefully to his explanations and discussed the relevant issues.
Xi Jinping delivered a speech while presiding over the study. He pointed out that accelerating the implementation of the free trade zone strategy is an important part of China's new round of opening up. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China raised the construction of a free trade zone to a national strategy. The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to accelerate the implementation of the free trade zone strategy. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposed to accelerate the implementation of the free trade zone strategy based on the periphery and form a network of high-standard free trade zones facing the world. The Central Political Bureau collectively studied this content in order to analyze the domestic and international environment that we are accelerating in implementing the free trade zone strategy and to explore the way in which China has accelerated the implementation of this strategy.
Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to accurately grasp the new trend of economic globalization and the new requirements for China's opening up. Reform and opening up is the driving force for China's economic and social development. Constantly expanding opening up to the outside world, raising the level of opening up to the outside world, and promoting reform and promoting development through opening up are important magic weapons for China's development to achieve new achievements. Openness brings progress, and closure leads to backwardness, which has been proved by the development practice of the world and China. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have taken advantage of the situation and accelerated the construction of a new open economy system. A higher level of openness is taking shape.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the multilateral trading system and regional trade arrangements have always been the two wheels driving the development of economic globalization. Now, the global trading system is experiencing the biggest round of restructuring since the 1994 Uruguay Round negotiations. China is an active participant and a staunch supporter of economic globalization, and an important builder and main beneficiary. China's economic development has entered a new normal, properly responding to the difficulties and challenges faced by China's economic and social development, and it is even more necessary to expand opening up. "The machine is like a god, it is difficult to lose." We must judge the situation and strive to seize the opportunities and win the initiative in economic globalization.
Xi Jinping emphasized that accelerating the implementation of the free trade zone strategy is an objective requirement for adapting to the new trend of economic globalization, an inevitable choice for comprehensively deepening reforms and building a new open economic system, and an important means for China to actively develop foreign relations and achieve its foreign strategic goals. . We must speed up the implementation of the free trade zone strategy, give play to the role of free trade zones in promoting trade and investment, better help Chinese enterprises explore the international market, inject new impetus into China's economic development, add new vitality, and expand new space. Accelerating the implementation of the free trade zone strategy is an important platform for China to actively participate in the formulation of international economic and trade rules and strive for institutional power in global economic governance. We cannot be observers and followers, but we must be participants and leaders, and be good at free trade. The construction of the district enhances China's international competitiveness, and sends more Chinese voices, injects more Chinese elements, and safeguards and expands China's development interests in the formulation of international rules.
Xi Jinping pointed out that accelerating the implementation of the free trade zone strategy is a complex systematic project. To strengthen the top-level design and plan a big chess game, it is necessary to build a more important situation, and gradually build a network of free trade zones based on the surrounding areas, radiating the “Belt and Road†and facing the world, and actively build with the countries and regions along the “Belt and Roadâ€. The free trade zone has enabled China to cooperate more closely with countries along the route, to facilitate exchanges and to integrate interests. Efforts should be made to expand the quantity and quality, to explore boldly, keep pace with the times, actively expand the opening up of the service industry, and speed up negotiations on new issues. We must adhere to the bottom line thinking, focus on preventing risks, do a good job in risk assessment, work hard to eliminate risk factors, strengthen first-hand trials, scientific verification, accelerate the establishment of a sound comprehensive supervision system, improve supervision capabilities, and build a safety net. We must continue to practice internal strength, do our own things well, speed up market-oriented reforms, create a legalized business environment, accelerate economic restructuring, promote industrial optimization and upgrading, support enterprises to become bigger and stronger, and improve their international competitiveness and ability to resist risks.
Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to establish fair, open and transparent market rules and improve the international competitiveness of China's service industry. We must adhere to the combination of introduction and going out, improve the foreign investment system and policies, and stimulate the potential of foreign investment, be brave and good at allocating resources and opening up markets on a global scale. We must speed up the transition from a large trading country to a strong trading country, consolidate the traditional advantages of foreign trade, foster new competitive advantages, expand the space for foreign trade development, and actively expand imports. It is necessary to establish strategic thinking and global vision, stand at the height of the interrelationship between the two major domestic and international situations, examine the development of China and the world, and continuously push forward the cause of China's opening up.