Source: People's Daily
Recently, the third national special training on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was held online. This is a concrete measure by the Chinese government to guide enterprises to seize opportunities and utilize the preferential policies of the agreement at a high level. In the first quarter of this year, China's imports and exports with the other 14 RCEP member countries totaled 2.86 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. Driven by this positive news, more and more enterprises are looking forward to participating in and deepening the mutually beneficial cooperation within the framework of the agreement, which will undoubtedly inject new momentum into the further release of regional opening-up cooperation dividends and the promotion of regional economic recovery and development.
At present, the century-old changes and the epidemic of the century are intertwined, economic globalization has encountered adverse currents, and the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change. People of insight from all countries have more ardent expectations for peaceful development, stronger calls for fairness and justice, and more urgent pursuit of win-win cooperation. As a free trade zone with the largest population, the largest economic and trade scale, and the most potential for development in the world, RCEP came into effect at the beginning of this year, further deepening regional trade and investment cooperation, and enhancing economic connectivity in the region. In the first four months of this year, ASEAN continued to maintain its status as China's largest trading partner. The smooth implementation of RCEP highlights the importance that countries in the region attach to openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, and once again confirms that openness is the lifeblood of Asia-Pacific cooperation.
Asia-Pacific is the region with the most growth vitality and development potential in the world. For more than 30 years, from the Bogor Goals to the Putrajaya Vision, from the coordination of macroeconomic policies to the construction of high-standard free trade areas, the Asia-Pacific region has maintained rapid development for a long period of time. In the final analysis, this is due to the efforts to create an open economy and the Asia-Pacific partnership featuring mutual trust, inclusiveness, cooperation and win-win results. Adhering to open regionalism, guided by the 2040 vision, promoting regional economic integration, and building a high-level Asia-Pacific free trade area at an early date should be the common choice of Asia-Pacific countries. Some countries not only practice protectionism, but also stubbornly adhere to the Cold War mentality and try to create a "small circle" that separates economic ties. This is not in line with the general trend of regional openness and cooperation, and seriously disrupts regional economic cooperation.
In today's world, the futures and destinies of all countries are closely linked. Peaceful development and win-win cooperation are the right way in the world. To engage in "small circles" will only push the world towards division and confrontation. Faced with the choice of tearing down the wall or building it, opening up or isolating, integrating or decoupling, more and more countries are standing on the right side of history and the side of human progress, supporting the building of an open world economy. The "Beijing Initiative of the Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit" released a few days ago proposes to jointly respond to the challenges of the epidemic, promote the stabilization and recovery of the world economy, work together to bridge the development gap, actively promote innovation, and promote green, low-carbon and sustainable development. In particular, the business community highly recognizes the practice of genuine multilateralism, and hopes to jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core, and promote economic globalization towards a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction.
Openness is a distinctive sign of contemporary China. No matter what changes in the international situation, China will hold high the banner of reform and opening up. China's determination to expand high-level opening-up will not change, and China's door will only open wider. China has a super-large domestic demand market with a population of more than 1.4 billion, which is the basis for China to promote common development through openness and cooperation. China actively promotes the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the implementation of global development initiatives, which are important driving forces for China to expand the road of openness and cooperation with regional countries. China is firmly committed to realizing a comprehensive and high-level Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area. China is implementing RCEP with high quality, actively building the 3.0 version of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area with ASEAN members, and continuing to promote accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the The Digital Economy Partnership Agreement heralds a bright future for China and regional countries to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results on a wider scale, in a wider field, and at a deeper level.
"Those who seek justice will win, and those who do things will succeed." China will continue to create a market-oriented and legalized international business environment, providing more market opportunities, investment opportunities and growth opportunities for the global business community. China will continue to uphold the concept of peaceful development and win-win cooperation, work with other countries to solve the current problems faced by the world economy and international trade and investment, and move towards a better future together.
