Nation pushes high-level opening-up

It has advanced the Belt and Road Initiative, signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a free-trade pact signed by 15 Asia-Pacific economies, and is seeking membership in multiple multilateral trade agreements, including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA).

Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher at the CCIEE, said China is expected to promote free flows of goods, services, resources and production factors at a higher level, advance institutional opening-up at higher standards, and push for more openness in the world regarding innovations in the sectors of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, to expand its high-level opening-up.

"In particular, as there is fierce competition and disagreement between the world's major economies over digital rules, if China joins DEPA, it can promote diversified, modular and adaptable digital rules that are more in line with the digital development needs of small and medium-sized economies and small and medium-sized enterprises," he said.

China is anticipated to participate in the rule-making of digital trade, actively participate in DEPA and promote the trade pact, he said, adding that it will help promote the regulation and development of digital trade and motivate most of the economies and business communities in the world to discuss, jointly build and share the opportunities and achievements of the digital economy.

Wei, former vice-minister of commerce, also anticipates China will roll out a flurry of win-win measures strengthening international cooperation, especially in rules and standards and infrastructure connectivity.

More of such win-win measures will be introduced into sectors such as industry, science and technology, and culture, apart from sectors such as trade and infrastructure, which will be a feature of China's opening-up in the next phase, he said.

Wei also said the government's adoption of rules and institutions to correct behiors and management that hinder the healthy development of the socialist market economy, will also be a key to the high-level opening-up of China in the next phase.

Liu Ying, a researcher at Renmin University of China's Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, said China's acceleration in establishing the dual-circulation development paradigm — which takes the domestic market as a mainstay and lets domestic and foreign markets reinforce each other — requires the nation to expand high-level opening-up and therefore to gain more momentum in constructing the unified national market.

Institutional opening-up has become a crucial part of China's high-level opening-up, she said, adding the opening-up of the financial sector in China is also accelerating.

She also said China will become increasingly important in stabilizing and driving global economic recovery, as the nation expands opening-up against the background of rising protectionism and anti-globalization sentiments in the world.

来源 china daily

编辑 段岚茜

二审 杨韬

民事诉讼 田旻佳