Service trade is an important component of international trade, and the service industry is an important field of international economic and trade cooperation. Global trade in services and cooperation in the service industry are deepening, and the process of digitization, intelligence, and greening is accelerating. New technologies, formats, and models are emerging one after another, injecting strong impetus into promoting economic globalization, restoring global economic vitality, and enhancing the resilience of world economic development.
China is willing to work with all countries to promote inclusive development through service openness, promote linkage and integration through service cooperation, cultivate development momentum through service innovation, create a better future through service sharing, and work together to push the world economy onto a sustainable recovery track.
We will create a more open and inclusive development environment. Expand the global network of high standard free trade zones, actively carry out negotiations on negative lists of service trade and investment, expand the opening up of service areas such as telecommunications, tourism, law, and vocational examinations to the outside world, and expand the opening up of comprehensive demonstration zones in the national service industry, as well as conditional free trade pilot zones and free trade ports, taking the lead in connecting with international high standard economic and trade rules. Relax market access for the service industry, orderly promote the process of opening up cross-border service trade, improve the standardization level of service trade, and steadily expand institutional openness.
We will tighten the cooperative bond of mutual benefit and win-win. We will strengthen the docking of development strategies and cooperation initiatives with other countries, deepen cooperation with countries along the "the Belt and Road" in trade in services and digital trade, facilitate cross-border flow of various resource factors, and foster more growth points for economic cooperation.
We will strengthen the development path driven by innovation. Accelerate the cultivation of new digital driving forces for service trade, promote the pilot reform of the data infrastructure system, and promote the innovative development of digital trade reform. Build a national voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market to support the service industry in playing a greater role in green development. Promote the integration and development of service trade with modern service industry, high-end manufacturing industry, and modern agriculture, and unleash more innovative vitality.
We will share the achievements of Chinese path to modernization. Efforts will be made to expand domestic demand, accelerate the construction of a strong domestic market, actively expand the import of high-quality services, encourage the expansion of knowledge intensive service exports, provide new development momentum for the world with the opportunity of China's large market, provide more and better Chinese services for the world with high-quality development, and enhance the sense of gain for people around the world.
Let us jointly uphold the hard won free trade and multilateral trading system, share the historical opportunities of global service trade development, and work together to create a better and more prosperous future for the world.
The 2023 China International Fair for Trade in Services will be held in Beijing from September 2nd to 6th, with the theme of "Openness Leading Development, Cooperation and Win Win Future".
