In the golden autumn season, the capital Beijing welcomes a grand service trade event.
Focusing on global trade in services, focusing on China and the world, opportunities and challenges, present and future, with judgment, initiative, and action, reflects China's firm determination to expand high-level opening-up to the outside world, and demonstrates its great responsibility to continuously provide new opportunities for the world with China's new development.
Open and inclusive
Service trade is an important component of international trade, and the service industry is an important field of international economic and trade cooperation.
After years of cultivation and development, the Service Trade Fair has become a national, international, and comprehensive large-scale exhibition and trading platform. This year's Fair for Trade in Services, with the theme of "openness leading development, cooperation and win-win future", highlights the openness and inclusiveness of China's service trade and service industry.
Throughout the history of human social development, the world economy thrives when it is open, and declines when it is closed.
Openness is a distinct symbol of contemporary China. Open cooperation in the service industry is increasingly becoming an important driving force for development.
Take one step at a time, persist in playing steadily. Nowadays, the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) has become an important platform to promote China's expansion of opening up, deepening cooperation, and leading innovation, making positive contributions to the development of the global service industry and service trade.
Innovation driven
Currently, despite the lack of momentum for global economic recovery, 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.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development. In recent years, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation has emerged, driving the strong rise of digital technology, promoting deep integration of industries, and leading the vigorous development of the service economy.
Opening the outline of the 14th Five Year Plan, Chapter 13 clearly proposes to innovate and develop service trade, promote the construction of pilot open platforms for innovative development of service trade, and enhance the level of trade digitization.
In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, "innovating the development mechanism of service trade, developing digital trade, and accelerating the construction of a trade powerhouse" is an important measure to promote high-level opening-up to the outside world.
Innovation has always been a new driving force for accelerating the cultivation of service trade.
The overlapping policies of "two districts" are unique in the country. In the past three years, Beijing has completed 98% of the 251 tasks approved by the State Council for the construction of the "Two Districts", implemented more than 40 national pioneering policies, and promoted 40 innovative experience cases nationwide.
Sharing and win-win
Faced with a complex and severe external environment, China's service trade has shown strong development resilience and maintained rapid growth. In 2022, the total import and export volume of services reached nearly 6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.9%, reaching a historic high and ranking second in the world for the ninth consecutive year.
History and practice have fully proven that China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the prosperity of the world also requires China.
The "Global Service, Mutual Benefit and Sharing" Service Trade Fair has built a platform and bridge, allowing people from all countries to fully showcase new developments and breakthroughs in the field of service trade, and jointly enjoy the new technologies and achievements of human social development and progress.
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.
By sharing opportunities, developing together, maintaining the hard won free trade and multilateral trading system, and sharing the historical opportunities of global service trade development, we can definitely jointly create a better and more prosperous future for the world.
