CCTV Quick Review: Joining Hands to Push the World Economy onto a Sustainable Recovery Track
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Service trade is an important component of international trade, and the service industry is an important field of international economic and trade cooperation. Service trade and service industry have become important fields and indispensable forces in building a new pattern of global common prosperity. Currently, the century long changes are accelerating, economic globalization is facing a backlash, unilateralism and protectionism are constantly rising, and the world economy lacks the driving force for recovery. China will take this year's Fair for Trade in Services as an opportunity to further strengthen trade in services, promote international exchanges, gather global consensus, contribute wisdom and strength to promote the sustainable recovery of the world economy, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
China is a major country in global service trade and has always been committed to promoting global economic and trade cooperation, including service trade, towards a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction. Faced with a complex and severe external environment, China's service trade has shown development resilience. In 2022, China's total import and export of services reached nearly 6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.9%, reaching a historic high in scale and ranking second in the world for the ninth consecutive year. From January to July this year, China's service trade continued to maintain a growth trend, with a total import and export volume of 3666.91 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.1%. Among them, the export of knowledge intensive services has become a new highlight. The fact fully proves that the Chinese economy has tremendous development resilience and potential, and the long-term positive fundamentals have not changed. A continuously deepening reform and expanding opening-up in China remains a thriving land for the service industry, a fertile ground for global investment, and a highland for development.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of China's reform and opening up. China will continue to promote high-level opening up, comprehensively promote Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development, and provide new opportunities for countries to open up and cooperate.This fully expresses China's willingness to work with all countries to promote service economy openness and sharing, and promote world economic development, demonstrating the great responsibility of a major country. China will prioritize the service industry and service trade as a new round of high-level opening-up, implement these measures in detail, continuously deepen practical cooperation in service trade, and enable China's services to benefit people around the world.
Openness leads development, cooperation leads to a win-win future. China will adhere to true multilateralism, jointly safeguard the hard-earned free trade and multilateral trading system, adhere to the "golden key" of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win, solve the current problems faced by the world economy, international trade, and investment, share the historical opportunities of global service trade development, promote global economic recovery and growth, and work together to create a better and prosperous future.
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