BEIJING, 5 November (BelTA - China Daily). - President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech (Full text) via video at the opening ceremony of the fourth China International Import Expo and the Hongqiao International Economic Forum on Thursday.
Here are some highlights:
On China's past
- China's opening-up pledges made at 3rd CIIE basically implemented (Read more)
- China's overall tariff level has dropped to 7.4 percent from 15.3 percent in 2001, lower than the 9.8 percent the country promised when entering WTO (Read more)
- China has provided the international community with about 350 billion face masks, more than 4 billion protective garments, 6 billion test reagents and 1.6 billion doses of vaccines (Read more)
On China's future
- China will remain resolute in expanding high-level opening up, sharing development opportunities with the world and making economic globalization more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial for all
- China will steadfastly uphold true multilateralism (Read more)
- China to unswervingly share market opportunities with world
- China will steadfastly advance high-level opening-up (Read more)
- China to unswervingly safeguard common interests of all countries
- China open to negotiations over industrial subsidy, SOE
- China to open more import promotion demo zones
- China to develop 'Silk Road e-commerce' (Read more)
- China to expand opening-up of telecom, medical sectors
- China to implement stress tests for high-level opening-up in free trade zones
- China supports equitable distribution of critical medical supplies globally
