Expand the convergence of interests and build a community with a shared future – China Economic Net

From December 2 to 3, the 2023 “Understanding China” International Conference (Guangzhou), co-sponsored by the China National Innovation and Development Strategy Research Association, the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, and the Guangdong Provincial People’s Government, opened in Guangzhou. The theme of this conference is “China’s New Actions under the Century of Change – Expanding Convergence of Interests and Building a Community with a Shared Future”. 63 international guests from more than 30 countries and regions attended the conference and started dialogues with Chinese scholars and entrepreneurs. Jointly discuss and exchange content on China’s high-quality economic development and high-level opening-up, demonstrate China’s new achievements under a century of changes, send a positive signal that China insists on comprehensively deepening reforms, adhere to high-quality development and high-level opening-up, and encourage countries around the world to jointly expand interests Meeting point and confidence in building a community with a shared future.

　　Building a community with a shared future resonates

This year marks the 10th anniversary of China’s joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. According to Peng Sen, president of the China Economic Structural Reform Research Association and former deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, over the past 10 years, two-way investment between China and the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative has exceeded US$270 billion. In 2020, the trade volume between China and co-founding countries reached US$2.1 trillion, doubling that in 2013. According to World Bank estimates, by 2030, the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative will bring US$1.6 trillion in benefits to the world every year, accounting for approximately 1.3% of global GDP.

Peng Sen said that since 2013, the private economy has replaced the state-owned economy as the main force in overseas investment. At present, most of the overseas cooperation parks under the “Belt and Road Initiative” are constructed, managed and operated by private enterprises. Cooperation in the construction of countries under the “Belt and Road Initiative” There are more than 80 zones, and more than 4,000 companies have entered the zone, paying more than 2 billion US dollars in taxes and fees to the host country and creating nearly 300,000 local jobs. For example, the China-Belarus Industrial Park, China-UAE (United Arab Emirates) Production Capacity Cooperation Park, China-Egypt Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, etc. are all managed and operated by private enterprises to deepen and solidify economic and trade cooperation under the “Belt and Road” initiative and jointly promote high-quality development. played an extremely important role.

Former Ethiopian President Mulatu said that in the past 10 years, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has evolved from China’s initiative to international practice, from ideas to actions, from visions to reality, and from “general brushwork” in planning and layout to “meticulous brushwork” in intensive cultivation. painting”. The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has brought tangible benefits to relevant countries, including Ethiopia. In Africa, the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway and the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway have been put into operation successively, becoming important channels for promoting the in-depth development of East Africa and even African countries as a whole. It has been 10 years since the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative has brought profound changes to the world and has become a landmark event in the history of the development of human society.

Zhang Yuyan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that China’s “Belt and Road” initiative focuses on the goal of building a community with a shared future for mankind. “In China’s values, the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative is to achieve the common development of all mankind. What China seeks is the success of building a community with a shared future for mankind. It is not about defeating anyone, nor is it about defeating anyone. We have no enemies in our eyes. What we seek is common development.” Zhang Yuyan said.

The global development initiatives proposed by China reflect the current ardent expectations of the international community, especially the developing countries, for global development. Former Egyptian Prime Minister Sharaf said that China has now become the world’s second largest economy, the world’s largest trading country, and the world’s largest manufacturer. Its contribution to the global economy has reached 19%, and its per capita GDP has reached US$16,500. . Chinese-style modernization demonstrates China’s development, and China’s development characteristics reflect the essence of global development initiatives. The results are a revelation to developing countries. If such good results can be continuously achieved, eventually a A global development community.

Zhang Minwen, deputy director of the International Finance and Economics Center of the Ministry of Finance, said that the global development initiative aims to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda and is an important public good and cooperation platform provided by China to the international community. As an important engine of the global economy, China has injected sustained momentum into world economic development. We have achieved an average annual growth of more than 6% in the past 10 years, and our contribution to the world economy has stabilized at around 30%. China’s economy has strong resilience, sufficient potential and room for maneuver. It is confident that it will achieve its growth target of around 5% this year and achieve stable growth in the long term. China’s new development will continue to bring new impetus and new opportunities to the world.

　　Gain the upper hand by developing new productive forces

Zeng Qinghong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd., said that the automobile industry, especially the new energy automobile industry, has become a representative of new quality productivity. China’s new energy vehicle export volume ranks first in the world, accounting for 60% of global production and sales. At the same time, the factory has also fully implemented digital production, reached zero-carbon standards, and achieved transformation and upgrading.

Zhang Jianqiu, senior executive president of Yili Group, said that accelerating the formation of “new productive forces” is the key to winning development opportunities. As a basic industry related to human health, the dairy industry must continue to strengthen scientific and technological innovation, digital intelligence upgrades, and green and low-carbon throughout the entire industry chain to form “new productivity” in the dairy industry and help China’s economy achieve high-quality development. The essence of new productivity is technological innovation. Yili has carried out innovation cooperation across the entire industry chain and established 15 innovation centers in Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas to build a “global smart chain”. At the same time, Yili is taking the lead in building a national dairy technology innovation center, bringing together global dairy industry experts to solve bottlenecks in industry development. Accelerating digital and intelligent upgrading is the only way for Chinese enterprises to transform and develop. The dairy industry spans primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Only by promoting the integration of digital technology and industrial development can “new productivity” be born.

　　Maintain the stability of industrial and supply chains

Today, the world’s major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and the world’s political and economic landscape is undergoing profound adjustments. The economic and trade level, industrial structure and comparative advantages of various economies around the world are significantly different from before, and the global value chain has also undergone significant changes. The restructuring of the global value chain is profoundly changing the global industrial chain and supply chain pattern.

Wang Hongzhang, vice chairman of the Academic Committee of the China Entrepreneurship Association and former chairman of China Construction Bank, said that in recent years, some people in the United States have promoted decoupling and disconnection, which has caused economic globalization to encounter countercurrents, severely impacting the global industrial and supply chains, and affecting the global economic structure and trade relations. A profound adjustment has occurred. At that time, our country demonstrated its sense of responsibility and emphasized maintaining the stability and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains. In global discourse, it has repeatedly made it clear to deepen international cooperation in industrial and supply chains. Maintaining the resilience and stability of global industrial and supply chains is an important guarantee for promoting world economic development.

Wei Jianguo, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China and Vice Chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said that the strength of a big country lies in the quantity and quality of global public goods supply. China’s industrial and supply chains are a public good. The current international and domestic situation is the best time for China’s industrial and supply chains to vigorously develop and make great achievements. After the COVID-19 epidemic, the eastward migration of manufacturing, capital, technology, and talents has accelerated. Under such circumstances, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to become the center of the global industrial chain and supply chain in the next five years. In the next step, China should build an open, stable and safe industrial chain and supply chain with Chinese characteristics through high-level opening up. (Economic Daily reporter Wang Yiyi)