From Africa to China
African companies showcase their products at import expo for Chinese consumers.
African companies showcase their products at import expo for Chinese consumers.
When China and the U.S. are good trading partners, it increases everybody’s standard of living.
The country will not close its door to the world and will only become more and more open.
How do former prime minister of France, Dominique de Villepin, and Editor-in-chief of Bloomberg L.P., John Micklethwait sees China’s first import themed expo?
Is the China doing so only for yielding to the pressure from Trump? Absolutely not.
President Xi Jinping advanced tremendously the significance of the CIIE from an ordinary trade fair to the obligation and contribution of China to the global free trade system.
China seeks further integration in the world economy with a push on global imports.
Under these circumstances, China holding the CIIE to open its market wider to the rest of the world is a significant measure in terms of steadfastly upholding free trade and economic globalization.
At this national expo, President Xi made clear through his speech that China is taking concrete actions to open wider to the outside world.
In a way it is not the traditional import-export idea, but it’s service oriented, a more logistics-oriented approach that we bring with us.
Development is not a zero-sum game—it should tend toward win-win results achieved through openness and cooperation.
Why then should China, a developing country, hold such an unparalleled Import Expo? The CIIE 2018 is designed to provide solutions to the following three issues.