Novel coronavirus pneumonia challenges can not stop China's opening up to the outside world, and the global investment community is still confident of China's market potential. Recently, the China International Trade in services Fair, the 2020 Xiamen International Investment and trade fair and the Silk Road Investment Conference (hereinafter referred to as "Xiamen fair") have been held one after another, which has further promoted the two-way investment between China and the world, and injected new momentum into boosting global investment confidence in the post epidemic era.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce, from January to August this year, China's actual use of foreign capital reached 619.78 billion yuan, an increase of 2.6% over the same period last year. In terms of industries, from January to August, the actual use of foreign capital in the service industry was 476.61 billion yuan, an increase of 12.1% over the same period of last year; and the high-tech service industry increased by 28.2% year on year. In August, the actual use of foreign capital was 84.13 billion yuan, up 18.7% year on year.
China is opening wider and wider
Provide opportunities for foreign enterprises to invest
"Against the background of effective prevention and control of the epidemic situation, the investment demand of Asia, especially China, is indeed on the rise. Some data show that the investment demand in Asia has increased by 9%." Chen Zhiheng, an assistant researcher at Chongyang Institute of financial studies of Renmin University of China, said in an interview with China trade daily that the favor of foreign investment in China's market stems from China's multiple advantages. First of all, China's domestic market is huge, and there is a solid internal circulation foundation for economic development. Coupled with the vigorous development of new infrastructure, high-tech industries and other fields, it has a very high value promotion space and a large number of investment targets. Secondly, China has entered the stage of normalization of epidemic prevention. Since the second quarter, China's economic and social development has basically returned to normal, with a stable investment environment. Finally, China has always adhered to the policy of opening to the outside world and has a fair market environment and investment atmosphere.
During the Xiamen fair, people from the Ministry of Commerce said that they would continue to implement the negative list of foreign investment access and expand the scope of encouraging foreign investment; it would further establish and improve the foreign investment service system, earnestly implement the foreign investment law and its supporting provisions, and create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment. It is reported that at present, the Ministry of commerce is speeding up the revision of the catalogue of industries encouraging foreign investment, which will substantially increase the number of items to encourage foreign investment and support more foreign-funded enterprises to enjoy relevant preferential policies.
Chen Zhiheng believes that the negative list of foreign investment access and the catalogue of industries encouraging foreign investment have played a good role in guiding and regulating foreign investment in China. Although the supply chain of global industrial chain has been impacted and affected by the epidemic situation, there are still opportunities. It is not only a development opportunity for China, but also for foreign investment to continue to implement the negative list of foreign investment access, expand the scope of encouraging foreign investment, and let more foreign enterprises enter the Chinese market.
China's hitherto unknown novel coronavirus pneumonia, Zhang Zhuoping, chairman of the Pacific Ocean, said that the global economy is facing unprecedented challenges and uncertainties. A series of measures launched by the Chinese government to expand opening up and continuously optimize the business environment have strengthened the confidence of foreign enterprises, including Swire Group, to invest in China.
"I have been working in China for 22 years. I am surprised by the resilience, vitality and development momentum of China's economy. The Chinese market can not be excluded. We will continue to cultivate here." Simon Riley, a British watch maker, said the company was planning to open a physical store in China.
Digital economy becomes a hot spot of investment
According to the large-scale cooperation agreement signed last year, the total amount of investment reached more than 200 million yuan and reached more than 200 million yuan. In particular, new technologies, digital economy, industrial Internet, new energy, biomedicine and other emerging industries are the hot areas of investment at the Xiamen International Fair. The supply chain project of sunshine holding group with an investment of 500 million yuan, Sanhe electric power intelligent manufacturing capital increase project with a total planned investment of 600 million yuan, and China national energy storage project with an investment of 900 million yuan were signed.
During the Xiamen International Fair, foreign representatives participating in the conference showed strong interest in digital economy. Li Yong, director general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, pointed out that the epidemic has accelerated the process of digitization. Both large multinational enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises are aware that new technological innovation and digital investment will improve the efficiency of established business processes, and also help to enhance industrial competitiveness and environmental sustainability.
Ma Boze, President of Nokia Greater China and President of Nokia bell in Shanghai, said that in the post epidemic period, digital transformation will become a strong engine to support China's economic recovery. They are fully prepared to fully support China's future 5g construction. Yin Zheng, President of Schneider Electric China, said in an interview with the media that the main purpose of investing in new projects is to be optimistic about the Chinese market and the development prospects of China's digital economy for a long time. China is already Schneider Electric's second largest market in the world. The company has recently increased investment and plans to expand R & D and build advanced production lines in the next three to five years.
"In terms of investment in the digital field, we still need to pay attention to the ownership and protection of intellectual property rights. We need to further strengthen the construction of relevant legal systems and improve the mechanism to strengthen the protection of new technologies and future industries in China." Chen Zhiheng said.
Under the situation of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, while controlling the scale of the site, this Xiamen fair cooperated with Alibaba group to build a cloud platform and hold "cloud based CIFIT" online simultaneously. For future two-way investment