With one belt, one road, the other is the new economic and trade growth point. As China's one belt, one road service trade fair 2020, the third "one belt and one way" forum on services and trade cooperation was held at the National Convention Center in September 7th. In the forum, the development of digital economy and trade in science and technology services has become a hot spot. Zhang Shenfeng, vice president of CCPIT, delivered a speech on behalf of the organizers. Long Yongtu, consultant of China Association of trade in services and former Vice Minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, Zhou Chenghu, President of China Association for trade in services and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, attended the forum and delivered a speech. Jorge chedil, special envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations for South South cooperation and director of the United Nations Office for South South cooperation, delivered a speech via video. Zhao Xiaoyu, former vice president of the China Development Bank and former vice president of the Asian Development Bank, Ma Xiaoli, vice president of the European Chamber of Commerce of China, Ahmed Faruk, Minister of government of Pakistan to China, as well as experts, scholars and representatives of well-known enterprises in various fields attended the forum.
China is moving towards service trade
Focus on the second opening up
Zhang Shenfeng, vice president of the China Council for the promotion of international trade, said in his speech that at present, China is moving from the primary opening with the focus on trade in goods to the second opening focusing on trade in services, and that trade in services has become an important engine to promote China's economic growth. Since China's outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia, the Chinese government has issued a series of policies and measures to stabilize trade in services, vigorously promoting the innovation and development of service trade. In the first seven months of this year, China's service trade generally showed a trend of stabilizing, and the proportion of knowledge intensive service trade increased against the market. China's actual use of foreign capital was 535.65 billion yuan. Among them, the service industry actually absorbed 414.59 billion yuan of foreign investment, an increase of 11.6% over the same period of last year. Service trade is becoming a new bright spot in the development of foreign trade. Against this background, one of the "one belt, one road" forum on service trade cooperation will be held to explore the best way to develop trade in services. It is of great significance to promote the new development and cooperation of Global trade in services under the new situation and help the world economy recover as soon as possible. Therefore, Zhang Shenfeng put forward three suggestions to promote international cooperation in service trade
First, adhere to the principle of CO consultation, co construction and sharing, and continuously promote the construction of service trade mechanism platform. We should strengthen bilateral and multilateral cooperation, and foster new mechanisms and platforms for international cooperation, create more opportunities for Chinese and foreign enterprises to deepen service trade and investment cooperation, and form more practical cooperation results. Second, adhere to innovation and actively cultivate new formats and models of service trade. Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia, tourism, transportation, catering, accommodation, commerce and exhibition industry has been seriously affected, and digital services such as information and communication, telemedicine, online education and e-commerce have been growing continuously. It is necessary to comply with the development trend of digitalization, networking and intelligence, and rely on new technologies such as big data, Internet of things, cloud computing and blockchain to vigorously promote the overall export of high-end services and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of service trade. We will provide legal consultation, credit investigation, arbitration and mediation, intellectual property protection and other services in an online and offline way, so as to escort the innovation and development of service trade. The third is to optimize the business environment and continuously improve the level of service trade liberalization and facilitation.
The epidemic is changing production and life
Stimulate new expectations for digital economy
Long Yongtu, consultant of China Service Trade Association and former Vice Minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, said in his keynote speech, "when analyzing the impact of the epidemic, we should not only see its negative impact, but also its positive impact. Although the epidemic is serious, involving many countries and has experienced a long time, it is profoundly changing people's lifestyle, production mode and business model. If these changes are truly normalized, they will have a positive impact on global development and form a new driving force for development. " He pointed out that in the epidemic situation, digital economy has sprung up, manufacturing industry, service industry, artificial intelligence and Internet are more closely linked. People have become accustomed to remote office, hold more online and offline meetings, and many students are taking classes online, which makes people feel that great changes are emerging.
He said that the digital economy is a population economy, and countries with large data application scale will develop into a dominant country in the digital economy; the digital economy is a transitional economy, and new technologies such as the Internet, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other new technologies are profoundly changing China's economic structure; the digital economy is a inclusive economy, which can create good conditions and a large number of young people to enter the jobs As long as the digital economy still exists and develops, trade protectionism can be curbed to a great extent.
Novel coronavirus pneumonia, the UN Secretary General's special envoy for South South cooperation and Jorge Chedil, director of the office of the United Nations Office for South South cooperation, hope to jointly tackle the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic through digital and technological innovation.
He said that due to the impact of the epidemic, some areas in developing countries have been basically paralyzed, and many people have to work remotely from home. We must make policy adjustments at the demand and supply levels respectively. Novel coronavirus pneumonia has been launched in a series of training programs across the city under the framework of South South cooperation. It is hoped that there will be more ideas and new solutions to strengthen mutual cooperation through cloud technology and Internet technology. To this end, a large number of Online