Wang Wentao, Secretary of the Commerce Department's Party Group and Minister: Expand high-level opening-up to the outside world and accelerate the construction of a strong domestic market.

Question: "Suggestions" have set a special chapter on "expanding high-level opening to the outside world, creating a new situation of win-win cooperation." What is the important significance of China's expansion of high-level opening to the outside world during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period? The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Expanding high-level opening to the outside world has significant significance. - Expanding high-level opening to the outside world is a powerful driving force for promoting high-quality development comprehensively. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's development faces strategic opportunities and challenges as well as increasing uncertainties. This requires us to actively adapt to changes, seize opportunities, potential, and advantages, fully implement the new development concept accurately and comprehensively, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, develop new productive forces according to local conditions, and focus on promoting high-quality development. Expanding high-level opening to the outside world plays an important role in promoting reform and development through opening up, enhancing the linkage effects of two markets and two resources domestically and internationally, and promoting the qualitative and quantitative growth of the economy. - Expanding high-level opening to the outside world is an intrinsic requirement to meet the needs of the people's good life. Foreign open economic activities are closely related to the production and life of the people. By 2024, there are nearly 700,000 foreign trade enterprises with actual imports and exports, nearly 500,000 foreign-funded enterprises, more than 200 million employed population directly and indirectly driven by foreign trade and foreign investment, and a large number of high-quality imports promoting industrial and consumption upgrades. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, opening up will continue to play an important role in stabilizing growth, employment, and benefiting people's livelihoods. Expanding high-level opening to the outside world, by enlarging and distributing the benefits of openness, will help continuously improve the quality of people's lives and better benefit the people with development achievements. - Expanding high-level opening to the outside world is an active initiative to promote economic globalization. Some countries are erecting tariff barriers, engaging in decoupling, unilateralism, and protectionism, leading to a decline in the world's open index. However, overall, the direction of economic globalization has not changed and will not change. Expanding high-level opening to the outside world, firmly standing on the right side of history, upholding multilateralism and free trade, deepening international cooperation in industrial and supply chains, is beneficial for us to win strategic initiative in fierce international competition and also promote global cooperation and an inclusive economic globalization through our own openness. - Expanding high-level opening to the outside world is an important measure to build a community of shared future for mankind. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, countries are still closely interconnected and mutually influential, but they will also face many common challenges. Expanding high-level opening to the outside world, accelerating the construction of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, promoting the implementation of global development initiatives, global security initiatives, global civilization initiatives, and global governance initiatives, is conducive to countries working together to address challenges, engage in global cooperation, build an open world economy, promote the deepening and solidification of the community of shared future for mankind.