Li Qiang proposed in the government work report to further expand high-level opening to the outside world.

On March 5, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council introduced in the government work report this year's government work tasks, proposing further expanding high-level opening to the outside world. Adhering to win-win cooperation, steadily expanding institutional opening, expanding international circulation, and promoting reform and development through opening up. Actively expand autonomous opening. Focus on expanding market access and opening up in the service industry, further expand the opening up pilot projects in value-added telecommunications, biotechnology, wholly foreign-owned hospitals, and orderly expand the opening up of the digital domain, reduce the negative list for cross-border services trade. Build a comprehensive demonstration zone for expanding opening up of the national service industry. Promote the signing of more regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements, actively promote the process of joining the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Fully participate in WTO reform, maintain and develop an open world economy. Optimize the layout scope of free trade pilot zones, enhance innovation-led development capabilities, and solidly promote the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port. Promote stable scale and structural optimization of foreign trade. Increase credit and credit insurance support, expand the use of RMB for cross-border transactions. Guide enterprises to optimize their global market layout, promote the integration of trade and investment, and promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Cultivate and strengthen new momentum for trade development, promote the expansion and upgrading of cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouse models, regulate and orderly develop, enhance international courier logistics system construction, expand intermediate trade, develop digital trade, green trade, and enhance border trade. Encourage and support service exports. Actively expand imports and promote balanced trade development. Improve the level of facilitation of cross-border trade. Expand two-way investment cooperation. Deepen reforms of the foreign investment promotion system and mechanism, guarantee national treatment for foreign-invested enterprises, implement a new edition of the encouraged foreign investment industry catalog, promote domestic reinvestment by foreign capital, and expand localized production. Strengthen service guarantees for foreign-invested enterprises and enhance the "Invest in China" brand. Standardize and upgrade all types of development zones and parks. Guide the rational and orderly cross-border layout of industrial chain supply chains, improve overseas comprehensive service systems, strengthen risk prevention and control for foreign investments and protect overseas interests. Jointly build the "Belt and Road" initiative with high quality. Strengthen strategic alignment with partner countries, implement "hard connectivity", "soft connectivity", and "heart connectivity". Coordinate major iconic projects and "small and beautiful" livelihood projects. Improve the development level of the China-Europe and China-Central Asia Railway, accelerate the construction of the Western Land-Sea New Passage. Deepen cooperation under the "Smart Customs" partnership plan. Expand practical cooperation in emerging fields, enabling cooperation outcomes to benefit the people of all countries more.