2023-11-25 13:59:35
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 23 Title: Seize new opportunities and build new engines together – President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2nd Global Digital Trade Expo to gather new momentum for common development
Xinhua News Agency reporter
On November 23, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the Second Global Digital Trade Expo, which aroused enthusiastic responses from Chinese and foreign guests and people from all walks of life. Everyone expressed that President Xi Jinping’s congratulatory letter pointed out the direction for jointly promoting the high-quality and sustainable development of global digital trade. They will jointly seize the development opportunities of global digital trade in accordance with the requirements of the congratulatory letter, make full use of the Global Digital Trade Expo platform, and work together to build digital trade into a common development A new engine that injects new impetus into world economic growth.
More than a month ago, President Xi Jinping announced at the opening ceremony of the third “Belt and Road” International Cooperation Summit Forum that “China will hold a ‘Global Digital Trade Expo’ every year,” fully demonstrating China’s willingness to work with other countries to build an open world economy and promote Strong determination for global digital trade to prosper.
Zhu Yong, Director of the Department of E-Commerce and Information Technology of the Ministry of Commerce, said that President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the Second Global Digital Trade Expo, which provided important guidance for leveraging the role of the Digital Expo as a global public product and promoting the development of global digital trade. In the next step, we will make good use of the professional open platform of the Digital Trade Fair to further align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, work with all parties to build a global governance system in the digital field, cultivate new momentum for the development of digital trade, and enhance the resilience of the global digital industry chain and supply chain. , promote high-quality and sustainable development of the global digital economy, and contribute China’s strength to the recovery of the world economy.
“President Xi Jinping’s congratulatory letter once once more made us feel China’s determination to continue to expand opening up to the outside world, and strengthened our confidence in deeply exploring the Chinese market.” Shan Guohong, global senior vice president of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and president of Takeda China, who listened to the congratulatory letter, said, The Digital Trade Fair has built a valuable platform for countries to discuss, cooperate, promote development, and share results. It is conducive to jointly discussing the future development of digital trade and sharing the opportunities and dividends of digital economic development.
Currently, global digital trade is booming and has become a new bright spot in international trade. In his congratulatory letter, President Xi Jinping mentioned that “China’s new development will continue to provide new opportunities for the world” and “jointly build digital trade into a new engine for common development”, which aroused widespread resonance from all walks of life.
New Development Bank President Rousseff said that China has made remarkable achievements in empowering high-quality development with the digital economy. The second Global Digital Trade Expo will showcase corresponding products and solutions that deeply integrate the digital economy and the real economy, demonstrating digital trade and With the development potential of digital finance and other fields, I believe that this digital trade fair will make new contributions to world economic growth.
Finland is one of the guest countries of this year’s digital trade fair, and Finnish companies focus on displaying products in industrial digitalization and other aspects. Meng Lan, Ambassador of Finland to China, said that digital trade plays an important role in trade cooperation between the two countries, and China’s huge digital industrial system provides Finland with broad opportunities to develop related new products, new technologies, and new services.
In recent years, digital trade in Zhejiang Province has continued to grow rapidly. Among the four areas of the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone, the Hangzhou area highlights digital trade. Chen Weijing, full-time deputy director of the Hangzhou Area Management Committee of the China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone, said that Hangzhou will give full play to the superimposed effect of the “Digital Trade Fair + Free Trade Pilot Zone”, actively practice institutional openness, start the construction of “China Digital Trade Port”, and focus on Build a global digital trade innovation leading source, a cutting-edge trend release place and an international hub for digital trade, and strive to build a global digital trade center.
The rapid development of digital trade is inseparable from the high empowerment of data as a new factor of production. A set of data in the Comprehensive Hall of the Digital Trade Fair is eye-catching: in 2022, China’s data output will reach 8.1ZB, a year-on-year increase of 22.7%, accounting for 10.5% of the total global data output, ranking second in the world; the scale of China’s digital economy will reach 50.2 trillion Yuan, ranking second in the world in total.
“President Xi Jinping’s important speech puts forward new requirements for us to consolidate our advantages in digital economic development and deepen international cooperation in the digital economy.” Luan Jie, the preparatory team of the National Data Administration, said that the next step will be to continuously improve the basic data system and promote the supply of more high-quality data. Cultivate the data industry and continuously activate the value of data elements; deepen international cooperation in the digital economy, strengthen policy connection, experience exchange, and project cooperation with countries co-building the “Belt and Road”, and promote the construction of a more open, inclusive, and universally beneficial Digital Silk Road.
iFlytek Co., Ltd., which has participated in the digital trade fair for two consecutive years, brought its latest scientific and technological achievements in artificial intelligence, including large models, to the exhibition this year. Listening to President Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message on the spot, Sun Dongping, Vice President of iFlytek Co., Ltd., said that the company will continue to increase investment and research and development in key core technologies, work with global partners to promote the innovation and application of artificial intelligence technology, and accelerate the implementation of the industry.
Li Xiaolin, chairman of the China E-commerce Rural Revitalization Alliance, said that judging from the more than five years of practice of the China E-commerce Rural Revitalization Alliance, the digital economy has played a significant role in promoting agricultural modernization in underdeveloped areas. In the next step, we will accelerate our pace to seize new opportunities in the development of the digital economy, and continue to use digital technology to empower rural revitalization and assist agriculture. (Reporters Xie Xiyao, Yan Fujing, Wen Jinghua, Zhang Xuan, Huang Xiao)
◆Editor: Zhou Yaping ◆Second review: Jiang Ping ◆Third review: Lai Yousheng
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