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| Solar panels and wind turbines. (PHOTO: VCG) |
More than 100 participants from international organizations, Fortune 500 companies and the global business communities exchanged their views on economic recovery, stabilization of global industrial chains, and the green transition at the China Development Forum (CDF) 2023 on March 25-27.
Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank senior managing director, said China has made great economic achievements in the past decades, eradicating extreme poverty and building a thriving middle class.
Noel Quinn, Group Chief Executive at HSBC, said that China's reform and opening-up have yielded fruitful results. In recent years, China's economic development has been the most important stabilizer for the world economy.
Many multinational companies have benefited from China's reform and opening-up and achieved successful development. He is optimistic about China's economic growth potential, innovation vitality, and investment opportunities.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook, and Jakob Stausholm, chief executive of Rio Tinto Group expressed their excitement at returning to China three years after the outbreak of COVID-19, and their appreciation of China's abundant achievements in economic and social development.
They said that multinational companies have benefited from China's reform and opening-up and rapid development, while multinational companies have also made positive contributions to China's development. They will continue to deepen cooperation with China in the future. They are confident that China will further promote opening-up and make significant contributions to the world economy.
As China's utilized foreign investment rose from 144.4 billion USD in 2020 to 189.1 billion USD in 2022, Yi Xiaozhun, former WTO deputy director-general, said that "China has already been deeply embedded in the international value chain and become a global manufacturing hub and a 'world factory,' due to over 40 years of reform and opening-up."
Denis Depoux, co-president of Roland Berger Global Management Committee, said that China has played a crucial role in the global green development path. Over the past few decades, China has been actively participating in the transformation of the global energy industry.
China's renewable energy equipment has become significantly more competitive internationally, as a result of aggressive domestic carbon reduction. He believes that China will continue to give full play to its competitive advantages to promote reform of the world energy industry.