Q：“外交部发言人办公室”消息，在11月7日外交部例行记者会上，总台央视记者提问：昨天，联合国贸易和发展会议发布题为《中国自贸试验区在促进制度创新、产业转型和南南合作中的作用》报告，高度评价中国自贸试验区10年建设成就，肯定中国深化改革、扩大开放成果，认为这是中国独特的创举，为发展中国家提供了有益参考。中方对此有何评论？
A：汪文斌：我们注意到有关报告。这是国际组织首次围绕中国自贸试验区发布专题研究报告，表明中国自贸试验区建设正受到越来越多的国际关注。报告提到，中国自贸试验区提升投资和贸易便利化，促进创新和科技发展，扩大服务业和数字产业等重点领域对外开放，有效推动了政府服务改善和营商环境优化，助推了产业转型升级，促进了外商投资增长，加速了中国开放和改革。
今年是中国自贸试验区建设10周年。10年前，习近平主席统筹国内国际两个大局，提出了建设自贸试验区的战略构想。10年来，中国自贸试验区建设逐渐形成拥有22个自贸试验区的“雁阵”，构建起统筹沿海、内陆、沿边的改革开放新格局，成为中国高水平对外开放的显著标志。中国自贸试验区数量不断扩大，也见证着中国深层次全方位对外开放程度不断提升，建设更高水平开放型经济的步伐日益坚定。
开放是人类文明进步的重要动力，是世界繁荣的必由之路，也是当代中国的鲜明标识。从45年前实行对外开放，再到22年前加入世贸组织；从10年前建设自贸试验区，再到5年前开始举办进博会，中国对外开放的脚步从未停歇，同世界分享发展机遇的决心从未改变，致力于“拉手”“拆墙”而非“松手”“筑墙”的信心从未减弱。
中国将始终是世界发展的重要机遇，将坚定推进高水平对外开放，持续推动经济全球化朝着更加开放、包容、普惠、平衡、共赢的方向发展。中国愿同各国一道，共同把全球市场的蛋糕做大，把全球共享的机制做实，把全球合作的方式做活，在开放的大舞台上相向而行、相互成就，推动开放型世界经济行稳致远，让合作共赢惠及世界。
Q：CCTV: Yesterday the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development issued a report titled “The Role of China’s Pilot Free Trade Zones in Promoting Institutional Innovation, Industrial Transformation and South-South Cooperation”, which speaks highly of the success of China’s Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) over the past decade and recognizes China’s fruitful efforts in deepening reform and expanding opening-up. The Pilot FTZs were a unique development in China and can offer a reference point to other developing countries, the report says. What’s your comment on this?
A：Wang Wenbin: We have noted the report. This is the first special report on China’s Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) by an international organization. It reflects the growing international interest in China’s Pilot FTZs. According to the report, China’s Pilot FTZs, through promoting investment and trade facilitation, developing innovation and technological capability, and expanding opening-up in key sectors such as services and the digital economy, have effectively improved government services and business environment, driven industrial transformation and upgrading, boosted FDI inflow, and accelerated China’s reform and opening-up.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Pilot FTZs in China. A decade ago, President Xi Jinping came up with this strategic vision with an aim to enhance China’s domestic development and international cooperation. What started a decade ago has now grown into a constellation of 22 Pilot FTZs, providing a new pattern of reform and opening-up involving the coastal, inland and border regions. They have become a hallmark of China’s high-level opening-up. The growing number of Pilot FTZs also attests to the sustained progress in China’s in-depth and all-round opening-up and its determined steps in building an open economy at a higher level.
Openness is a key driving force behind the progress of human civilizations, an intrinsic path toward global prosperity and development, and also China’s hallmark in modern times. From launching the opening-up program 45 years ago to joining the WTO 22 years ago, from building the first free trade zone 10 years ago to the inaugural CIIE 5 years ago, China has never stopped its effort to pursue opening-up, never wavered in its determination of sharing development opportunities with the world and never undermined its confidence in “joining hands” with each other instead of “letting go” of each other’s hands and “tearing down walls”, instead of “erecting walls”.
China will remain an important opportunity for the world’s development, stay committed to high-level opening up, and make economic globalization more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial for all. China stands ready to work with other countries to make the pie of the global market even bigger, strengthen the mechanisms for sharing benefits globally, and explore new ways of international cooperation. China hopes to work with the rest of the world to make efforts in the same direction and make mutual achievements on a grand stage of openness to achieve steady progress in building an open world economy and deliver benefits to the world through win-win cooperation.
Wang Wenbin：China has never stopped its effort to pursue opening-up
