Jointly Promoting Global Open Innovation Cooperation in Service Trade - The Chairperson Issues a Welcome Message to the 2025 China International Service Trade Fair, Triggering Warm Responses from Attendees

China actively promotes the high-quality development of service trade, shares development opportunities with countries around the world, and injects more positive energy and certainty into the world economy and global development.

Fully reflecting China's firm determination to promote high-level opening-up to the outside world
  China will unwaveringly expand high-level opening-up to the outside world, actively connect with international high standard economic and trade rules, accelerate pilot projects on platforms such as free trade pilot zones and national service trade innovation and development demonstration zones, orderly promote service market opening, and promote high-quality development of service trade.
The China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) has become an important platform for global trade in services, and its breadth and depth of display have won wide recognition from the international community, "said Dorothy Tambo, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations International Trade Centre." This platform not only gathers global innovation resources, but also demonstrates the common determination of all sectors to promote inclusive development. Through reform measures such as opening up the service market, supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce, and optimizing cross-border data flow, China has created an efficient and transparent market environment for enterprises, significantly enhancing their international competitiveness and innovation capabilities.
Australia has served as the guest of honor at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) for the first time this year, forming the largest exhibition group since its inception, showcasing products and solutions in multiple fields such as green economy, education, tourism, food and consumer goods, financial services, and health. Australian Prime Minister Albanese stated in a video message that over 50 Australian companies and institutions participated in the Service Trade Fair this year. The trade and investment cooperation between China and Australia is beneficial to both countries.
  Trade in services is two-way, and China can play a very important role in supporting growth in this field.
 
  We all benefit from international free trade, and Norway does not support 'decoupling and chain breaking'. Hanning said that the Chinese market is very important to Norway and hopes that China will continue to contribute to supporting multilateralism and promoting global openness and cooperation.
China has always promoted global cooperation through pragmatic actions, such as granting 100% tariff free treatment to products of African countries, including Rwanda, which fully demonstrates its sincerity in expanding market opening. Shamir emphasized that the Chinese government's words and actions are consistent, and the establishment of platforms such as the China International Fair for Trade in Services is a vivid manifestation of China's promotion of open cooperation.
Actively promote innovation and quality improvement in service trade, and create favorable conditions for countries to expand cooperation
This year's Service Trade Fair focuses on the theme of "Leading with Digital Intelligence, Revitalizing Service Trade", and holds six types of activities including the Global Service Trade Summit, exhibitions, forums and conferences, negotiation and promotion, achievement release, and supporting activities. 85 countries and international organizations will hold exhibitions, with nearly 2000 companies participating offline, including nearly 500 Fortune 500 and industry leaders. 113 companies will release 198 new products and achievements.
Chen Kai, CEO of Anyong Greater China, said, "The China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) has become a microcosm of China's high-level opening-up to the outside world. Through this platform, the world can clearly feel China's confidence and determination to promote the opening up of the service industry and adhere to attracting and utilizing foreign investment." He believes that this CIFTIS not only focuses on the hot trends of service trade development, but also emphasizes deepening international cooperation in service trade and helping global enterprises share China's development opportunities.
Song Weiqun, Global Executive Vice President of GE Healthcare and President and CEO of GE Healthcare China, stated that the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) is not only a grand stage for global service trade integration, but also a testing ground for collaborative innovation between medical technology and clinical services. This year, the series of domestically produced high-end medical equipment exhibited by the company is an important achievement based on the full industry chain advantages of the Beijing production base and the collaborative innovation mechanism of industry university research. "In the future, we will further strengthen our local innovation and high-end intelligent manufacturing capabilities, and promote more innovative achievements from China to reach the global market and benefit the general public."
Yu Wei, Partner and Head of China at HPP Architecture Firm in Germany, stated that 30 years ago, HPP Architecture Firm became an early partner in China's service trade opening-up. Nowadays, China has become the most important and dynamic part of the company's global market. In this service trade fair, the company will showcase multiple localized practical achievements in China, covering efforts and innovations in sustainable development and human settlement social construction.
  China actively promotes innovation and quality improvement in service trade, creating favorable conditions for countries to expand cooperation
Enable international partners to truly achieve co creation and win-win outcomes
At the Philips booth, star products such as Elition AI and global intelligent magnetic resonance imaging were showcased with the core of "AI empowering diagnosis and treatment to improve quality and efficiency". Liu Ling, a member of the Philips Global Executive Committee and President of Greater China, said, "We have been deeply involved in the Chinese market for 40 years and have personally felt China's continuously optimized business environment and increasingly open and inclusive attitude. This provides more certain development prospects and broader cooperation space for foreign-funded enterprises in China, and also strengthens our determination to root in China and serve China
The series of pragmatic measures taken by the Chinese government have provided more development opportunities for multinational enterprises, including Schneider Electric, "said Xu Shaofeng, Senior Vice President and Head of Medium Voltage and Service Business in China at Schneider Electric. As an old friend of the China International Fair for Trade in Services, the company actively responds to the call to accelerate the development of modern service industry, deeply integrates service capabilities with the needs of all scenarios and industries, and promotes the upgrading of service system quality with innovation driven and ecological synergy as support.
The French Hurricane Group is a sports event operation enterprise. Since entering the Chinese market, the group has developed rapidly, from the 2014 FISE World Extreme Sports Tour Chengdu Station to this year's FISE Urban Sports Carnival Shanghai Station. China has become the forefront of our next wave of innovation. China continues to improve its business environment, allowing international partners to truly achieve co creation and win-win outcomes, "said Alvin, founder and CEO of the group
China's promotion of global open trade will help countries in the global South to develop better, "said Mohammad Miri, Director of Investment and Financing of Iran's Chabahar Free Trade Zone. This year marks the first time that the Chabahar Free Trade Zone has participated in the China International Fair for Trade in Services, and we hope to establish connections with more Chinese enterprises through the platform of the fair. We also hope that China's service industry can continue to explore the Middle East market through the Chabahar Free Trade Zone.
Investing in China is investing in the future, and this trend is becoming increasingly evident. We appreciate the efforts made by the Chinese government to expand training services and promote global cross-border data flows, "said Bai Bowen, Global Chairman of Morgan Asset Management." The Chinese market is nurturing new opportunities, with high-quality opening-up policies and precise policy combinations that promote economic stability, predictability, and generate more innovation and cooperation opportunities.