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Carrying on the Past and Opening a New Chapter for the Future(Speech by Shi Guangsheng, Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation at a pressconference held on March 13, 2001)Dear friends from the press, Ladies and Gentlemen,Let me start by thanking the news center of the NPC and CPPCC for its arrangement, which offers me an opportunity to meet friends from the media present today, I would like to take this opportunity to brief you on the achievements that China scored in its foreign trade ad economic cooperation during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period as well as our tentative ideas on the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation in the next five years.During the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, China’s reform of its foreign trade and economic cooperation regime went into further depth and China’s opening up was obviously accelerated. China has exercised the Registration-for-Record system for trading rights of the state-owned large- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, commercial enterprises and science and research institutes. The control over import and export right of private manufacturing enterprises was also lifted. So far China has 32, 000 enterprises of various kinds with trading right (foreign-invested enterprises excluded). We reduced our tariff level by large margins many times, making the current average tariff rate standing at 15.3%, which is 33.4% lower compared with that at the end of the Eighth Five-Year Plan period. China has further relaxed restrictions on the fields for foreign investment, with commerce, banking, insurance, tourism and other service sectors already opened to foreign investors to varying degrees.The Ninth Five-Year Plan period is an important one as far as our foreign trade and economic development is concerned. Foreign trade and economic cooperation of our country withstood the severe test of the Asian financial crisis and maintained a sound momentum of constant growth. During the time, the value of our goods import and export increased by 1.68 times from USD 280.8 billion in 1995 to USD 474.3 billion in 2000, realizing an average annual growth rate of 11%. The objective to achieve USD 400 billion worth of import and export total set out by the Ninth Five-Year Plan was fulfilled ahead of time. China’s ranking in world trade was uplifted from the 11th place in 1995 to the 9th in 1999 and it is likely to rise further. Form 1996 to 2000, we have cumulatively absorbed USD 213.48 billion of FDI (actually utilized value), 87% higher than that for the Eighth Five-Year Plan period, the average annual FDI utilization scale remained above USD 40 billion. China has been the largest FDI recipient in developing countries since 1993.Our foreign trade and economic cooperation was further improved in terms of quality, level and benefits thus playing a more considerable role in promoting the national economic development. China’s import and export mix was more optimized with the proportion of electromechanical products and hi-tech products in the export total amounting to 42.3% and 14.8%. the industrial structure and geographic distribution of foreign investment tended to be more reasonable, and its contribution to the national economy was further intensified. In the meantime, foreign investment accounted for 12.7% of the total investment in social fixed assets,and the industrial added value yielded by foreign-invested enterprises took up 20.9% in the industrial added value of the country. At present, the nearly 180,000 foreign-invested enterprises in operation have an employment of almost 20 million.Through efforts in the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, China’s all-directional opening-up pattern has taken shape coupled with the rapid development of its open economy. Looking into the coming five years, China’s opening up, foreign trade and economic development will enter a new historical era. We have the following major ideas on the development of China’s foreign trade and economic cooperation.1. Accelerating the growth of an open economy and endeavoring to achieve the sustainable development of foreign economic and trade relations. By 2005, import and export nationwide should total US $ 680 billion while striking a general balance. The percentage of mechanic and electronic products will rise to 50% and that of hi-tech products will account for 20% of China’s export. The annual will rise to 50% and that of hi-tech products will account for 20% of China’s export. The annual absorption of foreign direct investment will keep at around US $ 40 billion and efforts shall be made to increase the amount. The strategy of Going Global will have made substantial progress. On the basis of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, foreign project contracting, labor services cooperation, foreign aid and other foreign trade and economic activities shall make bigger strides and new headway.2. Pushing forward two fundamental transformations in foreign trade and economic cooperation so as to improve the international competitiveness of China in this field. During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, we shall carry out in a better way the strategies of Winning by Quality, Market Diversification and Reinvigorating Trade by Science and Technology. At eh same time, we shall transform the growth mode of foreign trade and economic cooperation. Unremitting efforts shall be made in restructuring China’s foreign trade and economic cooperation which include the constant improvement of the commodity mix of import and export, the structure of trade methods, regional distribution and market composition. Besides, we shall also increase the value-added rate of processing trade. Combining all these efforts, we can basically ensure that China’s foreign trade and economic development has undergone fundamental change from mainly depending on the expansion of magnitude and quantitative increase to primarily depending on quality and efficiency.3. Seizing the opportunity of WTO accession to establish a new foreign trade and economic cooperation system that is consistent with international norm and China’s national conditions, by relying on the basis of legal regime and rules, making reform the driving force and development the objective, respecting the commitments China has made in international negotiations, and fully using the transitional period after Chin joins the World Trade Organization.4. Implementing the open strategy of Going Global in real earnest. We shall encourage overseas investment where China has comparative advantages so that we can participate in international competition and cooperation in a broader and deeper magnitude. Also we shall integrate the strategies of “Bringing Home” and “Going Global” and make them complementary,which will enable us to make better use of both international and domestic marketplaces and resources to serve China’s modernization drive.Chief Executive Donald TSANG Yam-Kuen’s Speech at WTO Ministerial Conference 2005in Hong Kong, ChinaYour Excellencies Distinguished Ministers, Director-General Mr. Lamy, Chair of the General Council, Your Excellency Ambassador Mohamed, Honorable Delegate and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,First of all, I wish to extend to you a warm Hong Kong welcome to all of you. Hong Kong, China is deeply honored to be the host of the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization.This week, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance the existing international trading environment, to generate wealth on a broader and deeper scale globally, and, most important of all, to help alleviate the pain of poverty for millions of people living in the poorer parts of this world. I am pleased that Hong Kong, China is today at the center of this admirable enterprise.I cannot emphasize strongly enough the importance of the WTO. It is the rule-based forum at which 149 Member Economies negotiate agreements and resolve disputes over trade issues.The WTO is also a powerful force in countering the currents of protectionism and discrimination which are responsible to a large extent for the economic hardship suffered by less wealthy and less well-endowed economies. And, ultimately, the WTO is a key component in the global effort to attain the United Nations’ Millennium Goal of Development in tackling the scourge of poverty and hunger.Nor can I over-emphasize the importance of the WTO to Hong Kong. As a small, externally-oriented economy with no natural resources other than a magnificent deep water port, Hong Kong has relied on free trade and an entrepreneurial and hardworking population to transform this once sleepy fishing village into an international and regional business hub.So I urge you to take some time during the next few days, and after the conference if you can, to look around our great city. You will see why President Bill Clinton once described Hong Kong as Exhibit A in the case for global interdependence and its benefits.We became a separate Contracting Party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in, at 1986. We were a founding Member of the WTO in 1995. our Membershipdid not change after the reunification in 1997. Indeed, Hong Kong’s continued participation in the WTO, and in an international trade agreement under the name “Hong Kong, China”, is enshrined in the Basic Law, the constitution of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. We treasure the certainty, protection and benefits that the WTO brings to our economy and our community.We offered to host this Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference because we recognized that it would become a key staging post to the successful conclusion of the multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. We want to play our part in the collective effort to realize the ambition of the Round. We regard the WTO Members’acceptance of our offer as a recognition of our contribution to the multilateral trading system, and an acknowledgement of our competence as a world city in handling whatever challenges that may arise from the Ministerial Conference.We in Hong Kong are determined to make this important event a success. Secretary John Tsang is committed to creating an environment of comfort for all delegates to conduct negotiations freely, frankly and constructively in the coming days. He has traveled the globe taking part in many of the key meetings which have paved the way for the negotiations that will take place over the next few days.Thousands of men and women in your community--- civil servants, legislators, District councilors, NGO members, business leaders, service providers, volunteers, and the common citizen of Hong Kong --- have been working tirelessly since the WTO accepted our offer to host this Conference two years ago. We have a common objective: we want to stage a Conference that is well organized, transparent, inclusive, and above all, efficient. The fruits of the community-wide endeavor are now before you.Ladies and gentlemen, we are at an historic juncture. Trade liberalization and economic growth is a permanent goal for all of us as WTO Members. While I acknowledge that in some parts of the world this goal is seen as a threat rather than an opportunity, the negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda must press ahead. We must vigorously defend the integrity and effectiveness of the multilateral trading system.This Conference is a golden opportunity for us to demonstrate our collective resolve to improve the lives of people throughout the world through progressive trade liberalization. That is what we committed ourselves to do when the Round was launched four years ago in Doha.This week, all eyes are on Hong Kong. As host and Chair of the Conference, we will do our utmost to bring about a successful outcome. But we cannot do it ourselves. We are relying on your support and commitment to accomplish this mission. I’m sureit will be forthcoming. Thank you!尊敬的汤维英副主任、各位领导、各位嘉宾、各位朋友、大家早上好！很高兴参加今天的“2006韶关--广州外商投资合作交流会”活动，与韶关的朋友们共聚一堂，共谋两市经济发展的大计。