Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday sent a congratulatory letter to the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS).
Xi stressed that the CIFTIS, which has been successfully held for ten years, is a vivid representation of the high-quality development of China’s service industry and service trade, making positive contributions to building an open world economy.
China will promote high-quality development through high-level opening-up, improve high-level opening-up institutions and mechanisms, innovate and modernize service trade, actively align with high-level international economic and trade rules, develop the interoperability and compatibility of rules, regulations, management and standards in the service sector, further open up its service market to the outside world in an orderly manner, enhance the functions of the service sector and service trade as platforms for opening-up, and forge a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment, Xi said.
China is willing to work with all countries to jointly share opportunities, discuss cooperation, and promote development in line with the general trend of economic globalization, so as to contribute to promoting world economic growth and the well-being of people in various countries, Xi added.
CIFTIS 2024, themed “Global Services, Shared Prosperity,” opened in Beijing on Thursday.