The 3rd MNC Leaders Qingdao Summit opens

The 3rd MNC Leaders Qingdao Summit opens

Wang Yong delivered a speech and announced the opening

Yasuo Fukuda, Matteo Renzi, Volga Mihai, Li Ganjie delivering a speech

Zhou Naixiang hosted Lu Zhiyuan to attend

In the summer of the island city, the sky is blue and the sea is blue and the scenery is pleasant. On the afternoon of June 19, in the Qingdao International Conference Center by the Fushan Bay, many businessmen and talents gathered. The 3rd Qingdao Summit of Leaders of Multinational Companies, jointly organized by the Ministry of Commerce and the Shandong Provincial People’s Government, opened here. State Councilor Wang Yong delivered a speech and announced the opening of the summit. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of President Xi Jinping’s important instructions, adhere to the basic national policy of opening up, unswervingly expand high-level opening up, deepen mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation with multinational companies, and better serve the construction of a new development pattern and promote high-quality development. Jointly build an open world economy.

Wang Yong pointed out that since the reform and opening up, more and more multinational companies have invested in China and integrated into China, which has not only achieved their own development, but also promoted China’s economic development and promoted economic globalization. The current domestic and international situation is complicated, but the fundamentals of China’s long-term economic growth have not changed. China will effectively coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, further relax market access, promote fair competition, continuously improve the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and strive to create a market-oriented, legalized, and international business environment. China’s opening door is getting wider and wider, the business environment is getting better and better, and there are more and more development opportunities. Enterprises from all over the world are welcome to invest in China, deeply cultivate the Chinese market, participate in fair competition, and share development dividends. It is hoped that multinational companies will work with China to jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system, ensure the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, jointly promote the recovery and growth of the world economy, and make greater contributions to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

During his stay in Qingdao, Wang Yong also came to Sifang Locomotive, Qingdao Port, Hisense and other enterprises successively, went deep into the production workshop, terminal operation site, R&D center, and investigated the reform and development of state-owned enterprises and scientific and technological innovation. He emphasized that state-owned and central enterprises should thoroughly implement the requirements of the CPC Central Committee on preventing the epidemic, stabilizing the economy, and developing safely, giving full play to the role of party building in leading and guaranteeing, focusing on stabilizing the overall economic market, and further promoting cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. , earnestly do a good job in ensuring supply and price, ensuring smooth access, deepening reform and innovation to stimulate endogenous power, making full use of information technology to improve the level of intrinsic safety, and welcoming the victory of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party with excellent results.

At the opening ceremony, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Volga Mihai delivered speeches via video. Li Ganjie, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, delivered a speech. Zhou Naixiang, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor, presided over the meeting. Lu Zhiyuan, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, attended the meeting.

In his speech, Li Ganjie said that Shandong is a province with a large population, a large culture and a large economy in China. Currently, it is thoroughly implementing the important instructions and requirements of President Xi Jinping on Shandong’s work, and making great strides on the road of comprehensive strength. In the new era, Shandong has a firmer development foundation, more prominent advantages, broader prospects and firmer confidence, and is embracing the world with a more open attitude. We are willing to join hands with multinational companies to write a new chapter of mutual benefit and win-win. In terms of scientific and technological innovation, multinational companies are welcome to set up global and regional headquarters and R&D centers in Shandong, and join forces with various innovation platforms in Shandong. In terms of industrial upgrading, it is hoped that multinational companies will regard Shandong as a key fulcrum of their global layout and promote more open and advantageous industrial and supply chain cooperation. In terms of green and low carbon, support multinational companies to actively participate in the development of low-carbon industries and green energy construction in Shandong. In terms of trade exchanges, vigorously unblock international logistics channels and promote the continuous improvement of quality and efficiency of bilateral trade. In terms of regional cooperation, we actively explore emerging markets with multinational companies, and constantly expand new business forms, new models and new spaces for cooperation. We will continue to create a market-oriented, legalized, and internationalized business environment, so that multinational companies can invest and develop at ease in “Hospitality Shandong Haopin Shandong”.

Sheng Qiuping, Vice Minister of Commerce, said in his speech that multinational companies are not only direct participants in the domestic cycle, but also an important driving force for the domestic and international dual cycle. The Ministry of Commerce will unswervingly support multinational companies to give full play to their unique advantages and roles, and contribute to the high-quality development of China’s economy. We are committed to building a new system of higher-level open economy, accelerating the promotion of institutional opening, building a high-level open platform, further optimizing the business environment, improving the level of service guarantees, and allowing foreign-funded enterprises to enter, retain and develop well. Shandong is an important destination for multinational companies to invest in China. I hope everyone can make good use of the summit platform, extensively exchange cooperation experience, seize opportunities, invest in Shandong, and deeply cultivate in China, so as to jointly create a new situation of win-win cooperation.

UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebecca Greenspan, AstraZeneca CEO Su Boke, SK Group Chief Vice President Cui Zaiyuan, Marubeni Co., Ltd. Chairman, Japan Trade Association Chairman Bunya Kuniya, Louis Gao Qi, Global CEO of Dafu Group, Tao Lin, Global Vice President of Tesla, Cao Yang, Global Vice President of Baker Hughes and President of China, and Liu Guoyue, Director and General Manager of National Energy Investment Group Co., Ltd. delivered speeches.

The Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce released the research report “Re-selection in the Reshaping of Global Supply Chains”.

The Qingdao Summit of Leaders of Multinational Corporations has been successfully held for two sessions and achieved fruitful results. This summit will continue to focus on the theme of “Multinational Corporations and China”, focusing on the reconstruction of the global industrial chain and supply chain in the post-epidemic era, the implementation of RCEP and the promotion of institutional opening, the role of multinational corporations in enhancing innovation in economic and social development, and the ecology of the Yellow River Basin. Protection and high-quality development, accelerating the promotion of comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society, intellectual property protection and business environment optimization, etc., hold symposiums, sub-forums, summit dialogues, promotion of multinational companies, promotion of the province of honor, project signing ceremony, etc. 44 events in 14 categories.

Wang Zhiqing, Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council, Weng Jieming, Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, He Jinping, Vice Governor of Henan Province, Lu Deyao, Singapore Ambassador to China, Yang Dongqi, Wang Yuyan, Liu Qiang, Zeng Zanrong, Zhang Haibo, Wang Shujian, Ling Wen, leaders of Shandong Province, Jinan City and Qingdao City , Sun Jiye, Yu Haitian and Zhao Haozhi attended the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony was held online and offline. Leaders from 186 Fortune 500 companies and 290 industry leading companies around the world, diplomatic envoys from many countries in China, representatives of relevant international organizations, business associations, experts and scholars, and relevant national ministries and commissions were responsible for the opening ceremony. Comrades, relevant responsible comrades from Shandong Province, etc. participated. There were more than 5,600 online and offline participants.