Welcome merchants from all over the world and do business in the five continents.
Today, the "98 Golden Key" shines again on the "gate of the building", and the 25th China International Investment and Trade Fair (hereinafter referred to as the "Investment and Trade Fair") grandly opened. This Oriental agreement with the theme of "Working with China to invest in the future" came as scheduled, and once again showed the world with practical actions that open cooperation is the general trend, mutual benefit and win-win situation are what people want, and investing in China is investing in the future. We extend our warm congratulations on the convening of this investment and trade fair! We would like to extend a warm welcome to the guests at home and abroad who have attended the investment event and shared China's opportunities!
After more than 30 years of ups and downs, the Investment and Trade Fair has grown from a regional exhibition to the only major national exhibition in my country with investment as the theme. It has attracted more than 300,000 overseas merchants from more than 200 countries and regions around the world to attend the conference, with a total investment of more than one trillion US dollars. It has opened a "door" to promote mutual exchanges between China and the world economy, built a "bridge", and pressed the "acceleration button", becoming the most influential international two-way investment promotion event in the world. With its own development history, the Investment and Trade Fair reflects the vivid picture of China's deepening reform and expanding opening up, and demonstrates my country's responsibility as a major country in promoting world economic growth.
The goal is to reach no distance. "This year's Investment and Trade Fair focuses on the three major sectors of "Investing in China", "China Investment" and "International Investment", and has set up an exhibition area of about 120,000 square meters, attracting more than 15,000 enterprises and institutions from more than 120 countries and regions to participate in the exhibition. The Investment and Trade Fair is becoming more and more authoritative, international, professional and effective, and the "gold content" and "magnetic suction" are becoming more and more high. Such a wide international recognition and participation fully reflects the great enthusiasm of countries and various economic organizations around the world for this Investment and Trade Fair, and fully proves that the international community is full of confidence in the strong resilience and development prospects of China's economy.
"Investing in China is investing in the future." This is not only the main theme of this investment and trade fair, but also the consensus of investors from all parties. Against the backdrop of the current complex global economic and trade environment, China is still an "oasis" full of certainty: institutional advantages resonate with market vitality, security environment and innovation momentum symbiosis, scale effect and quality change resonance...all attract the attention of global investors. In 2024, my country established nearly 60,000 new foreign-invested enterprises, an increase of 9.9% year-on-year. As a landmark exhibition of "Investing in China", this Investment and Trade Fair will continue to build the "Investing in China" brand, hold more than 70 investment special activities and more than 100 special roadshows, and "new resources", content "new", and form "innovation", which deeply interprets that walking with China is walking with opportunities, and believing in China is to believe in tomorrow.
"Let 'aloneness and cooperation', unity and cooperation, and mutual benefit and win-win results become the main theme of the times." China is not only a major country to attract foreign investment, but also a major country to invest abroad. China's foreign investment flow ranks among the top three in the world for 13 consecutive years. In recent years, under the guidance of the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", China's foreign investment has been expanding, the structure has been continuously optimized, and its efficiency has continued to improve, showing strong resilience and vitality. This year's Investment and Trade Fair will release China's foreign investment activity index for the first time, and innovatively build a "China Investment" platform to promote international cooperation in the production and supply chain, and promote bilateral investment. This fully demonstrates that China's determination to share development opportunities with the world will not change, and its determination to promote economic globalization to a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win direction will not change.
"Xiamen has been a port for business and a portal for open cooperation since ancient times." Carrying historical genes and shouldering the mission of the times, Xiamen, this open city and investment and negotiation event have achieved mutual success. In Xiamen, the Investment and Trade Fair is a high-end platform to showcase the image and strength of a high-quality, high-value, modern and international city, and also brings a steady stream of business opportunities, funds, concepts and talents to Xiamen. In the world, the Investment and Trade Fair has become an important window for international observation of China's high-level opening up to the outside world, allowing the world to perceive the strong pulse of China's economic development. Xiamen will surely thoroughly implement the important spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the 20th China International Investment and Trade Fair, do our best to provide all services, and use the better investment and trade fair to fully demonstrate the confidence of China's economy and the style of the node city of Xiamen's new development pattern.
Green mountains lean against the blue sea, and the erect island welcomes guests. The sky wind and sea stunning in Xiamen not only conveys the opportunity and confidence of investment cooperation, but also brings together a vast trend of winning the future. Welcome guests from all over the world to go on a journey of negotiation and sing the "Agreement 98". I wish the 25th China International Investment and Trade Fair a complete success!
