Leaders from companies and institutions such as Sumitomo Electric, Apple Inc., CP Group, Rio Tinto Group, Corning Inc., Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, CATL, Lenovo Group, TCL Technology Group, Yum! Brands China, and the US China Business Council attended.
The representatives of the companies present here expressed that the Chinese market is an important component of the global supply chain and has made significant contributions to global connectivity and innovative development. China is committed to developing new quality productive forces, implementing effective economic policies, consolidating the momentum of economic stabilization and improvement, continuously unleashing innovative vitality, and creating a better business environment. Foreign enterprises in China have witnessed China's development achievements, have full confidence in the Chinese economy, and are optimistic about the huge potential of the Chinese market. They are willing to further expand their investment in China, deepen their development in China, strengthen global supply chain cooperation, and achieve openness and win-win results.
After listening carefully to everyone's speeches, Li Qiang said that in the past few decades, with the deepening of economic globalization, the global industrial and supply chains have gradually grown, promoting rapid growth of the world economy and benefiting all parties. This fully demonstrates that division of labor and cooperation is an inevitable choice for social development, and efficient economic circulation cannot be achieved without smooth flow of factors. Closure has no way out, and openness is the right path. At present, the world economy is experiencing sluggish growth, and some protectionist and pan security behaviors are still damaging the global supply chain, further increasing enterprise costs, reducing economic efficiency, and hindering common development. The more times we are in this situation, the more we need to recognize the importance of the global supply chain to the world economy, the more we need to gather a broad consensus on strengthening supply chain cooperation, oppose various forms of "decoupling and cutting off the chain" and "starting a new stove", firmly maintain the stability and smoothness of the global supply chain, and safeguard the common interests of all parties.
Li Qiang pointed out that China is a key link in the global supply chain and will continue to take practical actions to maintain the stability and smoothness of the global supply chain. Since the beginning of this year, the overall operation of the Chinese economy has been stable and making progress. We will continue to increase our efforts in countercyclical adjustment, promote the sustained improvement of the Chinese economy, continuously cultivate and strengthen new driving forces, solidly promote high-quality development, and contribute greater strength to deepening global supply chain cooperation and promoting the recovery of the world economy. We will accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, providing solid support for the efficient operation of the global supply chain with stronger supporting capabilities and more stable production capacity supply. We will focus on strengthening the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, better integrating into international innovation cooperation, and continuously providing strong momentum for the transformation and upgrading of the global supply chain. We will firmly promote high-level opening up to the outside world, further expand market access, welcome more foreign enterprises to come to China for industrial cooperation, and continue to provide a broad space for the expansion of global supply chain cooperation.
Li Qiang expressed the hope that enterprises will become firm maintainers and active builders of the global supply chain, grasp the trend of the times, adapt to the development trend, continue to firmly support economic globalization, deepen international division of labor and cooperation, make greater efforts in innovation cooperation and green transformation of the supply chain, work together to create a more dynamic, resilient and efficient global supply chain, achieve better development of enterprises, and help countries achieve common prosperity.
Wu Zhenglong attended the symposium.