CCTV News: On April 14, the State Council Information Office held a regular press conference on economic data in the first quarter.
At the press conference, a reporter from China Central Radio and Television asked: This year's "Government Work Report" emphasizes "strongly encouraging foreign investment". It also introduced that the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises continued to grow in the first quarter. Please introduce the relevant situation in detail.
Wang Lingjun, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs, responded that foreign-funded enterprises are important participants in Chinese modernization, important participants in China's reform, opening up and innovation and creation, and important participants in China's connect with the world and integrating into economic globalization. Data shows that in the past five years, the cumulative import and export of foreign-invested enterprises accounted for about 1/3 of my country's foreign trade.
In the first quarter of this year, there were more than 67,000 foreign-invested enterprises with import and export performance, setting a new high in the same period in the past three years; foreign-invested enterprises had imports and exports of 2.99 trillion yuan, achieving growth for four consecutive quarters, among which the national import and export of high-tech products such as electronic information products, biomedicine and medical instruments remained above 40%.
At present, restrictions on foreign investment access in China's manufacturing sector have been completely lifted, green, digital and intelligent transformation has been accelerated, and the first-class business environment for marketization, law-based and internationalization has been continuously improved. These will help foreign-invested enterprises to show their advantages in China and gain the initiative in global competition. On March 28, President Xi Jinping met with representatives from the international business community and delivered an important speech, which greatly boosted the confidence of foreign investment. Recently, the 2025 annual meeting of the China Development Forum was held in Beijing, attracting 86 formal representatives from multinational companies from 21 countries to attend the meeting. The number of multinational companies participating for the first time also hit a new high. It is still a consensus among many foreign-funded companies to be bullish and optimistic about China.
