{"id":356801,"date":"2025-11-05T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356801\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:21:12","slug":"china-to-embrace-free-markets-and-free-trade-premier-li-qiang-says-at-ciie-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356801\/","title":{"rendered":"China to \u2018embrace free markets and free trade\u2019, Premier Li Qiang says at CIIE opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese Premier Li Qiang<\/a> has pledged to further open the country\u2019s vast consumer market to international businesses after Beijing and Washington reached a significant trade deal that was expected to help restore normalcy to global supply chains.Addressing about 1,000 government officials, business leaders and merchants at the opening of the China International Import Expo (CIIE)<\/a> in Shanghai on Wednesday, the premier said Beijing remained resolute about supporting globalisation and consolidating its economic ties with trading partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when the world economy is slowing down and international disputes are intensifying, we must all the more adhere to equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, embrace free markets and free trade, and resolve cross-border contradictions and problems through joint development,\u201d he said. \u201cChina is willing to work with all parties to create an open and inclusive development environment, enhance the level of trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation, ensure the stability and smooth operation of global industrial and supply chains, and better gather momentum for economic development.\u201d<\/p>\n

China would focus on \u201cpromoting high-quality development, expanding domestic demand \u2013 especially consumption \u2013 and fully unleashing the internal demand potential of our large market of over 1.4 billion people,\u201d Li added.<\/p>\n

\"ChineseChinese Premier Li Qiang. Photo: Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n

In the next five years, China\u2019s economic scale was projected to exceed 170 trillion yuan (US$23.9 trillion), he said. \u201cThe country will steadfastly advance high-level opening-up to the outside world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese Premier Li Qiang has pledged to further open the country\u2019s vast consumer market to international businesses after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[173930,173929,9710,64,173928,8950,124754,173925,69,79,173924,173927,8464,173923,173926,19113,6043,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-356801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-american-chamber-of-commerce-in-shanghai","9":"tag-american-food-and-agriculture-pavilion","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china-international-import-export","13":"tag-chinese-market","14":"tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","15":"tag-ciie-bureau","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-economy","18":"tag-general-electric","19":"tag-globalisation","20":"tag-hong-kong","21":"tag-hongqiao-international-economic-forum","22":"tag-john-lee-ka-chiu","23":"tag-lululemon","24":"tag-shanghai","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115495651903620539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}