Understanding the Inclusivity and Security of High-Standard Opening Up and Ensuring the Sustainability of High-Quality Development

In recent years, domestic and international issues that have a bearing on China's national security have become interwoven. External risks and challenges have increased overall, posing complex and severe challenges for high-standard opening up.

Internationally, the world is undergoing changes unseen in a century. A backlash against globalization is rising, with mounting unilateralism and protectionism. Risks are increasing in the global economy, competition among major countries is intensifying, and the geopolitical landscape is becoming more complex. Global problems such as terrorism, climate change, food shortages, and energy crises persist, and there is turmoil in global political and economic spheres. Domestically, with the gradual expansion of opening up and reforms, risks to economic security have arisen in various areas, making opening up and high-quality development under safer conditions a difficult task.

To achieve stable and enduring high-quality development, we need to balance openness with security, continue the interplay between high-quality development and high-level security, and strive to create a safer and more stable international environment.

We need to focus on the basic requirement of opening up securely and establish a risk management system built around security and control. We need to be mindful of worst-case and extreme scenarios. We should double our efforts to develop modern credit- and law-based systems and mechanisms for risk mitigation that utilize advanced technology and information platforms, in order to guard against and ameliorate major risks in various fields. We will expand and deepen our relations with other countries and regions to promote international cooperation on key issues affecting the wellbeing of humankind, such as climate change, food shortages, energy crises, people's lives and health, and environmental governance, mounting joint responses to global challenges.

Moreover, we must adhere to a people-centered philosophy of development and enable everyone to enjoy the fruits of Chinese modernization. We will promote the high-quality development of the BRI, quickly build a multidimensional Belt and Road connectivity network, and strengthen the development of multilateral cooperation platforms with BRI countries in the areas of energy, taxation, finance, green development, disaster reduction, anti-corruption, think tanks, media, and culture. We will participate in negotiations on international economic and trade rules, promote an open, diverse, and stable world economic order, boost China's participation, influence, and voice in global economic governance, and foster a broader circle of friends to achieve a higher standard of opening up. Based on the objective of building a global community of shared future, we will use high-standard opening up to make economic globalization more open, inclusive, and universally beneficial, promote modernization in developing countries, and create an open, inclusive, and interconnected world.

Editor: Wang Cuifang