Country's openness creates more opportunities
China DailyThe World Openness Report 2024 is pictured at the press conference on World Openness Report 2024 and International Symposium on World Opening-Up during the 7th Hongqiao International Economic Forum in Shanghai, East China, Nov 5, 2024. Amid an increasingly complex and challenging international landscape, China continues to make significant progress in deepening reform and expanding high-level opening-up, playing a pivotal role in driving global economic growth, said economists and business leaders attending the ongoing seventh China International Import Expo in Shanghai. "Openness is a clear hallmark of China's modernization," said Qu Weixi, director of the Research Center for Hongqiao International Economic Forum. Cecilia Ugaz Estrada, managing director of the Directorate of Strategic Planning, Programming at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, said that digitalization and energy transition are two new driving forces for global economic growth, and China is emerging as one of the leading forces behind sustainable industrial transformation.