In early autumn, China has a picturesque country; at the busy exhibition site, the crowds are surging.

On September 5, 8 and 10, President Xi Jinping sent congratulatory letters to the 2025 World Intelligent Industry Expo, the 25th China International Investment and Trade Fair and the 2025 China International Service Trade Fair, expressing China's determination to work with all parties to promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization and create a prosperous and bright future together.

Development is the eternal theme of human society. As the largest developing country in the world, China has always placed its own development in the coordinate system of human development, actively faced the challenges of economic globalization, and actively integrated into the global economic wave.

I still remember that on January 17, 2017, President Xi Jinping attended the World Economic Forum annual meeting for the first time. In his keynote speech entitled "Share the Responsibilities of the Times and Promote Global Development" at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting, he clearly stated that "Integrating into the world economy is the general direction of history. If China's economy wants to develop, it must dare to swim in the vast ocean of the world market."

To this day, whenever President Kim Yong Kim recalls President Xi’s speech, he still feels a lot of emotion. He said, I fully agree with and quoted President Xi's view many times. In the era of globalization, all countries cannot stay in seclusion and must abide by the rules.

From the implementation of reform and opening up in 1978 to the joining of the World Trade Organization in 2001... China has gone from constantly choking water to learning to swim, from following and swimming to standing at the forefront of the tide. Facts have fully proved that "openness brings progress, closure will inevitably lag behind" is the true meaning of development under the general trend of economic globalization.

In the process of opening up, there are countless cases of opening up promoting reform.

In May 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Shandong and came to Rizhao Port. Here, Zhang Liangang, a "big country craftsman" talked about his experience from "being angry" to "being successful".

More than 10 years ago, in order to improve the automation level of the dock, he led his team abroad to learn from the teachings. "When visiting the automated docks in Europe, people would not let them get off the car and take photos."

After returning to China, Zhang Liangang was determined to build the Chinese's own automated terminal. He led the team to overcome all obstacles, overcome many difficulties, and successfully achieved the domestic production of software and hardware equipment. He also promoted advanced technology to the countries jointly built by the "Belt and Road". Nowadays, even European ports come to visit and invite them to "pass the scriptures and treasures."

"You are the vanguard of reform and opening up. From this, we should firmly believe that China's path to reform and opening up will definitely be successful." The General Secretary said with emotion, "If we want to move from a big country to a strong country, we must pass this level and take the path of independent innovation."

Learn to swim in the waves, advance bravely and be determined to innovate, Chinese companies bravely break through the vast ocean of the world market, ride the wind and waves, and move forward bravely.

On the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean, Peru's Port Qiankai is busy. As a key project for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" between China and Peru, the opening of Qiankai Port has shortened the sea transportation time from Peru to Asia from 35 days to 25 days, and has now become one of the most important maritime logistics hubs in South America.

In Serbia, the heart of the Balkans, after Chinese companies took over the once-in-defense Smederevo Steel Plant, they introduced a number of technologies and management systems, which reversed the situation of steel plants' losses for seven consecutive years in less than a year.

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From "going overseas" to "going overseas" of products to "going overseas" of technology to "going overseas" of management systems, Chinese companies not only use "fancy swimming" to expand their international market share, but also drive the common development of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain by building platforms such as overseas economic and trade cooperation zones, improving overall competitiveness and resource allocation efficiency, and swimming faster and faster in the vast ocean of the world market.

In recent years, the world economic environment has undergone profound changes, and tariff storms have come. Some countries have built high walls and barriers to prevent China from deeply integrating into the world market.

But in President Xi’s view, it is impossible to avoid the sea of ​​the world economy, whether you want to or not, whether you are there or not. It is impossible and does not conform to the historical trend of the historical trend to artificially cut off the flow of capital, technology, product, industrial and personnel of the economy.

Thoughts guide the direction, and paths determine the future.

From the banks of the Huangpu River to the coast of the South China Sea, large-scale exhibitions and forums are coming one after another. The world heard China's clear policy declaration: "Expanding domestic demand in all aspects" and "unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world"...

From the construction of a three-dimensional transportation network of "sea, land and air" to the overseas warehousing layout of cross-border e-commerce, the complete infrastructure helps Chinese goods reach the world. Since the establishment of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, 22 Pilot Free Trade Zones cover east, west, south, north and middle, and contribute about one-fifth of the country's total import and export volume with less than four-thousandth of the country's land area.

From the 3A game "Black Myth: Wukong" to the phenomenon-level animated film "Nezha: The Devil Child's Trouble", to the popular "Labubu" trendy toys, one Chinese original IP after another has sailed out with its vigorous innovative vitality, setting off a strong "Oriental Trend" in the global cultural consumption market.

In the first eight months of 2025, China's goods trade continued to grow steadily, with a total import and export value of RMB 29.57 trillion, an increase of 3.5% year-on-year. At the 25th China International Investment and Trade Fair that just concluded, more than 1,100 government agencies and industrial and commercial enterprises from 123 countries and regions attended the meeting, signed 1,154 investment projects of various types, with a total planned investment of 644 billion yuan.

Only by not afraid of the huge waves and undercurrents and facing various challenges can we ride the long wind and break the waves of thousands of miles in the vast ocean of the world market.

Director-General Producer丨Luo Hongbing Wei drives the tiger

Producer丨Wang Jingdong

Editor-in-chief丨Li Xuan

Planning丨Li Shanshan

Editor丨Li Dan

Vision丨Yan Ni

Proofreading丨Cai Chunlin, Lu, Yang, Mao, Changzhi, Ren Jia

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