Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 15 — The 14th issue of the magazine "Qiushi," to be published on July 16, will feature an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, titled "Unswervingly Promoting High-Level Opening-Up." This article is an excerpt from Xi Jinping's key remarks made between December 2012 and April 2025.

  The article emphasizes that openness brings progress, while closure inevitably leads to backwardness. China’s development is inseparable from the world, and the world’s prosperity also depends on China. Continuously expanding and elevating the level of opening up to the outside world—using openness to drive reform and foster development—is a vital key to China’s sustained achievement of new successes. China’s door of opening-up will never be closed; rather, it will only open wider and wider.

  The article points out that we must continue to expand high-level opening-up to the outside world. In the past, China’s economic development was achieved under conditions of openness, and in the future, China’s economy can only achieve high-quality development if it continues to operate under even more open conditions. We should leverage the domestic major circulation to attract global resources and factors, thereby enhancing the synergistic effects between the domestic and international markets and between domestic and foreign resources. We should steadily expand institutional opening-up—including rules, regulations, governance, and standards—and proactively align ourselves with internationally high-standard economic and trade rules. We should deepen reforms of the management systems for foreign trade, foreign investment, and outbound investment, and create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, rule-of-law-based, and internationally competitive. We should implement a strategy to upgrade free trade pilot zones, encourage pioneering and integrated explorations, and build new highlands for reform and opening-up that feature higher levels of openness and stronger radiating effects. We should also refine mechanisms for promoting high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. The more open we become, the more importance we must attach to security; the more we must strike a balance between development and security, and focus on strengthening our own competitiveness, capacity for open regulation, and ability to prevent and control risks. We must adhere to advancing high-level opening-up on the basis of the rule of law, and continuously consolidate the legal foundation for high-level opening-up.

  The article points out that China’s policy on utilizing foreign investment has not changed and will not change. As the world’s second-largest consumer market and home to the largest middle-income group globally, China boasts enormous investment and consumption potential. Moreover, China has already established a relatively comprehensive system of laws, regulations, and policies, as well as an operational framework, for leveraging foreign investment. With its long-term political stability and social tranquility, China is widely recognized as one of the safest countries in the world. In the past, today, and undoubtedly in the future, China remains—and will always remain—an ideal, safe, and promising destination for foreign investors. Partnering with China means partnering with opportunities; believing in China is believing in tomorrow; investing in China is investing in the future.

  The article emphasizes that economic globalization is both an objective requirement for the development of social productive forces and an inevitable outcome of scientific and technological progress. It has provided strong impetus for global economic growth, facilitated the flow of goods and capital, promoted advancements in science and technology and civilization, and enhanced exchanges among peoples of all nations. At present, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, posing serious challenges to multilateralism and free trade. China remains committed to upholding the right direction of economic globalization, promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, opposing protectionism, rejecting “building walls and erecting barriers” and “decoupling and severing supply chains,” and standing firm against unilateral sanctions and maximum pressure. We remain committed to genuine multilateralism and to advancing an inclusive and universally beneficial economic globalization, and we actively...