CCTV News: China has issued an action plan to stabilize foreign investment and releases strong voices to adhere to high-level opening up to the outside world. What opportunities do foreign-invested enterprises face when investing in and deepening their roots in China? Let’s see the relevant reports.
Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao: Increase opening up in multiple fields
China has released the action plan to stabilize foreign investment in 2025, proposed to expand the pilot program of opening up in the fields of telecommunications, medical care, education, etc., implement the requirements for comprehensively canceling restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, promote orderly opening up in the field of biomedicine, and expand the scope of industries that encourage foreign investment. As of the end of 2024, 2,343 foreign-funded enterprises have been approved to operate telecommunications services in China, bringing more choices and differentiated services to telecom users.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post: Boost confidence in foreign capital "investment in China"
The "Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment in 2025" proposes to include more foreign-invested projects in the list of major foreign-invested projects and key foreign-invested projects, clarify the standards for government procurement of domestic products as soon as possible, optimize volume-based drug procurement, continue to steadily expand the scope of unilateral visa-free countries, and improve the level of trade facilitation for foreign-invested enterprises. China has made "subtraction" on foreign investment access restrictions and "addition" on policies to support foreign investment, boosting foreign investment's confidence in "investment in China".
Hong Kong Wenhui.com: Action to stabilize foreign investment shows openness
China's systematic planning to steadily expand institutional opening up will further transform the difficulties and bottlenecks that restrict foreign investors from investing in China into motivation and favorable factors for attracting investment, demonstrating the confidence and determination of the Chinese government to vigorously attract foreign investment. Analysts said that institutional opening up to the outside world has raised the opening up of goods and markets to the internationalization of rules, regulations, management and standards, which is a deeper level of opening up. Such practice not only creates a better business environment for foreign capital, but also forces local industries to accelerate transformation and upgrading, which is of great significance to enhancing China's global competitiveness.
Pakistan Today's newspaper: Foreign-invested enterprises look forward to sharing China's development opportunities
China's super-large-scale market, complete and efficient industrial chain and supply chain system, and continuously optimized innovation environment all provide good development conditions and soil for multinational corporations to invest in China. As China's "magnetic suction" to foreign investment is strengthened, more and more foreign-invested enterprises have set up innovation and R&D centers in China, looking forward to sharing new development opportunities. Investment in China by the United Kingdom, South Korea, the Netherlands and Japan have all seen double-digit growth, and investment in China by countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" is growing rapidly.