"China was, is, and is, in the future, and will inevitably be an ideal, safe and promising investment destination for foreign-funded enterprises. Walking with China is walking with opportunities. Believing in China means believing in tomorrow. Investing in China means investing in the future."

On the morning of March 28, President Xi Jinping sent a sincere invitation to foreign-funded enterprises to share opportunities and common development when meeting with representatives of the international business community at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

For more than 40 years of reform and opening up, foreign-invested enterprises have come to China to invest, while driving China's economic growth and employment, promoting China's technological and management progress, and promoting China's reform and opening up, and enterprises have generally received generous returns, and enterprises have continued to grow and grow.

For many years, China has been a major contributor and stability anchor to world economic growth, and is comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization. "The world's second largest consumer market", "the best application scenario for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation", "a relatively sound legal and policy system and work system for utilizing foreign investment", and "one of the safest countries recognized in the world", all show that China is "a fertile ground conducive to foreign-invested enterprises' investment and development."

"China is unswerving in promoting reform and opening up, and the door to opening up will only open wider and wider. The policy of utilizing foreign investment will not change." President Xi Jinping emphasized, "I hope that the majority of foreign-funded enterprises will dispel doubts, strengthen their confidence, come to China for development with confidence, and share China's development opportunities."

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has formulated a roadmap and timetable for deepening the reform of the foreign investment and foreign investment management system. China will focus on lowering the market entry threshold and further expand opening up; ensure that foreign-invested enterprises in China enjoy national treatment equally, maintain fair competition in the market; strengthen communication with foreign investors, provide as much convenience as possible for their trade and investment in China, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises in accordance with the law.

"Implementing opening-up measures should be early rather than late, and fast rather than slow." When meeting with representatives from the international business community, President Xi Jinping said, "We will carefully study everyone's demands and solve the problems in a timely manner if there are any problems."

During local inspections this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward clear requirements on opening-up many times. In Liaoning, it is required that "cadres at all levels should improve their ability to think about problems, make decisions, and work under open conditions"; in Guizhou, it is emphasized that Guizhou should "actively integrate into a comprehensive opening-up pattern of land, sea, domestic and foreign linkage, and east-west mutual assistance"; in Yunnan, it is emphasized that Yunnan "must actively promote high-level opening up to the outside world and build a radiation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia."

"Walking with China is walking with opportunities, believing in China is believing in tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future." This valuable sentence has been proven by the market again and again in the past. At a time when global economic growth is facing many unstable factors, it has also become the confidence of many visionary foreign institutions and enterprises to continue to increase their investment in China.

Since this year, China has expanded the breadth and depth of opening up with practical actions. In January, five departments jointly issued documents to further promote the institutional opening of the free trade zone in the financial field; in February, the "2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment" was released to the public; in March, this year's government work report clearly stated that "encourage foreign investors to expand reinvestment", "effectively guarantee the national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises in factor acquisition, qualification licensing, standard formulation, government procurement, etc.", and "make foreign-funded enterprises develop better."

"2025 will be a critical year for the global investment community to re-understand China's international competitiveness." said Ma Liqin, head of corporate research at Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific. Since the beginning of this year, foreign institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have intensively released research reports, expressing optimistic expectations for China's economy and capital market. German Business Daily bluntly stated: "Give up the Chinese market, which is equivalent to giving up the growth tickets for the next ten years." Data from the International Financial Association shows that in January this year, foreign investors actively deployed Chinese assets, and the total net inflow of foreign capital intake by China's stock and bonds exceeded US$10 billion. Especially when emerging markets encountered obvious capital outflows overall that month, the Chinese market absorbed US$2 billion in net inflows.

In the first two months of this year, the actual use of foreign capital in my country's e-commerce services, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and smart consumer equipment manufacturing increased by 33.5%, 22.9% and 40.7% respectively. Since the beginning of this year, a number of major foreign investment projects have been launched in China one after another, with a planned investment of up to US$33 billion.

Recently, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum was held in Beijing. This year's annual meeting has a wider range of multinational enterprises and countries, with more multinational enterprises participating in the meeting for the first time, and more comprehensive industry categories.

Recently, many executives of multinational companies have visited China, setting off a "tide of visits to China", and their presence is active in major economic and trade forums, factory parks and other places in China. High-level meetings, business negotiations, inspections and research... Behind the busy pace is the broad consensus that "layout in China is to invest in the future."

Such two-way journey not only adds warmth to the world economy, but also once again confirms that the next "China" is still China.

Producer: Liang Changjie

Planning: Yue Xiaoqiao

Written by: Ren Huaitong

Poster: Wang Yufeng

Editor in charge: Wen Teng