On March 28, President Xi Jinping met with representatives from international business circles at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and more than 40 global chairman, CEO and representatives of business associations from foreign-funded enterprises attended the meeting. President Xi Jinping pointed out that foreign-invested enterprises are important participants in Chinese modernization, important participants in China's reform, opening up and innovation and creation, and important participants in China's connect with the world and integrating into economic globalization. He emphasized that "China was, is, and is, in the past, in the future, will inevitably be an ideal, safe and promising investment destination for foreign businessmen. Walking with China is walking with opportunities, believing in China is believing in tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future."

"China's development is the core driving force of the world economy" is a consensus among the international business community. Recently, international conferences such as the 2025 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia, and the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting were held one after another. The busy attendance of executives of multinational enterprises vividly interprets the unique value of China's innovative vitality and open mind to the global economy. As a major contributor to world economic growth, China is injecting stability into the world with Chinese-style modernization. In the first two months of this year, China's economy rebounded and positive trends were obvious, the potential of the world's second largest consumer market continued to be released, institutional opening up was steadily advancing, and new quality productivity was accelerated, attracting international capital to continue to increase. Against the backdrop of geopolitical turmoil, rising protectionism, and increasing uncertainty in the world economy, the "warmness" brought by China's high-quality economic development is particularly precious.

China has become a fertile ground for foreign-funded enterprises to invest and start businesses with a broad market space, stable policy expectations and a perfect development environment. Since the beginning of this year, from the introduction of 20 policy measures for the "2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment" to the proposal of the "Government Work Report" to increase the efforts to stabilize foreign trade policies, China has continued to make efforts in lowering the threshold for "progress", connecting with "high" standards, improving the level of "promotion", and creating an "optimal" environment, and actively sharing opportunities for super-large-scale market growth with the world. Many executives of multinational companies have said: "China's broad opportunities and growth space are exciting", "Investing in the Chinese market is a natural choice", "The Chinese market is not an 'option', but an 'must option'"... This consensus is transforming into a tangible investment action.

Multinational enterprises invest in China not only "seeking production", but also "seeking research and development". China's innovation has become an important driving force for multinational enterprises to improve their competitiveness. Mercedes-Benz will invest more than 14 billion yuan to enhance its local R&D capabilities and further enrich China's "intelligent manufacturing" lineup; Eli Lilly will select its first innovation incubator set up outside the United States to be located in Beijing, targeting the vast opportunities brought by China's technological innovation... A research report on more than 100 executives of multinational companies recently released by PwC said that looking forward to the future, half of the companies expect the importance of China's innovation ecosystem to their global strategy to further increase. Sheng Rui'an, global CEO of France's Danone Group, believes that China is not only an important market, but also represents the world's top innovation ecosystem.

Multiplelateralism is an inevitable choice to solve the difficulties and challenges facing the world. Foreign-invested enterprises, especially multinational corporations, play an important role in maintaining the world economic order and also bear important responsibilities. Faced with the noise of "decoupling and chain breaking", China adheres to true multilateralism, promotes inclusive and inclusive economic globalization, actively participates in global economic governance, and is committed to building an open world economy. In the view of executives of multinational companies, against the backdrop of intensifying protectionism, China has continuously expanded its opening up, injecting stability into the global economy, becoming an oasis of certainty and a hotbed for investment and business development. China firmly upholds the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core, actively connects with international high-standard economic and trade rules, promotes the release of dividends of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, and diversified trading partners cover more than 230 countries and regions around the world... China is willing to work with the international business community to jointly maintain the multilateral trading system, jointly maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, jointly maintain the international environment of open cooperation, and promote economic globalization in the right direction.

Deepen the Chinese market and share development opportunities. China will unswervingly promote high-quality development and high-level opening up. We welcome enterprises from all countries to invest in China, plan for the future, jointly promote stable growth of the global economy, and achieve greater development in mutual benefit.