Some reporters asked: for some time, the United States has accused China of failing to comply with the WTO rules by issuing multiple reports as an important reason for China to implement unilateral trade measures. How do you comment on this?
Hua Chunying said that China's accession to the World Trade Organization has been a great contribution to the world economy since China's accession to the World Trade Organization for 17 years. Since 2002, the annual contribution rate of China to the economic growth of the world is close to 30%, and the international community has seen this.
She said that if China did not comply with the WTO rules, why did China choose to join WTO? The decision of the Chinese government to "enter the WTO" was due to the conviction that integration into the economic globalization is in line with the historical trend and that the free and open trade can be mutually beneficial and win-win. Since China's accession to the WTO for 17 years, China's original mind has not changed. China has slashed car tariffs, and the import volume of related passenger cars increased by 26.4% from 2001 to 2017, and the trade deficit increased from $870 million to $34 billion 350 million. The central government has cleared more than 2300 laws and regulations and departmental rules, and the local governments have cleaned up 190 thousand local policies and regulations.
She also said that if China did not comply with the WTO rules, why did China fully fulfill its WTO accession commitments? The Chinese side recently published the white paper on China and the world trade organization, speaking with facts and figures, clearly showing that China has fully fulfilled its commitments in terms of tax reduction, opening of trade in services, import quotas and other non-tariff measures. The total tariff level fell from 15.3% in 2001 to 9.8%, private enterprises and foreign invested enterprises. The proportion of imports and exports to the total import and export volume of the country increased from 57.5% in 2001 to 83.7% in 2017, and the entry threshold for foreign investment in the service sector continued to decrease. China's external payment of intellectual property fees has increased by 17% annually, and the amount of invention patents has been 7 consecutive years, according to the world's first.
Hua Chunying said that if China did not comply with the WTO rules, why did China always firmly uphold the core values and basic principles of WTO? China firmly believes that only by observing and upholding international rules in accordance with the spirit of contract can we maintain the authority and effectiveness of the multilateral trading system. China has always advocated the construction of an open world economy, constructive participation in trade negotiations and other WTO work. Through the accession to the trade facilitation agreement, China has promoted trade liberalization and facilitation, and fully supports the integration of developing countries into the multilateral trading system. It is hosting the Beijing informal meeting of APEC leaders and the twenty countries. The Hangzhou summit of the leaders of the group and the BRICs leaders in Xiamen will promote the support of the multilateral trading system and the opposition to trade protectionism in the outcome documents. China has not, now, and will not easily take unilateral measures in the future, violating the foundations of the WTO, such as free opening, non discrimination, tariff restraint, and "special and differential treatment". In the face of cardinal principles, China stresses principles, credibility and accountability.
She said that China's efforts to comply with WTO rules and fulfill WTO commitments have been widely recognized by the international community. In the seventh trade policy deliberations on China by the WTO in the last few days, the parties have generally actively evaluated China's initiatives to open up and continue to deepen the reform in an all-round way and highly appreciate China's support and contribution to the multilateral trading system. Azevedo, the director general of the WTO, said that since China joined the WTO in 2001, China's role in WTO is increasing, very great and worthy of praise. In fact, the United States has issued 16 copies of its own report on China's implementation of WTO commitments, and there is no "wrong" in the first 15, except this year.
Hua Chunying said, look at the United States again. The US side not only benefits the interests of the United States in the global interests, but also puts the domestic rules of the United States above the global rules. In the WTO, no country supports unilateralism of the US side.
She said that the president of the European Council, who had just come to China's twentieth China European leaders meeting in China, said in June this year, "the rules based international system is being threatened. It is surprising that the threat is not the other country, but the United States that builds the system." Many authoritative experts from international economic circles, including Adam Persen, director of the Pedersen Institute for International Economic Research in the United States, have also publicly expressed that today's US government is the greatest threat to the world economic order.
She also said that a wise man is wise, and a man knows it. China will continue to be a model student in compliance with the WTO rules. It also hopes that the US side will respect and abide by WTO rules with practical action and maintain a multilateral trading system at the core of WTO.
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