The editorial pointed out that five years have passed quickly, and the relationship between China and the WTO has already passed the initial starting point. Looking back and witnessing the present, I believe everyone will have a basic understanding that China's accession to the WTO is a truly historic event from any angle. This is not only because the population of 65.438+3 billion suddenly joined the tide of global market economy, but also because China and the world have undergone unprecedented changes. And this change will run through the whole 2 1 century.
As a "latecomer" in the international economic system, China quickly came from behind after joining the WTO. In a short period of five years, the enormous energy released by China's economy and market not only attracted the attention and shocked the world, but also had an important impact on the current and future global order.
The editorial said that in just a few years after China joined the WTO, the economic scale of China has successively surpassed that of many established industrial countries, including Italian, Canadian, French and British. At present, China is second only to Germany, Japan and the United States, and the goal of replacing Japan as the second largest economy in the world is no longer a distant dream.
Since then, the world economic structure dominated by the seven major industrial countries has undergone radical changes. This was unexpected five years ago.
The editorial pointed out that, of course, it is far more than that. At the beginning of China's accession to the WTO, China was only an insignificant trading country, but today it has become one of the largest trading bodies in the world. At the beginning, its foreign exchange reserves were only equivalent to Singapore or Taiwan Province Province, but now it has surpassed Japan, which has always been among the best, to become the world's largest foreign exchange reserve country; At the beginning, its currency was not valued or even discriminated against, but today, the RMB is already hot in the international trade and foreign exchange market. It all seems to happen in a flash.
However, in the five years since China's entry into WTO, the most profound change lies in the change of the whole society.
According to the editorial, subjectively, China took an active part in the Uruguay Round negotiation process from 1980s, and later decided to "knock on GATT" and join the WTO, all for the purpose of developing the economy, connecting with the world as soon as possible and sharing development experience and opportunities with advanced countries. However, judging from the social changes and trends in China, China's integration with the world economy has greatly promoted its integration with the outside world in terms of values.
No matter in politics, diplomacy or civil rights awareness, the internal changes in China society are obvious to all. Most importantly, China's new thinking and perspective on the outside world and China citizens' rediscovery of themselves and the outside world are the most fundamental changes. Although this will not happen overnight, China's accession to the WTO is an extremely important driving factor. No matter for China itself or the world, its positive significance is far-reaching than economic development.
Therefore, five years later, when we look at China's accession to the WTO, especially the great efforts made by several generations of leaders in China to bring the country into the world's advanced trend, people will naturally be filled with emotion. At a higher level, the review of the past five years should encourage China society to look at its own future and its relationship with the world from a more objective and long-term perspective, including the way it treats the world's advanced ideas and social forms.
According to the editorial, as far as the outside world is concerned, we can see the significance and influence of China's rise more deeply from the changes in China's five years since its accession to the WTO, so as to make correct judgments and take correct countermeasures. As a member of East Asia, it is even more necessary for Singapore to do so. The Chinese-funded enterprise research center established in Nantah the day before yesterday is the latest step in this direction.