The Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment in 2025 was recently released, proposing 20 measures from four aspects: orderly expanding independent opening up, improving investment promotion level, enhancing the efficiency of open platforms, and increasing service guarantees, sending a clear signal to further expand opening up and increase efforts to attract foreign investment. Representatives of foreign-funded enterprises in China interviewed by our reporter believe that the plan has strengthened their confidence in continuing to invest in China, and they look forward to the continuous expansion of China's high-level opening-up to bring more opportunities for cooperation and win-win results, injecting more impetus into the development of the world economy. China's important measures to promote high-level opening up to the outside world include expanding pilot projects in telecommunications, healthcare, education, and other fields, promoting orderly opening up of the biopharmaceutical industry, supporting foreign-funded enterprises to participate in China's new industrialization process, and improving the level of trade facilitation for foreign-funded enterprises... Foreign enterprises are highly concerned about the measures announced in the plan and hope to share more development opportunities. "The introduction of the plan is a practical action of the Chinese government to attract foreign capital, which provides strong policy support for the development of foreign-funded enterprises in China and strengthens the determination of Decathlon and other foreign-funded enterprises to deeply cultivate the Chinese market." Zhao Jie, Director of Public Affairs of Decathlon China, said that Decathlon would further expand its business in China and grow together with the Chinese market for mutual benefit and win-win results. Hu Mengying, General Manager of Bayer Crop Science Greater China in Germany, believes that the series of measures in the plan provide more stable policy expectations for foreign companies to deeply cultivate in China and enhance Bayer's confidence in continuous investment in China. China is an extremely attractive strategic market, especially as the Chinese government attaches great importance to opening up and empowering, investment promotion, and has introduced a series of favorable policies, creating a favorable environment for foreign enterprises to develop in China. "Shi An, President of Rockwell Automation (China) Co., Ltd., noticed that the plan proposes to support the inclusion of more foreign investment projects in the list of major and key foreign investment projects, and will soon release the 2025" Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment "according to procedures, focusing on adding entries in advanced manufacturing, modern service industry, high-tech, energy conservation and environmental protection and other fields. This has greatly inspired us, "said Shi An. China's open policy in the fields of intelligent manufacturing and technological innovation has provided ample space for the company's rapid development. China's determination to promote high-level opening up, high-quality business environment, and thriving manufacturing industry have given the company confidence in further expanding cooperation in China and building a local cross-border innovation ecosystem. Xiao Song, Global Executive Vice President of Siemens in Germany, said that "the plan is an important measure for China to promote high-level opening up to the outside world", which will provide more market opportunities for foreign-funded enterprises and promote more cooperation. Benefiting from the pilot program of expanding value-added telecommunications services to the outside world, Siemens' open digital business platform has obtained a license to operate value-added telecommunications services. Dan Guohong, Senior Vice President of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and President of Takeda China, stated that a series of measures introduced by China in recent years provide institutional guarantees for multinational enterprises to invest and develop in China. The latest plan not only responds to the actual production and operation needs of foreign-funded enterprises in China, but also demonstrates the sincerity of expanding opening up and attracting foreign investment. We have full confidence in the resilience and market innovation capabilities of the Chinese economy. The huge market size, complete industrial system, mature supply chain, continuously optimized business environment, and long-term positive economic fundamentals determine that the Chinese market continues to have strong attraction to foreign investment. Investing in China is investing in the future, and we have full confidence in the resilience and market innovation capabilities of the Chinese economy Mohammed Al Ajlan, Vice Chairman of Saudi Arabia's Ajlan Brothers Holdings Group, stated that China is a global leader in emerging fields such as 5G, artificial intelligence, automation, and new energy vehicles. Industrial upgrading and technological innovation not only bring new growth momentum to China, but also provide opportunities for the group to exchange and cooperate with Chinese enterprises. Han Jingjing, Vice President of Sales for the Chinese market at Swiss air purification information technology company Aikoeer, stated that in the past year, the company has vigorously promoted technological innovation, intelligent upgrading, and energy efficiency improvement, and has also explored cooperation with Chinese enterprises, medical institutions, universities, and others. The huge consumption potential and strong demand for high-quality products have continuously increased the attractiveness of the Chinese market to foreign investment. We believe that with the steady implementation of the plan, foreign enterprises in China will usher in a more favorable development environment. Over 710000 new cars have been delivered in China, Beijing Benz's 5 millionth domestically produced car has been produced, and the new building of the Shanghai R&D center has been officially opened... In 2024, Mercedes Benz's business in China is remarkable. Continuing to invest in China and embracing development opportunities is our natural choice, "said Kang Linsong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mercedes Benz Group Co., Ltd. China has the company's largest and strongest R&D network outside of Germany, and the company plans to jointly launch more Chinese intelligent new car models with Chinese partners in China. We will continue to leverage our corporate advantages, embrace China's innovation capabilities, and contribute to the electrification and digital transformation of the automotive industry. At the beginning of this year, Takeda China Innovation Center officially signed a contract to settle in Chengdu, and its value chain layout in China continues to deepen. Thanks to China's strong measures such as encouraging innovation and optimizing review and approval, we have achieved the five-year development strategy goals set in 2020 ahead of schedule, "said Shan Guohong. In the past few years, Takeda Pharmaceutical has deepened cooperation with Chinese companies, promoting China's innovative achievements to the world. The next 'China' is still China Xiao Song believes that China's high-quality development has both "basic infrastructure" and "new tracks", including mature production and supply chains and diversified talent pools, as well as the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, new energy, and biomedicine, constantly releasing new growth momentum and providing more opportunities for the development of foreign-funded enterprises. One of the key tasks for economic work in 2025 deployed by the Central Economic Work Conference is to expand high-level opening-up, stabilize foreign trade and investment, and demonstrate pragmatic and forward-looking development wisdom. Representatives of foreign-funded enterprises believe that China has always fulfilled its commitment to expanding high-level opening-up to the outside world, which has further strengthened their determination to invest in and cultivate China. China is an important engine of global economic growth. The vast market in China provides enormous development opportunities for global enterprises and drives global economic growth. China's insistence on open cooperation is of great significance to the world economy Zhao Jie stated. Li Zhenmin, President of Linde Group Greater China, a German industrial gas and engineering company, stated that in recent years, China has taken a series of measures from "24 measures for foreign investment" to "20 measures for stabilizing foreign investment", demonstrating a firm determination to promote high-quality development and strengthen open cooperation. China has made significant achievements in promoting green and low-carbon transformation, technological innovation, and industrial upgrading, providing broad opportunities for foreign enterprises, "said Li Zhenmin. The resilience and potential of the Chinese economy are evident, and Linde Group will continue to introduce globally leading gas technologies and solutions, strengthen localized research and development and production, deeply integrate with the Chinese market, and jointly promote global green development. China's insistence on expanding opening-up to the outside world has promoted exchanges and cooperation between countries Mark Mann, President of Danish Grundfos Group in China, stated that last year Grundfos participated in the preparation of the mandatory national standard for "Energy Efficiency Limits and Grades for Clean Water Centrifugal Pump Sets", which is the first national standard for pump energy efficiency in China. Last March, Grundfos' high-end manufacturing project in Changshu, Jiangsu, with a total investment of 100 million US dollars, was officially put into operation. This is Denmark's largest overseas individual investment project in nearly 10 years. Mark Man said, "China has always been and will continue to be one of Grundfos' main markets. China's green transformation brings new growth momentum, and Grundfos hopes to continue providing green and sustainable products for China." "China insists on expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, continuously creating a market-oriented, rule of law, and international first-class business environment, demonstrating practical and forward-looking development wisdom." Hu Mengying said that Chinese agriculture is developing towards digitization, intelligence, and sustainability, providing opportunities for Bayer Crop Science to invest, innovate, and cooperate in China. In 2024, Bayer will launch five new corn varieties through its joint ventures in China, covering multiple planting areas to promote disease and pest resistance, as well as high yields and bountiful harvests. Bayer is willing to continue increasing its investment in China based on its technological advantages, and promote the high-quality development of Chinese agriculture. Open cooperation is the trend of the times. China's promotion of high-quality development and high-level opening up to the outside world will have a profound impact on global economic cooperation, trade and investment, and technological innovation Agilan stated that there is enormous potential for cooperation between Saudi Arabia and China in areas such as energy transformation, high-end manufacturing, medical technology, logistics and transportation, and fintech. The group will continue to explore new development opportunities in the Chinese market, helping more Chinese enterprises to land in the Central and Northeast Africa region and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. (New Society)