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PROMISE AND PRACTICE

Opening up is the only way for a country to achieve prosperity and development, a key step in its solution to contemporary problems, and also the fundamental driving force for the progress of human civilizations. This is the core message of the World Openness Report 2021, compiled by the Institute of World Economics and Politics under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Research Center for Hongqiao International Economic Forum. It was released during the Fourth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai in November.

China’s basic national policy of opening up has remained one of the main focuses of the annual Central Economic Work Conference. According to this

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