女士们、先生们！
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中国经过40年改革开放，经济发展取得显著成就。有外国朋友问，中国已是世界第二大经济体，还是不是发展中国家？认识一个国家的发展阶段，要全面、立体、多角度地观察。中国经济总量大，但人均国内生产总值只有8800多美元，仅为欧盟的四分之一；有40%以上的人口生活在农村，其中有3000多万贫困人口、人均年收入不到3000元人民币，相当于一个中等国家的人口规模；广大农村和一些偏远地区的基础设施比较落后，有的刚刚通路通电通网。联合国公布的人类发展指数中，中国排名第86，比荷兰落后76位。由此可见，中国仍然是一个发展中国家，要想成为高收入国家、全面实现现代化，还有很长的路要走。文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/5991.html
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Through four decades of reform and opening-up, China has made significant economic progress. With China becoming the second largest economy in the world, some foreign friends started to wonder: is China still a developing country? To identify the development stage of a country, one needs to take a comprehensive and multi-dimensional view. China does have a huge economic aggregate, but its per capita GDP stands just above US$8,800, only a quarter of that of the EU. More than 40 percent of Chinese live in the rural areas. Among them, over 30 million, equivalent to the population of a medium-sized country, are living in poverty with a per capita annual income of less than 3,000 RMB yuan. A large number of villages and some remote areas are still struggling with primitive infrastructure. Some of them have only just had access to roads, electricity and the internet. China ranks 86th on the UN list of Human Development Index, 76 places behind the Netherlands. All these speak to the fact that China remains a developing country, and there is still a long way to go before China becomes a high-income country and achieves all-round modernization.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/5991.html
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中国发展水平与发达国家存在的明显差距，也意味着巨大的发展潜力。今年上半年中国经济增长6.8%，受外部环境变化等因素的影响，三季度经济增速预计可能会稳中有缓，但从总体上看，经济运行仍保持在合理区间。特别是就业保持稳定，前三季度城镇新增就业超过1100万人，城镇调查失业率稳定在5%左右，为历史较低水平。经济结构持续优化，消费增速保持在9%以上，服务业在国民经济中的占比继续提高，作为经济增长主动力的作用进一步增强；高技术产业、战略性新兴产业和装备制造业增长明显快于一般工业；农业生产形势较好，主要农产品供给充裕。发展新动能蓬勃兴起，新业态、新模式层出不穷，前三季度新注册企业达到500万户，日均1.8万户以上，各类市场主体已超过1亿户，新动能对经济增长的贡献率超过1/3、对城镇新增就业的贡献率超过2/3。经济增长质量效益稳步提升，规模以上工业和服务业企业利润实现两位数增长，居民收入增长与经济增长基本同步。当然，我们也清醒地看到，当前复杂多变的国际形势给中国经济发展带来了许多不确定性和不稳定性，经济下行压力加大，我们面临的困难和挑战增多，但中国经济回旋余地大并且具有较强韧性，经过近几年发展与创新，宏观调控工具箱里的工具较多，我们完全有条件实现今年发展的主要目标任务，并经过持续努力，促进经济长期保持中高速增长、迈向中高端水平。文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/5991.html
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On the other hand, the significant gap between China and developed countries can be turned into huge potential for development. The Chinese economy grew by 6.8% in the first half of this year. Growth in the third quarter is projected to moderate somewhat due to factors such as changes in the external environment. Yet we expect the steady momentum of growth to continue and overall economic performance to be maintained within the proper range. Employment, in particular, has remained solid, with over 11 million new urban jobs created in the first three quarters of this year. This has helped to keep surveyed urban unemployment rate at a relatively low level of around 5%. Structural adjustments have continued to make headway: consumption has kept growing by over 9%; the services sector accounts for a growing share of the economy, consolidating its role as the main engine for growth. High-tech sectors, strategic emerging industries and equipment manufacturing expanded notably faster than general industries. Agricultural production remains strong, with main agricultural products in abundant supply.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/5991.html
What’s more, new growth drivers such as new forms and models of business have been thriving. The number of newly registered enterprises reached five million in the first three quarters of this year, or 18,000 for an average day, bringing the total number of market entities in China to over 100 million. These new growth drivers now contribute over one third to economic growth and more than two thirds to urban job creation. The quality and performance of the Chinese economy has been improving: profits of large industrial companies and service providers maintained double-digit growth, and household income rose largely in tandem with GDP growth.
This being said, we are deeply conscious of the many uncertainties and destabilizing factors confronting the Chinese economy in the context of a complex and fast-changing international environment. Downward pressure on the economy has notably increased, so have the difficulties and challenges facing us. Nevertheless, the Chinese economy enjoys strong resilience and broad space for maneuver, and thanks to years of development and innovation, we have at our disposal a fairly substantial toolkit for macro-control. All these will fully equip us to meet the main targets of development for this year and, through continued unrelenting efforts, to sustain medium-high growth for a long time to come and move to a medium-high level of development.
中国将坚定不移推进改革。改革是推动中国发展的根本动力。中国的市场取向改革只会加快不会放缓，更不可能走回头路。我们将持续简化各类行政审批、提高政府服务效能，大幅压缩企业开办时间、许可证办理时间、进出口通关时间。我们将更大规模减税、更加明显降费，包括明显降低社保费率。中国的国有企业基本完成了公司制、股份制改革，不少已是上市公司，自主决策、自负盈亏，经营公开透明，没有享受特殊补贴政策。我们将深化国资国企改革，分层分类推进混合所有制改革，欢迎外资参与中国的国有企业改制重组。我们将提高各级政府相关法规、条例和标准的透明度，提升政策执行的一致性和可预见性，坚决维护公平竞争的市场环境。凡在华注册的各类企业，都一视同仁、平等对待。
China will stay committed to advancing reform. Reform is the fundamental driver of China’s development. China will only speed up its market-oriented reforms. We will not slow down the pace of reform, let alone turn back. The Chinese government will continue to streamline administrative approval procedures, provide more efficient services, and slash the time required to start a business, get a permit or go through customs clearance. We will introduce tax cuts on a bigger scale and meaningfully lower fees, including the social security contribution rate. The reform to transform state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into standard companies and joint-stock companies has been basically completed. China’s SOEs, many of which are publicly listed, run their operations in an open and transparent manner. It is entirely up to them to make their own business decisions, and they are responsible for any profits or losses. They do not enjoy any special subsidies.
Continued efforts will be made to deepen the reform of SOEs and state-owned assets, including mixed-ownership reform in a tiered and category-based manner. Foreign investors are welcome to participate in the reforming and restructuring of Chinese SOEs. We will work for greater transparency in government regulations, ordinances and standards at all levels and higher consistency and predictability in policy execution. A level-playing field will be resolutely enforced. All companies registered in China will receive fair and equal treatment.
中国将坚定不移扩大开放。中方已全面履行“入世”承诺，一些方面甚至超过承诺，外资已实行准入前国民待遇加负面清单的管理模式。目前中国货物贸易额相当于国内生产总值的1/3以上，外资企业贡献了约40%的出口、20%的税收。中国经济已深度融入世界，扩大开放是基于自身发展需要的必然选择。今年我们实施了一系列开放新举措，包括降低部分商品关税，扩大制造业、服务业市场准入。下个月将再降低1500多个税目工业品等商品进口关税税率，关税总水平将进一步降低到7.5%，在全球处于中等偏低水平。中国将进一步放开金融服务业，在已经放开银行业股比限制的基础上，三年后放开保险、证券等行业，届时会有符合条件的外资企业获得全牌照全股比经营资格。中国不断拓展开放的广度、深度，将给各国工商界提供更大的合作空间。今年前8个月，实际外商直接投资增长6%以上。目前，一批跨国公司正在酝酿新一轮对华投资，欢迎包括荷兰在内的欧方企业把握机遇、抢占商机。
China will stay committed to greater opening-up. China has comprehensively fulfilled, in some cases outperformed, the commitments it made upon accession to the WTO. A foreign investment management model of pre-establishment national treatment and a negative list has been rolled out. China’s trade in goods now accounts for more than one third of its GDP. And foreign-invested enterprises have contributed about 40% to China’s export and 20% to tax revenue. China’s economy has deeply integrated into the world economy. Pursuing greater opening-up is a sure choice based on its own development needs. Since early this year, we have introduced an array of new measures in pursuit of greater opening-up, including lowering tariffs for some goods and widening market access in the manufacturing and services industries.
Starting from next month, we will cut import tariffs for more than 1,500 industrial goods, which will bring our overall tariff rate down to 7.5%, a lower-middle level by international standards. China will further open its financial services sector. Just as we have lifted foreign ownership caps in the banking sector, we will take similar steps in the insurance and securities sectors in the next three years. By then there will be foreign ventures qualified for full-license, full-ownership operation in the financial sector. China’s pursuit of opening-up in greater breadth and depth will provide more cooperation opportunities to the business communities around the world. In the first eight months of this year, total paid-in foreign direct investment in China grew by over 6%. A new round of investment by some multinationals is in the pipelines. Companies from the Netherlands and other European countries are welcome to get a head start in seizing business opportunities in China.
中国将坚定不移激励创新。中国市场规模大、产业配套能力强、人力人才资源丰富，在华创业创新大有可为。我们将打造更好的创新生态，加大基础研究、应用基础研究支持力度，鼓励企业增加研发投入，完善科技人员激励和创新成果转化政策，支持产学研用、大中小企业、线上线下融通创新、融通发展。严格保护知识产权，既是中国实现高质量发展的需要，也是拓展对外合作的需要。近年来，中国完善了近20部相关法律法规，查办了140多万件侵权假冒案件，成立了专门的知识产权法院。中国对外支付的知识产权费大幅增长，去年达286亿美元，其中支付给欧盟的占三分之一。中国决不允许强制转让技术，审批外商投资不以技术转让为前提。对于合资合作双方在互利共赢基础上开展的技术转让、技术合作，政府予以尊重。我们将实施更具威慑力、惩罚力的侵权赔偿制度，改善司法服务，健全与国际经贸规则接轨的创新保护体系。
China will stay committed to boosting innovation. Much can be accomplished in China given its huge market, strong supporting industries and abundant human resources. We will foster a more enabling eco-system to spur innovation, intensify support for basic research and applied basic research, encourage corporate R&D spending, and improve incentives for researchers and policies for the commercialization of innovation outcomes. We will facilitate integrated innovation and synergized development of companies of different sizes, industries, universities, research institutes and end users in both online and offline activities.
Stringent IPR protection meets China’s needs for high-quality development and closer cooperation with the rest of the world. In recent years, China has revised nearly 20 IPR-related laws and regulations, handled over 1.4 million cases of IPR infringement, and set up special IPR tribunals. Intellectual property royalty payments by Chinese companies to overseas proprietors have increased by a big margin to reach US$28.6 billion last year, of which one third was made to the EU. China will never allow forced technology transfer or make technology transfer a precondition for foreign investment approval. Mutually beneficial technology transfer and cooperation between business partners in joint ventures and other forms of cooperation will be respected by the government. We will introduce a more rigorous mechanism of punitive compensation for IPR infringements to deter violations, improve judicial services and align China’s innovation protection system with international business rules.
女士们、先生们！
Ladies and Gentlemen,
荷兰有句谚语，“船员有多强，船的推进力就有多大”。在座企业家都是工商界的翘楚，是中荷合作大船的重量级“水手”，相信大家一定会携手奋力、破浪向前，在双方合作中不断创造新纪录、赢得更多喝彩！
There is a proverb in the Netherlands that says, “A ship is as strong as its crew.” If we compare China-Netherlands cooperation to a giant ship, business leaders present today would be sailors whose work is vital to the voyage ahead. I trust that all of you “sailors” will brave the waves hand-in-hand and forge ahead to set new records and score greater success in our cooperation.
谢谢大家。
Thank you.
