The 23rd China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) & the International Investment Forum 2023 kicked off in Xiamen, Southeast China's Fujian province, on Sept 8. Wang Yong, vice-chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. 

Wang said that China is committed to its fundamental national policy of opening up to the outside world and firmly pursues an open strategy for mutual benefits and win-win results. 

As one of the most influential international investment events in China, the CIFIT has become an important platform for promoting international investment and cooperation, and advancing mutually beneficial and common development in the new era, he said. 

He noted that the Chinese government will unswervingly drive high-level opening up, further optimize its foreign investment environment, firmly maintain its multilateral trading system, continuously deepen two-way investment and cooperation, and strive to achieve win-win cooperation on a larger scale and at a higher level, in a bid to jointly build an open global economy. 

Prior to the opening ceremony, Wang visited some exhibition halls of the CIFIT and exchanged ideas with guests and exhibitors.