五是加强南北合作、南南合作，着力建设普惠包容的世界经济。近年来，全球南北差距、复苏分化、技术鸿沟等问题更加突出，不少发展中国家陷入困境。世界银行预测，今年超过三分之一低收入国家的人均收入仍将低于2019年水平。中国人讲求的是“美美与共”，只有大家一起发展，才是真发展、好发展。我们应当全面落实联合国2030年可持续发展议程，加强全球发展合作，弥合发展鸿沟，在减贫、粮食安全、工业化等领域打造新的合作亮点，让更多合作成果惠及各国人民。

Fifth, strengthening North-South and South-South cooperation to build a universally beneficial and inclusive world economy. In recent years, problems like the North-South gap, divergences in recovery, and the technological divide have become more acute. Many developing countries are in distress. According to World Bank estimates for this year, the average income in more than one third of the low-income countries will stay below the 2019 level. We Chinese people believe that benefits should be mutual. True and good development is development for all. We need to fully implement the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, strengthen global development cooperation, bridge development gaps, and create new cooperation highlights in areas such as poverty alleviation, food security and industrialization, so as to benefit the people of all countries with more fruits of cooperation.

女士们，先生们，朋友们！

Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends,

第一，中国经济稳健前行，将持续为世界经济发展提供强大动力。中国是全球发展的重要引擎，这些年对世界经济增长贡献率一直保持在30%左右。刚刚过去的2023年中国经济总体回升向好，预计国内生产总值增长5.2%左右，高于年初确定的5%左右的预期目标。在推动经济发展的过程中，我们坚持不搞强刺激，没有以积累长期风险为代价换取短期增长，而是着力增强内生发展动力。中国作为全球第二大经济体，已经在长期发展中形成了良好稳固的基本面。就好比一个人有了强健的体魄，免疫力也就随之增强。即便中国经济在运行中出现一些波折，其长期向好的总体趋势不会改变。从产业基础看，中国是唯一拥有联合国产业分类中全部工业门类的国家，制造业增加值占全球比重约30%、连续14年居世界首位，已经形成200多个成熟的产业集群，不论是产业体系的总体规模、完备程度还是配套能力，都能够满足社会生产力快速发展的需要，也将为优化全球生产要素配置、提高全球生产能力作出贡献。从要素禀赋看，中国的“人口红利”正向“人才红利”提升，人才资源总量、科技人力资源、研发人员总量均居全球首位；资本要素从短缺变为充裕，每年资本形成额占全球比重上升至约30%；另外，中国的数据产量巨大，数据资源丰富，是世界第二大“数据富矿”。从创新能力看，中国的全社会研发投入、高技术产业投资连续多年保持两位数增长，云计算、大数据、人工智能、区块链等新兴技术加快应用，智能终端、机器人、远程医疗等新产品、新业态不断涌现。高新技术企业数增加至约40万家，独角兽企业数量居世界第二。这些都将加快中国发展新动能的形成与壮大。从总体上看，中国正以高质量发展全面推进中国式现代化，将引领14亿多人整体迈入现代化，这是人类史上的罕见壮举，必将为中国和世界的发展提供源源不断的动力。

First, the Chinese economy is making steady progress and will continue to provide strong impetus for the world economy. China is an important engine of global development. Over the years, its contribution to world economic growth has stayed at around 30 percent. In 2023, the Chinese economy rebounded and moved upward, with an estimated GDP growth of around 5.2 percent, higher than the around 5 percent target set at the beginning of the year. In promoting economic development, we did not resort to massive stimulus. We did not seek short-term growth while accumulating long-term risks. Rather, we focused on strengthening the internal drivers. As the second largest economy in the world, China has established, after years of development, sound and solid fundamentals. Just as a healthy person often has a strong immune system, the Chinese economy can handle ups and downs in its performance. The overall trend of long-term growth will not change. In terms of the industrial base, China is the only country with industries across all categories in the U.N. industrial classification. The added value of China’s manufacturing industry accounts for around 30 percent of the global total, ranking first in the world for 14 consecutive years. China is also home to over 200 mature industry clusters. With its large scale, complete categories and strong supporting capacity, China’s industrial system can meet the demand of the rapid development of social productivity and will contribute to better global allocation of production factors and the rise in global productivity. In terms of production factors, China’s demographic dividend is turning into talent dividend. We now rank first in the world in terms of the size of talent pool, human resources in science and technology and the total number of researchers. Capital shortage is replaced by abundance. Our global share of annual capital formation has risen to about 30 percent. In addition, with its huge data output and rich data resources, China has the second largest data mine in the world. In terms of innovation capacity, China’s total input in research and development and investment in the high-tech sector have been growing at double-digit rates for several years running. New technologies, including cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain, are being applied at a faster pace. New products and new business forms such as intelligent terminals, robots and telehealth keep emerging. China now has some 400,000 high-tech enterprises and ranks second globally in the number of unicorn companies. All this will boost the formation and cultivation of new growth drivers in China. Looking at the broader picture, we are now advancing Chinese modernization on all fronts through high-quality development. Delivering modernization to more than 1.4 billion people will be a remarkable achievement in human history, one that will provide continuous impetus to the development of China and the wider world. 

第三，中国的对外开放坚定不移，将持续为世界各国分享中国机遇创造良好条件。过去40多年，中国在开放中发展了自己、惠及了世界。现在中国已经是140多个国家和地区的主要贸易伙伴，关税总水平已降至7.3%，接近世贸组织发达成员水平。我们积极主动扩大开放，就是要让世界分享中国机遇、与各国共同发展。今天在座的有不少企业家。多年来，跨国企业深耕中国市场，也依托中国的制造能力，面向全球扩大产能，加速了自身成长，获得了丰厚回报。近五年外商在华直接投资收益率约9%，在国际上处于较高水平。选择中国市场不是风险，而是机遇。我们敞开怀抱真心欢迎各国企业继续投资中国，将持续努力打造市场化、法治化、国际化一流营商环境。我们将稳步扩大制度型开放，继续缩减外资准入负面清单，落实好全面取消制造业领域外资准入限制，保障外商投资企业国民待遇。针对很多跨国公司关心的数据跨境流动、平等参与政府采购等问题，中国正在研究制定有关政策。我们还将常态化听取外资企业意见，只要是合理诉求，都会积极推动解决。总之，不管世界形势如何变化，中国都将坚持对外开放的基本国策，开放的大门只会越开越大。

Third, China remains firmly committed to opening up. We will continue to create favorable conditions for the world to share in China’s opportunities. In the past four decades and more, China has achieved development and shared benefits with the world through opening up. Right now, China is a major trading partner of over 140 countries and regions. Our overall tariff level has been cut to 7.3 percent, relatively on par with the developed members in the World Trade Organization. By opening up wider, we aim to share China’s opportunities and develop together with all in the world. To business leaders here today, I want to say that over the years, multinational corporations have cultivated the Chinese market and, based on China’s manufacturing prowess, expanded their global production, grown fast and had good reward. In the past five years, the return on foreign direct investment in China stands at around nine percent, which is quite competitive globally. Choosing the Chinese market is not a risk, but an opportunity. We embrace investments from businesses of all countries with open arms, and will work tirelessly to foster a market-oriented, law-based and world-class business environment. We will steadily expand institutional opening up, continue to shorten the negative list for foreign investment, follow through on removing all restrictions on access for foreign investment in the manufacturing sector, and guarantee national treatment for foreign businesses. With regard to concerns of some multinationals on issues such as cross-border data flow and equal participation in government procurement, we are working on the formulation of relevant policies. We will also hear the views of foreign businesses regularly and take active steps to address reasonable concerns. All in all, no matter how the world changes, China will stay committed to the fundamental national policy of opening up and open its door still wider to the world. 

再过20多天，中国农历龙年的新春佳节就要到来。在中华传统文化中，龙代表着祥瑞、智慧和力量。面对共同挑战，希望国际社会各个方面都能带着对人类美好未来的向往，以龙腾虎跃的姿态，向着构建人类命运共同体不断迈进！

In some 20 days, we will celebrate the Spring Festival to usher in the Chinese Year of the Dragon. In the traditional Chinese culture, the dragon is a symbol of auspiciousness, wisdom and strength. In the face of common challenges, we hope that all the members of the international community, with a shared aspiration for a better future and with the vigor of a flying dragon, will forge ahead toward building a community with a shared future for mankind.