China News Service: The event of “MFA Presenting Hainan Free Trade Port to the World” was successfully held yesterday. Can you share more with us on that?

Lin Jian: Yesterday, the “MFA Presenting Hainan Free Trade Port to the World” event was successfully held at Lanting under the theme of “Local Practices of Chinese Modernization—Hainan Free Trade Port: New Era, New Mission, New Opportunities”. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi addressed the event. The Foreign Ministry has released readouts on the event. I believe many of your outlets were there to cover the event.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi noted at the event that the Hainan Free Trade Port is a strategic initiative brought forward by President Xi Jinping personally to advance reform and opening up in the new era. Today’s Hainan Free Trade Port has become a new frontier of China’s institutional opening up, a new promising place for mutually beneficial cooperation in the region, and a new powerhouse for economic globalization. We will remain committed to open development by advancing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and implementing the Global Development Initiative. We will remain committed to innovation-driven development and work to bring more benefit of global innovation outcomes to the Global South. We will remain committed to green development and never waver in our participation in the global response to climate change. We will remain committed to inclusive development and take active effort to implement the Global Civilization Initiative. We will remain committed to peaceful development and actively deliver on the Global Security Initiative.

To choose China is to choose opportunity, and to embrace China is to embrace the future. At the 31st APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting last month, President Xi Jinping again put forward what China believes should be the way forward—pursuing open development, true multilateralism and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. The Hainan Free Trade Port is a name card of China’s reform and opening up in the new era. We welcome you to go to Hainan to experience the robustness and dynamism of China’s reform and opening up. And we welcome all parties to board the express train of China’s development, partner with China for economic success, and achieve modernization aimed at peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation and common prosperity together.