(Source: "People's Daily"2025-09-28）
China recently announced at the high-level meeting on the Global Development Initiative hosted by China at the United Nations Headquarters in New York: As a responsible major developing country, China will not seek new special and differential treatment in current and future negotiations at the WTO. "This is a critical moment for the WTO. China's decision reflects its commitment to building a more balanced and fair global trading system." WTO Director-General Iweala said that China has sent a strong signal of support for WTO reform. China's move "will undoubtedly inject vitality into relevant discussions and help us build a more flexible and efficient organization."
“An important statement of position focusing on both international and domestic situations”
Currently, the rules-based multilateral trading system is facing severe challenges. The international community's call for safeguarding the multilateral trading system has become stronger, and expectations for the WTO to play a more active role are rising.
“The announcement that it will not seek new special and differential treatment in the current and future negotiations of the WTO is an important declaration of China’s position focusing on both the international and domestic situations.” Hu Jianguo, associate professor at Nankai University w88 casino of Law, said that he has joined the WTO since 2001 Since the establishment of the Organization, China's economy and society have developed rapidly in an all-round way and has become the world's second largest economy, the largest trader of goods, and the second largest trader of services. It has the ability to play a greater role in maintaining the multilateral trading system, participating in WTO reform, and adjustment of international economic and w88 rules and other international affairs. In this context, China's move is an important action to safeguard and strengthen the multilateral trading system.
"Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important magic weapon for China's modernization drive to continuously achieve new achievements. This move means that China will participate in WTO reform at a deeper level and make a higher level of opening-up commitments, which will help China promote in-depth reforms and high-quality development." Hu Jianguo said.
Tu Xinquan, Dean of the China World w88 Organization Research Institute at the w88 casinosaid that as the world's largest trader of goods and a responsible developing country, China firmly upholds the multilateral trading system. China's announcement that it will not seek new special and differential treatment means that China will assume greater openness obligations in current and future negotiations, demonstrate China's responsibility as a major developing country with practical actions, further consolidate China's position as a supporter of w88 liberalization in the WTO, and help better unite developing countries and jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system.
Ji Wenhua, professor at the National Institute for Opening up and Law w88 casino at the w88 casinostated that special and differential treatment is an institutional arrangement granted to developing members under the WTO framework. As the world's largest developing country, China has always strictly abided by the rules of the WTO and earnestly fulfilled its WTO commitments since joining the WTO. On this basis, continuing to exercise relevant rights in accordance with laws and regulations is in line with international legal principles and WTO principles. Currently, individual countries have launched w88 wars and tariff wars one after another, seriously threatening the multilateral trading system, disrupting the international economic and w88 order, and bringing uncertainty and instability to global economic development. As an important member of the WTO, China has taken the initiative to make this declaration, which will help break the deadlock on development issues in the WTO, promote WTO reform, and enhance the confidence of developing countries in the multilateral trading system. This move fully demonstrates China's role as a responsible major country in global economic governance and is an important contribution to the multilateral trading system with the WTO as its core.
"Contribute to better safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of developing members"
“This major measure announced by China has a distinct development attribute, which will help the multilateral trading system better focus on development issues, enhance the universal benefit and inclusiveness of international w88, help better bridge the development gap between the North and the South, and realize the WTO’s promotion of global development. Han Yong, director of the World w88 Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that China has "three things that will not change" in the current and future negotiations of the WTO: China's status as a developing member will not change, its determination to defend the legitimate rights and interests of developing members will not change, and its position of promoting the liberalization and facilitation of global w88 and investment will not change.
"Developing membership status is a prerequisite for enjoying special and differential treatment, but not seeking new special and differential treatment does not mean giving up the status of a developing member. China has always been a member of the Global South and will always stand with developing countries. Although China does not seek new special and differential treatment, it China's status as a developing member in the WTO will not change, and China will continue to firmly support other developing countries in fighting for their legitimate rights and interests. "Tu Xinquan said that the "three unchanged" policies are China's solemn commitment to safeguarding the multilateral trading system, and they are also China's practical actions to firmly safeguard the due status of developing countries in global governance.
"In 2001, China joined the WTO as a developing member, and this status has never changed. China's new position on special and differential treatment in the WTO does not affect China's status as a developing member." Cui Fan, a professor at the w88 casino of International Economics and w88 at the w88 casino, said, "China has announced that it will continue to participate in the current and future WTO Not seeking new special and differential treatment in the organization's negotiations will help better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of developing members, make other developing members more likely to implement relevant treatment, and also help make China's development and opening up better benefit all WTO members, especially other developing members, thereby continuing to promote global w88 and investment liberalization and facilitation."
Ji Wenhua said that it is important to point out that China’s position paper and relevant policy explanations submitted to the WTO clearly and accurately define the applicable context and scope of China’s move. First of all, this measure only applies within the framework of the WTO and will not set a precedent or have any impact on China's status and treatment in other international organizations or treaties. Secondly, this measure only involves the issue of whether China seeks special and differential treatment in negotiations, and does not involve changing China's status as a developing country. As a member of the developing world, China is in line with the rules and practices of the WTO and is also consistent with China's development stage. In addition, this measure only targets the current and future WTO negotiations and does not seek new special and differential treatment. It does not involve (nor retroactively apply to) the special and differential treatment that China already enjoys and has requested to enjoy in the current negotiations. Therefore, any statement or statement that this measure means that China has transformed into a developed country under the WTO framework and is no longer a developing country is an incorrect or misleading interpretation.
“Fully demonstrate our responsibility to jointly promote global development”
In recent years, China has firmly upheld the multilateral trading system, fully and deeply participated in the reform of the WTO and the adjustment of international economic and w88 rules, and continuously promoted the development of the global economic governance system in a more fair and reasonable direction.
Hu Jianguo said that maintaining the multilateral trading system is in China’s fundamental interests. China's comprehensive and in-depth participation in the reform of the WTO and the adjustment of international economic and w88 rules will help promote the implementation of global governance initiatives, promote the construction of a more fair and reasonable global governance system, and jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Tu Xinquan believes that in fact, in the many negotiations that have been completed by the WTO, China has repeatedly not sought special and differential treatment and made higher commitments than other developing members. These constructive measures by China have made key contributions to promoting the completion of negotiations. This move means that China will make more and greater opening-up commitments in future negotiations and make greater contributions to the liberalization and facilitation of global w88 and investment, thus promoting the development of the multilateral trading system. This is in line with the international community's expectations for China to play a leading role in global economic and w88 governance.
"Currently, protectionism and unilateralism continue to spread, especially when some major countries ignore international rules and impose unilateral tariff measures, posing severe challenges to the authority and effectiveness of the WTO. At this critical juncture, China has taken pragmatic actions to break the shackles of the zero-sum game, fully demonstrating the joint promotion of global China's move reflects its responsibility for safeguarding the global economic and w88 order and highlights China's leading role in global governance. "Ji Wenhua said that some Western developed countries have long had the phenomenon of "many statements but little implementation" on the issue of special and differential treatment for developing countries. Only when all countries meet each other halfway, resolutely abandon double standards, and jointly build a solid foundation for multilateralism can we open up an inclusive, just and sustainable development path for the global economic and w88 system. This is the fundamental path to solve the current global w88 dilemma.
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