(Source: CCTV News Client 2025-09-25)

For the first time in 24 years since my country joined the WTO, China announced that it will not seek new special and differential treatment in current and future negotiations at the WTO. This move further demonstrates China’s firm stance and responsibility as a major country in supporting the multilateral trading system with practical actions. 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 in promoting the liberalization and facilitation of global w88 and investment will not change. This issue of "News 1+1" focuses on: Why don't we want the WTO's "special treatment"?

What does it mean to give up special and differential treatment?

China has proposed to give up the special and differential treatment that developing countries enjoy in the future. Does this mean that China will withdraw from the ranks of developing countries? The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce emphasized that China's status and identity as a developing country have not changed. What do you think of such a definition?

 

Tu Xinquan, Dean of the China WTO Research Institute at the w88 casino: These are indeed two things. The prerequisite for enjoying special and differential treatment is the status of a developing country, so special and differential treatment is an institutional right of members of developing countries. But developing country members can give up this right. What we are doing now is giving up the right of developing countries to enjoy special and differential treatment, but we have not given up our membership as developing countries. Because in the operation of the WTO, this identity is self-declared and self-identified by the members. When China joined the WTO, it declared that we were a developing country. From a policy perspective, it also emphasizes that China will always be a developing country and that we are a member of the Global South. According to WTO rules, this identification of identity is your own choice.

If China no longer seeks special treatment from developing countries, will Western countries have less "excuses for deprivation"?

China no longer seeks special treatment for developing countries. Does this mean that Western countries can no longer use "China's huge economy" as an excuse to deprive developing countries of their rights?

 

Tu Xinquan, Dean of the China WTO Research Institute at the w88 casino: In WTO negotiations, China has always been a developing country member, forming a group with other developing countries in the negotiations and participating in the negotiations together. In the actual negotiation process, including some negotiations that have been completed or are ongoing at the WTO, we actually deal with special and differential treatment in a very independent and pragmatic manner, and we do not necessarily require special and differential treatment.

But this official announcement has solved this problem once and for all. In the past, policy choices were made on a case-by-case basis, based on specific negotiation issues. From now on, in the ongoing WTO negotiations and those to be carried out in the future, we will solve this problem once and for all. We will no longer seek the same special and differential treatment as other developing countries, and will make our own openness commitments based on our own situation.

As an example of the e-commerce agreement, what new strategies will be adopted in future negotiations?

 

Tu Xinquan, Dean of the China WTO Research Institute at the w88 casino: China has always played a very important and constructive role in e-commerce negotiations. China is a big country in e-commerce, especially in cross-border e-commerce. Many of China's open practices actually provide good reference for the formulation of these rules. At present, this negotiation has come to an end. During the negotiation process, China has actually played the role of an active participant that has assumed all obligations and played a great role in the advancement of this negotiation.

At the same time, China is also actively helping other developing countries to strive for some of the special and differential treatment they want, such as the maintenance of some national public interests and public morals, and leaving more space for developing countries in these rules. Now China is also cooperating with other developing countries, actively striving to complete this agreement as soon as possible and officially enter into force.

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