Ten Years After WTO Entry: The Biggest Enemy Is Itself.

In December 11, 2001, China officially became the 143rd member of the WTO.

Ten years later, history has proved that China's accession to the WTO

For the world, China's accession has made the WTO a more complete system and quickened the process of economic globalization.

In the past ten years, China's strong economic growth is one of the most important events in the world economy.

The "made in China" has become our national card. The Chinese products have become the whole world like air.

Joining the tide of world economic integration is undoubtedly joining a competitive gaming circle with dividends and opportunity cost coexistence.

At the beginning of China's accession to the WTO, many people are worried that, after drastically lowering the entry threshold of tariffs and foreign investment, can many industries in China withstand the impact of international competition, and will we be swept away by pnational giants in many areas of foreign capital, such as agricultural products, finance, automobiles, retailing and the Internet?

Some people called "joining the world to dance with Wolves". Ten years of accession to the WTO proved that wolves did come, but those industries that had been separated from administrative protection and tariff barriers were not eaten by wolves, but instead, they burst into strong vitality and vitality in the free competition, and stubbornly survived and grew up.

Ten years of accession to the WTO have proved that what China's seemingly weak industries are really afraid of is not the free competition, but the excessive administrative control in the past.

Competition is one of the most effective means to promote productivity. Free competition is like the sunshine of the economic society. As long as there is no Overcontrol, the plant can find its living space.

In the field of agriculture, after the abolition of the ban on wheat exports to 7 states and the release of more than 6000 meat processing plants in the United States, China's farmers have not been defeated by the big tractor of American farmers, and have found their own survival and development space in domestic demand and market segmentation.

In the retail industry, the rich WAL-MART has not swept the country. The domestic retail enterprises have completed the leap of enterprise operation and management experience in "dancing with Wolves", and have produced hundreds of millions of retail businesses such as Suning and Gome.

The survival of China's hotel industry has also made policy makers worried. But after opening the door, the "guest houses" have made rapid progress in the competition, and have evolved into a number of economic chain hotels, and have successfully listed in the US.

In the field of Internet industry, which is the most fully integrated with the world, China's Internet companies have basically been able to synchronize with the world, and the gap with the world level is almost the smallest in all fields.

In the competition with the United States, China's Internet companies are even more powerful than their counterparts in Europe and Japan.

At the beginning of China's accession to the WTO, there were not many people who hold pessimistic views on these industries, but ten years after joining the WTO have proved that Chinese enterprises are not afraid of real competition.

On the contrary, compared with those industries that are growing and improving in free competition, some industries directly related to government revenue still live under various administrative protection. Various administrative protection measures do not protect the internationally competitive industries. Instead, they have opened the market economy to reverse the monopoly, and the shadow of the planned economy lingers.

For example, these central banks, such as Chinese banks, which have been criticized by public opinion these years, have not really entered the market after joining the WTO for ten years.

Although these enterprises have made profits in the great development of China's economy, they are often accused of holding the privilege and competing with the people.

Under the excessive protection and supervision, the innovation ability and efficiency of these areas are seriously insufficient. They seem to be huge but unable to compete in the international market.

Excessive protection and supervision can not only improve our international competitiveness, but the suspicion of planned economy has attracted more and more lawsuits and disputes among WTO members.

China has been the world's largest number of anti-dumping and countervailing countries for many years. Over the past four years, China has received more than 1/3 of the total number of anti dumping initiatives each year, and China has suffered more than 40% of anti-dumping measures every year.

The growing trade disputes and frictions have added many obstacles to China's progress in the world trade organization.

As a rule, accession to the WTO will automatically gain market economy status. But ten years later, the US, the European Union, its member states and Japan have not yet recognized China's market economy status.

This is a great drawback that we can not avoid when we review the glory of the ten years of WTO entry.

After joining the WTO for ten years, we have proved that we are not afraid of competition.

Our main enemy is ourselves.

With continued reform and opening up and strong competition, the future will be better.