The world today is undergoing a major change that has not been seen in a century. The deepening development of world multipolarity, economic globalization, social informatization, and cultural diversity has accelerated the transformation of the global governance system and international order. Emerging market countries and developing countries are rapidly rising, and the international power balance is becoming more balanced. The destinies of people around the world have never been so closely linked as they are today.
The 11th International Multinational Corporation Leaders Roundtable will be held from November 1st to 2nd in Tianjin Binhai New Area · Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone. The purpose of this International Multinational Corporation Leaders' Roundtable is to promote investment by multinational corporations, strengthen corporate social responsibility, and promote sustainable development. With the theme of 'Open China and the World', it invites many famous multinational enterprise leaders, important United Nations agencies, and relevant government departments to identify opportunities and challenges in the changing world and jointly explore the sustainable development of the world economy and China's economy, Actively promote open cooperation, especially investment and cooperation among multinational corporations, contribute wisdom, gather consensus, build platforms, and make new efforts to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Peace and development are the themes and propositions of the current era. It requires the international community to shoulder historical responsibilities with unity, wisdom, and courage, answer the propositions of the times, and demonstrate the responsibility of the times. The International Multinational Corporation Leaders Roundtable was co hosted by 12 countries, including the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Global Compact, and the United Nations University for Peace. Since 2007, it has been successfully held in Beijing for ten sessions, with remarkable results and widespread praise from the international community.
The 11th Roundtable of Leaders of International Multinational Corporations, guided by the important guideline of the 19th National Congress of the CPC to 'promote comprehensive opening up and form a new pattern', actively implements the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. After the opening ceremony on the afternoon of November 1, the 'International Cooperation and Development Forum', 12 sub forums and several summit dialogues will be held. Based on a global perspective and a Chinese perspective, we will engage in multi-level, multi-angle, and multi-dimensional dialogue and discussion on the focal points, hotspots, and difficult issues that everyone is most concerned about throughout the entire process. We will deepen mutually beneficial cooperation between Chinese and foreign multinational corporations, jointly address challenges, and discover new opportunities.
Summary of the 11th International Multinational Corporation Leaders Roundtable
Opening Ceremony: Open China and the World November 1st 13:30-18:00
China has a 40 year history of opening up to the world and implementing reform and opening up. Multinational corporations are important participants, witnesses, contributors, and beneficiaries of China's reform and opening up. In the past 40 years, China has undergone tremendous changes, with sustained high-speed economic growth and over 700 million people achieving poverty alleviation according to United Nations standards. Since 2017, the global economy has shown a stable and positive trend, but global economic growth remains sluggish. Trends such as trade protectionism, isolationism, and populism are constantly rising, and the challenges to world peace and development are becoming increasingly severe. Under the new situation, looking at the new journey, China has more confidence in reform and opening up. Openness should never stop and pursue quality, cooperation should unite and help each other, face challenges together, and win-win should face the future and advance hand in hand. The fate of the world should be jointly controlled by all countries, international rules should be jointly written by all countries, global affairs should be jointly governed by all countries, and development achievements should be shared by all countries.
Plenary Session: International Cooperation and Development Forum November 2nd 08:30-12:30
Topic 1: Opportunities and Challenges of Economic Globalization
Economic globalization is a global proposition, while hegemonism and power politics still exist. Protectionism, unilateralism, and war and terror will bring setbacks and challenges to economic globalization. Forward or backward, win-win cooperation or zero sum game are major practical issues facing the international community.
Topic 2: Sustainability and Reality of High Quality Development of China's Economy
The shift of China's economy from high-speed growth to high-quality development is an urgent need for the transformation of major contradictions in domestic society and for economic development to reach a new level. It is also a major decision to deepen international innovation exchange and cooperation and achieve common development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. How to build a broad partnership for the industrial revolution and strengthen the deep integration of development strategies? How to better unleash the enormous potential of economic cooperation and seize new development opportunities?
Topic 3: Balance and Security between Financial Openness and Regulation
China's continuous expansion of financial openness to the outside world is highly controversial. The reality of financial regulation and development security challenges the wisdom and determination of national leaders and regulatory authorities. How to deal with unequal openness between countries and prevent financial systemic risks is an urgent issue for financial regulatory authorities to respond to society.
Topic 4: Win-win cooperation between intellectual property protection and technological innovation
Invention and innovation are not twin brothers, but rather a father son relationship. The intellectual property rights of invention need to be protected, while the intellectual property rights of innovation require cooperation. How to create a complete chain of intellectual property creation, utilization, protection, management, and service? How to establish an efficient comprehensive management system for intellectual property rights? How should we respond to the reality of trade protection in the name of protecting intellectual property rights?
Topic 5: The Value and Social Responsibility of Business Leadership
Social responsibility is closely linked to corporate leadership, and responsible leadership is a new direction for leadership transformation in the context of global commercialization. How to integrate social responsibility into the company's overall development strategy and run through the company's overall business activities? How to promote more enterprises to enhance their leadership and influence by fulfilling their social responsibilities?
Topic 6: 'the Belt and Road' construction and global economic growth momentum
'The level of international cooperation along the the Belt and Road, especially the continuous improvement of infrastructure networks, the continuous improvement of diversified investment and financing systems, and the continuous deepening of diverse forms of people to people and cultural cooperation' are the most critical issues.
Parallel meeting: November 2nd, 14:00-18:20
The Reality and Future of the Coordinated Development of Beijing Tianjin Hebei
The coordinated development of Beijing Tianjin Hebei is a major decision of the central government, which is related to the strategic positioning and development of two cities and one province. Strengthening coordination and cooperation can achieve significant breakthroughs in some important aspects: how to focus on streamlining the industrial development chain of the three provinces and cities, accelerate the construction of strategic cooperation and functional acceptance platforms such as Tianjin Binhai New Area, Beijing New Airport Airport Airport Economic Zone, Caofeidian Collaborative Development Demonstration Zone, and Xiong'an New Area? How to focus on Beijing's original innovation The connection between research and development transformation in Tianjin and promotion and application in Hebei? How to focus on promoting market integration reform of factors such as finance, land, technology, talent, and information
Forum on Innovation and Development of Listed Companies
Strengthening the First Power and Seizing Historical Opportunities
Innovation is the primary driving force for development. How to strengthen the position and role of the first driving force, and highlight the comprehensive innovation led by technological innovation? How to promote technological innovation to break through a number of key common technologies in fields such as information, biology, new energy, new materials, and artificial intelligence? How to promote innovation in industrial technology systems around the fields of next-generation information networks, intelligent green manufacturing, modern agriculture, modern energy, and efficient resource utilization? How to promote the integration of technological innovation, management innovation, and business model innovation?
International Production Capacity Cooperation Forum
Based on mutual benefit and win-win innovation cooperation mechanism
At present, the global industrial structure is accelerating adjustment, infrastructure construction is in the ascendant, and developing countries continue to promote industrialization and urbanization. How to strengthen overall coordination, from formulating development plans, reforming management methods, improving convenience levels, improving support policies, and creating a good environment, Creating more favorable conditions for enterprises to 'go global'; How to innovate cooperation mechanisms, pay more attention to mutual benefit and win-win with local governments and enterprises, deepen bilateral and multilateral production capacity cooperation, and actively promote it through various methods such as trade, contracting projects, investment, etc. with a focus and targeted approach.
Corporate Social Responsibility Forum
Improve institutional arrangements and promote collaborative governance
In recent years, the construction of corporate social responsibility has achieved significant results, but some enterprises are still prominent in their pursuit of profit, lack of environmental awareness, and use of monopolistic positions to exclude market competition. Especially with the rapid development of the internet economy, the social responsibility characteristics of internet platform enterprises have undergone significant changes. In the new situation, how to consolidate and improve the institutional arrangements for corporate social responsibility and research more effective ways to assume social responsibility? How to strengthen the key areas of corporate social responsibility and continuously improve the ability and level of fulfilling social responsibility? How to explore the construction of a collaborative governance system for corporate social responsibility on internet platforms that integrates institutional governance innovation, organizational governance innovation, and technological governance innovation?
Food and Drug Safety Responsibility Forum
Maintaining a high-pressure situation and consolidating joint efforts for governance
The current situation of food and drug safety in China is still severe and complex, and the most urgent issue is how to deeply learn the lessons of some major cases, draw inferences from each other, treat chaos with severe cases, and eliminate diseases and drawbacks? How to maintain a high-pressure situation, consolidate joint efforts for governance, and continuously improve the safety baseline? How to mobilize the general public to participate in social governance of food and drug safety, vigorously promote joint actions by governments, regulatory departments, enterprises, consumers, and other parties, and accelerate the improvement of the social governance system for food and drug safety?
China Europe Business Leaders Cooperation Forum
Seizing Development Opportunities and Accelerating Innovation Cooperation
Currently, the European economy continues to recover, and the Chinese economy has entered high-quality development, creating more suitable conditions and foundations for working together to promote sustainable development cooperation.
In recent years, Europe has become a new hotspot for Chinese enterprise investment and mergers and acquisitions. Germany is an important country for Chinese enterprises to invest overseas, and North Wales is the most popular investment destination in Germany. 27.1% of the overseas investment attracted by Germany is concentrated here, and North Wales is used as a base to manipulate their German or European businesses.
Mergers and acquisitions are the main way for Chinese companies to invest in Europe, allowing investors to acquire professional skills, proprietary technology, and brands, enhancing the company's future competitiveness both internationally and domestically. In the early days, capital from China was mainly concentrated in areas such as resources and energy, infrastructure, etc; Nowadays, investment content is showing diversified characteristics, with Chinese capital visible in fields such as environmental protection, real estate, and healthcare.
China Europe cooperation requires innovative ideas and joint exploration of new areas of sustainable development cooperation.
Sino Russian Business Leaders Cooperation Forum
Utilize complementary advantages to promote mutually beneficial cooperation
The Chinese and Russian economies have strong complementarity, and economic and trade cooperation continues to make new progress. Facing the future, how can both sides adhere to consolidating traditional cooperation and expanding new fields? How to increase mutual investment while expanding trade scale? How to focus on both quantity and quality improvement to promote the development of Sino Russian cooperation to a higher level? How to highlight strategic priorities, cultivate new cooperation highlights, and actively carry out cooperation in fields such as aerospace, nanotechnology, high-end equipment manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, biomedicine, and information technology?
China South Korea Business Leaders Cooperation Forum
Consolidate the foundation of mutual trust and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation
China and South Korea face new opportunities in deepening mutually beneficial cooperation. How to consolidate the foundation of mutual trust and promote strategic partnership to a higher level? How to develop complementary advantages and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in areas such as economy and trade, green ecological industries, environmental protection, health, agriculture, energy, etc., especially in expanding cooperation on landmark projects in the electronics field?
China Kazakhstan Business Leaders Cooperation Forum
Realize complementary advantages and create a better future together
China and Kazakhstan have achieved leapfrog development from establishing good-neighborly and friendly relations to developing comprehensive strategic partnerships, and then to building a community of interests and a community with a shared future. And how to promote the co construction of the 'the Belt and Road' cooperation and explore more flexible and effective investment and financing models? How to build capacity cooperation into a new growth pole? How to vigorously develop high-tech and innovation cooperation, deepen cooperation in cutting-edge fields such as aerospace, digital economy, and new energy, and promote the construction of big data, cloud computing, and smart cities?
China Turkey Business Leaders Cooperation Forum
Deepening Trade Potential and Expanding Open Cooperation
In recent years, economic and trade cooperation between China and Türkiye has become an important driving force for bilateral strategic cooperation. At present, it is urgent to conduct in-depth research on how to continuously enrich the content of economic and trade cooperation, innovate cooperation methods, and improve the level of cooperation while promoting balanced growth of bilateral trade. This includes actively creating two cooperation priorities: transportation and new energy, and vigorously promoting three emerging cooperation areas: aerospace, finance, and investment.
China Nepal Business Leaders Cooperation Forum
Nepal is a friendly neighbor of China, an important country along the 'the Belt and Road', a founding member of the Asian Investment Bank, and a member of the World Trade Organization. It is rich in natural resources, abundant in labor, superior in geographical location, and has huge market potential. China has become Nepal's largest source of direct investment and second largest trading partner.
The 'the Belt and Road' initiative has promoted and enhanced the development of China Nigeria relations and provided important opportunities for enterprises of the two countries to strengthen cooperation. At present, the prospects for practical cooperation between China and Nepal are broad, and the scale of trade and investment is constantly expanding. We are steadily promoting the construction of projects such as hydropower and transportation infrastructure, and strengthening cooperation in areas such as energy, agriculture, cultural tourism, tourism, building materials, communication, medicine, etc. The economic and trade relations are becoming closer. Bilateral important areas such as cross-border economic cooperation zones and bilateral free trade zones are in the ascendant.