Dream And Glory: The Gain And Loss Of WTO Garment Enterprises In 10 Years

In November 2001, Long Yongtu looked at China's accession to the WTO: "I think the process of China's entry into the WTO is actually the process of establishing a market economy in China.

In joining the WTO negotiations, we also gradually understood the views of other countries in the world on the market economy and some basic laws of establishing market economy, such as the role of the government in the market economy.

It should be said that China's accession to WTO is, to some extent, an endorsement of China's market economy by the market economy countries.

The main advantages that WTO brings to us is to bring an equal competitive position to China.

Ten years later, in 2011, Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said: "after joining the WTO for ten years, China has stepped out of a path of opening up to promote reform and promoting development, and has completed the pformation from the new members of WTO, the participants, and gradually become the promoter, becoming a mature WTO member.

In the past ten years, China's average tariff level has dropped from 15.3% to 9.8%. China has opened more than 100 service trade sectors, and has experienced the biggest clean-up of laws and regulations in history, involving more than 3000 laws and regulations.

China has learned and applied market rules to speed up the establishment of a stable and predictable trade system and make the business environment more open.

By integrating WTO's principles of "non discrimination" and "pparency" and fair competition into China's economic system, the concepts of market awareness, rule of law and intellectual property rights are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

While participating in China's construction, enterprises from different countries share the opportunities for China's market growth, and Chinese enterprises are also beginning to invest in the world.

Ten years ago, faced with the trend of the whole world, industrial knowledge was information-based, and production was pnational.

Ten years later, Pascal Rami, director general of the world trade organization, said: "China's status in the world trade organization is not because it is the largest exporter in the world, but because it is the second largest and fastest growing importer in the world."

China has fulfilled its promise and changed into a certain future.

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Today, ten years after joining the WTO, it seems that we can make a rational judgement by combing back what WTO has brought for China's economic development.

Based on the information from the China Textile Industry Association, we can see that China's textile exports totaled US $206 billion 500 million in 2010, up 268.75% from the US $56 billion in 2000.

China's textile and clothing exports accounted for 32.71% of the global market share, and the proportion increased further, which fully shows that China's textile industry's international competitive advantage has been continuously improved in the past ten years.

But at the same time, we should see that in the past 10 years, China's international trade frictions are showing a trend of rapid growth.

Especially since the outbreak of the international financial crisis, China has become the main target country of trade protectionism.

In 1980-1989 years, China was accused of 4.6% of the total number of anti-dumping cases in the world. In 2000-2009 years, China has been accused of anti-dumping, accounting for 26.3% of the total number of anti-dumping cases in the world.

In fact, in recent years, the protection of international trade of China's textile and clothing exports has become more and more normalized in various countries and regions.

Whether it is policy or technical trade protection measures, the export of China's textile and clothing products is facing greater cost pressures and risks, which is also accompanied by WTO.

Many people may not have noticed that in April 16, 2011, the establishment of the intellectual property Specialized Committee of the international legal affairs center of the China International Association for pnational corporations (IPU) was founded. After ten years of entry into the WTO, the establishment of the institution marks China's constant action in its independent innovation and in the pursuit of the right to speak in all areas of the economy.

This is a fundamental change in the structure of China's economic foreign trade from "importing industrial products and exporting raw materials" to "importing raw materials and exporting industrial products". It is also a solid foundation for China's textile and garment industry to create pformation from China to China for many years.

What impact will the next Doha round negotiation have on the Chinese economy? No one can expect it.

But how can we get rid of the shackles of low-end products, strive for the exclusive use of core technologies and protect national industries on the basis of multilateral and equal trade?