(Geneva) On May 23, the second WTO meeting to review China’s trade policies ends successfully in Geneva. During the two-day meeting, WTO full reviews China’s trade policies and its influences upon multilateral trading organizations in the past two years. Representatives from some WTO member states show concerns to related aspects of China’s trade policies, including the norms of inspection and quarantine, transparency of trade policy, industrial policy, IPR law enforcement and further opening of China’s service sector.

Chinese delegation replies and clarifies every question. In her speech, Qiu Hong, Assistant Minister of Commerce of China who heads Chinese delegation to the meeting, fully recalls China’s economic growth and trade development in recent years and China’s efforts of developing economy and transforming the mode of economic and trade development. She also illustrates China’s stands regarding multilateral trading system, Doha round negotiations and regional and bilateral trade relations, and China’s mutual-beneficial and win-win strategy of opening up to the outside world.

Representatives of various WTO member states express their appreciation to China’s economic and social development in the past years during their speeches, believing all these achievements are closely related to China’s adherence to the policy of reform and opening up. Many representatives point out that China greatly improves its business environment after it accesses the WTO, an effort not only greatly changes China itself, but also makes contribution to the world economic development, benefiting other WTO members.

Some representatives point out that it is China’s access to the WTO that makes it a worldwide organization. They hope that with the rapid economic growth, China could play a greater role in multilateral trading system. Some developing countries speak highly of China’s practices of actively maintaining the interests of developing countries, especially underdeveloped countries in the WTO.

Mrs. Qiu says while concluding her speech that she hopes WTO members could have comprehensive understandings and just comments on Chinese Government’s efforts in developing its economy and measures of coping with the challenges in its economic and trade development, and could better understand China’s persistent determination of adhering to the policy of reform and opening up.

WTO’s first meeting to review China’s trade policy is held in April 2006. According to WTO rules, WTO members with trade volume ranking top four worldwide will be reviewed biyearly. Currently, China’s trade volume ranks No.3 worldwide.