The outline of the 15th Five Year Plan outlines a grand blueprint for China's economic and social development in the next five years, which has attracted widespread attention from the international community. A senior executive of a multinational corporation in China who was interviewed by our reporter stated that the Chinese economy has a stable foundation, multiple advantages, strong resilience, and great potential, providing the global economy with scarce stability, certainty of long-term vigorous development, and openness to actively share opportunities. Walking with China is walking with opportunities. During the 15th Five Year Plan period, China's economy will develop towards a new and optimal direction, providing more opportunities for multinational enterprises to further integrate into China's overall development and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results in deepening cooperation. The Outline of the 15th Five Year Plan provides clear policy guidance. It explicitly proposes to expand opening up in line with international high standard economic and trade rules, promote the compatibility of domestic and international rules, regulations, management, and standards, and create a transparent, stable, and predictable institutional environment. Multinational executives in China have stated that against the backdrop of the current turbulent international situation, China has become a global "oasis of certainty", providing fertile ground for foreign companies to share new opportunities for China's open development. Liu Yunfeng, Executive Vice President of Volkswagen Group (China), stated that the deployment of expanding high-level opening-up in the "15th Five Year Plan" conveys clear and stable long-term development expectations. The current global development environment is complex and ever-changing. China has always been led by institutional openness, continuously improving market access mechanisms, optimizing the business environment, and enhancing policy transparency, laying a solid foundation for foreign enterprises to deeply cultivate in China. This stability is the key for enterprises to dare to carry out long-term investment and promote systematic layout in China, "said Liu Yunfeng. Xu Xinxiong, CEO of Thailand's Tencel Group, stated that China's "15th Five Year Plan" period adheres to the direction of high-quality development, especially the strategic deployment of expanding domestic demand, actively creating a first-class business environment, and steadily expanding institutional opening-up, which has brought broad development opportunities for foreign enterprises. Tiansi Group has invested over 4.36 billion yuan in China in the past five years, and the full process service mechanism of local governments truly demonstrates the warmth and efficiency of China's business environment. In the future, Tiansi Group is confident in continuing to increase its investment in China, fulfilling its firm commitment to "investing in China" with practical actions, and better playing the role of a bridge connecting the Chinese and ASEAN markets. The outline of the 15th Five Year Plan provides clear policy guidance. ”Anna, President of Henkel Greater China, stated that China has clearly proposed to improve the service guarantee system for foreign investment, shape new advantages for attracting foreign investment, and provide a more transparent, fair, and predictable business environment for foreign enterprises. More and more foreign-funded enterprises are increasing their R&D investment in China, which is a reflection of China's efforts to continuously optimize the business environment and promote high-level opening up to the outside world. Anna believes that China is forming a dynamic open innovation ecosystem, and Henkel is willing to integrate into it and work together with industry chain partners to achieve common development. Yin Zheng, Executive Vice President and President of China and East Asia at Schneider Electric, believes that China's continuous expansion of high-level opening-up and optimization of the business environment fully demonstrates its determination to share development opportunities with the world, and also solidifies the confidence foundation for multinational enterprises to deeply cultivate China and achieve a win-win future. China is gradually becoming the most dynamic innovation highland in the world. "" Science and technology "and" innovation "are high-frequency words in the" 15th Five Year Plan "outline, highlighting China's determination to promote comprehensive economic and social development through policy innovation and institutional guarantees, which will provide a" blue ocean of opportunities "for the development of multinational enterprises in China. China is gradually becoming the most dynamic innovation hub in the world. ”Liu Yunfeng stated that since 2023, Volkswagen has invested approximately 3.5 billion euros in China, with a focus on strengthening the research and manufacturing system of new energy and intelligent connected vehicles. During the 15th Five Year Plan period, China will promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, constantly giving birth to new quality productivity. Volkswagen will be more determined to place innovation research and development in China, build key capabilities in China, and continuously enhance its technological competitiveness through deep integration into the Chinese innovation ecosystem. Tetsuhiro Honma, Global Vice President of Panasonic Corporation and Group Representative for Northeast Asia, stated that China has unparalleled advantages in innovation speed, intelligent process, ability to absorb and digest new technologies, talent reserves, and supply chain. In the fierce market competition, the Chinese market has become a "training ground" for multinational enterprises to enhance their competitiveness. China's comprehensive implementation of the "Artificial Intelligence+" initiative has brought profound changes and huge opportunities to the industry in which Panasonic operates. Ma Chuan, a member of the Executive Committee and President of the China region of Freya Group, one of the major global automotive technology suppliers, stated that the group has clearly defined its development path in China - with technological innovation as the core engine and green development as the background, deepening local layout, strengthening industrial synergy, actively integrating into the construction of the new energy vehicle industry chain, and assisting in the high-quality development of the Chinese economy. Currently, China is not only an important engine for global digital development, but also a core hub for global supply chain and innovation. The strategy of multinational corporations in China is accelerating from the traditional 'in China, for China' to a new stage of 'based in China, serving the world'. ”Zhu Haixiang, Vice President and China Managing Director of Huihe Company, a global enterprise level IT solution provider, introduced that China focuses on high-quality development and building a modern industrial system, providing clear direction and long-term certainty for the digital and intelligent transformation of industries. In this context, Huiyu actively carries out strategic upgrades, committed to enhancing responsiveness, accurately matching industry needs, improving technological accessibility, and promoting the landing and transformation of artificial intelligence technology into true productivity. The "15th Five Year Plan" outlines the strategy of expanding domestic demand and creating innovative products and solutions that better meet the needs of the Chinese market. It emphasizes the close integration of benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, investing in goods and people, leading new supply with new demand, creating new demand with new supply, promoting a positive interaction between consumption and investment, supply and demand, achieving a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand, and enhancing the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic circulation. China, which has a super large market, is becoming a hot spot for multinational corporations to invest and develop. Liu Yan, President of Takeda China, stated that in November last year, the Takeda China Innovation Center was officially put into operation in Chengdu, Sichuan, marking Takeda Pharmaceuticals' further expansion into the field of digital technology on the basis of existing new drug research and development, production, supply, and commercialization, and better assisting the digital transformation and high-quality development of China's medical and health industry. She believes that during the 15th Five Year Plan period, China will implement the strategy of prioritizing health development, improve the coordinated development and governance mechanism of medical insurance and pharmaceuticals, and promote the digitalization of national health. These measures will continue to stimulate the innovative vitality of the medical and health industry. The factory of Freya Group located in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province has recently been awarded the title of "Outstanding Performance Lighthouse Factory in the Field of Productivity" by the World Economic Forum. Ma Chuan stated that in the future, the company will focus on the core track, continuously improve the integrated system of research and development, production, supply chain, and service, adhere to the concept of green and low-carbon, actively cooperate with local car companies, and create innovative products and solutions that better meet the needs of the Chinese market. In recent years, Unilever has continued to deepen its local layout in China, accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements through digitalization and intelligent technology. Relying on a multi regional collaborative production network and industry innovation practices such as "factory to consumer", Unilever is more agile in responding to the diverse and personalized needs of consumers. Unilever Greater China President Chen Ge stated that the comprehensive advantages of the Chinese market in innovation vitality and supply chain system have laid a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the consumer goods industry. Ma Wen, President of the Asia Pacific region of the outdoor apparel company Weifu Group, believes that the "15th Five Year Plan" will focus on "promoting high-quality development of the sports industry" as one of the key directions, opening up broad growth space for the outdoor sports consumption field. "Weifu will continue to deepen its local market, focus on product innovation, omnichannel capacity building, and operational efficiency improvement, continuously deepen brand identity and emotional resonance with consumers, and contribute to the improvement and expansion of consumer quality. According to Bao Jiafeng, President of Finnish elevator company Tongli Greater China, Tongli will actively participate in China's urban renewal work by 2025. In January of this year, Tongli has shipped equipment to over 80 cities in China for renovation projects. During the 15th Five Year Plan period, Tongli looks forward to deepening cooperation with Chinese partners to help build a greener, smarter, and more resilient urban future. (New Society)