社科网首页|客户端|官方微博|报刊投稿|邮箱 中国社会科学网
Books
World Openness Report 2021
2021-11-17 14:22:00

Release Date: November 5, 2021

 

World Openness Report 2021

 

 

Institute of World Economics and Politics, CASS

Research Center for Hongqiao International Economic Forum

Full Report

Contents

Preface Let the Light of Opening-up Shine the Way Forward of Mankind

  I. History as a Mirror

  II. Questions of the Times

  III. Development Trends of the World

  IV. China’s Path

Chapter I World Openness Index: Concept and Theories

  I. Concepts of Openness

  II. Theory of Opening-up to the Outside World

  III. Opening-up Practices in Foreign Trade and Investment

  IV. A Framework on Opening-up Model of National Economy

Chapter II World Openness Index: Methodology

  I. Principles of Measuring Opening-up to the Outside World

  II. Indicators Measuring Opening-up to the Outside World

  III. Basic indicator data processing and weight setting

Chapter III World Openness Index: Results and Analysis

  I. World Openness Ranking

  II. Openness Analysis

  III. Optimal Level of Openness

  IV. Main Conclusions

Chapter IV Economic Globalization and the Megatrend of Global Openness

  I. Development of Economic Globalization

  II. Increasing resistance to economic globalization

  III. Momentum of Economic Globalization Remains

  IV. New Economic Globalization Trends against the Backdrop of Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Chapter V WTO and Global Economic Governance

  I. WTO as Important Pillar of Global Economic Governance

  II. Regional economic and trade arrangements represented by free trade areas on the rise

  III. New trends evolving from global economic governance

Chapter VI Cooperation in Global Trade and Investment Opening-up

  I. Opening-up Practices in International Trade

  II. Opening-up Practices in International Investment

  III. Achievements of Trade and Investment Opening-up Cooperation

  IV. New Progress in Promoting Trade and Investment Opening-up under the New Situation

Chapter VII History and Great Achievements of China’s Opening-up

  I. China’s Road of Opening-up and Development

  II. Achievements and Contributions of China’s Opening-up

  III. Experiences and Lessons of China’s Opening-up Development

  IV. Prospect of promoting high-level Opening-up to the outside world

Chapter VIII Fostering a New Development Paradigm through High-Level Opening-up

  I. New Development Paradigm Set to Be the Choice in the New Phase

  II. Expanding Domestic Consumption to Foster A Powerful Domestic Market

  III. Promoting An Internal-External Virtuous Cycle to Push Forward High-Quality Development

  IV. Always Adhering to Reform and opening-up as A Strong Driving Force

Chapter IX Pilot Free Trade Zone and Free Trade Port Mark New Heights of Reform and Opening-up

  I. Active Exploration of Opening-up to the Outside World in the New Era

  II. New Results of First Trials in Reform and Opening-up

  III. Prospects of Development of Free Trade Zones and Ports

Chapter X China’s Practice of Participating in Multilateral and Regional Economic and Trade Cooperation

  I. Firmly Safeguarding Multilateral Trade System

  II. Accelerating Construction of Free Trade Areas

  III. Actively Participating in Various Economic Governance Mechanisms

  IV. Pushing Forward Efforts to Improve Global Economic Governance System

Chapter XI China International Import Expo Serving as International Public Goods in Openness Cooperation

  I. CIIE as A Ground-Breaking Initiative to Expand opening-up in the New Era

  II. CIIE as A Comprehensive and open Platform Shared Globally

  III. Jointly Improving the Quality of CIIE

Chapter XII BRI is the China Plan for Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

  I. The BRI Starts A Chorus of Openness Cooperation

  II. Remarkable Results Achieved in Carrying Out BRI

  III. Stable and long-term success in the joint construction of the BRI

Conclusion Global Openness Prospect

Appendix

  I. World Openness Rankings

  II. World Openness Index

  III. Theoretical Models of One Economy Opening-up to the Outside World

  IV. Treatment of Missing Values of Indicators

  V. Dimensionless calculation of indicators

  VI. On the Results of Openness Measurement

  VII. Comparison between Openness Index and Other Indices

 

 

Figures

Figure 3-1

World Openness Index, 2008-2019

Figure 3-2

Openness Index, 2008-2019: the 10 Economies with Largerst Change in the Ranking and G20 Members

Figure 3-3

Changes in Openness Ranking from 2008 to 2019: 129 National Economies

Figure 3-4

Openness Index, 2008-2019: G20 and the World

Figure 3-5

Openness Index, 2008-2019: Advanced Economies and Emerging economies of G20

Figure 3-6

Openness Index and Its Places in Ranking, 2008- 2019: United States

Figure 3-7

Openness Index, 2008-2019: United States, G20 and It Advanced Members, and the World

Figure 3-8

Openness Index and Its Place in Ranking, 2008-2019: China

Figure 3-9

Openness Index, 2008-2019: China, United States, G20 and Its Advanced Economies and Emerging Economies, and the World

Figure 3-10

Openness Index, 2008-2019: Central Asia, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa

Figure 3-11

Openness and Economic Development, 2018: 129 National Economies

Figure 3-12

Openness and GDP Per Capita,by income groups, 2008-2019

Figure 3-13

Openness and Size of National Economy, 2018

Figure 3-14

Openness and Economic Size, 2018, by Three Categories of Sizes

Figure 4-1

Evolution of World Trade, 1950-2020

Figure 4-2

Globalization index

Figure 5-1

Evolution of Regional Trade Agreements in the World, 1948-2021

Figure 6-1

Weighted average applied tariff rate of all products, 1994-2017

Figure 6-2

Economies with the greatest achievements in investment liberalization reform

Figure 6-3

Development of Special Economic Zones

Figure 6-4

Global trade in goods to GDP ratio (%), 1990-2020

Figure 6-5

Export of goods of the developed and developing countries and their shares, 1948-2019

Figure 6-6

Global FDI flows, 1990-2020

Figure 7-1

China’s share in world GDP, 1990-2020

Figure 7-2

Changes in Export and Import Proportions of China’s Major Trade Partners in 1995 and 2020

Figure 7-3

Foreign Capital Actually Utilized by China, 1984-2020

Figure 7-4

China’s ODI Flows and Place in Global Ranking, 1990-2020

Figure 8-1

Chna’ s Ratio of disposable income per capita to GDP per capita (%), 2013-2020

Figure 8-2

Rato of Total logistics cost to GDP, 1991-2019: China, United States and Japan

Figure 8-3

Share of final consumption and capital formation in China’s GDP, 1978-2020

Figure 8-4

China’s trade value and its share in worl total, 1978-2020

Figure 9-1

Number of special management measures in the negative list for pilot free trade zones since 2013

Figure 11-1

Import of China, France, Germany, Japan and United States, 1978-2020

Figure 11-2

World Trade and GDP, 1999-2020

Figure 12-1

China’s trade in goods with countries involved in BRI, 2013-2020

Figure 12-2

Comparison between the two BRI summit forums

Figure 12-3

Number of China-Europe freight trains, 2013 – 2021H1

Figure 12-4

Shares of 3 regional parters in China’s foreign trade, 2013-2020

Tables

Table 3-1

Openness Rankings, 2008-2019: the 40 Most Open National Economies

Table 3-2

The 20 Most Open Economies, 2008 and 2019

Table 5-1

Multilateral trade negotiations in nine rounds

Table 6-1

Regulations on foreign shareholding ratio in financial industries of some major economies

Table 7-1

China’s Foreign Trade Growth and Global Share (%), 1982-2020

Table 11-1

China’s foreign trade

Table 12-1

Projects contracted with Chinese enterprises in countries involved in BRI, 2013-2020

A.1

World Openness Index, 2008-2019

A.2

A comparison between world openness ranks and other six major ranks 2017

Boxes

Box 1-1

Other concepts related to cross-border opening-up

Box 4-1

Global production network of Boeing and Apple

Box 4-2

Populist movements in history

Box 4-3

New development trends of global value chain

Box 4-4

Carbon border tariff of the United States and European Union

Box 4-5

Technologcial development promotes economic globalization

Box 5-1

Relevant terms of WTO

Box 5-2

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

Box 5-3

RCEP: the Largest FTA in the World

Box 5-4

Regional Trade Arrangements and Multilateral Trading System

Box 8-1

Role of standards in international economic and trade cooperation

Box 8-2

On-the-border opening-up and behind-the-border opening-up

Box 8-3

Implementation of China’s Foreign Investment Law

Box 9-1

China’s first negative list for foreign investment access to domestic market

Box 9-2

China’s first license-certificate separation reform   

Box 9-3

China’s first international trade single window

Box 9-4

China’s first risk prevention list

Box 9-5

Building the Hainan Free Trade Port

Box 10-1

China raises level of openness in trade in goods through free trade agreements

Box 10-2

China achieves new progress in service trade openness through free trade agreements

Box 10-3

China realizes new expansion of rule negotiation through free trade agreements

Box 10-4

China shares development opportunities and results with its free trade partners

Box 10-5

China-ASEAN Free Trade Area enriches consumer choices

Box 10-6

China actively participates in mechanism cooperation, such as G20 and APEC

Box 11-1

Global debut in China — State-of-the-art products at the CIIE

Box 11-2

Some investment cooperation agreements signed at the CIIE

Box 11-3

Country exhibition opens a new door to world culture

Box 11-4

Intangible heritage and time-honored brands highlight cultural integration at CIIE

Box 11-5

Creating opportunities for companies from countries involved in BRI to expand their market presence

Box 12-1

World Bank report: BRI Promotes Inclusive Global Growth

Box 12-2

Industrial new zone established in Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Box 12-3

Piraeus port: enabling Greece's economic growth

Box 12-4

Construction of western land-sea new corridor accelerates

Box 12-5

Mombasa-Nairobi Railway and the future of Kenya

Box 12-6

Cooperation among China, Italy and Brazil to provide sustainable source of clean energy

Box 12-7

Not cold again in Dushanbe’s winter