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Focus on China and global services trade
Focus on China and global services trade
LI XIN of Tsinghua University highlights the work of a recent economic seminar
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ECONOMISTS and academics warned against US protectionism and its growing hostility to international scientific and economic co-operation at an online trade seminar held by Tsinghua University.
The Global Services Trade Development and Mainstream Ranking Index Seminar was organised by the prestigious Chinese university’s School of Social Sciences and co-organised by the Tianfu New Area Management Committee in Chengdu, capital of China’s south-western Sichuan province.
The event aimed to delve deeply into the current status, challenges, trends of global services trade, as well as China’s role and opportunities in this process.
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