(The 9th China International Import Expo) The first "Shanghai Open Development Report (2026)" blue book was released

China News Service, Shanghai, November 6 (Reporter Jiang Yu) The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences-Shanghai Municipal People's Government Shanghai Research Institute released the first "Shanghai Open Development Report (2026)" blue book at the 9th International Import Expo Shanghai conference event on the 6th.

The Blue Book takes high-level institutional opening as its theme, focuses on Shanghai's institutional opening achievements in two-way investment, finance, trade and other fields, and puts forward prospects for Shanghai's expansion of opening up from a higher starting point.

On the 6th, the first blue book "Shanghai Open Development Report (2026)" was officially released. Photo by China News Service reporter Jiang Yu

Ma Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and secretary of the Party Committee of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said at the blue book release ceremony that Shanghai is a pioneer and demonstration area for the country’s system-based opening up, and it bears the strategic mission of testing the system for the country and exploring paths for opening up. Today, Shanghai is not only the executor of the national opening-up policy, but also the pioneer of institutional innovation and the exporter of experience. It is leaping from China's window to the outside world and a hub of resource gathering to the source of institutional innovation.

"Studying Shanghai's opening up is a vivid example of studying China's high-level opening up. Understanding Shanghai's institutional exploration can provide a deeper grasp of the direction and logic of China's opening up. The "Shanghai Opening Up and Development Report (2026)" blue book provides solid academic support for deepening research on institutional opening up." Ma Yuan said.

The blue book points out that Shanghai has initially formed a development trend of two-way connectivity between onshore and offshore, and a dynamic balance between openness and security. Research in various fields shows that: Shanghai's use of foreign capital is undergoing a profound transformation from scale expansion to structural optimization and quality improvement; the key to the construction of Shanghai's international financial center is to shift from "getting in" to "retaining, transferring, and managing well", and improving global resource allocation capabilities with stable and predictable institutional supply; digital trade and cross-border data flow are institutional. In the frontier areas of opening up, Shanghai's explorations in negative list management, stress testing of international rules, and cross-border system docking are of great pioneering significance; the construction of Shanghai's international business environment has moved from benchmarking international rules to participating in the supply of rules, and the CIIE has jumped from an open window to an institutional carrier, reflecting Shanghai's transformation into "actively providing institutions."

"Shanghai should focus on achieving new breakthroughs in the formulation of rules in emerging fields, cultivating open ecology, building international communication capabilities, hedging external risks, and transforming institutional achievements, so as to serve the national strategy with a higher level of institutional openness and win the initiative in international competition," the blue book said. (over)