(Ninth China International Import Expo) World Openness Report: China’s overall level of openness continues to be at a historically high level

China News Service, Shanghai, November 5 (Reporter Yin Qianyun) The "World Openness Report 2026" released by the 9th Hongqiao International Economic Forum on the 5th showed that the world's openness has shown a complex pattern of "overall substantial tightening, internal differentiation intensification, and profound evolution of momentum." China's overall level of openness continues to be at a historically high level.

According to the report, the world openness index in 2025 was 0.7453, a year-on-year decrease of 1%, the largest decline since 2016. During the same period, the openness policy index and openness performance index fell by 1.09% and 0.9% respectively, and the two major indices fell at the same time.

In terms of areas, the economic openness index fell by 1.44% year-on-year, the lowest level since 1990; in terms of regions, 6 out of 7 regions have contracted in opening up, and Europe, Central Asia, and North America have tightened for two consecutive years; in terms of groups, the openness index of developed economies has declined, while that of emerging and developing economies has increased. Countries co-building the "Belt and Road" have bucked the trend and expanded their opening up, rising by 0.43%.

The report mentioned that countries are paying more attention to supply chain security and industrial resilience, and economic security has changed from an external constraint of opening up policies to a core factor affecting the direction of opening up. However, some areas have shown a tendency of "pan-security".

"Despite facing some obstacles and countercurrents, research shows that the support for world openness remains solid." Liao Fan, director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that the global economy still shows strong resilience in the context of rising trade tensions and policy uncertainty.

He also mentioned that against the backdrop of a significant tightening of the world's openness, China's relative ranking in openness has risen against the trend, and the overall level of openness continues to be at a historically high level.

The "World Openness Report" is the flagship report of the Hongqiao International Economic Forum. Since its first release in 2021, it has been released six times in a row.