省委、省政府提出,要进一步推进全方位、多层次、宽领域的对外开放,在提高参与国际经济贸易竞争能力上实现重大突破。今后一个时期我省外事工作的重点就是紧紧围绕省委、省政府的这一总体要求和部署,适应我国加入世贸组织后的新形势,努力为我省改革开放和经济建设服务。一、正确认识我国加入世贸组织后对外开放面临的新形势。努力提高地方外事工作水平加入世贸组织标志着我国对外开放进入了新的阶段。我们要看到新阶段对外开放呈现的新特征:一是由有限范围和有限领域的开放转变为全方位的开放;二是由以试点为特征的政策主导下的开放转变为法律框架下可预见的开放;三是由单方面为主的自我开放转变为与世贸组织成员之间的相互开放;四是由自我保护色彩比较浓的开放转变为平等竞争的开放。这些新的特征,对我们的外事工作提出了一系列亟待解决的问题。首先,地方外事工作必须积极跟进扩大了的服务领域和范围。地方外事部门不仅要在职能范围内,对现行的工作手 The provincial party committee and the provincial government proposed to further promote all-round, multi-level, and wide-ranging opening up to the outside world and achieve major breakthroughs in enhancing the ability to participate in international economic and trade competition. In the coming period, the focus of our province’s foreign affairs work will be on this overall requirement and deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, adapt to the new situation after China’s accession to the WTO, and strive to serve the province’s reform, opening up, and economic construction. I. Correctly understand the new situation facing the opening to the outside world after China’s accession to the WTO. Efforts to Improve the Level of Local Foreign Affairs The entry into the WTO indicates that China has entered a new stage of opening up to the outside world. We need to see the new features of opening up to the outside world in the new phase: First, it will be transformed from openness in a limited scope and limited areas to full-scale opening; second, it will be transformed from opening under policy-oriented policy to predictable under the legal framework. The third is to change from one-sided self-opening to mutual openness with WTO members; fourth is to turn from self-protection to more open and more open to equal competition. These new features raise a series of issues that need to be solved urgently for our foreign affairs. First, local foreign affairs must actively follow up with the expanded service areas and scope. The local foreign affairs department not only has to work within the scope of its functions, but also