On the morning of 7 November 2026, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) held a roundtable discussion entitled “The 25th Anniversary of China’s Accession to the WTO and the Future of the Global Trading System” in Beijing’s administrative center.
Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of CCG, delivered the opening remarks.
The keynote addresses featured Pascal Lamy, Coordinator of the Jacques Delors Think Tank Network, Vice-President of the Paris Peace Forum, and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO),
and Arancha González, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain and Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po.
Huang Rengang, Vice-President and Secretary-General of the China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, also addressed the gathering.
The roundtable discussion was moderated by Mabel Lu Miao, Co-founder and Secretary-General of CCG.
Other participants included Xu Shanda, former Deputy Commissioner of the State Administration of Taxation; Sun Yongfu, former Director-General of the Department of European Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce; Wang Zhi, Founding Dean of the Institute of Global Value Chains at the University of International Business and Economics; Ma Jun, Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs; Li Jiangtao, Level I Division Rank Official in the Department of WTO Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce of China; Selçuk Ünal, Ambassador of Türkiye to China; Robert Lee, Ambassador of Fiji to China; and Timothy Stratford, former Assistant United States Trade Representative.
Representatives from relevant Chinese government departments, foreign diplomatic missions in China, research institutions and businesses also attended.
During the event, Lamy, González and other guests visited the Beijing “Two Zones” Exhibition and Reception Center. The “Two Zones” refer to the National Comprehensive Demonstration Zone for Expanding Opening-up in the Service Sector and the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
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