Wei Jianguo said that the essence of the Sino -US trade war is that the United States wants to defeat China. The fundamental reason is that the United States is unwilling to accept China as a rising country as a rising country, and is unwilling to accept a new Sino -US -type relationship proposed by China.

Wei Jianguo, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China, predicts that the Sino -US economic and trade war will last 30 or even 50 years.He said that the essence of the Sino -US trade war is that the United States wants to defeat China. The root cause is that the United States is unwilling to accept China as a rising country as a rising country, and is unwilling to accept the relationship between China and the United States proposed by China.

On the occasion of the Sino -US trade war, the China International Economic Exchange Center, known as China's highest level think tank, invited eight former senior officials of China and the president of the three industry associations yesterday.Explain his views on the Sino -US trade war.

Wei Jianguo said at the meeting that the United States has begun to curb China in an all -round way, from trade and technical curbs to comprehensive curbs. He said that this may be the biggest strategic misjudgment made since the founding of the United States: a wrong time at the wrong time, a wrong time was wrong.War selected the wrong object.

He said that China has no intention of challenging the status of the US global hegemon. China's ultimate goal is to completely get rid of the humiliation in modern history of the Chinese nation and realize the yearning and dream of the Chinese people for a better life.At the current simplicity of China to develop and live a good life: Who is our biggest obstacle?

He said that the United States regards the forbearance of China to seek solutions and properly handle the contradictions between China and the United States as a bullion, from the intensified tariffs, to the fierce speeches of Vice President, to the suppression of high -tech companies such as Huawei.In the core interests, even more, the United States wants to achieve dangerous purposes and proposes the so -called civilized conflict theory and ideological conflict theory.

Zhou Wenzhong, a former ambassador to the United States, said that the most fundamental question between China and the United States is whether the United States is willing to recognize and accept the development of a socialist China.

He said that China strives to solve problems in the economic and trade relations between the two countries in the form of negotiations, but also alert to some people want to expand economic and trade disputes to scientific and technological exchanges and regional security, especially Taiwan, South China, etc.And measures and make necessary reactions.

Wei Jianguo said that the United States has fallen into a strange circle that cannot be extracted, and will go further and further on the wrong road: we must come up and drink, and now it is a cliff, and it is the shore.He warned: China's Anti -Japanese War and the Korean War, in the end, all the people who stirred up the war failed. We were passive and unwilling to fight.

Dai Xianglong: It is difficult to achieve major progress in the first Japanese meeting in China and the United States

Dai Xianglong, the former president of the People's Bank of China, also called on the long -term, comprehensiveness and severity of the Sino -US trade war.

He said that after the United States further raised its tariffs, it also suppressed Chinese technology companies, prohibited Chinese and American science and technology exchanges, and prohibited Chinese students from studying in the United States. In the future, there are still new measures.Although US President Trump has challenged the trade war, although it is opposed by some US officials, experts, entrepreneurs, and farmers, it is difficult to correct in the short term.He predicts that the Japan -US dollar meeting at the end of next month is difficult to make significant progress.

Two weeks ago, the United States announced that it would impose tariffs on US $ 200 billion (S $ 274 billion), and China is also going to increase tariffs on US $ 60 billion in goods imported from the United States from today.

Dai Xianglong said that China is very calm, and countermeasures are limited, but it does not rule out greater countermeasures.

Ma Xiuhong, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the trade war slowed down the speed of Chinese tourists traveling to the United States. Last year, the number of tourists in the United States fell by 5.7%, and this year will continue to decline.

When it comes to the challenge of the trade war to the Chinese economy, the senior officials and industry associations before the meeting unanimously insisted that China has the ability to deal with it.

Dai Xianglong said that China's macroeconomics remain in a reasonable range, with sufficient foreign exchange reserves balance and lower government debt, which can prevent and resolve possible financial risks.

In terms of maintaining the stability of the stock market, he said that although the United States suddenly caused the stock market to fluctuate, the Chinese stock market had only 13.14 times the price -earnings ratio, and the average net asset yield of listed companies was 8%.For long -term funds such as the fund and other society, the Chinese stock market will be able to maintain more than 3,000 points in the future.

Regarding the RMB exchange rate in the Sino -US economic and trade war, he reiterated that China will still adhere to the stability of the RMB exchange rate when the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the global financial crisis in 2008.

Zeng Peiyan, the chairman of the China International Economic Exchange Center and former Vice Premier of the State Council, reiterated the three core concerns of China yesterday.He said that although Sino -US relations can't go back to the past, they can be selected in the future.He urged the United States to return to rationality, and had the sincerity of solving the problem, and returned to the road of rational negotiation as soon as possible.