On September 12, 2024, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS).

Xi Jinping pointed out that the CIFTIS, having been successfully held for ten years, is a vivid portrayal of the high-quality development of China's service industry and service trade, making positive contributions to the building of an open world economy. China will keep promoting high-quality development via high-standard opening-up, improve institutions and mechanisms for high-standard opening up, innovate and upgrade trade in services, actively align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, promote interoperability and compatibility of rules, regulations, management and standards in the service sector, open its service market wider to the outside world in an orderly manner, enhance the functions of the service sector and service trade as platforms of opening up, and forge a world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized. China is ready to work with all countries in the world to jointly share opportunities, discuss cooperation and promote development in line with the general trend of economic globalization, to contribute to promoting global economic growth and the well-being of the people of all countries.

Co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, the 2024 CIFTIS, themed "Global Services, Shared Prosperity", kicked off in Beijing on the same day.