Despite the multiple external and internal headwinds such as geopolitical tensions, the pandemic, and the pressure from some US politicians to decouple from China, experts and business leaders expect China to continue to attract foreign investment in the future, as its supersized domestic market continues to expand while its importance in the global industry and supply chains keeps increasing amid its steady economic upgrading and high-level opening-up.

尽管存在地缘政治紧张局势、疫情以及一些美国政客要求与中国脱钩的压力等多重内外阻力，但专家和商界领袖预计，中国未来将继续吸引外国投资，随着其超大规模的国内市场不断扩大，同时在全球产业和供应链中的重要性不断增加，经济稳步升级和高水平开放。

China hopes the US will take concrete steps and deliver on its assurance that it will not seek to contain or suppress China's development or to decouple from the country, as a stable and growing China is good for the US and the whole world, Shu said.

China hoped that the US would deliver on its commitments that the US does not seek to contain or suppress China's development or to decouple with China as a stable and growing China is good for the US and the whole world, Shu said.

He stressed that China's new development paradigm — in which the domestic market is the mainstay and the domestic and international markets reinforce each other — does not mean China seeks to decouple with the rest of the world.

The BRI does not target any party or seek to form cliques, nor does it attempt to decouple or sever supply chains, Wang said, adding that it pursues the common development of humanity instead, with great vitality and influence.

Accordingly, these political elites have begun to restrict and hinder such cross-border capital inflows through "trumped-up charges" on normal investment and trade activities, which clearly run counter to US statements that it does not want to "decouple" from China.

Despite multiple assurances from the US that they don't intend to decouple from China, Wang expressed the hope that concrete actions would align with these statements.

The US side said it does not seek to decouple from China, and that decoupling the world's top two economies would be disastrous for both countries and would bring instability to the world.

Wei Jianguo, former vice-minister of commerce, said that during the trip, Yellen emphasized that the US does not seek to decouple from China, which is in line with Washington's recent shift in rhetoric from "decoupling" to "de-risking" in key supply chains.

"The situation of slower growth in trade would be made far worse if the world were to decouple or fragment," she said, calling for avoiding trade decoupling, creating resilient global supply chains, relieving the supply-chain tensions caused by the pandemic and regional conflicts, and fully leverage the opportunities for trade growth brought by digital services.

"If we decouple into two trading blocs, it will cost the world a 5 percent loss in global GDP in the longer term.

"If we decouple into two trading blocks, it will cost the world a 5 percent loss in global GDP in the longer term.

"What we have to recognize is that if we decouple, de-risk, separate ourselves from China and Asia, we will be the ones that lose out.

She called on the US and other members of the Group of Seven to deliver on their commitment to not decouple from China, which they made in a joint statement released at the just-concluded G7 Summit.

China has called on the Group of Seven not to abuse trade and investment restrictions and deliver on their commitments to not decouple from China, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.

He said China's commitment to speeding up the modernization of its industrial system would also motivate both exporters and foreign-funded companies to invest more in innovation and production capacity, despite the US' attempts to decouple in key supply chain areas.

"Ueda Toshihiro, vice-president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in China, said: "For Japanese multinationals, it is impossible to decouple from China as many of its supply chains have been established for three to four decades.

In response, Baerbock said Germany is not willing to decouple from China as trade between China and Germany had increased almost 50 fold since the end of the Cold War.

Citing official trade data from the US side, Wang Yiming, vice-chairman of the CCIEE, said despite the US efforts to decouple from China, the two countries' economic ties remain resilient.

By going after their own selfish interests and undermining the international economic order, some countries attempt to take advantage of their strengths to decouple, damage industrial chains and adopt a "small yards with high walls" strategy.

"With that, we will not only stabilize FDI, but also offset disruption to China's industrial and supply chains from factors such as the United States' attempts to decouple.

"The Chinese economy is too big to decouple from completely," Juergen Matthes, an expert at the German Economic Institute, said earlier last month.

He said it is difficult for Europe to decouple from China, as that means decoupling from the rest of Asia as well as the rest of the world that has the resources Europe needs.

Bai Ming, deputy director of international market research at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said: "The remarks send a strong message that the world is a community where all countries need to cooperate rather than decouple from one another.

According to Liu, such integration has become necessary amid shrinking international demand, decreasing stability of the global supply of energy and resources, and attempts of some economies to decouple from China.

As for Sino-US relations, there are many overlapping interests between the two countries, and it is impossible to decouple in many areas.

China should create a situation where the US cannot decouple with it due to common interests, through comprehensively deepening reform as well as by expanding all-around opening-up in science and technology, industry and finance.

"The Chinese leadership is not only focusing on growth, they're also looking at the quality of growth, it needs to decouple from growth in CO2 emissions, it also has to be more inclusive, it has to trickle down to the regions, to the periphery, and it also needs to create jobs for the young and its more and more educated population," Brende said.

Regarding supply-chain cooperation among BRICS countries, Wang pointed out that some countries' attempts to decouple from others, sever supply chains and build "a small yard with high fences" have seriously affected the security and stability of the global supply chain and hindered the recovery of the global economy.

Wang Peng, a researcher at Huazhong University of Science and Technology's Institute for State Governance, said the US administration's attempts to decouple the two economies harm US consumers and enterprises, and US importers and consumers have absorbed most of the additional costs resulting from the additional tariffs on Chinese products.

"Those who say we should decouple could lead us to conflict, which would be very dangerous.

Since 2015, a number of national-level regulations have been issued to streamline business administration, decouple business licenses and operation permits, and shift the registration process for some into record filing.

In its article "US-China investment flows belie geopolitical tensions", the FT said that "data show efforts by former US President Donald Trump's administration to decouple the Chinese and US economies have fallen apart.

In response to some people's argument that China is decoupling from the world, Gao said China does not intend, nor is it possible, to decouple from the world.

China is a faithful advocate of multilateralism and firmly supports globalization, Zhang said, adding it's impossible for the nation to decouple from the world, because China is indispensable to global industrial and supply chains and vice versa.

As such, the question is whether it will be possible for the US or other countries to decouple from China－even if they want to.

This is part of Washington's efforts to decouple from and restrict China in the new energy vehicle and related supply chains, and will likely drag down the speed of the United States' own energy transformation, they added.

"However, behind the decision is Washington's efforts to decouple from China and restrict the country's rise in electric vehicle supply chains, as seen by the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that was approved last year, Mo said.

SHOWING GREAT RESILIENCEPressurized by some nations' push to decouple and sever supply chains under the pretext of security and impose trade restriction measures in the name of "de-risking," China's manufacturing industry has maintained resilience and made advancement through persistent technological innovation, continuing to provide diverse and affordable products and services to consumers around the globe.

Ueda Toshihiro, vice-president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in China, said, "For Japanese multinationals, it is impossible to decouple from China as many of its supply chains have been established for three to four decades.

"Any attempt to decouple from China is infeasible," Pan said.

Despite rising calls from US officials to decouple from China, Huang Qifan, former mayor of Chongqing, emphasized that such an undertaking could never succeed.

Nation aims to be better contributor to solving global challenges, experts sayChina's pursuit of self-reliance and strength in science and technology does not mean it will decouple from the world, experts said, adding that the goal is to turn the country into a more capable and innovative contributor when tackling global challenges with the international community.

However, some Western experts speculated that China's emphasis on becoming more self-reliant in science and technology indicates the country is trying to decouple from the world to become more resilient to deal with external uncertainties and influences.

Yu Jihong, a noted chemist and professor at Jilin University, said China's pursuit of self-reliance and strength in science and technology does not mean it will decouple from the world.

"It would be very damaging if Germany or the EU wanted to decouple from China," he said.

Does the United States really want to decouple from China in the financial industry?

The US administration's recent actions against short video-sharing app TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, the tightening regulatory scrutiny of Chinese companies listed in the US, and some news of individual companies delisting from the US stock market, have all boosted discussions on the reported US initiative to decouple from China in the financial services sector.

Such actions were not to decouple from China's financial sector but to suppress Chinese companies that pose a challenge to US competitors.

She said the US seeks to diversify, not to decouple, adding that decoupling of the world's two largest economies would be destabilizing for the global economy.