For example, which sectors can be opened up and how tariffs should be reduced, these need to be discussed specifically, and opened up step by step over different time periods.
Of course, after a certain amount of time, once our domestic Agriculture reached modernization and was able to keep up with the international development trend of Agriculture, it would then be feasible to open up entirely...
Wang Ye said so much, essentially conveying one point, that this matter was open for discussion and could be liberalized, but it could not be achieved all at once; a certain buffering period was still needed!
This was, compared to before, a certain concession made.
After all, previously when the Government led the negotiations, they had been utterly uncompromising and extremely firm in their stance.
It wasn't that Wang Ye's stance was weaker, but rather because he had a plan in mind.