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International trade is one of the "three carriages" that drive economic growth and plays an important role in stabilizing the economy and promoting development. The Central Economic Work Conference made it clear that "we should make greater efforts to promote foreign trade to stabilize the scale and optimize the structure". Since the beginning of the new year, many innovative measures have been put forward from the central government to the local government, and have been deployed from the platform, finance, finance, business environment and other aspects, releasing a strong signal of stabilizing foreign trade.

The annual "two sessions" are about to start, and the foreign trade policy has attracted the attention of practitioners. They have put forward their vision for this year's NPC and CPPCC from their respective areas of concern, and expect the "carriage" of foreign trade to better drive the economy forward steadily in the new year.

Enhance policy supply and boost enterprise confidence

"At the current stage, the support and promotion of the government plays an important role in enhancing the confidence of enterprises." This is the common aspiration of foreign trade practitioners heard by the reporter in the interview.

Dong Fengli, Chairman of Shandong Enlai Industrial Co., Ltd., as a member of the Yantai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has long been concerned about foreign trade and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. "The international situation and the economic changes in the post-epidemic era have a huge impact on foreign trade enterprises. Although China's foreign trade has made a new breakthrough last year, the rising risk of global economic recession and the continued slowdown in the growth of foreign demand are still a severe test for China's foreign trade."

"The main contradiction in China's foreign trade sector has changed from the supply chain obstruction and the lack of contract fulfillment capacity last year to the current weakening of foreign demand and the decline of orders, which is an important change," said Li Xingqian, director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce.

Therefore, at the end of the year and at the beginning of the year, many local governments actively organized enterprises to "go to the sea in groups" to seize orders to increase the increment of international trade and help foreign trade run out of the "acceleration" of the opening year.

Dong Fengli said that since the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Commerce, the Department of Commerce of Shandong Province and the Yantai Municipal Bureau of Commerce have all issued some policies and measures that can help foreign trade enterprises, such as sending flight crews to participate in exhibitions overseas, helping enterprises expand the market and seize orders, and giving strong support to enterprises' overseas participation. At the same time, by building a foreign trade service platform, we can guide enterprises to carry out import and export business, open up international trade markets and channels, and promote the rapid development of foreign trade business.

For the upcoming two sessions of the National People's Congress, Dong Fengli hopes to pay more attention to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as strengthening credit support for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, expanding the coverage of export credit insurance, optimizing underwriting and claim settlement conditions, and deepening the pilot of trade foreign exchange revenue and expenditure facilitation.

Du Lin, vice chairman of Shandong Huaxin Industry and Trade Group, also said from the perspective of enterprises that in order to stabilize the basic situation of foreign trade and realize the continuous optimization of scale and structure, the government should continue to increase its support in tax rebate, financing and other policies, and provide financial support for enterprises with market potential. "At the same time, we also hope that the majority of foreign trade enterprises will build up confidence in development, and do their best to make large increments and achieve steady improvement while controlling risks according to policy guidelines."

Focus on cross-border e-commerce and create new advantages in foreign trade

In the global economy, taking the lead in getting out of the international trade affected by the epidemic has become a powerful engine of global economic recovery. The performance of digital trade is particularly prominent, and cross-border e-commerce has become a new force in the development of China's foreign trade.

According to the data, China's cross-border e-commerce import and export in 2022 will be 2.11 trillion yuan, up 9.8% year on year, 2.1 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of foreign trade.

On the eve of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, cross-border e-commerce has also received favorable policies. Shu Jueting, the spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a regular press conference recently that the Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote the construction of a comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zone, focusing on building a number of excellent pilot projects, cultivating a number of backbone enterprises, promoting a number of experience and practices, and accelerating international cooperation in the field of cross-border e-commerce.

Jiang Haoran, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hengyin Financial Technology Co., Ltd., was re-elected as a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. For the upcoming two sessions of the National People's Political Consultative Conference, he was very concerned about the issues of developing digital trade, accelerating the construction of a trade power, and making full use of digital means to tap the trade potential. This is also the field he has been conducting in-depth research in the past few years.

"Not long ago, I discussed cross-border trade, supply chain construction and other issues with leading domestic e-commerce enterprises such as Ali. In the survey, it was found that the current level of digitalization of international trade is becoming higher and higher, and cross-border e-commerce platforms and logistics warehousing have become a new type of cross-border trade digital infrastructure. Many experts and entrepreneurs also believe that digital infrastructure construction is increasingly becoming an important link in the development of the 'the Belt and Road', in order to improve the 'Belt and Road' The influence of Lu 'has brought more abundant kinetic energy. " Jiang Haoran said, however, there are still some problems in China's development of cross-border trade, such as the lack of international voice and the insufficient investment in cross-border logistics, which will affect the security and stability of the supply chain.

Based on this, Jiang Haoran submitted the Proposal on Improving the Digital Level of China's Cross-border Supply Chain this year, putting forward suggestions from three levels: at the strategic level, build a modern logistics network operation system of "channel+hub+network", build a global logistics and transportation network focusing on overseas warehouses and trunk transportation in key countries and regions, and promote the deep integration of digital technology and overseas infrastructure, Further reduce the cost of cross-border e-commerce logistics; Give full play to the big data and cloud computing function effects of Chinese enterprises and platforms from the rule level, promote trade compliance and facilitation, and improve the transparency of trade rules; Diversified subsidies, taxes and facilitation measures were introduced at the industrial level to support China's cross-border e-commerce platform "going global", and to copy China's valuable experience in digital trade regulation and innovation into overseas business expansion.

Ni Yi, deputy general manager of Foshan Port Customs Declaration Company, which is engaged in cross-border e-commerce business, believes that actively developing cross-border e-commerce, establishing public overseas warehouses and international marketing service platforms, etc., have an important role in the development of foreign trade.

She suggested that, centering on the new forms and models of international trade, we should strengthen the innovation of foreign trade services, focus on supporting the development of new forms of foreign trade such as overseas warehouses, deepen the construction of public warehouses, cultivate characteristic brands of overseas warehouses, give play to the role of public overseas warehouse service alliances, coordinate overseas warehouse resources, form scale effects, build a number of goods post stations, vigorously promote enterprises to enter or borrow warehouses, and support enterprises to steadily "go out".

In addition, Ni Yi also proposed to build or introduce an authoritative international marketing public service platform, build a comprehensive bonded area, create a higher level of open economy, and increase support for the establishment of professional importers and exporters associations.