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Haixi: Take multiple measures to promote high-quality development of foreign trade economy! Since the beginning of this year, our state has continuously expanded its foreign trade scale, expanded its international market, promoted industrial development, and cultivated new forms of foreign trade, fully stimulating market vitality and social creativity, continuously optimizing the business environment in the field of commerce, and promoting high-quality development of the foreign trade economy.

Improve the service contact system for key foreign trade enterprises, carry out special actions to provide precise services to foreign trade enterprises, implement comprehensive coverage, classification, visit and research services for relevant key enterprises in the state, strengthen the analysis of the operation of key foreign trade enterprises, understand the current status of orders and production operations of enterprises, timely collect enterprise demands and suggestions, establish customized service plans for "one enterprise, one policy", and continuously optimize the development environment of foreign trade economy. In the first quarter, the total import and export volume of the entire state was 150 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.3 times. Foreign trade import and export started steadily, and the overall development trend was stable and positive.

Promote foreign trade enterprises to carry out technological innovation, product and management system certification, and independent brand construction, enhance product brand added value, support key foreign trade enterprises to introduce advanced foreign technology and equipment through new projects, technological transformation, and other methods, improve product technology content, enhance product competitiveness, implement brand strategy, encourage enterprises to expand the export of independent brand products, strengthen management system certification and product certification construction. Among the key foreign trade enterprises under the jurisdiction of the state, 13 enterprises such as goji berries, quinoa, and salt lake chemical have completed various product certifications and established 3 direct sales stores for imported goods. In the first quarter, the import and export values to major trading partners such as ASEAN, Japan, Africa, the European Union, and New Zealand were 44.268 million yuan, 41.59 million yuan, 31.101 million yuan, 7.27 million yuan, and 3.9 million yuan, respectively.

The relevant departments fully play the role of policy guidance, guiding enterprises to make full use of the latest national preferential policies for enterprises and various foreign trade support policies, guiding enterprises to concentrate their advantages, become bigger and stronger, and turn policy dividends into tangible driving forces for foreign trade economic growth. They have applied for 16 special fund projects for foreign trade development in 2023, provided export credit insurance for 10 foreign trade enterprises, with a total insured amount of 4.38 million US dollars, and effectively reduced enterprise operating costs. In the first quarter, the export volume of industrial products from Haixi Prefecture increased by 44.4%.

Organize foreign economic and trade enterprises to participate in a series of activities such as the International Consumer Goods Expo, International Trade Online Matchmaking Conference, Central and Eastern Europe Expo, Western China International Trade and Investment Fair, Kazakhstan China Commodity Exhibition, etc., encourage enterprises to explore the market, and closely cultivate key industries and products such as salt lake chemical industry and asbestos. Actively apply for provincial-level foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases such as soda ash and asbestos, Promote the opening up of our state's foreign trade economy to the outside world at a higher level through platform construction. (Translated from: Chaidamu Daily Reporter: Sonan Jiangcuo Correspondent: Wang Zhi)