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According to customs statistics, in the first half of this year, the total value of my country's import and export of goods trade was 19.8 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.4%. Among them, exports were 11.14 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.2%; imports were 8.66 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.8%... The "answer sheet" of foreign trade imports and exports in the first half of the year conveyed a positive signal of my country's continued economic recovery.

Helping enterprises to bail out and make practical moves to stabilize the basic foreign trade market

At the beginning of this year, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made arrangements for the economy, reform, ecology and other aspects, requiring efforts to complete the annual economic and social development goals and tasks. This year, it is proposed to "intensify the implementation of macro policies, stabilize the economic market" and "expand a high level of opening to the outside world, and promote the stable development of foreign trade and foreign investment".

"Stabilizing foreign trade is an important support for stabilizing the economy." Wei Jianguo, former vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce and vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said in an interview with the "Strong Observation" column of People's Daily Online that since the beginning of this year, faced with a severe and complex external environment In view of the new challenges brought about by the multi-point spread of the domestic epidemic, a series of policy measures that take into account the current situation and focus on the long-term have provided strong support for stabilizing the stable development of foreign trade.

In January, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Cross-Cycle Adjustment and Further Stabilizing Foreign Trade", proposing 15 policy measures from 4 aspects; The coverage of enterprises, strengthen export credit support, optimize foreign exchange services, speed up the progress of export tax rebates, and help foreign trade enterprises to stabilize orders and production; in May, the State Council executive meeting once again made arrangements to maintain stability and improve quality of foreign trade...

The implementation of a package of policies to stabilize foreign trade has been effective. Data show that in the first half of the year, the total value of my country's import and export of goods trade achieved positive year-on-year growth for eight consecutive quarters. In May, the import and export of foreign trade increased by 9.5% year-on-year, the growth rate was 9.4 percentage points higher than that in April, and the growth rate in June further increased to 14.3%.

"Such achievements have not come easily." Tu Xinquan, dean of the China Institute of World Trade Organization at the University of International Business and Economics, said that since March this year, local epidemics have occurred in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Northeast China. Uncertain factors such as rising commodity prices have increased, and foreign trade imports and exports have declined for a while. However, a series of policies and measures, such as tax reduction and fee reduction, strengthening of financial support, continuous optimization of the business environment, and intensification of energy and raw material supply and price stabilization, have continued to exert efforts, which have strongly supported the development of various market players. In particular, the cross-cycle adjustment was done well, and the small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises were supported to maintain orders and stabilize their expectations. The effect of the policy continued to show, which further stimulated the vitality of foreign trade market players.

China Unicom connects domestic and international markets to promote a higher level of opening to the outside world

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "No matter what changes take place in the world, China's confidence and will in reform and opening up will not be shaken."

In the first half of the year, my country's imports and exports to ASEAN, the European Union and the United States increased by 10.6%, 7.5% and 11.7% respectively. During the same period, my country’s imports and exports to countries along the “Belt and Road” and its regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP) trading partners increased by 17.8% and 5.6% respectively.

my country's "circle of friends" continues to expand. On January 1 this year, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) came into effect. Data show that in the first quarter of this year, my country's imports and exports to the other 14 RCEP member countries amounted to 2.86 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%, accounting for 30.4% of my country's total foreign trade value.

Positive progress has been made in the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road". Since the beginning of this year, my country has successively signed inter-governmental cooperation documents on the “Belt and Road” with Nicaragua, Syria and other countries;

"my country actively implements trade diversification strategies, the market layout is increasingly optimized, and the number of trading partners is increasing, which can not only improve the vitality and potential of our foreign trade, improve my country's ability to respond to global supply chains and market fluctuations, but also drive the economies of other countries. and trade development, and made positive contributions to the common development of the world economy." Tu Xinquan said.

my country continues to gain momentum for development from opening to the outside world, and it also provides more opportunities for the world in opening to the outside world.

On April 24, the 131st Canton Fair, which ended successfully in the "cloud", attracted 536,000 overseas buyers from 228 countries and regions to register to visit the exhibition, an increase of 41.8% over the previous session, and the number of buyers registered to visit the exhibition reached a record high; The preparations for the 5th China International Import Expo to be held in November are progressing smoothly, with more than 260 Fortune 500 and industry leading companies that have signed contracts.

"Interconnection continues to provide growth impetus for trade exchanges." Wei Jianguo told reporters that on the whole, the theme of the era of peace and development has not changed, and the general direction of economic globalization has not changed. In order to adapt to the new changes in the international and domestic situation and environment, China needs to further expand institutional openings such as rules, regulations, management, and standards while continuing to further promote the opening up of the flow of commodities and factors.

Cross-border e-commerce accelerates to expand new space for foreign trade development

This year's "Government Work Report" proposes to accelerate the development of new formats and models of foreign trade, give full play to the role of cross-border e-commerce, and support the construction of a number of overseas warehouses. In March, the Ministry of Commerce issued the "Notice on Making Good Use of the Service Trade Innovation and Development Guiding Fund to Support the Development of New Trade Formats and New Models". The "Administrative Measures for the Comprehensive Bonded Zone of the Customs of the People's Republic of China", which was officially implemented on April 1, clearly supports the development of new business forms and new models such as financial leasing, cross-border e-commerce, and futures bonded delivery.

In Wei Jianguo's view, new business formats and new models are a vital force in the development of my country's foreign trade and an important trend in the development of international trade.

In addition, focusing on industry pain points and common development issues, relevant ministries and commissions have also made a series of arrangements: the Ministry of Commerce and other three departments issued the "Notice on Supporting Foreign Economic and Trade Enterprises to Improve Exchange Rate Risk Management Capability", proposing to support banks in passing the electronic document review and other methods to simplify the settlement process and improve the efficiency of cross-border RMB settlement for new trade formats; the central bank issued the "Notice on Supporting Cross-border RMB Settlement in New Foreign Trade Formats", which clearly supports banks and payment institutions to better serve the development of new foreign trade formats.

Recently, Shandong, Fujian and other places have successively held cross-border e-commerce exhibitions to "build a platform" for upstream and downstream enterprises, provide opportunities for docking and cooperation, and promote local foreign trade enterprises to accelerate the development of cross-border e-commerce business. "New formats such as cross-border e-commerce break through the limitations of time and space, reduce the intermediate links of trade, and become a new starting point for the development of foreign trade." Wei Jianguo said.

Tu Xinquan said that the development of new formats such as cross-border e-commerce complies with the requirements of the global market to accelerate digital transformation. For my country's foreign trade, cross-border e-commerce is a new force and leader in promoting the digitization of traditional foreign trade.

"Cross-border e-commerce has greatly lowered the threshold for international trade specialization, enabling a large number of small and micro entities that cannot do, cannot do, or cannot do it to become operators of new types of trade." Vice Minister of Commerce Sheng Qiuping At present, more than 30,000 companies have registered on the online comprehensive service platform in the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone.