General

In the first 11 months of this year, China's total import and export value of international trade in goods was 38.34 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6% over the same period last year, indicating that China's foreign trade has withstood multiple pressures and remained stable on the whole. But at the same time, it should be noted that the total import and export value of China's international trade in goods in the first 10 months of this year increased by 9.5% year on year, which means that the monthly growth rate of international trade imports and exports has slowed down. At the same time, the impact of the high base gradually emerged at the end of last year, and the stability of foreign trade faces new pressure.

It is gratifying that, with the continuous optimization and adjustment of the recent domestic epidemic prevention and control measures, enterprises in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guangdong and other major foreign trade provinces, with the help of the government, have gone abroad to meet customers, run orders and talk about business, releasing a positive signal to consolidate the basic foreign trade market.

Why is it important for China's economy to stabilize foreign trade?

On the one hand, foreign trade is one of the "troikas" that drive the economy. China's years of development practice shows that foreign trade plays an irreplaceable role in promoting economic growth, driving employment and income, improving people's welfare, improving market supply, etc. In China, the field of foreign trade brings together the most high-quality elements, the most innovative departments and the most competitive enterprises. Timely efforts to stabilize foreign trade will help enhance the linkage effect between domestic and international markets and resources, consolidate the basic market, inject new vitality and open up new space for China's high-quality economic development.

On the other hand, foreign trade is an important leading force in leading industrial upgrading. At present, China is in the climbing and upgrading stage in the global value chain, and relevant enterprises need to continue to improve in R&D design, brand marketing, supply chain management and other links. In this process, it is very important to improve the proportion of high-tech, high value-added products and services. To this end, China should especially adhere to the concept of open development, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with the domestic big cycle as the main body and the domestic and international double cycles mutually promoting each other, and drive the transformation of China's economy from scale speed growth to quality efficiency growth through foreign trade "from big to strong".

It must be noted that China's economy has been deeply integrated into the world, and its industrial association and interdependence with many countries in the world are relatively high. In the face of many uncertain and unstable factors in the development of foreign trade, major foreign trade provinces take the lead in stabilizing foreign trade at sea, which not only conveys China's firm determination to expand opening up, but also demonstrates China's positive attitude of striving to become a participant, cooperator and contributor to international trade.

In the process of building a new development pattern, only by improving the ability to allocate resources globally can we better smooth the double cycle and win the initiative in open development. Next, all parties should further form a "joint force" to stabilize foreign trade:

First, create a more open business environment. We will strengthen the construction of the integrity system of foreign trade enterprises, explore the establishment of a credit evaluation system for international trade import and export enterprises, and improve the punishment mechanism for breaking laws and breaking promises. Strengthen the construction of intellectual property protection and anti-monopoly system, and promote the innovation of intellectual property protection system. Further connect with the rules for the settlement of international commercial disputes and improve the internationalization of commercial dispute arbitration.

Second, we will enrich new forms of trade. Actively build a comprehensive pilot area for cross-border e-commerce, and form a batch of replicable and replicable experiences and practices. Promote the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone to take the lead in technical standards, business processes, regulatory models and information construction. We will support comprehensive foreign trade service enterprises to strengthen their capabilities in customs clearance, logistics, tax rebates, finance and other comprehensive services.

Third, vigorously develop digital trade. With the development of digital technology, international trade and even the global division of labor system are undergoing profound changes. All parties should promote the development of digital trade by cultivating trade subjects, strengthening rule docking, building digital trade demonstration zones, speeding up the construction of digital infrastructure, and promoting industrial digitalization and digital industrialization, so as to boost foreign trade to a higher level.

Today's China is both a "world factory" and a "world market", and the door to opening will only open wider and wider. It is reasonable to believe that with the efforts of all parties, China's foreign trade will become better and better, bringing more opportunities to partners from all countries.