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Gu Jun, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, introduced at the press conference held on January 29 that the import and export value of goods in Shanghai will reach 4.19 trillion yuan in 2022, an increase of 3.2% year on year. This year, Shanghai will implement the "optimization and upgrading of trade in goods" action, continue to make every effort to cultivate new competitive advantages in international trade, and promote the stability and quality of foreign trade.

"The import and export value of Shanghai in 2022 has once again set a new record. In the face of multiple rounds of epidemic impact, such achievements have not come easily, reflecting the strong resilience of Shanghai's foreign trade." Yao Weiqun, member of the Expert Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and executive director of the Strategic Research Institute of the Shanghai International Trade Center, said that in terms of exports, Shanghai can provide the international market with marketable rigid demand products, for example, Based on its strong international competitiveness and strong external demand, new energy and other industries will become the main driving force of Shanghai's export in 2022. Among them, the export of new energy vehicles was 83.99 billion yuan, up 130.1%; In terms of imports, Shanghai has a relatively high per capita income and strong consumption strength. With its strong consumption capacity and leading consumption awareness, Shanghai has become the largest distribution center of imported consumer goods in China and the preferred place for international brands to enter the Chinese market; In addition, the long-term accumulation of "headquarters economy" in Shanghai has also brought great benefits to the development of foreign trade.

At the press conference, the Shanghai Municipal Government issued the Action Plan for Promoting Confidence, Expanding Demand, Stabilizing Growth and Promoting Development, which proposed to implement the action of maintaining stability and improving quality of foreign trade. Specifically, it includes three items: first, support foreign trade enterprises to seize orders to expand the international trade market, organize foreign trade enterprises to participate in various domestic and foreign exhibitions, and amplify the spillover driving effect of import expositions. Second, give full play to the comprehensive effect of stabilizing foreign trade policies, cancel the registration of foreign trade operators as required by the state, and optimize the scope of special financial support for the development of national foreign trade and economic cooperation and high-quality development of Shanghai's commerce. Third, accelerate the development of new international trade and strive to create the first batch of "Silk Road e-commerce" cooperation pilot zones and national service trade innovation and development demonstration zones.

Gu Jun said that all efforts should be made to stabilize the basic market of foreign trade. Give full play to the superposition effect of fiscal and tax, financial insurance, logistics security and other policies and measures to promote the optimization and upgrading of goods trade. Focusing on key markets and industries and supported by key exhibitions, foreign trade enterprises are supported to seize orders, expand production capacity and increase share.

In the view of Yao Weiqun, in addition to helping enterprises grab orders in the short term, in the long term, to improve the new advantages of trade competition, we should also start from the following aspects. By combining trade and investment and actively "going out", Chinese enterprises can base on the overseas economic and trade cooperation park, focus on the whole industrial chain, improve the supply capacity of providing Chinese upstream products, especially intermediate products, to enterprises in the park, and build order receiving enterprises through direct investment and service outsourcing, while meeting the production and consumption needs of the host country and surrounding countries in the park, form a virtuous circle of China's export of intermediate products and import of final manufactured products, Promote the stability and quality of import and export trade; Continue to develop "headquarters economy", continue to improve the level of headquarters, attract more R&D centers and headquarters enterprises to settle and develop in Shanghai, and let more multinational companies regard Shanghai as the core link in their global industrial chain layout; The effective implementation of RCEP has brought development dividends for enterprises to carry out cross-border trade. RCEP should be implemented with high quality. At the same time, the application for joining the CPTPP should be taken as an opportunity to accelerate the docking of high-standard international economic and trade rules.

At the same time, Shanghai needs to accelerate the expansion of new trade. We will deepen the construction of a comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zone, gather and cultivate a number of overseas warehouse enterprise entities, and explore the establishment of an overseas warehouse comprehensive service platform. Improve the convenience of foreign exchange receipts and payments of offshore trade and expand the scale of offshore trade. A new group of international trade distribution center demonstration enterprises were evaluated to improve the level of international trade distribution business. Continue to expand the scale of bonded fuel oil filling enterprises.

In addition, in terms of optimizing the business environment of cross-border trade, Gu Jun said that Shanghai will play the role of key foreign trade regions such as the national import trade promotion innovation demonstration zone and the foreign trade transformation and upgrading base to improve the level of public services in the field of foreign trade. Implement the implementation opinions on comprehensively promoting the digital transformation of ports, promote the iterative construction of "single window" in Shanghai's international trade, and build a new model of "single window" service. Benchmark the highest standard and the best level, promote the implementation of a new batch of cross-border trade facilitation measures, and continue to optimize the business environment of cross-border trade.