General

2022 is an extraordinary and extraordinary year. It is a year of carrying forward the past and opening up a new journey.   New breakthroughs have been achieved in multilateral and bilateral cooperation... The business operation has made steady progress, and the high-quality development of the business cause is booming.

2023 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and an important year for epidemic prevention and control to enter a new stage. We may face a more complex and volatile international environment and shoulder a more arduous task of domestic reform and development. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) painted a grand blueprint for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and the Central Economic Work Conference guided the economic work in 2023. The National Business Work Teleconference fully implemented the spirit and deployment of the Twentieth National Congress of the CPC and the Central Economic Work Conference, providing an action guide for the next step of the national business work.

International trade has developed steadily! High-quality development is the bright theme of business work in the new era. To build a modern socialist country in all respects, we must, first and foremost, pursue high-quality development. The National Business Work Teleconference repeatedly stressed the need to "promote high-quality business development". Therefore, we should first adhere to the principle of stability. Under the new situation of epidemic prevention and control, the domestic circulation should be unblocked, and the market should be strengthened to ensure supply and price stability; We should make greater efforts to promote the stable scale and growth of foreign trade; More efforts should be made to stabilize foreign investment and stock. Secondly, we should make progress while maintaining stability. "Progress" should not only reflect the growth of quantity, but also the improvement of quality. To this end, business work should not only tap the potential to expand domestic demand, promote consumption, optimize the trade structure, improve the quality and efficiency of attracting investment, cultivate new growth points of international economic and trade cooperation, but also implement the overall national security concept, better coordinate business development and security, enhance the ability to dynamically maintain national economic security in an open environment, and prevent and resolve risks in the field of business.

International trade has developed steadily! Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is the proper meaning of business work in the new era. Business work connects domestic and foreign, urban and rural areas, and production and marketing. It is an important part of the domestic big cycle, an important hub connecting domestic and international double cycles, and plays an important role in building a new development pattern. The National Business Work Teleconference stressed the need to achieve the organic unity of domestic and international circulation. On the one hand, the business work in the new era should draw on the external circulation through the internal circulation, rely on the advantages of the super-scale market to attract the global resource elements, and build the new advantages of China's participation in international economic cooperation and competition; On the other hand, we should promote the internal circulation by improving the quality and level of the external circulation, further expand the scale and optimize the structure of the international circulation of trade, investment, talent, technology and energy resources, actively deepen the reform of relevant domestic fields in accordance with relevant international rules, regulations, management and standards, improve the efficiency and level of the domestic circulation in participating in the international circulation, and realize the smooth connection of the internal and external circulation.

International trade has developed steadily! The strategy of expanding domestic demand should be given priority to business work in the new era. The National Business Work Teleconference firmly implemented the "focus on expanding domestic demand and give priority to the recovery and expansion of consumption" proposed by the Central Economic Work Conference. As an important part of the domestic cycle, business work should focus on promoting the sustainable recovery of consumption, further improving the energy level of traditional consumption, accelerating the development of new consumption, and well running consumption promotion activities; Make up for the shortage of urban and rural circulation and develop new business forms, new models and new scenarios of circulation; Accelerate the construction of a modern circulation system, accelerate the construction of a high-standard modern commercial circulation network that connects production and marketing, connects urban and rural areas, and connects inside and outside; Improve cross-border logistics capabilities and promote better connectivity between domestic and foreign markets. At the same time, we should continue to play the supporting role of exports in the domestic economy, actively expand the import of advanced technologies, important equipment, energy resources and other products, create effective demand through high-quality supply, support the expansion of domestic demand in various ways and channels, promote consumption upgrading, and strengthen the fundamental role of consumption in economic development.

Promoting high-level openness is the only way for business work in the new era. The business system will thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, adhere to the promotion of high-level opening up, steadily expand the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management, standards and other systems, and comprehensively improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation.

——Accelerate the pace of building a powerful trading country. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that we should promote the optimization and upgrading of trade in goods, innovate the development mechanism of trade in services, develop digital trade, and accelerate the construction of a trade power. The National Business Work Teleconference proposed to make greater efforts to stabilize the scale and optimize the structure of foreign trade. To this end, the business system should work hard to promote the optimization and upgrading of goods trade, optimize the trade structure, and accelerate the development of new trade formats; Promote the innovative development of service trade, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of service outsourcing, and innovate the development mechanism of service trade; Accelerate the development of digital trade, establish and improve promotion policies, actively participate in the formulation of international rules and standards, and create a "new engine" for building a powerful trade country; We will optimize the trade promotion platform, give full play to the platform role of the Import and Export Fair, the Canton Fair, the Service Trade Fair, the Consumer Trade Fair, and the International Trade Fair, and build a national import trade promotion and innovation demonstration zone.

——Improve the quality and level of foreign capital utilization. The Central Economic Work Conference stressed the need to promote high-level opening-up and improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation. The National Business Work Teleconference proposed to make greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign capital. To this end, the business system should continue to expand market access and strengthen the opening of the modern service industry; Continue to reasonably reduce the negative list of foreign investment access; We should implement the Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment and encourage more foreign investment to invest in high-end manufacturing, high-tech, traditional manufacturing transformation and upgrading, modern services and other fields; Implement the upgrading strategy of the pilot free trade zone and accelerate the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port; Promote the implementation and construction of foreign capital landmark projects, and attach importance to attracting foreign small and medium-sized enterprises to invest in China; Protect the rights and interests of foreign investors in accordance with the law, and create a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class business environment.

——We will continue to deepen international trade and economic cooperation. We should continue to innovate the way of foreign investment and cooperation, build high-quality overseas economic and trade cooperation zones, and promote the construction of a mutually beneficial and win-win industrial chain supply chain cooperation system; Deeply participate in the global industrial division and cooperation, and maintain the diversified and stable international economic pattern and economic and trade relations; Promote the joint construction of high-quality development of the "the Belt and Road"; Continue to promote bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation, deeply participate in multilateral and regional cooperation mechanisms, and actively promote the accession to high-level economic and trade agreements; We will expand the network of high-standard free trade areas facing the world, expand mutual benefit and win-win results, and promote the construction of an open world economy.

International trade has developed steadily! The major policy has been set and the bugle of charge has sounded. Although there are still thorns and rapids ahead, inspired by the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the business man, John, has more confidence and courage to work together and forge ahead. We will start again and forge ahead.