According to CCTV News, on December 1, Premier Li Qiang presided over an executive meeting to listen to the report on the comprehensive supervision of promoting high-quality development, study and clarify several measures to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, discuss the "Mineral Resources Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised Draft)", and study the work related to the industrialization of biological breeding.
The meeting fully affirmed the positive results of the comprehensive supervision work of promoting high-quality development, and pointed out that the problems found in the inspection reflected the urgency and anxiety of the enterprise masses and the blocking points and difficulties in the promotion of work. It is necessary to focus on promoting high-quality development, urge relevant parties to do a good job of rectifying the problems found in the supervision one by one, and draw inferences from one case to improve relevant work.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to optimize the environment for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, implement relevant fiscal and financial support policies, and jointly promote the high-quality development of domestic and foreign trade.
The meeting discussed and adopted in principle the "Mineral Resources Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised Draft)" and decided to submit the revised draft to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the exploration and development of reserves and production, deepen international cooperation, strengthen the construction of the reserve system, and consolidate the foundation for the guarantee of mineral resources. It is necessary to vigorously carry out technological and equipment innovation, promote the green and intelligent development of the industry, and enhance the resilience and competitiveness of the mineral resources industry chain.
The meeting listened to the report on the industrialization of biological breeding, and emphasized the need to further refine and improve the relevant measures, and promote the relevant work in a prudent and orderly manner under the premise of strict supervision and strict risk control.
Accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade
The meeting studied and clarified a number of measures to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade.
The meeting pointed out that accelerating the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade is an inherent requirement for building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development. Specifically:
It is necessary to benchmark against the international advanced level, accelerate the adjustment and improvement of relevant domestic rules, regulations, management, standards, etc., promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade standards, inspection and certification, and supervision, and promote the same line, same standard and same quality of domestic and foreign trade products.
It is necessary to focus on the needs of enterprises and market feedback, optimize policies in a timely manner, effectively break through the key blocking points that hinder the integration of domestic and foreign trade, and help enterprises switch smoothly between domestic and international markets.
It is necessary to optimize the environment for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, implement relevant fiscal and financial support policies, and jointly promote the high-quality development of domestic and foreign trade.
Huang Qifan, former mayor of Chongqing, once said that after decades of reform and opening up, China has shifted from the past factor flow-based opening up to a steady expansion of regulations, rules, standards and other institutional opening-up. Through high-level opening-up, China's super-large-scale single market will become a powerful gravitational field for the allocation of global factor resources, which requires the creation of a market-oriented and law-based business environment. Specifically, on the one hand, it is necessary to integrate domestic and foreign trade, realize the same line, the same standard, and the same responsibility, promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade industrial chains and chains, rely on open platforms to carry out pilot projects for the integration of domestic and foreign trade, create a platform for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, and support the construction of one-stop solutions for domestic and foreign trade. On the other hand, it is necessary to further expand market access around the long-standing shortcomings of China's opening up to the outside world.
Continue to optimize the integrated development environment of domestic and foreign trade.
In recent years, China's domestic and foreign trade integration has made great progress, but there are also problems such as the imperfect regulation and control system, the ability to make overall use of the two markets and two resources is not strong enough, and the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade is not smooth enough, which cannot fully meet the needs of building a new development pattern.
Wang Guang, an assistant researcher at the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences and the Research Center for Finance and National Governance, said that from a direct point of view, the problems in the current process of domestic and foreign trade integration are relatively concentrated in the "inconsistent treatment of domestic and foreign trade policies", "inconsistent market access standards", "non-docking of certification and accreditation systems" and "imperfect infrastructure structure layout". In essence, these problems in the process of domestic and foreign trade integration are closely related to the perfection of the market economy system.
In recent years, the environment for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade has been continuously optimized. In January 2022, the General Office of the People's Republic of China issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Domestic and Foreign Trade" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), proposing that by 2025, the convergence of domestic and foreign trade laws and regulations, regulatory system, business qualifications, quality standards, inspection and quarantine, certification and accreditation will be more effective, and the overall requirements for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade of market entities will be further improved.
Subsequently, 14 departments including the Ministry of Commerce issued the Notice on Carrying out the Pilot of Domestic and Foreign Trade Integration in May 2022, deciding to carry out the pilot of domestic and foreign trade integration in some regions. Since 2023, Shanghai, Suzhou and other places have issued pilot implementation plans to promote the integration of domestic and foreign trade.
In May 2023, the second plenary meeting of the inter-ministerial working mechanism for promoting the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade was held in Beijing. The meeting required that all member units focus on promoting the convergence of domestic and foreign trade system rules, improving the ability of integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, and optimizing the development environment of domestic and foreign trade integration.
Wang Guang believes that speeding up the building of a high-level socialist market economic system and providing a good institutional environment for the integration of domestic and foreign trade is the most fundamental guarantee. Correctly handling the relationship between the market and the market, promoting the better combination of the effective market and the promising, giving full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, and better playing the role of the market is the path to achieve. Accelerating the construction of a unified national market, promoting the full and smooth flow of the domestic cycle, and creating a market-oriented, law-based, and international business environment are the realization scenarios.