Focus on building a strong domestic market.
Vigorously promote the consistency of domestic and international standards.
Strengthen international coordination and cooperation.
Cultivating business entities, building docking platforms, promoting industrial integration, and carrying out pilot projects for the integration of domestic and foreign trade have been highlighted for a year. From Zhejiang to cultivate a total of 827 leading enterprises in the integration of domestic and foreign trade, to Jiangsu to determine the first-class, production-type, platform-type three categories of 175 pilot units of domestic and foreign trade integration to strengthen the cultivation of tracking services, the pilot areas through the promotion of reform and innovation in key areas, important links, is forming a number of replicable and generalizable experience and models.
Since 2023, 14 departments, including the Ministry of Commerce, have carried out pilot projects for the integration of domestic and foreign trade in 9 regions, including Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. Focusing on the pilot objectives, the pilot areas have the courage to innovate and practice boldly, and have achieved initial results, which have played a good role in promoting the improvement of the integrated regulation and control system of domestic and foreign trade and the promotion of domestic and foreign trade integration. In the first 10 months of 2023, the number of domestic and foreign trade integrated enterprises in China's industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 4 percent year-on-year7%。More and more enterprises realize that the integrated operation of domestic and foreign trade is an important means to make good use of the two markets and two resources, respond to market risks, and expand development space.
At present, enterprises still face some obstacles when switching between domestic and foreign markets, and the ability to integrate domestic and foreign trade needs to be further improved. Whether it is a foreign trade enterprise to expand the domestic market, or a domestic trade enterprise to expand the international market, in the face of a new market environment, to find customers to expand channels, for most enterprises have certain risks and challenges. For example, the size of clothing exported to Europe and the United States is different from the domestic standard, and the style is also different from the domestic market demandThe transfer of some export products to domestic sales often involves brand trademark issues, which need to be authorized by foreign parties;Some foreign trade enterprises have been producing according to orders for a long time, lack of domestic marketing experience and professional teams, and their brand recognition is not highWait a minute. To solve these problems, it is necessary to further improve the institutional design at the national level, and at the same time encourage local governments to actively carry out institutional and mechanism innovation and development model innovation according to their own realities.
At the end of 2023, the General Office of the People's Republic of China issued a notice on "Several Measures to Accelerate the Development of Domestic and Foreign Trade Integration", proposing 18 measures in 5 aspects, providing more effective policy starting points for accelerating the integration of domestic and foreign trade, and also putting forward more and higher requirements for accelerating the integration of domestic and foreign trade.
To speed up the integration of domestic and foreign trade, we must focus on building a strong domestic market. By strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights, improving the credit system for domestic and foreign trade, simplifying the import procedures of some commodities, improving the convenience of logistics, and strengthening the support of domestic and foreign trade talents, more high-quality goods and services can enter the domestic market more conveniently, enrich the quantity of supply, improve the quality of supply, and better meet the needs of the escalating domestic market.
To speed up the integration of domestic and foreign trade, we must vigorously promote the consistency of domestic and international standards. Technical measures with standards, conformity assessment as the main content, has become one of the main ways to affect the international market, domestic and foreign trade products applicable to domestic and international standards are different, resulting in certification procedures, scope of application, evaluation methods are necessarily different, enterprises docking standards, certification of manpower, time and capital costs will weaken the power of domestic sales to a certain extent. Since entering the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China has transformed 2,509 advanced and applicable international standards in the fields of machinery, chemical industry, information technology, consumer goods and other fields, and the consistency of key technical indicators in major consumer goods fields such as household appliances and textiles and garments with international standards has reached 95%. Relevant work should be further accelerated and strengthened.
To speed up the integration of domestic and foreign trade, it is necessary to strengthen international coordination and cooperation. The integration of domestic and foreign trade is an important part of the construction of China's global free trade zone network, focusing on the interaction with the domestic and foreign trade of major partners, and actively learning from and introducing advanced rules, regulations, management and standards of partners. Connecting domestic trade and foreign trade with production and consumption, and connecting domestic and foreign markets is an inherent requirement for building a new development pattern, and it is also a key measure to adhere to a high level of opening up. It is necessary to further give full play to the exemplary and leading role of high-level opening-up platforms such as free pilot zones, promote high-level institutional opening-up with high-standard international economic and trade rules, and promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade at a higher level. (Economic ** reporter Feng Qiyu).