The executive meeting held on December 1 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. 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.
Industry experts interviewed by the reporter of the "Economic Information Daily" believe that promoting the integration of domestic and foreign trade is the direction of the high-quality development of China's foreign trade in the new stage, and will also form an important support for China's construction of a new development pattern. Zhang Xiaotao, Dean of the School of International Economics and the University of Finance and Economics, said in an interview with reporters that the integration of domestic and foreign trade is an important way to promote the coordinated development of internal and external circulation, and it is the focus of ensuring the mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation. In April 2022, the Ministry of Commerce led relevant departments to establish an inter-ministerial working mechanism to promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, and effectively promoted the key work of domestic and foreign trade integration by promoting the docking of rules, promoting product benchmarking, promoting channel communication, cultivating subject guidance, and accelerating digital empowerment.
Zhang Xiaotao also proposed, but also to see that the integration of domestic and foreign trade involves multiple regions, departments and industries, and still faces problems such as market segmentation, local protection, industry barriers and inconsistent regulatory standards, as well as insufficient financing support, low degree of modernization of the first chain, imperfect market platform for domestic and foreign trade integration, and incomplete system and mechanism.
Zhang Xiaotao believes that to promote the integration of domestic and foreign trade with high quality, we should focus on strengthening the convergence of domestic and foreign standard certification, and promote mutual recognition of standards, including the formulation of information management, logistics operations, business and service processes in line with international first-class chain standards, and promote mutual recognition of Chinese and foreign standardsImprove the internationalization level of product quality standard certification and narrow the difference between domestic and foreign product standardsPromote the implementation of the same line, same standard and same quality of domestic and foreign trade products in different industries and categories, carry out analysis of domestic and foreign differences in technical standards, quality standards, inspection and quarantine, certification and accreditation, etc., and promote the focus of domestic standards and subdivision requirements to move closer to and converge with foreign leading standardsActively promote the standards and qualification certification in the fields of China's characteristic advantages to go out, actively participate in the formulation of international standards, and strive to be the "leader" of global standardsOptimize the implementation of information exchange, mutual recognition of supervision and mutual assistance in law enforcement between domestic and foreign trade regulatory departments.
The expert analysis also pointed out that starting from these actual needs of the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, the series of deployments of the executive meeting is expected to provide better support for the high-quality development of China's foreign trade and a higher level of opening up. Looking forward to the future, Pang Chaoran, an associate researcher at the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told reporters that promoting the integration of domestic and foreign trade is an important task to promote a strong country. "China's high-standard and high-quality promotion of domestic and foreign trade integration will further accelerate the pace of institutional opening-up, effective convergence of rules, continuous strengthening of development momentum, industrial integration, market connectivity, innovation promotion, and rule linkage A virtuous circle has gradually formed, and the global ability to allocate resources has continued to improve, so as to better serve the construction of a new development pattern. (Reporter Wang Wenbo reports from Beijing).
Editor: Wei Wei.