Foreign trade is an important engine for economic growth and an important hub connecting domestic and international dual circulation. ** The Economic Work Conference emphasized that "it is necessary to accelerate the cultivation of new momentum for foreign trade". In 2024, how to accelerate the cultivation of new momentum for foreign trade?
Foreign trade import and export involves both domestic and international markets, and to consolidate the basic market of foreign trade and foreign investment, we must first clarify the domestic and foreign situation. "The unstable momentum of the world economic recovery and the lack of momentum, the resulting continued weakness in external demand has become the main reason affecting the trend of foreign trade. Li Xingqian, director of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce, believes that we must fully face up to the difficulties and challenges facing the development of foreign trade, but we must also see that some positive factors that are stabilizing and improving continue to gather.
Specifically, new products and new business formats have sufficient potential, products that lead green and low-carbon transformation and upgrading, such as "new three things" and energy storage products, meet the needs of global energy development, and new business formats and new models such as cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses, and bonded maintenance are booming. China's foreign trade has a long-lasting innovation capability and a stable, efficient and resilient product chain, which will continue to provide strong new momentum for the recovery of the national economy and the recovery and growth of the global economy.
To cultivate new momentum for foreign trade, it is necessary to focus on key tasks. "China has been the world's largest exporter of intermediate goods for 12 consecutive years, and the contribution of intermediate goods to the increase in foreign trade is close to sixty percent. Li Xingqian said that expanding intermediate products and conforming to the international development trend is a mutually beneficial and win-win move. It is necessary to further tighten the bond of cooperation with leading partners to meet the practical needs of their development of manufacturing industry, achieve complementary advantages, and provide impetus for the recovery of the world economy.
Zhu Siqiao, an associate researcher at the Institute of International Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, believes that cross-border e-commerce, as a new form of foreign trade with the fastest development speed, the greatest potential and the strongest driving effect, is becoming an important development trend in the world. At present, the scale of China's cross-border e-commerce exports accounts for more than 7% of the overall exports, with more than 100,000 main bodies, more than 200,000 independent stations, and more than 1,500 overseas warehouses of cross-border e-commerce, covering an area of nearly 19 million square meters.
Li Xingqian said that around the expansion of cross-border e-commerce exports, we will continue to improve policies on customs clearance, taxation, foreign exchange and other aspects, improve the level of regulatory facilitation, and help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency. Support cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, industry organizations and enterprises to actively participate in the "Silk Road e-commerce" and jointly build the "Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation.
To cultivate new momentum for foreign trade, we must also promote digitalization and greening, consolidate the basic market of foreign trade and foreign investment, and accelerate the construction of a strong country. The Ministry of Commerce will work with all local departments to continue to implement the various policies that have been introduced to stabilize foreign trade. At the same time, in view of the new situation and new tasks, we will study and reserve new policies and measures, and promote the introduction of them in a timely manner to help foreign trade enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency.
People** 2024-01-10 01 Edition).
Editor-in-charge: Yang Guangyu, Hu Yongqiu).