International ** report (reporter Wei Yuchen): The China International ** Promotion Committee held a regular press conference on the 30th. At the meeting, the spokesperson said that more than ninety percent of the foreign companies surveyed believe that the Chinese market is attractive. In addition, in terms of helping foreign trade enterprises stabilize orders and expand markets, the CCPIT will carry out the action of "thousands of groups going to sea" to actively support the development of new forms of foreign trade.
Yang Fan, spokesman of the CCPIT, introduced on the same day that in the fourth quarter of 2023, among the nearly 600 foreign-funded enterprises surveyed by the CCPIT, 68% are small and micro enterprises, and 65% of the industrial layout in China is concentrated in the processing and manufacturing sector. The results show that the satisfaction of these surveyed foreign companies with China's business environment continues to increase. She said: "From the perspective of market expectations, nearly 70% of the surveyed foreign companies are still optimistic about the Chinese market situation in the next five years, an increase of about 18 percentage points, more than 90% of the surveyed foreign companies believe that the attractiveness of the Chinese market has increased or remained unchanged; From the perspective of business conditions, more than 90% of the surveyed foreign-funded enterprises expect the profit margin of investment in China to be flat or improve in the next five years, and the number of enterprises with the intention of increasing capital in China will increase by about 4% month-on-month5 percentage points. ”
Yang Fan said that based on the annual survey data, more than eighty percent of the surveyed foreign-funded enterprises rated China's business environment as "satisfied" or above in 2023, more than ninety percent believe that the Chinese market is attractive, and nearly seventy percent are optimistic about the prospects of the Chinese market in the next five years. The above results show that the fundamentals of China's economic stability and long-term improvement have not changed, and the "magnetic attraction" of the Chinese market to foreign investment is getting stronger and stronger.
Foreign trade is seen as one of the troikas that pull the economy. In 2023, the scale of China's foreign trade import and export will increase steadily, and the quality of development will increase. On the same day, in response to how to help foreign trade enterprises stabilize orders and expand the market in 2024, Yang Fan said that the CCPIT will vigorously carry out the action of "thousands of groups going to sea" and actively support the development of new forms of foreign trade. She said: "Make every effort to hold the second Chain Expo. Build more high-quality economic and trade platforms. For important economic and trade partners in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, ASEAN, Latin America and other countries, we will organize more than 1,000 batches of enterprise groups to participate in overseas exhibitions and inspections to help enterprises expand the market with orders and support local investment promotion. Carry out in-depth research in the fields of foreign trade's 'new three things', intermediate goods**, digitalization, cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouses, etc., form more high-quality research results, and provide intellectual support for the introduction of relevant policies. ”