Before October, The Growth Rate Of Foreign Trade In The Mainland Dropped By 12%&Nbsp Compared With The Same Period Last Year, And The Surplus Decreased By 15.4%.

The commerce department was at 10 a.m. on November 16th.

Shen Danyang: welcome to today's news conference.

I am Shen Danyang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce. I am delighted to meet you again, to inform you about the operation of our business in 1-10 months and to answer your questions.

I. statistics on the operation of the domestic market, according to the State Statistics Bureau

In October, the total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 1 trillion and 650 billion yuan, up from the same period of last year.

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In 1-10, retail sales of consumer goods totaled 14 trillion and 700 billion yuan, an increase of 17% over the same period last year.

Overall, the total retail sales of consumer goods this year will increase by about 17%, and the consumer market will maintain a steady and rapid development. The market situation is better than expected.

The main characteristics of the domestic market are:

Focus on monitoring sales of circulation enterprises to maintain rapid growth.

In October, the sales volume of 3000 retail enterprises which were mainly monitored by the Ministry of Commerce increased by 13.5% compared with the same period last year. The growth rate dropped by 1.8 percentage points compared with that in September. The sales volume of the wholesale enterprises focused on monitoring increased by 9.1%, and the growth rate slowed down 5 percentage points over September.

Driven by consumption during the "eleven" National Day holiday, demand for food and beverage accommodation has increased rapidly.

The sales of catering enterprises increased by 11.3% and the accommodation industry increased by 11.2%, which is 0.6 and 3 percentage points faster than in September.

Sales of food and housing products were generally stable.

With the growth of the general price level controlled, the growth of food products is slowing down steadily.

According to the Ministry of Commerce monitoring, in October, the sales volume of food in 3000 key retail enterprises increased by 16.7%, 1.2 percentage points slower than in September.

With the promotion of business and the stabilization of real estate market, the demand for furniture, building materials and other commodities has increased.

In October, furniture sales of 3000 key retail enterprises increased by 10.6% over the same period, while building and decoration materials increased by 12.4%, up 4.2 and 3.3 percentage points respectively over September.

Sales of clothing products have dropped.

Driven by rising prices of raw materials and labor costs, clothing prices continue to rise this year, and market consumption is slightly cold.

In October, the sales volume of clothing of 3000 key retail enterprises increased by 14.7%, and the sales of shoes and hats increased by 9.4%, down 8.6 and 9.7 percentage points respectively from September.

According to the National Bureau of statistics, the consumption price of clothing increased by 3.7% in October compared with the same period in the past 12 months.

Sales of household appliances and communication equipment increased faster.

The first batch of household appliances to the countryside will soon expire, and some consumer demand will be released in advance.

In October, sales of household appliances in 3000 key retail enterprises increased by 14.1% compared with the same period last year, and communications equipment grew by 11.2%, which was 4.9 and 4.5 percentage points faster than that in September.

In October, the total sales of household appliances to the countryside increased by 71.1% and 14%, respectively.

Two. Basic statistics on foreign trade, according to Customs Statistics

In 1-10 months, China's imports and exports amounted to US $2 trillion and 975 billion 380 million, an increase of 24.3% over the same period last year, and its growth rate was 12 percentage points lower than that of the same period last year.

Among them: exports of US $1 trillion and 549 billion 710 million, an increase of 22%, a growth rate of 10.7 percentage points lower than that of the same period last year; imports of US $1 trillion and 425 billion 680 million, an increase of 26.9%, and a growth rate of 13.7 percentage points lower than that of the same period last year.

Surplus of imports and exports 1240.3

Billion dollars, a decrease of 15.4%.

In the month of October, exports grew by 15.9% over the same period last year, down 7 percentage points from the same period last year, and imports grew by 28.7%, 3.4 percentage points faster than the same period last year.

Imports and exports are mainly characterized by:

General trade grew faster and the proportion of processing trade declined.

1-10 months, general trade import and export $1 trillion and 569 billion 960 million, an increase of 31.6%, of which exports and imports increased by 29.2% respectively.

33.9%.

Over the same period, the import and export volume of processing trade increased by 14.2%, accounting for 36% of the total value of China's imports and exports. The proportion of processing trade decreased by 3.2 percentage points compared with the same period last year.

Foreign invested enterprises continue to occupy the leading position in foreign trade.

In 1-10 months, foreign investment enterprises increased their import and export volume by US $1 trillion and 523 billion 660 million, or 17.8%, accounting for 51.2% of China's total import and export value.

Among them, the import and export of state-owned enterprises and other enterprises account for 21.1% and 27.7% of the total value of imports and exports respectively.

Import prices of commodities are high and volatile.

Affected by the global excess liquidity, the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, and the earthquake in Japan, the import prices of commodities rose sharply, and the import volume increased rapidly.

The average price of imports increased by 14.7% in 1-10 months, and the average import volume increased by 10.6%.

Among them, crude oil, iron ore, refined oil, soybean, edible vegetable oil and other bulk commodities prices rose by 38%, 33.5%, respectively.

34.5%, 29.8%, 38.4%.

The trade surplus continued to maintain a downward trend.

In October, the surplus decreased by 36.5%, an increase of 24.1 percentage points over the same month in September.

Among them, the general trade deficit was US $5 billion 730 million (a surplus of US $2 billion 470 million in the same period last year), and the surplus in processing trade was US $33 billion 360 million, an increase of 9.5%.

The US surplus was $20 billion 60 million, an increase of 11.3% over the previous year, and a surplus of 13 billion 40 million US dollars for the EU, a 10.3% decrease.

Three. About foreign investment.

In 1-10 months, 22368 newly established enterprises with foreign investment increased by 5.6% compared with the same period last year, and the actual use of foreign capital amounted to 95 billion 12 million US dollars, up 15.86% over the same period last year.

In the month of October, the actual amount of foreign capital utilized by the whole country was US $8 billion 334 million, an increase of 8.75% over the same period last year.

The growth rate of the actual use of foreign capital in the service sector continues to maintain a leading position, with tourism, wholesale and retail sectors growing at an early stage.

In 1-10 months, the actual amount of foreign capital used in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was US $1 billion 519 million, an increase of 5.46% over the same period last year.

The actual use of foreign capital in manufacturing industry was 43 billion 593 million US dollars, up 11.69% over the same period last year.

The actual use of foreign investment in the service sector was US $44 billion 513 million, an increase of 20.65% over the same period last year.

In services, tourism, wholesale, retail and other industries actually grew by 107.28%, 70.59% and 72.48% respectively.

Major Asian countries' investment in China has continued to grow significantly, EU investment has increased slightly, and US investment has further expanded.

1-10 months, ten countries / regions in Asia (Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, Thailand,

Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea actually invested $81 billion 896 million in foreign investment, an increase of 20.67% over the same period, of which Japan grew by 65.5%.

The EU's 27 countries actually invested $5 billion 508 million in foreign investment, an increase of 1.05% over the same period last year.

The US invested 2 billion 567 million US dollars in real terms, down 18.13% from the same period last year, an increase of nearly 9 percentage points over the first 9 months.

The actual use of foreign capital in the central region has maintained a rapid growth trend, and the actual use of foreign capital in the East and west regions has slowed slightly.

In 1-10 months, the actual use of foreign capital in the eastern region was 81 billion 807 million dollars, a year-on-year increase of 15.53%, lower than the national average growth rate of 0.33 percentage points.

The actual use of foreign capital in the central region amounted to US $6 billion 517 million, an increase of 28.27% over the same period last year, which is 12.41 percentage points higher than the national average growth rate.

The actual use of foreign capital in the western region amounted to US $6 billion 689 million, an increase of 9.39% over the same period last year, which is 6.47 percentage points lower than the national average.

Four. Foreign direct investment on foreign investment and economic cooperation

In 1-10, China's domestic investors made direct investment in 2733 overseas enterprises in 130 countries and regions, totaling 46 billion 250 million dollars in non financial foreign direct investment, an increase of 14.1% over the same period last year.

The direct investment of M & A is US $15 billion 600 million, which accounts for 33.7% of the total investment in the same period.

Investment in China's seven main economies, including Hongkong, ASEAN, the European Union, Australia, the United States, Russia and Japan, reached US $34 billion 269 million, accounting for 74.1% of the total foreign direct investment in the same period.

Among them, investment in Hongkong, China continued to maintain a two digit (31.1%) rapid growth, investment in the European Union and the United States dropped by 0.5% and 7.3% respectively.

Judging from the composition of domestic investors, local foreign direct investment amounted to US $14 billion 600 million, which accounted for 31.6% of the total foreign direct investment in the same period, representing an increase of 15% over the same period last year.

Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Guangdong rank the forefront of local investment.

Foreign contracted projects.

In 1-10 months, China's foreign contracted projects completed a turnover of US $76 billion 80 million, an increase of 15.3% over the previous year, and the new contract amount of US $104 billion 570 million, an increase of 8.8% over the same period last year.

From the distribution of new contracts, the top ten countries are India, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Burma, Indonesia, Angola, Nigeria, China Hongkong, Vietnam and Malaysia, with a total contract value of US $41 billion 220 million, accounting for 39.4% of the total amount of new contracts.

Foreign labor cooperation.

In 1-10 months, 356 thousand foreign labor service workers were sent to China, an increase of 40 thousand over the same period last year.

10 at the end of the month, there were 814 thousand migrant workers, 17 thousand less than the same period last year.

As of the end of October, my foreign labor cooperation business has dispatched 5 million 790 thousand labor force personnel.

Five. China Africa economic and trade cooperation

In recent years, the economic and trade relations between China and Africa have developed rapidly and gradually formed a multi-level, wide area and full coverage cooperation pattern, playing an irreplaceable role in the economic and social development of both sides. Their characteristics are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

One is the rapid growth of bilateral trade.

From 2001 to 2010, trade between China and Africa increased by 28% annually. China has become Africa's largest trading partner.

In the first three quarters of 2011, trade between China and Africa reached US $122 billion 200 million, an increase of 30% over the same period last year, close to the level of US $126 billion 900 million last year. We expect to see a record high in 2011.

Two is the rapid development of non investment.

By the end of 2010, China's stock of non direct investment reached US $13 billion, and there were more than 2000 non investment enterprises.

In the first three quarters of 2011, China's direct investment in non non-financial sector reached US $1 billion 80 million, an increase of 87% over the same period last year.

Three is the steady development of infrastructure construction cooperation.

By the end of 2010, Chinese enterprises had completed a total of 132 billion 500 million US dollars in contracted projects, accounting for 30% of the total foreign contracted projects.

In the first three quarters of 2011, Chinese enterprises signed $25 billion 200 million in new contracts and completed a turnover of US $23 billion 700 million.

Four, the field of cooperation is gradually widened.

China Africa cooperation in the fields of finance, telecommunications, tourism and shipping is showing a good momentum of development.

China's many African financial institutions have opened their businesses, and many airlines in China and Africa have opened direct flights between China and Africa.

Five, mechanism protection is improving.

The Forum on China Africa cooperation has become an important mechanism to promote the development of bilateral economic and trade relations. China's economic and trade initiatives launched under the framework of the Forum provide important impetus for economic and trade cooperation.

China has also established a bilateral economic and Trade Commission mechanism with most African countries, and has signed trade agreements and investment protection agreements.

China and Africa belong to the developing countries and have similar development experiences and development tasks. Their mutual demand in the market, resources and investment is huge and continuous, and they are also faced with severe challenges such as climate change, energy and food security.

As a sincere friend of Africa, China will always exchange its own development experience with African countries on the principle of equality, effectiveness, mutual benefit and common development, and provide support and help to Africa's independent development through investment and assistance, so as to achieve mutual benefit and common development.

Six, about ECFA's "early harvest" situation.

Since January 1st, the early implementation of the framework agreement on Cross Strait Economic Cooperation (ECFA) has been fully implemented.

According to the mainland statistics, in the 1-9 month, 539 items (557 items of tax No. 557) were collected from mainland China in 2011, and 21638 products were imported from Taiwan to enjoy preferential tariff. The goods were worth 3 billion 92 million US dollars, and the tariff rate was 92 million 60 thousand US dollars.

According to the statistics from Taiwan, Taiwan has 267 batches of tax reduction on the mainland (268 tax items in 2011), and Taiwan has 11064 batches of preferential tariff products imported from the mainland, with a value of 759 million US dollars and a preferential tariff of 16 million 490 thousand US dollars.

Since the early implementation of trade in services, since the early implementation of trade in services to the end of September 2011, according to statistics from the mainland, 5 accounting firms in Taiwan have applied for 1 years' Interim Implementation Audit Business License. 82 companies have been allowed to establish sole proprietorship or joint ventures, and the amount of the contract is 410 million US dollars. In the financial sector, 13 Taiwan financial institutions have been involved, and another 5 Taiwan films have been approved. 2 of them have been screened in mainland cinema.

According to statistics from Taiwan, the number of cases involving investment in the ECFA service industry has been approved by mainland investors to invest in Taiwan, 36 of which are about 16 million 540 thousand US dollars.

Another 10 mainland films were approved, 8 of which were screened at Taiwan cinema.