The Government Has Further Increased Its Support, And Zhejiang'S Footwear Exports Have Slowed Down.

In order to cope with the foreign trade situation under the circumstances, Zhejiang commerce department is drafting a "further stability" in conjunction with Zhejiang finance, state tax, land tax, people's Bank, foreign exchange management and other departments. Foreign trade growth Opinions on implementation.

"The stage of solicitation is currently under way and will be announced soon." In June 7th, Zhejiang provincial chamber of Commerce Publicity Office told reporters.

According to Zhejiang customs statistics, the total import and export volume of Zhejiang was 94 billion 830 million US dollars in 1-4 months. Among them, exports of $65 billion 290 million, an increase of 4.2% over the same period last year, down 21.9% from last year, down 15.7% from last year.

Zhejiang's export growth rate is 2.7 percentage points lower than that of the whole country, and the coastal provinces are also lower than Fujian's 7.6% and Guangdong's 5.5%.

This has attracted the attention of Xi Jiang. On May 11th, at the special session of the province's foreign trade work, Gong Zheng, vice governor of Zhejiang Province, signed the target responsibility letter with the leaders of the eleven municipal governments of the district area and the leaders of this Municipality on the 10% growth target of this year's foreign trade export.

People from the Zhejiang provincial chamber of Commerce told us that during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, Zhejiang's foreign trade was also affected by the external market, but there was no sign of responsibility for foreign trade objectives.

He also said that this year the situation is more special, and at all levels in Zhejiang, efforts are being made to study policies to support local enterprises in coping with the current situation.

Ensure 10% growth

Exports in the first 4 months of Taizhou, Zhejiang were deeply influenced by the external situation. From the export market, the European Union, the largest exporter in Taizhou, has had a weak demand this year, and the total exports to the city were $1 billion 550 million in April. Year-on-year decline 4.5%. On the import side, the main varieties of electromechanical products and high and new technology products decreased by 11.7% and 7.7% respectively.

Taizhou customs warned that the current situation in the Middle East continued to be unstable, and the shadow of the debt crisis in Europe and the United States has not been dispersed. In addition, the domestic raw material prices and labor costs have risen. It is estimated that this year's foreign trade situation is not optimistic. While maintaining the traditional market, relevant enterprises are best able to develop new markets, especially the BRICs, because the consumption demand of these countries is strong.

Taizhou to the south of Wenzhou, its footwear industry Also received great impact, data show that from January to April this year, the number of footwear exports, goods value and number of enterprises in Wenzhou were 188 million pairs, 990 million US dollars and 950 enterprises, down 18.9%, 13.5% and 5.26%, respectively.

Xie Rongfang, executive chairman of Wenzhou shoe leather industry association, said that the overall economic situation of Wenzhou footwear exports this year is not optimistic. At present, shoe companies are in the shuffle stage, and the shoe leather industry needs to actively spanform so as to work together to overcome the difficulties.

In May 31st, the Statistics Bureau of Zhejiang announced that in the first quarter, Zhejiang's general trade realized an export volume of US $38 billion 140 million, an increase of 7.6% over the same period last year, and the export volume of processing trade reached US $7 billion 980 million, down 5.2% from the same period last year.

The proportion of exports in general trade and processing trade was 80.6% and 16.9% respectively. Compared with the same period in 2009, 2010 and 2011, the proportion of general trade increased by 0.7, 1.9 and 1.1 percentage points respectively, and the proportion of processing trade decreased by 2.3, 3.1 and 2 percentage points respectively.

"This means that the international competitiveness of labor-intensive industries has been much worse than before. Whether Zhejiang's passive foreign trade spanformation or active spanformation has been faced with unprecedented challenges," he said. Zhejiang Commerce Department said.

Under the severe foreign trade situation, the provincial level of Zhejiang is being deployed vigorously. Gong, vice governor of Zhejiang Province, is making a clear request at the special session of the provincial foreign trade work in May 11th that every province should face up to difficulties and face the situation of crisis, difficulty and distance. {page_break}

Gong Zheng said, "to promote a stable and rapid development of foreign trade in the next period of time, we should put orders in the first place, make every effort to stabilize the traditional market share and vigorously expand the emerging markets."

At this meeting, Gong Zheng signed the target responsibility letter on behalf of the provincial government and eleven municipal government leaders on the goal of maintaining 10% growth in export this year. It indicated that Zhejiang had to ensure an export growth of 10% this year, that is, the export task of $238 billion for the whole year, that is, the average monthly export volume guaranteed by US $21 billion 600 million in the next 8 months.

Million subsidy enterprises in Ningbo

The most direct impact on foreign trade is Zhejiang's prefecture level cities.

On the morning of May 31st, the Ningbo foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau held a circular on Ningbo's foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau. Due to the continuous downturn of the world economy, the shrinking of developed countries and the fluctuation of import commodity prices, the total import and export volume of Ningbo in 1-4 months was 30 billion 288 million US dollars.

Among them, the growth rate of imports and exports, exports and imports dropped by 24.2, 23.2 and 25.9 percentage points respectively, lower than the average level of the whole country and the whole province.

Information released by the Ningbo municipal government shows that exports to the EU's major markets such as Italy, Belgium and Japan and India have declined compared with the same period last year. On exports, exports of clothing, bags and ships, containers and other port related products decreased considerably.

In terms of import operation, Ningbo's imports from South Korea, Australia and Brazil increased year-on-year, but imports from the top three import markets of Taiwan, Japan and the United States decreased significantly compared with the previous year. Imports from traditional resources and raw materials markets, such as India, Russia and Peru, fell year by year.

Foreign trade in Ningbo can be seen as a whole. At the meeting in May 31st, Hong Jiaxiang, vice mayor of Ningbo, said: "in Ningbo, 1 of every 4 people are engaged in foreign trade related work, so foreign trade is actually a livelihood issue." According to the arrangements made by Ningbo for the new situation, Ningbo will launch a "three month service month for foreign trade enterprises" in 6-8 months this year.

During the month of service, relevant departments and units in Ningbo will visit a number of foreign trade shoe enterprises, sort out a number of difficult problems, launch a number of service initiatives, and introduce a number of supportive policies to solve a number of difficult problems.

This newspaper learned that since June, the Ningbo municipal government is stepping up the introduction and implementation of some policy opinions on efforts to promote the steady growth of foreign trade (hereinafter referred to as "opinions"), so as to strongly support enterprises to expand the international market.

The opinion shows that enterprises can get financial subsidies whether they organize exhibitions abroad or in many areas such as foreign trade spanactions and foreign trade lawsuits.

The "opinion" also stipulates that for Ningbo's tradable foreign trade enterprises, those who imported in the general trade mode and imported more than $1 million over the year were awarded a maximum reward of 0.02 yuan per dollar for the base part of the previous year, and half a year's bonus without a base. Each enterprise can receive a maximum reward of 1 million yuan.