The Ministry Of Commerce Forecasts Total Import And Export Volume Of US $4 Trillion And 140 Billion In 2013.

< p > recently, the national business conference was held in Beijing.

At the meeting, Gao Hucheng, Minister of Commerce, said that under the complicated circumstances of the past year, domestic and international trade and international economic cooperation have been advancing steadily and steadily. This has effectively promoted economic development and people's livelihood improvement, and enhanced the influence and voice power in international economic and trade affairs.

The consumption of residents is growing steadily. The total retail sales of social consumer goods will be about 23 trillion and 800 billion yuan, an increase of more than 13%.

Foreign trade has reached a new stage. The total import and export volume is estimated to be 4 trillion and 140 billion US dollars over the same period, increasing by more than 7%, and the share of exports in the international market will continue to rise.

Trade in services exceeds US $520 billion.

With the increase of two-way investment level, it is estimated that the actual use of foreign capital will be 117 billion US dollars per year, an increase of around 5%, and the proportion of services sector will increase. The foreign direct investment of non-financial sector will be USD 88 billion, an increase of about 15%, and the large number of cross-border M & A projects will increase.

Multilateral and regional economic cooperation has made new achievements, and has helped to achieve an early harvest agreement in the WTO Doha Round negotiations.

Signed a free trade agreement with Iceland and Switzerland, and achieved zero breakthroughs with European countries < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/list.aspx ClassID=101112107101" > Free Trade Zone < /a >.

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< p > 2014, the Ministry of Commerce will promote the effective operation of commercial work from 7 aspects: first, implement the spirit of the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and comprehensively deepen the reform of the business field.

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< p > two is to actively participate in the formulation of international economic and trade rules, promote reform and promote pformation by opening up.

Among them, we should accelerate the implementation of the FTA strategy.

We will actively promote negotiations between China, Korea, China, Japan, Australia and China, and promote the negotiation of regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) and carry out an upgraded version of the China ASEAN Free Trade Area.

Promoting Sino US and EU China investment agreement negotiations.

We should seize the favorable opportunity of the early harvest of the Doha round and earnestly fulfill the trade facilitation commitments.

Expand the opening up to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

We should accelerate the liberalization of trade in services with Hong Kong and Macao, and sign a new supplementary agreement with the Hong Kong and Macao businessmen on the establishment of Closer Economic Partnership (< a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/list.aspx ClassID=101112107108" > CEPA < /a >).

We should strive to conclude the agreement on cargo trade and dispute settlement agreement between the two sides of the Strait at an early date, promote the implementation of the service trade agreement and raise the level of institutionalized cooperation between the two sides of the Strait.

Promote cross strait economic and trade association to set up offices.

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< p > three is to improve the overall layout of domestic trade circulation and raise the level of circulation modernization.

Among them, we should actively cultivate new consumption growth points.

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< p > to study and improve the consumption policy, further expand information consumption, pension consumption and healthy consumption, and promote the consumption of hot commodity such as new electronic products, smart appliances, energy saving automobiles, and encourage the development of new consumption patterns.

We should expand the life service consumption, explore the comprehensive service center for community life in big cities, accelerate the development of popular dining, and improve the construction of household service system.

Guide enterprises to innovate design, improve services, create brand marketing, promotion, protection and information public service platform, expand their own brand consumption.

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< p > four is to rectify and standardize the market order and build a legal business environment.

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< p > five is to speed up the structural adjustment of import and export and foster a new competitive advantage in foreign trade.

Among them, we must maintain steady growth in foreign trade, continue to stabilize export tax rebate policy, speed up the progress of export tax rebate, foster new advantages in foreign trade competition, continue to encourage processing trade to orderly pfer to inland areas, further promote domestic sales facilitation, and guide processing trade leading enterprises to pform into marketing enterprises.

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< p > six is to further optimize the investment environment and enhance the level of introduction and going out.

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< p > seven is to deepen multilateral and bilateral economic and trade cooperation and serve the overall situation of "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/list.aspx "ClassID=101112107105" and "economic diplomacy < /a".

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< p > eight is to promote the construction of "one belt and one road" and form a new pattern of all-round opening up.

We should promote the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt, promote the construction of the maritime Silk Road in twenty-first Century, expand the opening of the inland border areas, and actively develop the industries with distinctive characteristics. The border areas should focus on developing the export processing industry, the overseas resources import processing industry, the international logistics industry and the cross border tourism industry, supporting the construction of the industrial pfer demonstration park in the central and western regions, and actively undertaking the manufacturing industries in the eastern and outer regions, thus forming the industrial support for the open economic development in the inland border areas.

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