WTO Confirmed That I Became The World's Largest Goods Trading Nation.

< p > reporter learned from the website of China's Ministry of Commerce in March 1st that according to the preliminary statistics of the World Trade Organization Secretariat, China has become the world's largest cargo trading country in 2013. In 2013, the total import and export volume of China's goods amounted to US $4 trillion and 160 billion, of which the export volume was US $2 trillion and 210 billion and imports amounted to US $1 trillion and 950 billion. < /p >
< p > < strong > WTO confirms that China has become the world's largest cargo trading country < /strong > /p >
While celebrating China's becoming the world's first goods trading power, P should also be sober to see that China's service trade is still in deficit, and it is quite different from the developed countries. At the same time, China's foreign trade development is also facing new situations and new challenges. How to build new competitive advantages as soon as possible on the basis of consolidating traditional advantages is a major task for developing foreign trade. < /p >
Prior to the issuance of import and export data in 2013, the General Administration of customs, Zheng Yuesheng, director general of the comprehensive statistics department, said that the annual import and export value of China's first annual import and export volume exceeded US $4 trillion in January 10th, marking a new stage in the scale of foreign trade in our country. It may also bring China into the first place in the world's total value of imports and exports of goods trade. According to the data released by the US Department of Commerce, the total import and export volume of goods trade in the United States in 2013 amounted to US $3 trillion and 910 billion. However, the Chinese Ministry of commerce also pointed out that whether China's trade in goods is super beauty remains to be confirmed by WTO in accordance with the unified statistics. < /p >
< p > and the latest statistics from WTO since March 1st have confirmed that China is the top player in Global trade in goods. In response, Yao Jian, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, made a statement for the first time, pointing out: "as a developing country, China is the largest commodity trade country in the world. This is a new milestone in the development of China's foreign trade and a major achievement of China's adheres to reform and opening up and participation in economic globalization." < /p >
< p > Gao Hucheng, Minister of Commerce, commented on this achievement as "creating a miracle in the history of world trade development". It is reported that over the past 30 years, China's foreign trade has doubled almost every 4 years, and it has become the first developing country in the world over the past 100 years. Horizontal comparison, China's foreign trade from 100 billion U. S. dollars to 1 trillion U. S. dollar steps, took only 16 years, and the United States spent 20 years, Germany spent 25 years, Japan and the United Kingdom spent 30 years, from 1 trillion U. S. dollars to 2 trillion U. S. dollars, China used only 3 years, the United States and Germany used 8 years respectively. < /p >
< p > "what is more worth mentioning is that China's massive import every year has also promoted the employment and development of its trading partners. In the past 2008-2013 years, China has accumulated about 10 trillion US dollars in import commodities and services, and the continuous development of foreign trade has enabled China to benefit the world. " Gao Hucheng pointed out. < /p >
< p > < strong > becoming < a href= > http://www.91se91.com/news/index_cj.asp > trade power > /a > still has a long way to go. < /strong > /p >
"P >" first place "is certainly worth celebrating, but at such a" milestone "moment, we need to calm ourselves. Experts interviewed by the economic reference daily have said that trading power is the foundation of a trading power. Although China has become a world trading power, it still has a long way to go before it becomes a powerful trading nation. < /p >
< p > first, we should see that the volume of trade in 2013 needs to take account of the contingency and particularity of China's foreign trade data: in the first four months, while maintaining a low level of trade between Europe and the United States, Hong Kong's trade remained high. Thus, in the context of a continuous high RMB exchange rate, the expected export data may contain special factors for hot money to enter the country through trade channels. < /p >
< p > secondly, an important feature of the evolution of the contemporary international industrial structure is that the high value-added links are gradually concentrated on the service sector. The trade value-added is mainly based on the front-end R & D design and the back-end marketing services, and the profit margin of assembly and manufacturing is smaller and smaller. China is a big country with a large surplus in trade in goods, but it is also the largest deficit country in service trade. Last year, the total import and export volume of trade in services was US $539 billion 640 million, about half of that in the United States. < /p >
< p > at the same time, "we should calmly see the new situation and new challenges faced by China's foreign trade development, and plan our future trade development strategy from a strategic height." Long Guoqiang, director of the general office of the development research center of the State Council, said. < /p >
< p > Long Guoqiang believes that the international environment of China's foreign trade and economic development is undergoing profound changes. After the outbreak of the financial crisis, although the basic trend of economic globalization has not been reversed, the international economic environment and institutional environment are undergoing profound adjustments. The global economic slowdown has become a new normal. Global overcapacity has led to more intense international competition, and external demand is not enough to restrain China's export growth. The developed countries have launched the strategy of "re industrialization" to seize the commanding heights of future competition, such as strategic emerging industries, and the pressure of China's industrial upgrading is even greater. The developed countries, led by the United States, turn from multilateral trade organizations to constructing giant regional cooperation organizations. With regional cooperation as the new platform, we try to reconstruct the new rules of international trade which are favorable to them. China is faced with the dual challenge of regional integration and the marginalization of economic and trade rules. < /p >
Inside P, the comparative advantage that supports China's industrial competitiveness is changing rapidly. Long Guoqiang pointed out that for a long time, thanks to the low cost labor force, the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry is mainly dependent on low-cost labor intensive sectors. After more than 30 years of development, China's per capita GDP has increased from US $148 in 1978 to US $more than 6600 in 2013. The wage level of manufacturing industry has far exceeded that of many developing countries. At the same time, more and more developing countries are embarking on the export LED road, and China's labor-intensive products are facing increasingly fierce competition in the international market. < /p >
< p > "our country's a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_cj.asp "> foreign trade < /a > has entered the shifting period of growth rate, and we should reduce the growth expectation, which is determined by the domestic and foreign economic environment. Pei Changhong, director of the Institute of Economic Research of the Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that on the one hand, external demand can not rise rapidly. On the other hand, China's economy has entered a new stage of structural slowdown since 2009. In the field of foreign trade, with the weakening of factor endowment advantages such as land and labor prices, comparative advantage is also weakening. Under the pressure of RMB exchange rate appreciation, the international competitiveness of goods exports has declined. Under the combined action of these factors, the growth rate of China's goods export trade will also enter a new stage which is lower than before. < /p >
< p > < strong > experts say it is necessary to accelerate the cultivation of < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_cj.asp" > international competition < /a > new advantage < /strong > /p >
< p > "climb the road" is not easy. It is more difficult to keep the world's number one position. " Gao Hucheng said frankly, how to build a new competitive advantage on the basis of consolidating traditional advantages is a major task for developing foreign trade. < /p >
< p > Gao Hucheng pointed out that on the basis of maintaining the reasonable growth of foreign trade, we should effectively shift the development goals to quality and efficiency. Next, we will implement innovation driven, promote the integration of trade and technology, industry, and cultivate new competitive advantages of foreign trade with technology, brand, quality and service as the core. We should vigorously develop trade in services, encourage exports of intellectual and technology intensive services, and form a good situation of benign interaction and coordinated development of trade in goods and services. < /p >
< p > in addition, we should improve foreign trade promotion policy, innovate foreign trade management measures, enhance trade facilitation level, strengthen public information service, and establish a quality and benefit oriented trade promotion system. We should speed up the construction of the import promotion policy system, clean up unreasonable restrictions on import links, and promote the coordinated development of imports and exports. We should co-ordinate and promote the construction of free trade zones (ports), Sino US investment agreement negotiations and foreign trade and economic laws and regulations, comprehensively deepen reforms, and release institutional dividends. < /p >
Huo Jianguo, director of the Ministry of Commerce Research Institute, told the economic reference daily that three major proposals should be put forward in order to move forward from a trading power to a trading power. < /p >
< p > one is to further promote the reform of the foreign trade system. At present, there are still some restrictive factors in the reform of China's foreign trade system. We must speed up the breakthroughs in these restrictive factors. First of all, the unity of foreign trade policy is still unresolved, and there are many political and multiple sectors. Secondly, the convergence of trade policy and industrial policy is not enough, so that the trade policy and industrial policy can not play a good role in promoting each other. Third, the high-end market opening system has not yet been fully established, and the means to deal with trade frictions need to be improved. Fourth, the linkage development pattern between foreign trade and domestic trade, foreign trade and foreign aid, foreign capital utilization and going global has not yet been formed. If we can push forward the reform from these four aspects, China's foreign trade management system will be more perfect and will play a great role in improving the quality of foreign trade. < /p >
< p > two is to cultivate the advantages of innovation and development. The key is to promote the upgrading of traditional industries through innovation, establish an innovation system to promote the development of foreign trade, actively promote the innovation of trade mode, and strengthen the application and popularization of e-commerce, Internet trade, transport means and new settlement mode under the background of big data, and build a new competitive advantage in China's domestic industry. To familiarize ourselves with the new pattern of global value chain competition and familiarize ourselves with the main characteristics of the value chain of different industries and products, find out the orientation of enterprises, seek new profit growth points, and learn to optimize the allocation of resources in the global scope so as to form the maximization of interests. < /p >
< p > three is to continue to promote trade facilitation. At present, the pressure of slowing down the growth of foreign trade is to persist in structural adjustment and transformation and upgrading in the medium to long term in the context of the continuous increase in the internal cost and external environmental pressure of foreign trade. But in the short term, the implementation of trade facilitation measures is of vital importance. Next year, there are two favorable conditions. First, the transformation of government functions will facilitate the promotion of trade facilitation measures. Two, it is necessary to continue to promote trade facilitation measures in the implementation of the Bali Island agreement. At the macro level, we should strengthen the construction of the legal system, continue to deepen the reform of key areas and key links, simplify the market access conditions and the administrative examination and approval of the government, and improve the government's service level to enterprises. We should strengthen the construction of the market system, strengthen the integrity system and e-commerce construction, and promote the reform of investment and financing system. Through the Shanghai free trade pilot area, we should explore and establish a new open economy system that is compatible with the international high standard trade rules. From the micro level, from 2014 onwards, we should speed up the study and promote the construction of a single window for import and export trade declaration. We should reduce trade barriers and reduce transaction costs from all aspects of trade facilitation. < /p >