Xinjiang Takes Measures To Deal With Foreign Trade Challenges

In view of the same period of decline in the import and export trade of Xinjiang in the first quarter of this year, the relevant departments of the Commerce Department of the autonomous region have said that the commerce department has been working with relevant departments of the autonomous region to study the specific measures to ensure the resumption of import and export growth.

In April 18th, the import and export data released by the Bureau of statistics of the autonomous region showed that in the first quarter, the total import and export volume of our region was 4 billion 764 million US dollars, down 9% from the same period last year, and the growth rate dropped 35.4 percentage points year-on-year. Of which, exports amounted to 4 billion 211 million US dollars, down 8.3%, and imports of US $553 million decreased by 14.7%. The situation is complex, and import and export trade both slipped.

"Export decline is a situation that has not been seen for more than 3 years." In April 24th, Huang Pingchao, director general of the comprehensive office of the autonomous region commerce department, said that Xinjiang's foreign trade may enter the most difficult period in recent years, thanks to the deep adjustment of the global economy brought by the international financial crisis, the fragile foundation of world economic recovery and the difficult growth of external demand.

From the specific data, we can see that due to the continuous decline in general trade, the decline in import and export of major trading partners, the decline in imports and exports of private and state-owned enterprises, the decrease in commodity exports and the decline in the import of major commodities, the overall situation of foreign trade in the first quarter of our region is not optimistic.

But at the same time, Huang Pingchao believes that in addition to the general factors of the lack of external market demand, Xinjiang's foreign trade imports and exports both have their own special reasons. First, this year, the United States withdrew from the quantitative easing policy, and the accelerated depreciation of Kazakhstan and Russia's currencies, which were adjacent to our region, depreciated by 19% and 6% respectively, which correspondingly increased the prices of their imports and weakened the competitiveness of the export commodities of our region. The two is that the customs union of Russia and Kazakhstan has been running for more than three years, and the trade between the allies has increased rapidly. The trade volume between Kazakhstan and Russia and Belarus has increased from 12 billion 900 million US dollars in 2009 to 24 billion 400 million US dollars in 2013, an increase of 89.1%. The cancellation of chartered car package tax and the increase of import tariffs have a great impact on the export of tourist commodities in our region, which has been decreasing continuously since last year and 46.3% in the first quarter of this year. At the same time, the implementation of tariff and non-tariff barriers by major trading partners resulted in the reduction of 34.8% and 12.9% respectively in the export of automobiles and mechanical and electrical products in our region. Three, the transfer payment policy for border trade in the autonomous region has been suspended since the second half of 2012. Some local cities' support policies for the autonomous region and local governments failed to materialize in time, which affected the confidence of enterprises and the strong wait-and-see sentiment of enterprises. Four, the proportion of open industries in our economic structure is relatively small and the supporting capability is weak. There are still many difficulties in utilizing the resources of neighboring countries to carry out deep processing in our region. Plan to push ahead with six measures to promote growth

According to Xinjiang's foreign trade import and export cycle, the first half is the so-called "off-season". But considering the complex economic situation at home and abroad this year, it is expected that this year's foreign trade will fluctuate to varying degrees.

Huang Pingchao told reporters that the Autonomous Region Party committee and the people's government attached great importance to the import and export of foreign trade. According to the important instructions of the relevant leaders of the autonomous region, the Commerce Department of the autonomous region made in-depth analysis and research. In late March, it put forward eight key tasks in 2014, namely, to ensure the resumption of imports growth, ensure the rapid growth of the import volume and contract volume, strengthen foreign investment in the park, enhance the level of foreign capital utilization, promote the construction of overseas parks in the region, adjust the structure of the foreign trade, promote the development of border trade, improve the modern circulation network of agricultural products (000061, shares), and ensure the meat market.

"Six of these jobs involve foreign trade and are highly targeted." Huang Pingchao said that in order to ensure the resumption of imports growth, the autonomous region is formulating a new supporting policy to encourage imports of border trade as soon as possible, mobilizing the enthusiasm of the importing enterprises and further expanding the import of crude oil and other resources and energy products. The autonomous region also encourages the steady increase of the proportion of processing trade, the promotion of import processing of grain and cotton, and the expansion of imports of electromechanical products, new materials, key technologies and equipment.

Key enterprises, key prefectures, cities and autonomous regions especially encourage the strengthening of international trade and vigorously develop the market, such as actively supporting foreign trade enterprises such as Mustang, Sanbao and Xinbei to establish and improve overseas marketing and after-sales service systems, and form stable product sales channels and networks. 7 overseas exhibitions and organizations such as Kazakhstan China Export Commodities Fair and other overseas exhibitions and organizations will be set up to participate in the fair, Shenzhen high tech fair and other domestic exhibitions, and 9 international famous exhibition platforms such as the Caspian Sea (Baku) international oil and natural gas equipment exhibition and the French international food exhibition will be organized. In promoting exports, we should strive for policies and focus on key commodities.

Huang Pingchao stressed that the Commerce Department of the autonomous region is now supporting the relevant departments in alleviating the financial pressure of enterprises, lightening the burden of enterprises, helping enterprises cope with trade frictions, improving the safeguard mechanism of export credit risks and improving the level of trade facilitation. Adjusting structure to promote "going out" of enterprises

Although the foreign trade data of the first quarter are "not good-looking", there are still some bright spots, such as the narrowing of border trade and the growth of foreign capital in and out of commodities, especially in terms of foreign capital utilization and external engineering contracting.

Data show that: in the first quarter of this year, the utilization of foreign capital in our region increased by 20.1 times, and the actual utilization of foreign capital increased by 1%. The total number of foreign businesses contracted by local enterprises has reached 17 place in China, and the amount of new contracts has ranked 12 in the country. The actual external investment of non-financial enterprises ranks 19 in the country.

It is reported that in recent years, foreign trade and economic cooperation has become a new growth point for the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation in our region. At present, Xinjiang enterprises invest in more than 30 countries and regions. The average annual growth of overseas investment from 2009 to 2013 is 19.6%. Overseas construction projects mainly involve electricity, petroleum, transportation, construction and other fields, and the annual turnover of contracted projects increases by 30.7%.

The industry stressed that the domestic and international market environment is not good enough to change, but we can change and adjust ourselves, from a single trade to a combination of foreign trade and foreign trade, to promote foreign trade through external channels, that is, to use external contracting projects and foreign investment to boost exports of raw materials and finished products, and increase the total value of imports and exports.

In fact, in order to deal with the difficult situation of double declines in imports and exports, our region has taken vigorous action to vigorously promote economic and trade exchanges and cooperation with neighboring countries and regions.

In April 15th, the Republic of Tatar, Russian Federation, held an investment and Trade Promotion Conference in Urumqi. It was a face-to-face introduction of the investment environment and economic and trade policies of the Republic of Tatar in Xinjiang. It has conducted extensive and in-depth exchanges on cooperation in the fields of oil, natural gas, petrochemicals, electricity, energy and road construction.

In April 23rd, the Russian Federation Urumqi automotive economic and investment promotion conference was also held in Urumqi. The delegation has brought projects involving metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, fuel energy, agricultural products processing, tourism development and other projects to seek cooperation with Chinese enterprises in Ural. Among them, the "Urumqi Astana Chelyabinsk" international transportation logistics corridor project is a project jointly promoted by China, Russia and Kazakhstan. If built, it will further strengthen the cargo handling capacity of the Alashankou and Huoerguosi ports, integrate the logistics resources between Xinjiang and Russia, and then radiate to other parts of Russia and Europe.

Reporters learned from the parties concerned that it is expected that in June this year, the people's Government of the autonomous region will set up a group of Xinjiang enterprises to go to the Republic of Tatar, Russian Federation, and the state of car in the state of the city of the Republic of tarinstein. Cooperation project And intention. Positive response, only way out, reporter Liu Shan

according to International Monetary Fund Statistics and forecasts show that world trade volume increased by 2.5% and 3.1% respectively in 2012 and 2013, respectively, 0.6 percentage points lower than the world economic growth during the same period. The growth rate of world trade volume has not been higher than the economic growth for two consecutive years, the first time since 1984.

With the global trade shrinking and the economy severely affected, there is no big increase in external demand, and Xinjiang is not immune to it. Needless to say, Xinjiang is an underdeveloped region, the export oriented industry is weak in foundation, the export of local products accounts for only about 20% of the total volume, processing trade accounts for a relatively small proportion, and the surrounding countries and regions encounter such political and economic problems, which is even worse for our region's foreign trade and import and export. At the same time, the characteristics of the foreign trade industry also determine that it is bound to have "big waves and big movements" when it comes to "wind and grass".

Face Import and export What happens if trade goes down? Only by turning pressure into power can we only have a positive response.

With such a mental preparation, with the support of the Party committee and the people's Government of the autonomous region, the Department of Commerce and other departments of the autonomous region made preparations for the rainy day, and quickly introduced a series of measures to ensure that our region's foreign trade work is not prepared for war, from the following eight aspects: ensuring the resumption of imports growth, ensuring the rapid growth of the volume of turnover and the signing of contracts, strengthening foreign investment in the parks, promoting the utilization of foreign capital, promoting the construction of overseas parks, adjusting the structure and promoting the development of border trade, perfecting the modern circulation network of agricultural products, and ensuring the supply of meat dishes.

Although the foreign trade data of our region are not satisfactory in the first quarter of this year, but with these targeted and workable measures, the three quarter of this year and even the next year and the following year's foreign trade and import and export will have a great policy and clear direction. It is not a matter of finding problems before finding solutions to the problems. Instead, we need to ask questions and find answers with questions, no longer confused or hesitant, but targeted, without detours or useless.

"We cannot stand in an invincible position without fighting the war without preparation." Although the data of import and export must be supported by both internal and external environment, what we need to do is to change ourselves and make ourselves stronger and more confident, so as to enhance the internal and external influence and function. Only in this way can we master more initiative and discourse power.

The temporary difficulties encountered in foreign trade and import and export are not terrible. In the complex economic situation at home and abroad, we can only break through with positive responses.