Interpretation Of The Executive Meeting Of The State Council To Strengthen New Import Measures

Held on 29 th.

The executive meeting has deployed policies and measures to strengthen imports.

Industry experts pointed out that the meeting should take into account both the immediate and long-term perspective. Through policy guidance and service promotion, strengthening the import of technology, products and services is conducive to achieving balanced and balanced development of foreign trade, and also helps to make up for the short board in China's advanced technology and raw materials. While meeting the production and living needs of the country, it is also conducive to promoting economic optimization and upgrading.

Since the second half of this year, the international market has been warmer and steadily.

With continuous efforts and other factors, China's export growth has steadily increased, but imports have always been at a low level, and 782 months or even negative year-on-year growth.

The monthly surplus of China's foreign trade is also expanding because of the low import. It has hit a record high. In August, the surplus value in the month was nearly 50 billion US dollars, an increase of 77.8% over the same period last year.

Shen Danyang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said that the recent weak import situation was mainly caused by the low price of international commodities such as iron ore and copper. The adjustment of economic structure and elimination of backward production capacity in China had an impact on the weakening of import demand for energy resources, the slowdown in processing trade, and the reduction in the pulling effect of exports on imports.

He said that China did not seek a favorable balance and hoped that trade could achieve a balanced development. Therefore, efforts should be made to expand imports while paying attention to expanding exports. In the first half of the year, the general office of the State Council put forward a number of opinions on supporting steady growth of foreign trade, while stabilizing export growth and putting forward explicit requirements for further strengthening imports.

"The development of foreign trade which has been expanding continuously in recent months is unbalanced and unsustainable."

Liu Xuezhi, a researcher at Bank of communications Financial Research Center, said that the low import pressure not only caused pressure on the balanced development of foreign trade, but also affected the balance of payments in China and brought the pressure of RMB appreciation.

The meeting confirmed that the import of advanced technology and equipment and key components should be encouraged.

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Environmental services and other high-end producer services imports.

We should stabilize the import of domestic resources and increase the import of general consumer goods, such as beef, mutton and aquatic products, which are closely related to people's lives.

Wang Jun, Vice Minister of consultation and Research Department of China International Economic Exchange Center, said that at present, China's economy is gradually getting rid of its dependence on investment and external demand, and the path of innovation driven is not only independent innovation, but also the introduction of advanced international technology.

The target of encouraging imports is very targeted, including advanced technology and equipment, key components and high-end producer services, just in line with the current domestic industry pformation and upgrading requirements.

The domestic market also has strong demand for consumer imports.

According to the data from the Ministry of Commerce, China's final consumer goods imports account for only 5% of the total imports, compared with an average of around 20% in the world.

Insiders said that the reasonable increase in the import of general consumer goods closely related to people's life can not only enrich the market supply, but also stabilize the market price.

The meeting proposed that the import management should be facilitated.

We will make an appointment for customs clearance within 24 hours and holidays, and speed up the automatic import license management.

The conference also explicitly set up an import trade platform, and under the principle of fair competition, use the new mode of cross-border e-commerce to increase imports.

According to Shen Danyang, at present, the Ministry of Commerce has cancelled the automatic import license of five categories of 81 products, such as CD-ROM production equipment and automobile products, etc., and is actively carrying out the "single window" trial of international trade with the customs and other departments, promoting the automatic import license without paper, and accelerating the cultivation of national import trade to promote the innovation demonstration zone.

"Optimizing the service of customs clearance provides convenience for enterprises, and undoubtedly creates favorable conditions for stimulating imports."

Liu Xuezhi said.

But he also said that the fundamental improvement of imports ultimately depends on the recovery of market demand, and the government mainly plays the role of policy guidance and service promotion.

Considering the low price of commodity prices in the international market, it is still very difficult for the import growth to increase significantly in the next few years. The key is to seize the opportunity to deepen the reform in an all-round way, accelerate the pformation of the mode of economic development, and foster the endogenous driving force of the economy.