It Is Still A Long Way To Go From A Foreign Trade Power To A Trade Power.

"Moving from a major foreign trade to a strong trading power" is the goal of China's foreign trade optimization and upgrading in the next five years, put forward by the "13th Five-Year plan" proposal.

In view of the profound changes in the international and domestic economic situation in recent years, facing the new challenges and opportunities, China's foreign trade development must walk on two legs. While consolidating the status of traditional manufacturing centers and traditional trade giants, we should focus on enhancing the value chain of foreign trade, and promote foreign trade to the middle and high-end level.

Under the superposition of multiple factors such as shrinking external demand, slowing domestic demand and increasing comprehensive costs, China's foreign trade growth this year has dropped to its lowest level since 2009.

According to Bai Ming, deputy director of the international market research department of the Ministry of Commerce, from the external environment, external demand is sluggish. From the internal factors, the weakening of traditional competitive advantage is faster than the formation of new advantages in foreign trade competition. Therefore, it is difficult for China's foreign trade situation to be fundamentally reversed in a short time.

The "13th Five-Year plan" proposal is clear, innovative in the development mode of foreign trade, strengthening the construction of marketing and after-sales service network, enhancing the competitiveness of traditional competitive products, consolidating the share of export market, promoting the pformation of foreign trade to high quality, high price, superior and superior, and expanding the new export leading industries such as equipment manufacturing.

In fact, the development of service trade will objectively open up more space for the expansion of trade in goods and the level of improvement.

"The development of China's manufacturing industry must be accompanied by the follow up of related services."

Bai Ming, for example, told reporters, "for example, with the improvement of the technological content of China's export commodities, our future will be

Not only to keep up, but also need more after-sales service outsourcing as a guarantee.

This can create opportunities for the development of China's service trade, and the development of service trade will also escort the development of China's cargo trade.

Lu Dong, deputy general manager of China Export and Credit Insurance Corp Shanghai branch, judged that China is pushing forward vigorously.

There will be huge room for development in the pformation and upgrading of the service industry. During the "13th Five-Year" period, we will actively participate in the international market competition by expanding the scale and proportion of foreign trade in services, thereby enhancing the efficiency of resource allocation and promoting the rapid development of domestic service trade.

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Li Jian, director of the Institute of technology, predicts that the average annual growth rate of China's foreign trade will be flat during the period of 13th Five-Year, which is slightly higher than that of 12th Five-Year.

By 2020, the total import and export volume of China's trade in goods will exceed US $6 trillion, and the total import and export volume of trade in services will exceed US $1 trillion, and the proportion of service trade in foreign trade will further increase.

Bai Ming pointed out three major efforts to raise the added value of export products: first, we need to work hard to pform the development mode of foreign trade, accelerate the pformation from the traditional competitive advantage to the new advantages of foreign trade, especially increase the added value and technical content of export commodities, pay more attention to the proportion of product design and creativity in the price composition; two, work hard to expand the international market space, including speeding up the implementation of the "one belt and one road" initiative, speeding up the construction of China's free trade area network, gradually changing from the participants to the leader; three, working hard on the basis of consolidating the industry, not only to increase the R & D efforts, but also to emphasize the interaction between R & D and manufacturing, manufacturing and marketing.

Wen Bin, chief economist at Minsheng Bank, said that the foreign trade strategy during the 13th Five-Year period is closely related to the process of domestic economic restructuring.

China has a world-class competitiveness in the field of high-speed rail, nuclear power and some high-end equipment manufacturing. With the pformation from "made in China" to "made in China", the proportion of exports of high value-added products will also rise.

In addition, compared with trade in goods, China's service trade has lagged behind and concentrated on the low and middle sectors.

Wen bin frankly said that the proportion of China's service trade in foreign trade is about 10%, which has a big gap compared with the proportion of 20% in developed countries. Therefore, improving the scale and quality of China's service trade has become a top priority for promoting the pformation and upgrading of trade.