Stable Foreign Trade Policy Will Have A Bright Future.

"A series of practical and effective policies and measures are being implemented or will be introduced."

Shen Danyang, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a regular press conference yesterday that in addition to taking positive policies and measures this year, the Ministry of Commerce will, in addition to taking some positive policies and measures, also take action from the system and mechanism, reduce the cost of foreign trade enterprises, broaden the financing channels and enhance trade facilitation.

Speaking of this year's foreign trade situation, Shen Danyang said that China's foreign trade this year will be more difficult and complex than last year. This conclusion is based on a census of the Ministry of Commerce.

And the difficulties of China's foreign trade are not temporary, but we still have advantages in foreign trade.

China's imports and exports continued to decline in the first two months of this year.

According to customs statistics, 1~2 months, the total import and export value of 3 trillion and 310 billion yuan, down 12.6% over the same period last year.

In February, the total value of imports and exports was 1 trillion and 430 billion yuan, a decrease of 15.7%, of which exports dropped by more than 20%.

"1~2 month trade figures do not represent this year's trend.

The new growth momentum of China's foreign trade is accumulating. It is estimated that the decline of China's foreign trade will be narrowed gradually after March, and it will be possible for foreign trade to stabilize.

Shen Danyang said that the difficulties of China's foreign trade are not short-term, but the fundamentals of foreign trade development have not changed.

Shen Danyang said that China and developed countries and developing countries still have strong complementarity in their industrial structure. The infrastructure is complete, the industry is complete and the business environment is continuously improving, and has strong comprehensive competitive advantages and comparative advantages.

In addition, the structure of foreign trade development has been continuously optimized, pformation and upgrading, and power pformation are accelerating.

Some enterprises focus on the main business, continue to innovate, cultivate their own brands, and increase overseas.

Construction and international competitiveness continue to improve.

Shen Danyang also said that a series of practical and effective policies and measures are being implemented or will be introduced, such as vigorously clearing up the import and export link fees, setting up a positive list of charges, further improving the level of trade facilitation, optimizing the structure of export tax rebate rate, ensuring timely and full tax refund, increasing the support for export credit insurance and financing, increasing the scale of short-term export credit insurance, ensuring the export financing insurance for complete sets of equipment, encouraging new business models such as cross-border electricity suppliers, and striving to cultivate new advantages in foreign trade competition.

"The Ministry of Commerce has specific and in-depth measures to promote every aspect, such as promotion.

In terms of innovation and development, the Ministry of Commerce will, in line with the work objectives set by the government work report, "stabilize the better", and do everything possible to promote steady growth of foreign trade in line with the new requirements of the new system of open economy.

To achieve excellence and excellence.

Shen Danyang said.

Data released at the press conference yesterday showed that the actual use of foreign capital amounted to 141 billion 880 million yuan in 1~2 months, an increase of 2.7% over the same period last year.

In terms of foreign investment, China's non-financial foreign direct investment was 195 billion 970 million yuan in the first two months, an increase of 71.8% over the same period last year.

For foreign investment policy, Shen Danyang said that the Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote restrictions on foreign investment in financial, educational, cultural and other service sectors, and further liberalize the general manufacturing industry.

We should promote the implementation of various measures for the comprehensive opening up of Beijing's service sector, and do a good job in implementing the relevant policies on the liberalization of trade in services between Hong Kong and Macau in the mainland, and expand the depth and breadth of the opening of services.

The Ministry of Commerce will revise the catalogue of industries with foreign investment advantages in the central and western regions, and guide more foreign investment to the central and western regions.

We should innovate the opening mode of the inland border areas, accelerate the construction of the "three mutual" customs clearance along the inland coastal areas, and support the development and opening up of key border areas such as the border economic cooperation zone and the cross border economic cooperation zone.