The Fundamentals Of Foreign Trade Remain Unchanged, And The Level Of Foreign Capital Utilization Will Be Improved.

In 2016, China's foreign trade situation is still grim and complicated, but the new kinetic energy of foreign trade growth is accumulating. It is expected that foreign trade will develop towards a good trend after March, and the rate of decline will gradually narrow.

Shen Danyang also said that the domestic consumer market in China was stable throughout the year from January to February. The total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5 trillion and 300 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2% over the same period last year.

In the first two months of this year, China's imports and exports have declined considerably. Many people are pessimistic about China's foreign trade this year.

In response, Shen Danyang said that the decline in data reflects that the demand for the international market is still very weak, but at the same time, this year's foreign trade work is also facing many favorable conditions. We still have confidence in completing the task of foreign trade development.

From the international situation, the International Monetary Fund and the world bank and other authoritative institutions generally lowered the global economic growth rate in 2016 to the lowest level in 6 years.

The prices of international commodities and raw materials continued to decline, still lingering low, the situation in some areas was turbulent, trade protectionism was rising, and trade frictions increased.

From the domestic situation, the factor cost of enterprises continues to rise, the traditional competitive advantage of foreign trade weakens, fixed asset investment continues to slow down, import demand decreases, especially the pfer of industries and orders is accelerating. The export of processing trade has declined for 12 consecutive months, exceeding the level of international financial crisis, which indicates that the difficulties of foreign trade are not short-term.

Shen Danyang stressed that the fundamentals of China's foreign trade development have not changed.

A series of strong policy measures are being implemented or will be introduced. For example, we should vigorously clean up the import and export link fees, formulate a positive list of charges, further improve the level of trade facilitation, optimize the export tax rebate rate structure, ensure timely and full tax rebates, increase export credit insurance and financing support, increase the scale of short-term export credit insurance, guarantee the export financing insurance for complete sets of equipment, encourage innovation in new business models such as cross-border electricity suppliers, and strive to foster new advantages in foreign trade competition.

In the first two months of this year, the domestic consumer market was generally stable, and the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5 trillion and 300 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2% over the same period last year, a 0.5 percentage point slower than the same period last year, and a 9.6% increase in real terms after deducting price factors.

According to the Ministry of Commerce, sales of 5000 key retail enterprises increased 3.3% in the first two months, 1.4 percentage points slower than the same period last year.

More Than This,

Continue to speed up.

From January to February, the national food and beverage revenue increased by 11.3% over the same period last year, 0.1 percentage points faster than the same period last year, of which 6.4% of the above quota unit's Restaurant income increased by 1.3 percentage points; the national box office had accumulated more than 11 billion 200 million yuan; in February, the box office nearly 6 billion 900 million yuan, refreshed the monthly box office record, and for the first time surpassed the North American market to become the world's first.

During the golden week of the Spring Festival, the number of tourist trips increased by 15.6% over the same period last year, and tourism revenue increased by 16.3% over the same period last year.

Real estate heating has led to the growth of related consumption.

From January to February, the number of household and building materials in the above quota units increased by 16.4% and 14.9% respectively, up 4 and 2.4 percentage points respectively over the same period last year.

It is particularly noteworthy that consumer prices have continued to rise.

From January to February, consumer prices rose 2% over the same period, or 0.9 percentage points over the same period last year.

Among them, in February rose 2.3%, or 4 consecutive months of recovery.

In the first two months of this year, China's actual use of foreign capital was 141 billion 880 million yuan.

An increase of 2.7% over the same period last year.

Speaking of foreign capital utilization, Shen Danyang said that despite the new challenges, China will further improve its utilization.

Our country has always been an attractive attraction for foreign investment and full of confidence.

According to the joint China World Trade Center conference, the prospect of global direct investment in 2016 is not optimistic, and China will inevitably be affected.

In fact, with the rising cost of domestic production factors, China's traditional advantages of attracting foreign capital have been gradually weakened, while the developed countries have implemented the strategy of "re industrialization", and developing countries have increased the preferential treatment of attracting foreign investment. The new situation has raised new challenges for China to raise the level of foreign capital utilization.

Shen Danyang said that China will do everything possible to create a fairer, more pparent and predictable investment environment, and further improve the level of foreign capital utilization.

It is reported that the Ministry of Commerce will further promote the relaxation of investment access, deepen the reform of foreign capital management system, optimize the layout of foreign investment areas, improve the level of construction of the free trade pilot zone, innovate the institutional mechanism of the state-level economic and technological development zones, and improve the investment environment according to the international high standards, and make effective efforts to make use of foreign investment this year.

For example, we 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 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.

We should further strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, improve the complaint mechanism of foreign-invested enterprises, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of investors.