China'S Foreign Trade Situation Report (Spring 2019) Released

Recently, it was learned that the Ministry of Commerce and the international trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute jointly issued the "China's foreign trade situation report (spring 2019)" (hereinafter referred to as the "report").

The report reviewed the operation of China's foreign trade in the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019, and analyzed the development environment of China's foreign trade in 2019.

In 2018, China's foreign trade improved steadily and steadily, and the scale of import and export of goods trade reached a new high. The quality and efficiency were further enhanced, and its contribution to the national economy was further enhanced.

The status of the second largest trade in goods and trade in services has been consolidated, and the process of trade power has been accelerated.

In the first quarter of 2019, China's foreign trade remained stable and its structure continued to be optimized.

The report believes that the current environment for foreign trade development is more complex, more uncertain and more risky.

World economic growth slowed down and trade protectionism continued to heat up.

The downward pressure on domestic economy still exists, and some structural problems need to be solved urgently.

More efforts should be made to achieve the goal of stabilizing and improving the quality of foreign trade.

At the same time, we must also see that the fundamentals of China's long-term economic development have not changed, and the internal driving force of foreign trade has been continuously strengthened, and the foundation for high-quality development has continued to consolidate.

The policy effect will continue to emerge with the support of foreign trade in stabilizing scale, improving quality and changing momentum.

The report points out that the Ministry of Commerce will continue to pay close attention to the implementation of the stable foreign trade policy in accordance with the decision making plan of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, further implement the plan of action for trade power, and constantly promote the "five optimization" and "three constructions", promote the diversification of export markets, guide the pformation and upgrading of processing trade, pfer to the central and western regions, optimize the import structure, actively expand imports, carefully manage the second China International Import fair, promote the stable and quality improvement of foreign trade, and welcome the establishment of 70th anniversary in People's Republic of China with excellent results, making new contributions to the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and achieving the goal of "two one hundred years".