We Should Try Our Best To Stabilize Foreign Trade And Foreign Investment And Promote Consumption.

On May 18th, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference, and the Minister of Commerce, Zijin Mountain, introduced the basic foreign trade and foreign investment base to promote the development of high quality business. Zijin Mountain said that the global epidemic is spreading and the demand for the international market has dropped dramatically. China's foreign trade faces unprecedented challenges this year. The Ministry of Commerce will do its best to stabilize foreign trade in accordance with the requirements of the Central Committee's "six guarantees" and "six guarantees".

Stabilize foreign trade and foreign capital

The global epidemic is spreading and the demand for the international market is declining. China's foreign trade faces unprecedented challenges this year. A series of measures put forward by the Ministry of Commerce for reducing bankruptcy and stable foreign trade orders include: first, helping enterprises overcome difficulties, such as fiscal revenue and financial insurance, etc.; two, optimizing the layout of international market and improving the trade relations with the countries along the "one belt and one road"; and three, it is a new mode of cultivating new trade patterns. We should accelerate the pilot project by means of cross-border electricity suppliers and market purchasing trade, especially from the original 59 to 105. We must support the development of new industries and cultivate new kinetic energy of foreign trade, so that these new models and new industries will become a new bright spot in the development of foreign trade.

In this regard, the head of the macro regional research team of the Bank of China think tank should accept the "China made news" reporter interview, said that in the face of the impact of the epidemic, the Chinese government adopted a series of measures to reduce the bankruptcy and stable foreign trade orders. From the results, the import and export of the former April decreased by 4.9% compared with the same period last year. Compared with the decline in investment and consumption, the import and export is relatively stable. These measures have achieved good results. However, as the epidemic continues to spread around the world longer than in China and causes some countries to rebounded against globalization, it is predicted that the impact of the epidemic on foreign trade may be longer than the impact on consumption and investment.

At the same time, Pang Chaoran, an associate researcher of the Ministry of Commerce and international trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute, told the "China made news" reporter that the stable foreign trade measures put forward by the Ministry of Commerce played a positive role in promoting stable recovery of foreign trade: first, stable production and operation. The establishment of a linkage system for key foreign trade enterprises has solved the difficulties and problems faced by foreign trade enterprises in terms of production and operation, reduced the operation cost of enterprises and stabilized the production and operation of foreign trade enterprises. Two, stable orders and steady expectations. Policies and measures help foreign trade enterprises to stabilize orders by promoting the coordination of upstream and downstream industries, facilitating customs clearance, encouraging exports to domestic sales, and encouraging online business activities. While promoting the resumption of foreign trade enterprises, the capacity utilization ratio has been improved, and the confidence of foreign trade enterprises has been stabilized. The three is to optimize the business environment and help enterprises to reduce institutional transaction costs. Through further strengthening the reform of domestic business environment, promoting the opening of the pilot Free Trade Zone, promoting the trade facilitation and so on, it has created a favorable external environment for the operation and development of foreign trade enterprises, and has played a positive role in stabilizing the basic foreign trade market.

In the context of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, for foreign trade enterprises how to save themselves, we should suggest that for foreign trade enterprises, we need to make full preparations from the following aspects: first, we should actively seek to transform domestic demand into domestic demand; two, we should actively expand areas such as Southeast Asia, "along the way" along the line, and other areas affected by the epidemic; and three, appropriately reduce the level of inventory and debt. The four is to actively use financial and insurance means to avoid risks; the five is to actively seek financial and tax relief and subsidies.

"For enterprises, on the one hand, we should continue to work hard to open up the international market, and promote the deep march into the local market through cross-border electricity suppliers, market purchases and new trade patterns such as comprehensive services, and strive to directly connect with the terminal demand. On the other hand, we should actively promote exports to domestic sales, and make full use of the potential of the domestic market to ensure stable operation of production and operation." Pang Chao ran added.

Multiple initiatives to promote consumption

It is noteworthy that the consumer market has begun to pick up recently, and what measures will the Ministry of Commerce take to promote consumption next year? Zijin Mountain said that China is the second largest consumer market in the world, and consumption has been the first driving force for economic growth for 6 consecutive years. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China regards the expansion of domestic demand as a major strategy. The Ministry of commerce should work hard to expand domestic demand and promote consumption.

First, create a "15 minute convenience life circle". There are many convenience stores in China, but the overall level is not high. There are only 13 000 chain convenience stores in the country. The number is still far from enough to meet the needs of people's lives. Next, we should focus on optimizing the layout and facilitate the development of convenience store chains. There is also the vegetable market. There are many large and small vegetable farms in the community, but there are good or bad, and the overall level is not high. The next step is to promote standardization of vegetable market, improve environment, enrich variety and improve quality.

Two is to promote the transformation and upgrading of pedestrian street. The pedestrian street has great influence on the consumption of the city, and the demonstration is also very strong. By the end of 2018, the Ministry of Commerce launched 11 pilot projects for upgrading and upgrading pedestrian street in China, and achieved fairly good results. The total traffic volume of 11 pedestrian streets exceeded 900 million passengers last year, an increase of 22.6%, and realized operating income of 125 billion yuan, an increase of 17%. Next, we will launch the second batch of pilot projects, and strive to build pedestrian street into a platform for upgrading consumption, a carrier for high quality development and a window for opening to the outside world.

Three is the development of life service industry. In recent years, the life service industry has developed rapidly. The impact of the epidemic on catering and housekeeping services is very large. In the first 4 months, the catering revenue has dropped by 41%, and the domestic service has also declined significantly. We should help these enterprises overcome difficulties and tide over the difficulties and promote the development of these industries. The catering industry is both a traditional industry and a sunrise industry. China's food and beverage industry has huge potential for development and space for development. The catering industry accounts for 11% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods in China, and employs 21 million people. We must vigorously support the development of catering industry and promote the catering industry to become more green, healthy and safe. Another key point is the development of the household service industry, which is linked to the rural areas and the cities and towns. The resources of our domestic service are very rich, there is a large number of labor force in the rural areas, and there is a large demand for the city. Last year, the income of domestic service industry exceeded RMB 690 billion yuan. Next, we must continue to do this work well. The Ministry of Commerce has set up a credit platform for household service, aiming at regulating the business behavior of domestic enterprises, ensuring the rights and interests of domestic workers better, and serving urban families better.

In view of this, it should be written that the main idea of the consumption measures proposed by the Ministry of commerce is to follow the trend of consumption upgrading, create an excellent consumption environment and improve the consumption experience of residents. Compared with traditional means such as subsidies and consumption vouchers, these measures are based on the long term and are long-term mechanisms to promote consumption. In the view of Pang Chao ran, promoting the transformation of pedestrian street is an important measure to actively expand domestic demand and promote consumption. Upgrading and promoting the development of the life service industry through the transformation of pedestrian street helps to promote the transformation of old business circles, accelerate the development of new formats of consumption upgrading, create smart blocks, promote the integration of business and tourism, promote the construction of new business cards of the city's image, and promote the sustained and healthy development of the domestic market.

In the context of the global spread of the epidemic, the demand for the international market is decreasing. Therefore, it is particularly important to expand domestic demand and promote domestic consumption. For the measures to expand domestic demand and promote domestic consumption, Pang Chao ran said that demand and supply are important ends of the economy. While promoting domestic consumption demand and focusing on stimulating the actual and effective demand of the market, we should also actively introduce policies and measures at the supply side to promote steady increase in residents' income, effectively protect employment, increase tax reduction and negative burden, and improve the basic livelihood security so as to provide a strong guarantee for the steady and steady growth of consumption.

"With regard to expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption, our government has introduced more comprehensive measures and suggestions. I add two points: first, it is suggested to revitalize the housing provident fund, expand the scope of application of the provident fund, shorten the extraction cycle, increase the income of residents and promote consumption; two, it is suggested to call the national social security fund to accumulate funds, to cover the people's livelihood security, and to subsidize uninsured unemployed persons who are affected by the epidemic situation, but do not meet the conditions of receiving unemployment insurance or unemployment benefits, and are affected by the epidemic. It affects the graduating college graduates who are temporarily unemployed. " It should be added to the text.