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Anchoring Stable Quality And Quantity, China'S Foreign Trade Has Made A Good Start

2024/3/21 15:43:00 6

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At the time when the NPC and CPPCC were drawing up a new blueprint for economic development, China's foreign trade presented a commendable report card. Recently, the latest data released by the General Administration of Customs showed that the scale of China's import and export of goods in the first two months of this year hit a record high in the same period, and foreign trade made a good start. According to customs statistics, China's total import and export value of goods trade in the first two months was 6.61 trillion yuan, up 8.7% year on year. Among them, exports reached 3.75 trillion yuan, up 10.3%; Imports reached 2.86 trillion yuan, up 6.7%.

As one of the "troikas" driving economic growth, the good start of China's foreign trade has injected new impetus into China's economic success this year. This year's government work report made it clear to promote the quality and quantity of foreign trade to be stable, and made relevant arrangements. During the NPC and CPPCC sessions, many delegates focused on the "new three types", emerging markets, new business types and new models when they were interviewed by the International Business Daily, and actively offered suggestions to speed up the cultivation of new drivers of foreign trade and promote high-quality development of foreign trade.

The scale of import and export hit a record high in the same period

Lv Daliang, Director of the Department of Statistics and Analysis of the General Administration of Customs, said that China's trade in goods in the first two months continued the positive trend since the fourth quarter of last year, with year-on-year growth for five consecutive months, and the scale of imports and exports hit a record high in the same period. The growth rate was 7.1 percentage points faster than that in the fourth quarter of last year, achieving a good start.

It is particularly noteworthy that since this year, against the background of increasing complexity, severity and uncertainty of the external environment, China's export has achieved double-digit growth by virtue of its innovation ability and product quality, and its competitive advantage has been further consolidated. Taking advantageous products such as automobiles, household appliances and ships for example, the export of the first two months has increased by 15.8%, 24.3% and 180.6% respectively.

At the same time, the first two months coincided with the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival holiday, and domestic consumer demand was strong, driving imports to continue the positive momentum: imports totaled 2.86 trillion yuan, up 6.7% year on year.

From the perspective of trade partners, diversified economic and trade cooperation is increasingly close. In the first two months, ASEAN was China's largest trading partner, and China's import and export to ASEAN reached 993.24 billion yuan, up 8.1%; The import and export to the "Belt and Road" countries reached 3.13 trillion yuan, up 9% year on year, accounting for 47.3% of China's total import and export value; Import and export to the five Central Asian countries reached 95.09 billion yuan, up 26%; Import and export to other RCEP member countries reached 1.94 trillion yuan, up 3.5%.

As the main force of China's foreign trade, private enterprises are full of vitality. In the first two months, the import and export of private enterprises reached 3.61 trillion yuan, up 17.7% year on year, accounting for 54.6% of China's total import and export value, 4.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year.

As an important automobile city in China, Chongqing automobile enterprises, led by Chang'an Automobile and Celis Automobile, have made a breakthrough in the market by constantly transforming and upgrading, improving product quality and under the background of accelerating the development of intelligent connected new energy vehicles in Chongqing. In 2023, the output of new energy vehicles in Chongqing will exceed 500000, and the export of vehicles will increase by 51.9%.

"The top-level design has promoted the vigorous development of the new energy automobile industry." Zhu Huarong, deputy to the National People's Congress and secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Chongqing Chang'an Automobile Co., Ltd., said that it is necessary to constantly improve the automobile industry chain, speed up the innovative development of automatic driving, Internet of Vehicles, intelligent applications and other fields, introduce advanced technology and management experience, and help local automobile brands to speed up their export to the sea.

Efforts to develop new quality productivity have been put on the agenda of Chang'an Automobile. "We will take independent innovation as the starting point, firmly adhere to the development direction of high-end, intelligent and green, continue to promote the globalization strategy, and constantly improve product competitiveness," said Zhu Huarong.

Zhang Xinghai, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and founder of Celis Group Co., Ltd., also made suggestions to better help China's new energy vehicles sail to the sea. He said that it is necessary to conduct in-depth research on overseas spare parts enterprises, hoping to provide financial, taxation and financial support for potential and active overseas spare parts enterprises, especially private spare parts enterprises, encourage high-quality supply chain to go overseas, develop in coordination with high-quality automobile enterprises overseas, and give play to the comprehensive competitiveness of Chinese automobile in the supply side, manufacturing side and product side. In addition, relevant departments should promote international mutual recognition of vehicle carbon footprint accounting standards, methods and data, especially strengthen low-carbon development cooperation with the EU, and break through carbon emission related barriers for China's new energy vehicles to export to Europe.

To help accelerate the development of "cross-border e-commerce+industrial belt"

In the context of the current complex and severe foreign trade situation, cross-border e-commerce and other new formats and new models have become an important starting point for stabilizing foreign trade. This year's government work report proposed that we should "promote the healthy development of cross-border e-commerce and other new businesses, and optimize the layout of overseas warehouses".

Relevant departments also proposed to take multiple measures to continue to cultivate cross-border e-commerce as a new foreign trade momentum this year. For example, the Ministry of Commerce will promote cross-border e-commerce exports, introduce Several Measures to Expand Cross border E-commerce Exports and Promote the Development of Overseas Warehouses, and develop "cross-border e-commerce+industrial belt".

"The combination of cross-border e-commerce and the development of the industrial belt not only meets the development needs of enterprises themselves, but also shows an important direction of industrial upgrading. For the industrial belt, cross-border e-commerce can not only open up broader sales channels and achieve more diversified business models, but also promote the upgrading of a considerable number of traditional foreign trade enterprises in digital, information and automation." Zhang Yichen, member of the CPPCC National Committee and chairman and CEO of CITIC Capital, said that to this end, we should vigorously support a number of cross-border e-commerce entities with strong growth, driving force and great market potential to carry out integrated development of trade and industry. At the same time, we will accelerate the cultivation of a number of supporting enterprises and institutions for brand planning and promotion, logistics, cloud computing, and legal services.

Zhang Yichen also suggested that, on the one hand, we should continue to strengthen the construction of trade facilitation, continue to improve the business environment, and strengthen the business guidance for cross-border e-commerce; On the other hand, actively carry out international cooperation in cross-border e-commerce to create a good external environment for cross-border e-commerce enterprises to explore the international market.

"CITIC Capital is firmly optimistic about the potential of Chinese enterprises going to sea." Zhang Yichen revealed that, next, CITIC Capital will continue to empower enterprises going to sea by using its own ecological resources, cross-border trading experience and overseas localization operation capabilities, forming a good synergy effect, and contributing to Chinese enterprises going to sea.

Overseas warehouse is an important overseas node of cross-border e-commerce and a new type of foreign trade infrastructure. How can we further boost the high-quality development of overseas warehouse and accelerate more "Made in China" to the world? Focusing on a series of links from construction to management of overseas warehouses, Ye Zhengbo, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Jiusan Society, proposed to reasonably plan the global layout of overseas warehouses from the perspective of sustainable development, strengthen the layout of emerging markets, strengthen the layout of overseas warehouses in emerging markets such as countries co built along the "Belt and Road", and expand international markets Link global resource elements to consolidate the foundation.

Groups of detailed data and vivid examples show that China's foreign trade has strong resilience, great potential and sufficient vitality, and is more confident and confident in promoting the quality and quantity of foreign trade.