Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment is an important part of the "six stability" measures, and it is also an important work to coordinate the advancement of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development. Nowadays, many places are reclassifying and resuming production precisely and zonally. Relatively speaking, some foreign-funded foreign trade companies involve more complicated links than domestic sales and face more difficulties. How to stabilize the basic foreign trade market? General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that in the process of expanding opening to the outside world, it is necessary to promote the resumption of work and production, strive to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, and open up a diversified international market. It is necessary to do a good job of ensuring the resumption of production and production of leading enterprises and maintain the stability of the global supply chain. Jiangsu is a big foreign trade province. How does this respond to the big test?

Suzhou Industrial Park is an important cooperative project between China and Singapore. From its establishment in 1994 to 2019, the park has created a total of more than US $ 1 trillion in import and export value for the country. A total of 84 Fortune 500 companies have invested in 131 projects in the park, which plays an important role in the global industrial chain. After the Spring Festival, due to the impact of the epidemic, many foreign employees in the park were unable to return to work on time. Since the products of these foreign-funded foreign trade companies are mostly sold abroad, if the order cannot be completed as planned, it will directly impact the international market. This makes companies very anxious, and they can't solve it by themselves. At this critical time, the Suzhou Municipal Government extended a helping hand.

After learning that many foreign-funded foreign trade enterprises in Suzhou are facing the problem of foreign employees being unable to return to work, the Suzhou Municipal Government immediately dispatched employees to return to work by using special trains, buses, and special planes. Just a train on March 1, 453 employees of 109 enterprises in Suzhou Industrial Park were picked up on time. But when people come back, where they live is a problem again. Tang Qilin is an operator of an enterprise in the park. His original dormitory was temporarily unable to move in due to epidemic prevention and control. After the company urgently sought help from Suzhou Industrial Park, he arranged a place for him the same day.

Even if employees return to work, Tang Qilin's company still cannot start construction immediately. Because from production materials to catering and distribution, its supply chain involves hundreds of companies. In other words, if this company wants to resume work, hundreds of companies related to it will have to resume work, and the difficulty of coordination can be imagined. Yang Jun's company is a downstream company that cleans and transports waste for this company every day, because of lack of epidemic prevention materials, it cannot start construction.

Wang Ming, General Manager of this Electronic Technology Co., Ltd .: We are a multinational group with huge advantages in purchasing around the world, so we can get a lot of epidemic prevention materials in the first place. We also provide to upstream and downstream suppliers so that they can resume work and production as soon as possible. Not only can we ensure the continuity of our production, but also pass on the confidence of our downstream suppliers to fight the epidemic and overcome the difficulties together. "

In this way, upstream and downstream enterprises helped each other and went through the difficulties together. At present, the production and operation of this company has basically entered the right track. In the Suzhou Industrial Park, foreign-funded foreign trade companies need to resume work and resume production while preventing and controlling epidemics. Every morning at the factory gate, employees have to take temperature measurements, wash their hands, and scan two QR codes. One is to report the daily health status, and the other is to verify the list of returning employees.

There are many foreign-funded foreign trade companies such as Suzhou Industrial Park. In order to solve various problems they encountered in the process of resuming production and restarting, the park lists the service list of the enterprise supply chain, communicates one by one, and establishes a tracking and docking mechanism to ensure There is a response to corporate demands.

In this way, through enterprise self-help, mutual assistance, and strong government assistance, many foreign-funded foreign trade companies in Suzhou Industrial Park and their partners finally resumed production in the short term. Products are continuously produced and shipped worldwide through customs. In order to improve the efficiency of customs clearance, the Suzhou Industrial Park Customs has opened up a green channel for foreign trade enterprises, and provides "fastest customs clearance" services for import and export.

Because of the close and efficient cooperation between the local government and enterprises, Suzhou's foreign trade exports continue to advance steadily despite the difficulties. This has also won high praise from foreign businessmen.

Francois Barbier, Global Operations President of an American company: The Chinese government has taken timely and effective response measures to respond to the epidemic. We firmly support China's efforts to control the epidemic and restore the economy. The Group is confident in the Chinese market and will continue to Will continue our strategic plan in China.

Wangting Town is more than 40 kilometers away from Suzhou Industrial Park. As early as the 1990s, Wangting Town became a "star town" due to the gathering of foreign trade enterprises. Zhongyi Teng Molding Technology Co., Ltd. is a Chinese-funded export-oriented enterprise mainly engaged in the research and development and production of precision injection products and molds. The outbreak has also had a significant impact on them. Originally, their products were mainly exported, but on the third day of January 27th, Zhongyi Teng suddenly received an urgent notice requesting the production of respirator shell components to temporarily supply Hubei with a severe epidemic situation. But it was the Spring Festival, and the company had only 5 employees.

Although there are only 5 employees, the time is short. Everyone has been producing for more than 20 hours, and the daily output has been mentioned from more than 2,600 units. Although the product was produced, there was no way to deliver it, and the driver had not yet returned from the field. They sought government coordination and found two local drivers who drove delivery.

After unremitting efforts, on February 7, more than 20,000 sets of respirator components required by the Hubei front line were finally supplied as scheduled. After completing the domestic expedited order, Zhongyi Teng returned to the original foreign trade track. At this time, the most urgent thing is to pick up foreign employees. Employees return to work, the government has transportation subsidies, 300 employees in the province and 500 employees outside the province. Employees returned after government approval are specially packaged in hotels for quarantine to avoid cross-infection of returning employees and existing employees.

Although production was resumed, the original export route could not be passed due to epidemic prevention and control. Zhongyi Teng is an export-oriented enterprise. In addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, customers include Hungary, Thailand, and Bulgaria along the “Belt and Road” countries. The failure to export products will directly affect the supply to these countries.

Jiang Lifang, Business Manager of Zhongyi Teng Molding Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd .: There is a Japanese customer who originally produced the parts for us and delivered them to their domestic company for assembly and export. However, on February 17, their domestic branch has not yet resumed work, so we exported these parts directly to Japan for assembly.

However, export products need to be equipped with export packaging. They cannot be shipped without new packaging, and they find the government again.

Wang Xueqin, deputy director of Wangting Town Investment Promotion Center: After getting this news, he quickly searched the surrounding related resources, and finally found a suitable supplier in Huanghua Town to help the company solve this problem.

The product was finally produced as required, but the delivery was in trouble again. Because Zhongyi Teng's export products are shipped by the shipping company designated by the customer to Shanghai Ocean Mountain Port, and then exported. However, from Suzhou to Shanghai during the epidemic, what can I do if it is impossible to pass without formalities? The government then sent a pass.

Wang Xueqin, deputy director of Wangting Town Merchants Center: This pass was produced by the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce and the traffic police detachment on February 10. We went to the district to collect 2,100 permits, and issued these passes to all companies that night. Before that, we had already counted the needs of enterprises.

After getting the freight pass, Zhongyi Teng more than 300,000 pieces of goods finally shipped to Japan as scheduled. In the process of returning to work and production, many enterprises in Wangting Town have encountered various difficulties like Zhongyi Teng. Enterprises are in a hurry, governments are in a hurry. In order to solve everyone's problems, on February 24, Wangting Town specially held a seminar to focus on the office.

Gu Min, Secretary of the Party Committee of Wangting Town, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City: Both epidemic prevention and resumption of production are important. We guide enterprises to formulate a return plan that is accurate to the people and the sky. The reserve of anti-epidemic materials will also protect the enterprise at a low price subsidized by the government. At the same time, the rent reduction of 57 companies was 2.86 million.

Qian Fenghao, the sixth department of the Bank of Suzhou Xiangcheng area company: Bank of Suzhou allocated 1 billion yuan in special credits and 10 million yuan in discounts to epidemic prevention-related enterprises to fully protect the return to work.

Although affected by the epidemic, due to active self-rescue and accurate government assistance, Zhongyi Teng's orders in February increased by nearly 10% compared with the same period last year. One such customer in the US was grateful for such a reliable Chinese partner.

At present, 1062 enterprises in Wangting Town have all resumed work, the return rate of employees has reached 91%, and the average production capacity has recovered more than 87%. Not only Wangting Town, but also Xiangcheng District, where it is located, has been fully resumed.

In order to stabilize foreign trade, this year, Suzhou has formulated and issued a series of preferential enterprise policies such as "10 small and medium-sized enterprises", "Twelve Su Huis" and "10 service enterprises." Among them, the "Twelve Articles of Su Hui" are measures specifically tailored for foreign trade enterprises, including solid policy measures to support the import of scarce epidemic prevention and control materials, increase import and export credit guarantees, and increase financing support. To promote the resumption of work and production. At present, all foreign industrial enterprises above designated size in Suzhou have resumed work.

Time is the cost. If many foreign trade companies fail to resume work and production in a timely and orderly manner, it will cause considerable losses to employees, businesses and the local economy, and it will also affect the stability of the global industrial chain. . Because of this, from the country to the local area, we are doing everything we can to prevent and control the epidemic, overcome difficulties, promote production, and stabilize foreign trade. How to see the rainbow without going through the storm. I believe that the big ship of the Chinese economy will definitely be able to cross the epidemic storm zone and continue sailing.