CCTV Beijing, April 5 (Reporter Yang Sen) According to a report from China Central Television's Voice of China "News Peak", a few days ago, the person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said that China's foreign trade enterprises resumed production and continued to show good momentum. The next step will focus on enhancing the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing in the global industrial chain and supply chain.

At the same time, due to the worldwide epidemic situation, many foreign trade companies faced problems such as loss of orders and poor transportation during the process of resuming production. In response to these difficulties and pain points, a series of measures were introduced intensively to protect the market, share, Guarantee orders and make every effort to stabilize the basic foreign trade plate.

Liu Changyu, a second-level inspector of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Commerce this week. According to statistics, as of March 30, 75.6% of key foreign trade enterprises across the country had a recovery rate of more than 70%. This is an increase of 4.2 percentage points from last week. In Hubei Province, more than 50% of foreign trade enterprises have a recovery rate of more than 70%.

With the spread of the epidemic in the world, which has impacted the economies of various countries, the originally weak international market demand is even worse. The WTO expects that global trade will decline sharply this year, bringing new challenges to the recovery and development of China's foreign trade. Relevant investigations show that thousands of domestic foreign trade enterprises have been forced to postpone shipments and foreign exchange collection, and even some orders have been transferred. Every year from March to May is the peak period for export orders. Many foreign trade companies have seen new orders decline to varying degrees, and logistics blockages have also changed from domestic to international. Ports in Europe and America have been closed, routes have been grounded, and air capacity has been reduced by half. 3. The cost has risen sharply. Some high-tech middleware and new materials face the risk of supply cuts.

The Ministry of Commerce instructs the competent commercial administrations around the country to establish a list of key foreign trade enterprises to resume work in key areas with concentrated industrial chains and leading enterprises in the foreign trade field, to provide accurate assistance, coordinate the re-examination departments to accelerate the promotion of upstream and downstream resumption of production in the industrial chain, and guarantee The foreign trade industry chain and supply chain are running smoothly. In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will continue to take effective measures to consolidate the traditional advantages of foreign trade, and vigorously cultivate new competitive advantages in foreign trade centered on technology, quality, brand and service. Liu Changyu said: "Cultivate a group of large enterprises with global competitive advantages and a large number of dynamic and innovative SMEs with a high degree of specialization and strong collaboration capabilities, and cultivate a group of international marketing networks with strong market penetration Cultivating a number of internationally renowned and influential trading platforms, fostering a number of independent foreign trade brands, and continuously enhancing the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing in the global industrial chain supply chain. "

At the same time, stabilize the processing trade and focus on improving the technical content and added value of the processing trade. Liu Changyu pointed out: "We must promote the transformation of processing trade from assembly to technology, brand, and marketing, and promote the integrated development of processing trade manufacturing and service trade. We must support the central and western regions and the northeast region to undertake the gradient transfer, and support processing trade enterprises to expand the domestic market and promote Integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. "

Various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have also introduced specific measures one after another. Jiangsu Province has formed a joint policy of benefiting enterprises and helping enterprises, and strengthened financial support and risk protection around financial support, tax reduction and exemption, enterprise stabilization and business environment optimization. Zhou Changqing, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, said: "Under the epidemic prevention and control strategy of foreign prevention imports and internal prevention rebounds, we actively coordinated and solved various problems encountered by foreign-invested foreign-funded enterprises in the smooth international supply chain and the return of overseas personnel. Support foreign trade enterprises to develop domestic sales of export products, and enhance their ability to make good use of both domestic and international markets and resources. "

Liaoning Province meets the current needs of enterprises in terms of working capital and financing by reducing import and export business processes, postponing or reducing related fees and other measures, and assisting foreign trade enterprises to resume production. Zhang Weidong, director of the Foreign Trade Administration Department of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Commerce, said: "The coverage of the credit guarantee policy has been expanded, and the scale of support for corporate credit has been increased. At the same time, we and the customs department have determined the specific work mode of green customs clearance to reduce the production cost of the enterprise. "

At present, China's foreign trade enterprises have achieved positive results in resuming production and production, and are facing problems such as shrinking external demand and loss of orders. China has the ability to take advantage of the entire industry chain and turn crises into opportunities to ensure that foreign trade enterprises resume a stable and orderly situation after resuming production. Liu Changyu said: "We have the confidence to overcome the current difficulties and challenges and make every effort to stabilize the basic foreign trade plate."