[Commentary] On April 10, the State Council Office held a press conference on measures to stabilize foreign trade. Assistant Minister of Commerce Ren Hongbin said at the meeting that due to the epidemic, the annual China Import and Export Fair will be held online in the middle and late June. This is not only a pragmatic measure to deal with the epidemic situation, but also a major measure for innovative development.
[Same period] Assistant Minister of Commerce Ren Hongbin
The 127th Canton Fair will be held online in the middle and late June. This online Canton Fair will mainly include three parts: online display and docking platform, cross-border e-commerce zone, and live marketing services, and continue to leverage the advantages of the trade show. Mainly based on B2B, taking into account some B2C platforms, creating a 10-day 24-hour online foreign trade platform, providing online promotion, supply and procurement, online negotiation and other services for exhibitors and buyers, so that Chinese and foreign merchants can place orders without leaving the house. Do business.
[Commentary] Since its establishment in 1957, the China Import and Export Fair, the Canton Fair, has become China's longest history, largest scale, most commodities, most merchants, and the best transaction effect after 60 years of unremitting efforts. The international trade event is known as the "barometer" and "wind vane" of China's foreign trade.
[Commentary] Li Xingqian, director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said that moving the Canton Fair to the "cloud" this time is not a simple copy, but a brand new structural design and process reengineering.
[Same period] Li Xingqian, director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce
We will promote all 25,000 Canton Fair exhibitors to go online for display, and divide them into export exhibitions and import exhibitions according to the original physical exhibition settings that we are familiar with, and set up corresponding exhibition areas respectively to strengthen the service for procurement and docking. Great online matchmaking efforts to enhance the effectiveness of organizing exhibitions. Set up a cross-border e-commerce zone with the theme "Synchronizing Canton Fair Global Business Opportunities". We will set up a live webcast column and link for each exhibitor separately, a 10 × 24 hour online live broadcast room. In addition, our platform will also provide functions such as lookback on demand, video upload, interactive communication, and sharing to enrich the exhibition's performance.
[Explanation] Ren Hongbin said at the meeting that at present, the domestic epidemic prevention and control situation continues to improve, and foreign trade enterprises resume work and production in an orderly manner, but the spread of the epidemic around the world has a huge impact on the global economy and trade. Recently, foreign trade companies are generally facing many problems such as cancellation or extension of orders in hand, difficulty in signing new orders, and poor logistics and transportation. Ren Hongbin pointed out that in order to help enterprises stabilize current orders and promote enterprises to develop new markets in new markets and get new orders, the Ministry of Commerce is prepared to provide assistance in the following aspects.
[Same period] Assistant Minister of Commerce Ren Hongbin
One is to help enterprises with precision. Investigate more than 400,000 foreign trade enterprises in the country to resume work and resume production orders, especially the development of these leading enterprises, and at the same time, we must take special care of the difficulties of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises; second, give full play to the online role. Through organizing various online exhibitions, guide enterprises to do pre-show docking, online promotion, live broadcast, and remote negotiation to facilitate new orders for enterprises; third, promote domestic sales of foreign trade products; fourth, ensure the stability of the international logistics supply chain; Fifth, strengthen public services such as trade promotion. Timely update and release country trade and investment environment information to help enterprises participate in domestic and foreign trade promotion activities; Sixth, strengthen international economic and trade cooperation.
[Commentary] Ren Hongbin pointed out that China is willing to strengthen international cooperation in the prevention and control of epidemic situations with the international community, jointly promote the smooth flow of international industrial chains, supply chains and logistics chains, reduce tariffs and barriers, and join hands to contribute to global economic and trade stability.
Liu Xuanting reports from Beijing
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