China News Service, December 3, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Gao Feng said on the 3rd that since this year, my country's foreign trade has continued to stabilize and improve.
On the afternoon of the 3rd, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference.
At the meeting, a reporter asked: On November 27, the China Container Industry Association stated that since July, due to the sharp increase in China’s export freight volume, the demand for export containers has soared, and there has generally been a shortage of container sources and soaring freight in the field of foreign trade logistics. It also called on enterprises in the entire container industry chain to participate in the stabilization of foreign trade. How does the Ministry of Commerce look at the current foreign trade situation?
How long can the good momentum of foreign trade recovery be maintained?
What are the considerations in solving the problems of foreign trade logistics?
Gao Feng responded that since the beginning of this year, in response to the severe challenges that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has brought to the development of foreign trade, the State Council has successively introduced a series of policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade in accordance with the decisions and deployment of the Party Central Committee. my country's foreign trade has continued to stabilize and improve.
China's foreign trade has played an important role in ensuring the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain and promoting the recovery of the world economy.
Gao Feng introduced that according to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the new export order index and import index of my country's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) in November were 51.5% and 50.9%, an increase of 0.5 and 0.1 percentage points from the previous month, indicating internal and external demand. All have improved.
At the same time, we have also seen that the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading globally, international demand is generally sluggish, the industrial chain supply chain is still blocked, trade protectionism is rising, and my country's foreign trade development is still facing many uncertain and unstable factors.
We will continue to steadily advance various tasks and go all out to achieve the goal of promoting stability and quality in foreign trade throughout the year.
On the issue of foreign trade logistics, Gao Feng said that due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, many countries around the world are currently facing similar problems. The mismatch between supply and demand of transportation capacity is the direct cause of the increase in freight rates, and factors such as poor container turnover indirectly push up shipping costs and reduce shipping costs. Improve logistics efficiency.
"We will work with relevant departments to continue to promote increased capacity allocation based on the preliminary work, support accelerated container return transportation, improve operational efficiency, support container manufacturers to expand production capacity, and at the same time increase market supervision and strive to stabilize the market. The price provides strong logistics support for the stable development of foreign trade." Gao Feng said.