In the first quarter, my country’s import and export of goods trade and the actual use of foreign capital increased at a record high
Foreign trade and foreign investment both have a good start (see foreign trade and foreign investment in the opening year)
This year is the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan".
In the first quarter, my country's foreign trade and foreign investment grew faster than expected, and both achieved a "good start" and handed in a dazzling report card.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes that, based on the domestic cycle, we will coordinate the construction of a strong domestic market and a strong trade country, form a strong gravitational field of global resource elements, promote the coordinated development of domestic and external demand, import and export, foreign investment and foreign investment, and accelerate Cultivate new advantages for participating in international cooperation and competition.
This year's "Government Work Report" requires that a high level of opening up should be implemented to promote the steady improvement of foreign trade and foreign investment.
At present, the fundamentals of my country's economic stability and long-term improvement have not changed, and the comprehensive competitive advantages of strong foreign trade development and strong "magnetism" in the use of foreign capital have not changed.
We must continue to increase policy support, continue to promote high-level opening to the outside world, guide enterprises to face difficulties and harden their internal skills, so that China’s foreign trade "carriage" can run more steadily, and the use of foreign capital "magnetism" will be stronger. Circulation makes greater contributions to the new development pattern where the main body and the domestic and international double circulation promote each other.
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In the first quarter, the total value of my country's import and export of goods trade was 8.47 trillion yuan, an increase of 29.2% over the same period last year; the actual use of foreign capital was 302.47 billion yuan, an increase of 39.9% year-on-year, and the growth rate both hit a record high.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “we must ensure the smooth operation of the foreign trade industry chain and supply chain, and stabilize the international market share”. “We must continue to optimize the business environment, do a good job in attracting, securing, and stabilizing business, and enhance the confidence of foreign businessmen in long-term investment and management.”
In the first year, although the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading around the world, the complex and changeable international economic environment has brought great difficulties to the production activities of enterprises, but the more difficult it is, the more it can inspire the will to struggle.
All localities and departments and the majority of enterprises persist in reform and innovation, constantly overcome difficulties, actively cultivate new impetus for foreign trade development, strengthen the use of new advantages of foreign capital, and strive to promote the steady improvement of foreign trade and foreign capital.
Both quantity and quality are improving
In the production workshop of Anhui Chizhou Binxing Wood Co., Ltd., workers are skillfully operating the machine; in the warehouse, the packaged finished products are neatly stacked on pallets... Expand recruitment and increase production capacity. At present, the company's overseas orders have been scheduled to November .
In the first quarter, my country's foreign trade and foreign investment grew rapidly, which has a certain relationship with the low base of the previous year.
However, even compared with normal years, the growth rate of foreign trade and foreign investment is still eye-catching.
Compared with the same period in 2018 and 2019, my country's import and export of goods trade in the first quarter increased by 25.3% and 20.5% respectively, and the use of foreign capital also increased by 24.8% compared with the same period in 2019.
The quality of foreign trade and foreign investment has been significantly improved, and the development is full.
——The structure is continuously optimized.
According to customs data, in the first quarter, my country exported 2.78 trillion yuan in mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 43%, accounting for 60.3% of the total export value, an increase of 1.7% over the same period last year.
The distribution of foreign capital utilization industries was better, and the actual use of foreign capital in high-tech industries was 86.87 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.1%.
——Continuous improvement of regional layout.
In the first quarter, the import and export of foreign trade in the central and western regions was 1.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 45.1%, and the growth rate was 15.9 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of foreign trade. The domestic regional layout was further optimized.
In terms of foreign capital utilization, the actual use of foreign capital in the eastern, central and western regions increased by 38.2%, 36.8% and 90.9% respectively in the first quarter.
"This fully reflects that the central and western regions continue to exert their own advantages, the ability to undertake industrial transfers has increased, and the potential for foreign trade and foreign investment has been further explored." said Tu Xinquan, dean of the China WTO Research Institute at the University of International Business and Economics.
——The "Circle of Friends" keeps expanding.
Imports and exports to major trading partners and countries along the “Belt and Road” have achieved rapid growth.
In the first quarter, my country's imports and exports to ASEAN were 1.24 trillion yuan, an increase of 26.1%. ASEAN continued to maintain its position as my country's largest trading partner.
During the same period, imports and exports of countries along the “Belt and Road” and regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) trading partners increased by 21.4% and 22.9% respectively.
In terms of the source of foreign capital utilization, actual investment in countries along the “Belt and Road”, ASEAN, and EU increased by 58.2%, 60%, and 7.5%, respectively, year-on-year.
Take multiple measures to help companies alleviate difficulties
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, various localities and departments have taken various measures to help foreign trade and foreign-funded enterprises alleviate their difficulties.
——Continue to strengthen policy support to ensure the stability and smooth flow of the foreign trade industry chain and supply chain.
On April 13, a batch of containers were sent to Uzbekistan after being supervised by Qingdao Customs at the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone.
In the first quarter, the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone shipped 156 "Qilu" Euro-Asia trains, an increase of 110.8% year-on-year.
In Gansu, Lanzhou Customs has superimposed a number of preferential measures to tailor a supervision plan for enterprises to help them improve production efficiency to the greatest extent.
In the first two months of this year, the total import and export value of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Lanzhou New Area was 600 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.6 times.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce stated that he will carefully listen to the voices of foreign trade enterprises with local and relevant departments, work hard on the integration of trade industries and the smooth development of trade, newly identify a batch of national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases, build a batch of national processing trade industrial parks, and cultivate A number of national import trade promote innovation demonstration zones, expand the scale of imports, and drive related industries to improve quality and efficiency.
Support enterprises to explore diversified markets and continue to promote smooth logistics and settlement.
-Accelerate the improvement of the open platform, and new results have been achieved in the construction of opening up highlands.
During the Spring Festival, Hainan’s outlying island duty-free shops had sales of more than 1.5 billion yuan in seven days, which was double the number of the 2019 Spring Festival holiday, and the cumulative number of shoppers received exceeded 200,000.
Draw up a list of new rounds of institutional innovation and add 3 pilot free trade zones, including Beijing...Last year, the construction of my country’s pilot free trade zones started a new round of speed-up, and a new batch of institutional innovations were promoted across the country. Entering 2021, many measures will be taken It has taken root.
"The Pilot Free Trade Zone has become an important platform for trade, investment cooperation, exchanges and negotiations between my country and other countries, providing new assistance for the high-quality development of my country's foreign trade and foreign investment." said Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of the China International Economic Exchange Center.
——Continue to optimize the business environment, and the policy of attracting foreign investment continues to be “favorable”.
Fully implement the Foreign Investment Law and its implementation regulations, continuously reduce the negative list of foreign investment access, continue to increase the list of industries that encourage foreign investment, and completely cancel the approval and filing of foreign-funded enterprises in the commercial field... Since last year, my country has continued to optimize the business environment and attract foreign investment policies "Benefits" continue.
According to the "2021 China Business Environment Survey Report" recently released by the American Chamber of Commerce in China, 61% of the surveyed companies regard China as their preferred investment destination, and 2/3 of the companies indicated that they will further increase their investment in China.
In the first quarter, both the quantity and quality of foreign investment in foreign trade have increased, which is also inseparable from the background of sustained and stable economic recovery.
Since the beginning of this year, my country's industrial production, investment, and consumption have continued to recover, and the main macro indicators are in the growth range.
According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the manufacturing purchasing manager index has been above the prosperity and decline line for 13 consecutive months, and the prosperity of the manufacturing industry has further rebounded, which has driven the rapid growth of imports of integrated circuits, energy resources and other products.
With the gradual expansion of the coverage of the new crown vaccination, the global economic recovery is showing a good momentum.
Recently, the International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for global economic growth in 2021 from 5.5% in January to 6%.
Market entities have strong resilience and vitality
Both foreign and foreign capital have achieved a "good start", which is inseparable from the efforts of the majority of market players.
According to customs data, in the first quarter, the import and export of my country's private enterprises was 3.95 trillion yuan, an increase of 42.7%, accounting for 46.7% of my country's total foreign trade value, an increase of 4.4% over the same period last year, and continuing to maintain its status as the largest foreign trade operator in my country.
New business formats, new markets, and new methods help foreign trade and foreign companies to break through and achieve unexpected growth.
New business formats are booming.
Recently, the e-commerce department of Shandong Dongying Shengli Oilfield Shengji Petroleum Equipment Co., Ltd. received an order from Brunei Shell for 130 pumps. This is also the company's fourth order this year.
Yang Dandan, manager of the company's e-commerce department, said: "We have developed new markets in Syria, Nigeria and other places, and the order volume reached 2.4 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 45%."
This year, the Ministry of Commerce, together with relevant departments, will further optimize and promote cross-border e-commerce supervision and services, continue to promote cross-border e-commerce B2B export supervision reform pilots, and support cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse models, one-place filing, nationwide, cross-border e-commerce The development of new business formats such as commerce is on the fast lane.
Accelerate the development of new markets.
my country has steadily promoted the construction of the "Belt and Road". As of the end of January, it had signed 205 cooperation documents for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" with 140 countries and 31 international organizations.
At the same time, the establishment of a global high-standard free trade zone network has been accelerated, and 19 free trade agreements have been signed with 26 economies.
On April 15, the Ministry of Commerce stated that China has formally deposited the RCEP approval letter with the Secretary-General of ASEAN, marking that China has officially completed the RCEP approval process.
"The RCEP was successfully signed and the China-EU investment agreement negotiations were completed as scheduled. These provide new opportunities for foreign trade and foreign companies to expand into new markets and greatly boost their confidence." Tu Xinquan said.
New ways to solve difficult problems.
"Cloud" exhibitions, "cloud" negotiations... The use of modern digital technology to promote trade development is a new trend in foreign trade development. During the epidemic prevention and control period, my country's foreign trade digitization process continues to accelerate, which will not only help foreign trade companies overcome difficulties, stabilize markets, and protect foreign trade. Orders have also injected new impetus into the development of global foreign trade.
"China has abundant and high-quality labor resources, complete industrial supporting capabilities, and super-large-scale market advantages." Tu Xinquan said that as long as all localities and departments continue to increase policy support and accelerate the implementation of policies, companies will work hard to practice their internal skills. Seeking opportunities in crisis can overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, promote the steady improvement of foreign trade and foreign investment, and make greater contributions to building a new development pattern and promoting the high-quality development of China's economy.
Our reporter Du Haitao Luo Shanshan