[Seeking progress while maintaining stability] A high level of opening to the outside world promotes the stability and improvement of foreign trade

　　CCTV News (News Network): Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the severe and complex external environment and the new challenges brought about by the spread of the domestic epidemic, my country has continued to expand its high-level opening to the outside world and promote the steady growth of foreign trade.

　　In the first quarter, there were 432,000 foreign trade enterprises with actual import and export performance in my country, a year-on-year increase of 5.7%, of which the import and export of private enterprises increased by 14.1%, 3.4 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of foreign trade.

A series of policies, such as tax reduction and fee reduction, maintaining the smooth supply chain of the industrial chain, and continuously optimizing the business environment, have made great efforts to stimulate the vitality of foreign trade market players.

　　At the 131st Canton Fair being held, more than 25,000 exhibitors are actively connecting and negotiating with buyers from more than 220 countries and regions around the world on the cloud.

　　In the first quarter, the international market demand for Chinese products is still expanding.

Mechanical and electrical products accounted for 58.4% of the total export value, of which exports of solar cells and automobiles increased by 100.8% and 83.4% year-on-year respectively.

　　The high-level opening-up continued to release new momentum.

In the first quarter, the import and export growth rate of 21 pilot free trade zones continued to lead the country; the number of comprehensive bonded zones nationwide increased to 156, achieving about one-seventh of the country’s import and export value; the number of comprehensive pilot zones for cross-border e-commerce increased to 132, The cross-border e-commerce import and export volume exceeded 430 billion yuan and continued to grow.

In the first quarter, a total of 3,630 trains were operated by China-Europe trains, and the number of trains in a single month remained above 1,000 for 23 consecutive months.

The China-Laos railway transported over 270,000 tons of import and export goods.

　　At the same time, the effective implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is gradually showing its effect on regional trade. In the first quarter, the total value of imports and exports between my country and the other 14 RCEP member countries exceeded 2 trillion yuan, accounting for the total amount of China's foreign trade in the same period. 30.4% of the value.