Zhongxin Finance, May 20th. On the 20th, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on "opening up domestic and foreign trade and building a dual circulation". Development has made historic achievements and achieved historic changes.

　　In the past decade, new progress has been made in expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption.

Consumption is the final demand. The Ministry of Commerce firmly implements the strategy of expanding domestic demand, actively promotes consumption, expands domestic demand, and gives full play to the leading role of consumption in the economic cycle.

In 2021, the total retail sales of consumer goods will reach 44.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.1 times compared with 2012, with an average annual growth rate of 8.8%. Consumption has become the first driving force of economic growth for many years.

The structure is continuously optimized.

In 2021, per capita service consumption will account for 44.2% of household consumption, an increase of 4.5 percentage points over 2013, and the number of cars per thousand people will be 214, an increase of 1.4 times over 2012.

The model is constantly innovating.

In 2021, the national online retail sales will be 13.1 trillion yuan, a nine-fold increase over 2012, and rural e-commerce has emerged.

The platform has been continuously consolidated, cultivated and built into an international consumption center city, and continued to build platforms such as China International Consumer Goods Expo to better meet the needs of the people for a better life.

　　In the past decade, new breakthroughs have been made in the construction of the modern circulation system.

Building a modern circulation system is a strategic task of the new development pattern.

For a long time, the Ministry of Commerce has made great efforts to promote the construction of a modern circulation system and achieved remarkable results.

The rural network has made up for shortcomings, and has supported 1,489 counties to carry out comprehensive demonstrations of e-commerce in rural areas, and built 1,212 county-level logistics and distribution centers.

In 2021, the online retail sales of agricultural products will be 422.1 billion yuan, and the county-level commercial construction action has achieved initial results.

The city's commerce has increased its characteristics, promoted the construction of 428 "quarter-hour convenient living circles", created more than 500,000 jobs, and served more than 8 million community residents.

Drive social investment of 13.5 billion yuan.

A pilot project for the renovation and upgrading of pedestrian streets was carried out.

In 2021, the passenger flow and turnover of 23 national pilot pedestrian streets will increase by 10.2% and 16.7% respectively year-on-year.

Circulation efficiency goes up a step.

In 2021, the ratio of total social logistics expenses to GDP will be 14.6%, down 3.4 percentage points from 2012.

　　In the past decade, new steps have been taken in the high-quality development of foreign trade.

The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to foreign trade.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Commerce has steadily promoted the stabilization of foreign trade, promoted the innovative development of trade, and achieved historic achievements in the development of foreign trade.

In 2021, the total trade in goods will reach US$6.05 trillion, and trade in services will exceed US$800 billion, up 56% and 70% respectively from 2012.

The trade structure continues to be optimized. In 2021, the proportion of emerging markets, central and western regions, private enterprises, and general trade in exports will increase by 6.2, 5.9, 20.1, and 12.7 percentage points, respectively, compared with 2012.

Trade in knowledge-intensive services will increase by 122.1% compared with 2021, and the deficit in trade in services will hit a new low in ten years.

Accelerate the release of innovative kinetic energy.

The scale of cross-border e-commerce import and export has increased by nearly 10 times in five years, and the scale of market procurement trade exports has increased by seven times in seven years, and the integration of domestic and foreign trade has steadily improved.

The CIIE is getting better and better. Four CIIEs have been successfully held, with a cumulative turnover of 272.27 billion US dollars. A variety of high-quality consumer goods and advanced technology products have been introduced, and efforts from both supply and demand sides have effectively promoted the positive interaction of the dual cycle.

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