China News Agency, Beijing, December 2 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) Near the end of the year, the results of China's foreign trade "final exam" have attracted attention.
Wei Jianguo, the former vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency recently that the decline in the growth rate of foreign trade in a single month does not mean that China’s foreign trade is facing difficulties. .
Recently, the year-on-year growth rate of China's foreign trade has declined month by month, from 16.6% in July to 6.9% in October.
In October, China's total import and export value in US dollars fell by 0.4% year-on-year, while the growth rate in September was 3.4%.
Among them, exports fell by 0.3% year-on-year, while the growth rate in September was 5.7%.
Wei Jianguo believes that the decline in the growth rate of foreign trade in a single month does not mean that China's foreign trade is facing difficulties.
On the contrary, there are still many favorable conditions for China's foreign trade to maintain stable and healthy development.
First, external demand is "organic in crisis".
In Wei Jianguo's view, the current global economic downturn and inflation in developed economies such as Europe and the United States are still high, and the purchasing power of the people has been affected to a certain extent.
This seems to curb foreign demand, but it is actually a rare market opportunity for Chinese products with high cost performance.
He believes that a batch of China's export products with traditional advantages and high international recognition, such as textiles, luggage, electronic products, etc., will usher in a good opportunity for export.
Second, the vitality of private enterprises is further highlighted.
According to official data, the import and export of private enterprises in the first 10 months of this year was 17.44 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 14.4%, accounting for 50.4% of China's total foreign trade value, an increase of 2.2 percentage points over the same period last year.
Among them, the export of private enterprises was 11.87 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19%, which was 6 percentage points higher than the growth rate of China's export in the same period.
Wei Jianguo said that most Chinese private enterprises have rich market experience and strong innovation capabilities.
The rapid growth of imports and exports of private enterprises will provide strong support for the stabilization of China's foreign trade.
He said that considering the above two favorable conditions, it is expected that the growth rate of China's foreign trade in the fourth quarter is still expected to achieve a slight increase.
In order to achieve a stronger growth in foreign trade, on the one hand, it is necessary to accelerate the implementation of the foreign trade stabilization policy in the early stage, to ensure that the industrial chain and supply chain are unimpeded, and the raw materials required by enterprises for production can be delivered in time; on the other hand, it is necessary to create conditions so that more foreign trade enterprises can Really "go out", participate in various exhibitions, promote products, communicate and negotiate with overseas customers face to face.
Wei Jianguo believes that in the long run, China needs to speed up the construction of a unified national market in order to give full play to the advantages of the huge market size and promote the high-quality development of foreign trade.
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