(Economic Observer) A wave of "fighting the economy" has been set off in various parts of China

　　China News Agency, Beijing, January 31 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) As the overall epidemic situation in the country has entered a low epidemic level, China is ushering in an upsurge of "fighting the economy": all localities are doing everything possible to promote the full recovery of the economy.

　　Compared with investment and foreign trade, consumption recovered slowly last year due to various unexpected factors such as the epidemic.

This year, a multi-pronged approach to promote consumption recovery has become the highlight of economic work in various places, and many places have introduced new measures.

　　Beijing recently issued the "Implementation Plan for Cleaning Up Hidden Barriers and Optimizing the Consumption and Business Environment", proposing that it will organize and carry out pilot placements in key business districts, and the district government will coordinate and organize relevant departments to delineate the placement positions, clarify the placement time, business categories, etc. fine print.

In addition, Beijing has made it clear that it will reasonably relax restrictions on the entry of catering and chain businesses, and encourage qualified sports venues, hospitals, parks, subways, science and technology parks and other units to introduce brand chain convenience stores.

　　Shanghai proposed that before June 30, 2023, individual consumers who scrapped or transferred out their own small passenger cars that were registered in Shanghai and met relevant standards, and purchased pure electric vehicles, would be given 10,000 yuan (RMB, the same below) for each vehicle. ) financial subsidies; a one-time subsidy of 10% of the payment amount, up to 1,000 yuan, for consumers purchasing green smart home appliances and other personal consumption.

　　Starting from the consumption environment, Shandong has launched ten major actions to deepen and improve "safe consumption in Shandong", including vigorously promoting offline shopping for no reason to return, fully guaranteeing consumers' "right to regret" offline shopping, etc., and encouraging qualified large-scale merchants Super-promote payment in advance in the consumption process to enhance consumer confidence.

　　At present, with the adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control policy, people's enthusiasm for consumption is being released. The hot movie box office and tourism revenue during the Spring Festival holiday have witnessed the potential of China's consumption recovery.

Zhao Ping, deputy director of the Research Institute of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that China's consumption has reached an inflection point and has entered an upward channel.

Looking into the future, consumption will gradually stabilize and the prospects are bright.

　　In addition to promoting consumption, it is also a highlight of the "economic struggle" in various places to help companies expand their markets, secure orders, and solve the outstanding problems faced by foreign trade companies due to insufficient orders.

　　For example, Guangdong requires "call outside lines to grab orders" and successfully hold 100 "Guangdong Global" overseas exhibitions and Canton Fair offline exhibitions.

Jiangsu also announced that it will focus on supporting enterprises to participate in 206 overseas offline exhibitions, and do a good job in the organization of exhibitions such as Jiangsu Export Commodities Osaka Exhibition, Australian Textile and Apparel Exhibition, and Canton Fair.

　　Some provinces have come up with "real money".

For example, Liaoning proposed that for enterprises participating in key overseas exhibitions approved by the provincial government and organized by relevant provincial departments, 100% of the booth fees for the first 6 standard booths will be subsidized. 100% subsidy will be given, among which, 100% subsidy will be given to the booth fees of private enterprises participating in key overseas exhibitions.

　　Last year, China's actual use of foreign capital reached 1,232.68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%, and the scale hit a record high.

Considering the importance of foreign capital to China's industrial transformation and upgrading, at the beginning of the new year in 2023, many places will once again "speed up" to attract foreign capital.

　　The actual use of foreign capital in Jiangsu ranked first in the country last year.

This year, Jiangsu will hold a series of activities of "Entering the Headquarters" to strengthen the introduction of high-quality foreign investment projects in the fields of advanced materials, electronic information, and equipment manufacturing. It also plans to actively invite multinational companies and foreign business associations to visit Jiangsu.

　　In Zhejiang, another major city in China for attracting investment, the local Department of Commerce sent a letter to foreign companies in both Chinese and English on the first working day of the Lunar New Year, saying that it will attract global investment and cooperation with "super determination, extraordinary measures, and super strength".

At present, Zhejiang has launched the global investment promotion work of "Investing in Zhejiang".

　　Analysts believe that with the implementation of various policy measures to stabilize the economy, China's economic growth is expected to rebound significantly in 2023.

This is not only beneficial to China, but will also bring new growth momentum to the sluggish world economy.

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