Ministry of Commerce: The Catalogue of Foreign Investment Industries Will Increase Encouragement Items
Xinhua News Agency, Xiamen, September 8th (Reporters Li Huiying, Fu Min) Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen said at the launching ceremony of the "Cloud Investment and Trade Fair" on the 8th that the Ministry of Commerce is accelerating the revision of the catalog of industries that encourage foreign investment. , Will greatly increase the encouraged items, and support more foreign-funded enterprises to enjoy relevant preferential policies.
The "Cloud Investment Fair" is an important measure taken by the Organizing Committee of the China International Investment and Trade Fair to actively respond to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and resolutely implement the central government's work deployment on stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment and the new requirements of "innovative exhibition service models" .
Through cooperation with Alibaba Group, the "Online CIFIT" that has been built and operated for ten years is upgraded, using new technologies, endowing new content, introducing new mechanisms, and establishing a new cloud investment promotion platform-"Cloud CIFIT" ", to open a new model of online and offline integration, so that the "never ending CIFIT" will show a new look.
Wang Shouwen said at the launch ceremony that since the beginning of this year, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has spread globally, the world economy is in a downturn, protectionism and unilateralism have risen, global market demand is insufficient, and international investment cooperation is facing a severe and complex situation.
The State Council has issued a series of policy measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment to effectively relieve difficulties for enterprises, help enterprises seek new opportunities from crises, and open up new prospects in the changing circumstances.
According to data, in the first seven months of this year, the country’s actual use of foreign capital was 535.6 billion yuan, an increase of 0.5% year-on-year. A number of major foreign investment projects accelerated. The actual use of foreign capital in July increased by 15.8% year-on-year, achieving a single month of foreign investment for four consecutive months Positive growth.
Wang Shouwen emphasized that the Ministry of Commerce will continue to implement the negative list of foreign investment access, expand the scope of encouraging foreign investment, and allow more foreign-funded enterprises to share the Chinese market and Chinese opportunities.
At the same time, it will further establish and improve the foreign investment service system, help solve the difficulties and problems in the operation of foreign-funded enterprises, effectively implement the foreign investment law and its supporting regulations, and create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment.
"We will step up efforts to promote the implementation of various policies and measures, resolutely stabilize the basic market for foreign investment and foreign investment, create new advantages in international cooperation and competition with high-level opening to the outside world, and promote the formation of a domestic cycle as the main body, and the domestic and international dual cycles promote each other. New development pattern." Wang Shouwen said.