Wang Wentao
"People's Daily" (September 22, 2021 10th edition)
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the mutual promotion of the domestic and international double cycles is a major strategic task related to the overall development of my country proposed by the "14th Five-Year Plan". Accurately grasp and actively promote the overall situation." Commercial work should serve to build a new development pattern, promote high-quality development, and make new contributions to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
Speeding up the construction of a new development pattern is of great significance
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The establishment of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles mutually promoting each other is a major decision made based on the changes in my country's development stage, environment, and conditions, especially the changes in my country's comparative advantages. Constructing a new development pattern is a systematic and in-depth change that concerns the overall situation, and is a strategic plan based on the current and long-term perspective."
This is an inevitable requirement for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
Judging from international experience, dominating domestic demand is the universal law of the economic development of major countries.
In 2020, the foreign trade dependence of the United States is 18.2%, Japan is 25.6%, and my country is 31.5%, which is at a relatively high level.
At the same time, my country's growth momentum is undergoing changes, and there is an increasing need to drive domestic demand to give full play to its strong domestic market advantages.
Speeding up the construction of a new development pattern conforms to the objective laws of economic development and is historically inevitable.
This is a strategic move to deal with the world's major changes unseen in a century.
The global epidemic fluctuates repeatedly, anti-globalization is on the rise, and the momentum of the international cycle is significantly weakened.
In 2020, the world economy will shrink by 3.3%, global trade in goods will drop by 7.6%, and international direct investment will drop by 42%.
The global industrial chain and supply chain are deeply reorganized, and the requirements for improving the resilience and safety of the industrial chain supply chain are more urgent.
Speeding up the construction of a new development pattern will reshape my country's new advantages in international cooperation and competition, increase economic leeway, and maintain my country's economic security.
This is a strong driving force for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Mankind lives in the same global village and has increasingly become a community of destiny with me in you and you in me.
The deep integration of the economies of various countries objectively requires the mutual promotion of the domestic and international dual cycles.
my country has a huge economy and is a major trading partner of more than 120 countries and regions. The international demand for cooperation with China is even higher.
Speeding up the construction of a new development pattern and promoting common development will help the world share China’s development opportunities and build a community with a shared future for mankind.
New Orientation of Commercial Work in Constructing New Development Pattern
General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on grasping the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, and constructing a new development pattern put forward higher requirements for business work, and pointed out the way forward for us to better perform our duties and responsibilities.
Business work is an important part of the domestic cycle.
Commercial work involves circulation and consumption, and plays an important role in supporting the new development pattern.
Consumption is the "main driving force" of economic growth.
Consumption is the final demand and plays a fundamental role in the national economy.
From 2014 to 2019, consumption has become the first driving force of my country's economic growth for 6 consecutive years.
Circulation is the "main artery" of the economic cycle.
Circulation is connected to production at one end and consumption at the other. It is an indispensable part of a smooth economic cycle and a condition for the smooth progress of social production.
Modern commerce circulation is related to social production efficiency and is an important link in the construction of a new development pattern.
We must expand consumption, invigorate circulation, and turn a strong domestic market into a strong "magnetic field" that attracts global factor resources.
Business work is an important hub linking the domestic and international dual cycles.
Business work connects the two domestic and international markets and two resources, and is a bridge that connects the double cycle.
Market connectivity means to actively expand imports and continuously expand exports to better connect the Chinese market with the world market.
Industrial integration is to promote high-quality "bringing in" and high-level "going out" to create a more open and resilient industrial chain supply chain.
The promotion of innovation is to adhere to the combination of open innovation and independent innovation, actively introduce technology and foreign investment, and enhance the ability of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance.
The linkage of rules is to promote the effective convergence of domestic rules and international rules, promote the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management, and standards, and enhance the systemicity, integrity, and coordination of openness.
The double loop is like a horizontal "8". The inner and outer loops are smoothly connected, the inner loop pulls the outer loop, and the outer loop promotes the inner loop, forming a virtuous loop at a higher level of openness.
Commercial work plays an important role in building a new development pattern.
Commercial work is at the forefront of opening up, and has always insisted on promoting reform and development through opening up to promote innovation.
Improve quality and efficiency with openness as the internal cycle.
Implement a high-level opening up, promote the upgrading of industries and consumption, and improve the quality and level of supply.
Without open promotion, domestic circulation will become a "unicycle".
Create new advantages with openness as a double cycle.
my country's factor endowments and comparative advantages have changed, and opening up is conducive to integrating global high-quality resources, optimizing factor allocation, and forming new advantages in international cooperation and competition.
In the era of globalization, the internal and external circulations are in harmony. You have me in you, and I have you in me, and they are inseparable. Opening up to the outside world is conducive to promoting more efficient and smoother internal and external interactions.
New measures to construct a new development pattern for business work services during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, business development faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges, and overall opportunities outweigh the challenges.
We must unify our thoughts and actions with General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on grasping the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, and building a new development pattern, earnestly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and organize the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" business development Planning and serving to build a new development pattern and promote high-quality business development.
Promote the formation of a strong domestic market.
Promote commodity consumption, develop service consumption, expand rural consumption, and upgrade urban consumption.
Cultivate new types of consumption characterized by multi-format aggregation and multi-scenario coverage using information technology as a means, and develop new commodity consumption models.
Cultivate the construction of an international consumption center city, create a quarter-hour convenient living circle in the city, and establish a sound mechanism to promote normalization of consumption.
Improve the circulation backbone network, build an efficient urban and rural distribution system, and improve the rural circulation system.
Cultivate modern circulation enterprises with global competitiveness, stimulate the vitality of small and medium-sized business enterprises, and promote the innovative development of the commodity market.
Support the upgrading of physical commerce, accelerate the innovation and transformation of circulation, and strengthen the construction of a standard system for commerce and trade circulation.
Promote high-level opening up.
Deepen the "Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation, improve the level of unimpeded trade, and improve the quality of investment cooperation.
Further reduce the negative list of foreign investment access, fully implement the foreign investment law and implementation regulations, innovate and upgrade national economic development zones, and continue to optimize the market-oriented legalized international business environment.
Improve the layout of the pilot free trade zone, give full play to the pilot role of the pilot free trade zone, give greater reform autonomy, increase the opening pressure test, continue to release the dividends of reform and opening up, and steadily promote the construction of the Hainan free trade port.
Strengthen technological innovation, institutional innovation, model and business format innovation in the trade field, promote the coordinated development of import and export, trade in goods and services, trade and two-way investment, trade and industry, vigorously develop digital trade and green trade, and improve the integrated control of domestic and foreign trade System, give full play to the role of important exhibition platforms such as the China International Import Expo.
Encourage all localities to expand opening up based on their comparative advantages, and promote the establishment of an open pattern featuring land-sea internal and external linkages and mutual assistance between the east and the west.
Guide the steady and orderly development of foreign investment and cooperation, and promote Chinese products, services, technologies, brands, and standards to go global.
Actively participate in global economic governance.
Resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, actively participate in WTO reforms, promote the improvement of WTO rules, and improve the level of compliance with trade policies.
Deepen cooperation with the United Nations and related agencies, support major economic governance platforms to play a better role, and actively participate in the formulation of economic governance rules in emerging fields.
Implement the strategy of upgrading the free trade zone, optimize the layout of the free trade zone, promote the signing of more high-standard free trade agreements, do a good job in the CPTPP related work, and speed up the negotiation process of the China-Japan-Korea free trade agreement.
Improve the level of free trade zone construction and make good use of the results of the free trade agreement.
Promote coordination and cooperation between major powers, deepen economic and trade relations with neighboring countries, and strengthen solidarity and cooperation with developing countries.
Prevent and resolve risks in the business sector.
Adhere to the overall national security concept, establish a bottom line thinking, improve the market emergency mechanism, improve the market monitoring system, strengthen the safety production management, and improve the business credit system.
Improve the trade friction response system and mechanism, expand the source of imports, and promote international cooperation in the protection of intellectual property rights.
Improve the national security review system for foreign investment.
Enhance the “Belt and Road” construction risk prevention and control capabilities, and strengthen the protection of overseas interests.
Improve the industrial damage early warning mechanism, promote international industrial security cooperation, and maintain the security of the industrial chain and supply chain.
Persist in opening up to increase strength to prevent risks, and dynamically maintain national economic security at a higher level.
(The author is the Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Commerce)