The Suzhou Municipal Government organized a delegation to Japan to attract investment, and won new orders of more than 1 billion yuan; Zhejiang's "thousands of enterprises to expand the market to grab orders" was on the hot search; the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce chartered a "group to go to sea" to expand the market in Europe... Recently, chartered flights have been organized in many places across the country to grab orders and expand markets in overseas markets, actively opening up new space for foreign trade development.

　　BASF Guangdong Zhanjiang Integrated Base started construction, Airbus China R&D Center settled in Suzhou Industrial Park, Novo Nordisk increased capital and expanded production for the eighth time in Tianjin... "Investing in China is investing in the future" has become a broad consensus at home and abroad, China The magnetism of opening up continues to be released, and China continues to become one of the most attractive destinations for foreign investment in the world.

　　The impetus for reform is surging, and the spring breeze of openness warms the world.

　　Reform and opening up is a key move to determine China's destiny.

Unceasingly, we will comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, and cultivate China's development advantages.

Deepen reform and opening up to activate development advantages

　　Both the absorption of foreign capital and foreign investment and cooperation have increased by double digits!

From January to October 2022, the actual use of foreign capital nationwide was 1,089.86 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.4% on a comparable basis; my country's foreign non-financial direct investment was 627.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.3%.

　　The Chinese economy is not only an important source of power and a powerful engine for the world economy, but also injects more stability and certainty into the turbulent and changing world.

　　"In recent years, the scale of my country's use of foreign capital has grown steadily, and the structure of foreign investment has continued to be optimized. Many multinational companies are optimistic about my country's huge market potential, complete industrial system, complete infrastructure and stable social environment, and continue to increase investment in China. Large-scale foreign-funded projects in the manufacturing industry will be accelerated." Shu Jueting, deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce and spokesperson, said.

　　Since the beginning of this year, my country has made steady progress in comprehensively deepening reform and opening up, using institutional power to deal with risks, challenges and impacts, stimulating the potential of economic vitality, and building a new pattern of all-round and high-level opening up.

　　Introduced 33 policies focusing on stabilizing the economy; issued the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market" to speed up the construction of a national unified market; implemented the full amount of stock and incremental tax rebates, and did a good job in urban and rural areas for college graduates Grass-roots employment positions are released; policies such as "Several Policies and Measures on Promoting Foreign Capital Expansion, Stable Quantity and Quality Improvement Focusing on Manufacturing Industry" and "Encouraging Foreign Investment Industry Catalog (2022 Edition)" are released... in the party with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core Under the strong leadership of the central government, all regions and departments have effectively coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, coordinated development and security, insisted on keeping the word stable and making progress while maintaining stability.

　　The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that the focus of economic development should be placed on the real economy, and the development of high-end, intelligent and green manufacturing should be promoted.

"Create a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class business environment to better support multinational companies investing in manufacturing in China. The new version of the "Encouragement Catalog" has a total of 1,474 items, an increase of nearly 20% compared with the 2020 version, and many items have been added. High-tech manufacturing items." Shu Jueting emphasized that doing a good job in the introduction of foreign capital in the manufacturing industry is of great significance for promoting the transformation and upgrading of my country's manufacturing industry and better integrating into the global industrial chain supply chain system.

　　The fruitful results of institutional innovations have accumulated development momentum, activated development advantages, and released development potential.

China will promote high-level opening up to the outside world, steadily expand rules, regulations, management, standards and other institutional openings, and add more Chinese positive energy to the development of the world economy.

Foreign trade withstood multiple pressures and operated smoothly

　　In the assembly workshop of Shandong Rongcheng New Energy Vehicle Company, workers are rushing to make orders for export to South Korea.

"Since the beginning of this year, the company's order volume has increased by more than 60%. Up to now, more than 4,300 RVs of various types have been exported." Liu Shaoxun, general manager of RVs of Compass New Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd., said.

　　In recent years, Shandong Rongcheng has developed into an important RV production base and export base in my country. Many private enterprises have upgraded from OEM for foreign brands to develop independent brands to explore the international market.

The customs promotes the cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse model, which is convenient for enterprises to prepare goods for export in advance, and at the same time reduces logistics and freight costs for enterprises.

According to statistics from Rongcheng Customs, a subsidiary of Qingdao Customs, in the first 11 months of this year, the value of Rongcheng RV exports exceeded 1.3 billion yuan, an increase of over 20% year-on-year, and the annual export value is expected to exceed 1.5 billion yuan.

　　In the enterprise warehouse in Xiasha Park, China (Hangzhou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone in Qiantang District, Hangzhou, sorters are shuttled between shelves to sort products.

Small parcels are packaged, pasted with courier slips, transported to the delivery platform through the assembly line for packing, and then sent to consumers across the country by courier.

"At the beginning, the order volume was only two to three hundred orders a day." Jin Han, a customs officer at Qianjiang Customs, has been engaged in the cross-border e-commerce supervision business for ten years, and has a deep understanding of the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce.

　　In the first 10 months of this year, my country's foreign trade has made steady progress in general, and the total volume of imports and exports, total exports, and total imports have all reached new highs in the same period of history.

However, affected by factors such as weakening external demand, geopolitics, and the global epidemic, the monthly growth rate of imports and exports has slowed down.

Entering the fourth quarter, the external environment became more complex and severe, uncertain and unstable factors increased, and insufficient external demand became a prominent challenge. At the same time, the impact of the high base at the end of last year gradually emerged, and foreign trade imports and exports were further under pressure.

　　A series of policies have not only "reduced the burden" and "increased oxygen" for foreign trade companies, from cross-cycle adjustments to multiple measures to help companies bail out, from increasing fiscal and taxation financial support to stabilizing the supply chain of the foreign trade industry chain, the effect of a package of policies to stabilize the economy continues to be released , effectively promote foreign trade to stabilize the market, expand advantages, and increase vitality.

　　"Although the complexity and uncertainty of the domestic and foreign environments exceeded expectations, the development trend of my country's foreign trade has remained stable and improved." Sun Xiao, spokesperson of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Secretary General of the China Chamber of International Commerce, said.

　　According to customs data, in the first 11 months of this year, the total value of my country's import and export of goods trade was 38.34 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6% over the same period last year.

The effect of stabilizing foreign trade policies continues to be released. my country's foreign trade has withstood multiple pressures and maintained a stable operation. New formats and models of foreign trade continue to grow and grow, and new kinetic energy continues to gather.

In the first 11 months, my country's exports of electric passenger vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells increased by 128%, 86.6%, and 74.3% respectively. The foreign trade structure was further upgraded and optimized, and the foreign trade import and export structure accelerated from labor-intensive products to high-tech additional value product change.

The foundation of the foreign trade industry is sound, and the ability of enterprises to perform contracts and innovate continues to increase.

Jointly build the "Belt and Road" high-quality development

　　On December 12, a train of China-Europe trains departing from Xi'an International Port, loaded with artificial graphite, balance weight battery box bottoms, etc., left the country through Khorgos Port and headed for Malaszewicz, Poland.

On December 13, a train of China-Europe trains loaded with clothing, department stores, home appliances and other goods departed from Tuanjie Village, Chongqing, and left the country through the Alashankou Port, heading for the European continent.

　　In order to further smooth the international logistics channel opened to the west and ensure the efficient customs clearance of China-Europe Railway Express, Urumqi Customs actively serves the construction of the China-Europe Railway Express assembly center, continues to improve the level of cross-border transportation facilitation of China-Europe Railway Express, and promotes the expansion and efficiency of port customs clearance.

On November 26, the Horgos Port completed the number of China-Europe trains that passed through last year 36 days ahead of schedule.

At the same time, on December 9, the Alashankou Port completed the number of China-Europe trains that passed through the whole year last year 22 days ahead of schedule, realizing the further growth and acceleration of the double-port trains in Xinjiang.

　　As my country's opening up to the outside world continues to increase, the development of foreign trade has become more diversified, the "circle of friends" in the international market has expanded, and the growth of foreign trade imports and exports is full of resilience.

In the first 11 months, ASEAN was my country's largest trading partner. The total trade value between my country and ASEAN was 5.89 trillion yuan, an increase of 155%, accounting for 15.4% of my country's total foreign trade value.

During the same period, my country's trade with countries along the "Belt and Road" increased significantly: the total import and export was 12.54 trillion yuan, an increase of 20.4%.

At present, my country has become the main trading partner of more than 120 countries and regions, and the "circle of friends" is expanding and enriching, which has expanded new markets for foreign trade enterprises to import and export.

　　The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to promote high-level opening up to the outside world, and steadily expand institutional opening up such as rules, regulations, management, and standards.

Accelerate the construction of a trade power.

Promote the high-quality development of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road".

my country's economy has strong resilience, sufficient potential, and long-term positive fundamentals have not changed. The prospects for economic growth are still broad, providing a good environmental support for the development of foreign trade.

(Our reporter Zhang Yi)