How to promote consumption, stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment in 2023? ——The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce responds to the hot spots of business operations

Xinhua All Media+丨How to promote consumption, stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment in 2023?

——The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce responds to the hot spots of business operations

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 2.

　　Xinhua News Agency reporters Xie Xiyao and Pan Jie

　　Vice Minister of Commerce Guo Tingting introduced at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the 2nd that in 2022, my country's consumer market will be basically stable, foreign trade will be better than expected, and the use of foreign capital will maintain growth.

　　In 2023, what should my country do to promote consumption, stabilize foreign trade and stabilize foreign investment?

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce responded to the hot spots of business operations at the press conference.

Focus on restoring and expanding consumption in three aspects

　　The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to strengthen the fundamental role of consumption in economic development.

According to the Central Economic Work Conference, the recovery and expansion of consumption should be given priority.

The executive meeting of the State Council held on January 28 further put forward clear requirements for Jialikuo consumption.

　　According to Xu Xingfeng, director of the Department of Market Operation and Consumption Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, during the Spring Festival this year, the sales of key retail and catering enterprises across the country increased by 6.8% compared with the same period in the lunar calendar last year.

In 2023, consumption will be mainly promoted from three aspects:

　　The first is to continue to strengthen policy guidance, supervise and inspect the implementation of policies that have been issued, and ensure that the implementation of policies is in place. According to the new situation this year, focus on key areas such as automobiles and home furnishing, and promote the introduction of a number of new policies; the second is to plan key activities, Taking the "2023 Consumption Boost Year" as the main line, we will coordinate and carry out national consumption promotion activities; the third is to continue to optimize the platform carrier, deepen the construction of an international consumption center city, expand the guarantee role of smart stores and smart business circles, and increase high-quality supply through multiple channels.

Fully support foreign trade enterprises to seize orders and expand markets

　　"It has reached a new height, released new kinetic energy, and made new contributions." Li Xingqian, director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said when talking about the development of my country's foreign trade in 2022.

　　Li Xingqian introduced that my country's foreign trade has withstood various risk tests in 2022, and its performance has exceeded expectations.

The scale hit a record high again, breaking through the 40 trillion yuan mark; high-tech, high value-added products that lead to green transformation represented by the export of electric vehicles, photovoltaic products, and lithium batteries have become new growth points for exports; goods and services throughout the year The contribution rate of net exports to GDP growth reached 17.1%, driving GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points.

　　"Entering 2023, the global economic and trade situation is extremely severe, and the downward pressure has increased significantly." Li Xinggan said that the main contradiction in my country's foreign trade field has changed from last year's blocked supply chain and insufficient ability to perform contracts to the current weakening of external demand and declining orders. This is an important change.

The Ministry of Commerce made it clear that strengthening trade promotion and close supply and purchase docking should be prioritized, and fully support foreign trade companies in grasping orders and expanding markets.

Do these four things well for foreign trade enterprises:

　　Resume physical exhibitions, promote domestic trade exhibitions to fully resume offline exhibitions, and hold a series of key exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo, Canton Fair, and China International High-tech Achievements Fair; make good use of new formats to promote cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses and other new industries. The further development of business forms will drive the export of small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises; explore new needs, give full play to the role of economic and commercial agencies of embassies and consulates abroad, and assist local organizations to organize enterprises to carry out trade cooperation abroad; support enterprises to "go global" and provide foreign trade enterprises with cross-border business To provide more convenience.

Inventory incremental policies superimpose efforts to stabilize foreign investment

　　Meng Huating, head of the Foreign Investment Management Department of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced that on the basis of double-digit growth in 2021, my country's actual use of foreign capital in RMB will exceed 1.2 trillion yuan for the first time in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 6.3% on a comparable basis.

The scale of foreign investment reached a new record high, the manufacturing industry has greatly increased its foreign investment, high-tech industries have become an important growth point, the investment from major sources has generally increased, and the eastern, central and western regions have seen an overall increase in foreign investment.

　　Meng Huating said frankly that at present, the situation of my country's absorption of foreign investment is still complicated and severe.

World economic growth is sluggish, and various unfavorable factors are still fermenting.

At the same time, she said that the fundamentals of my country's economic stability and long-term improvement have not changed, and the comprehensive advantages of attracting investment, such as a super-large-scale market, a complete industrial system, rich human resources, and a continuously optimized business environment, are constantly strengthening. However, the majority of foreign investors still have a strong desire to invest in China.

　　Since last year, my country has released a new version of the Catalog of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment, and introduced a series of special policies to promote investment in the manufacturing industry and encourage the development of foreign-invested R&D centers.

Meng Huating said that this year, she will fully promote the implementation of the policies that have been introduced, and will introduce another batch of policy measures according to the deployment of the central government.

"The superposition of stock policy and incremental policy will bring more sense of gain to foreign-funded enterprises."

　　Meng Huating said that she will continue to strengthen regular exchanges with foreign-funded enterprises and foreign business associations, help solve enterprises' difficult problems, implement national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises, and protect the rights and interests of foreign investment in accordance with the law; The opening up of the field will promote the construction of more foreign-funded landmark projects; actively guide foreign capital to invest in advanced manufacturing, modern services, energy conservation and environmental protection, technological innovation and other fields, as well as the central, western and northeastern regions, and continue to increase investment in high-tech industries.

(Xinhuanet)