A few days ago, the General Administration of Customs released foreign trade data for the first 11 months of 2022. my country's total import and export value was 38.34 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%. Among them, exports were 21.84 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.9% year-on-year; the trade surplus was 5.34 trillion yuan, an increase of 42.8%. Against the background of sluggish global economic and trade growth and geopolitical conflicts, such achievements in foreign trade fully reflect the international competitiveness of "Made in China" and the strong resilience of China's foreign trade development, and also provide a strong impetus for the recovery and development of China's economy .
For a long time, thanks to the effective implementation of my country's series of measures to stabilize foreign trade, trade liberalization and facilitation have been continuously promoted, institutional opening with free trade pilot zones and free trade ports as the starting point has achieved results, and the business environment for foreign trade enterprises has been continuously optimized , the development momentum is sufficient and the expectation is good. Overlaying the mature technology and supporting advantages of the foreign trade industry, coupled with the deepening of my country's international regional economic cooperation represented by RCEP, has become an important foundation for foreign trade to maintain strong resilience. The just-convened Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that "we must make greater efforts to promote stable scale and optimized structure of foreign trade, greater efforts to promote the stable stock and expansion of foreign investment, and cultivate new growth points for international economic and trade cooperation." In the future, the growth momentum of foreign trade is bound to be further released, the slowdown in monthly import and export growth will be reversed, and the empowerment effect on economic recovery and development will be more obvious.
However, it should also be noted that the current international economic and trade recovery is sluggish, global inflation is running at a high level, the economic downward pressure of major economies is increasing, and insufficient external demand has caused orders to decrease. There are still some problems that need to be solved urgently in the development of my country's foreign trade. Therefore, it is necessary to create a sustained growth momentum for foreign trade and give full play to the strong resilience of foreign trade so that it can better empower economic recovery and development.
Actively serve foreign trade enterprises to "grab orders". Grasp the trend of international exchanges and opening up under the normalized epidemic prevention and control, increase support for foreign trade enterprises to "grab orders" and "expand channels", and strengthen service functions. We should increase the information integration and publicity of domestic and foreign exhibition resources. On the one hand, we should actively hold various online and offline commodity exhibitions to attract international businessmen to come to China for business negotiations; Form a group to go overseas to grab orders, increase opportunities for "face-to-face" and "point-to-point" exchanges between foreign merchants and consumers and Chinese companies, strengthen their understanding of Chinese product brands, promote the connection between supply and demand in the international market, and help my country's superior products seize the international market.
Efforts were made to promote the diversified development of the foreign trade market. It is necessary to continue to consolidate development, increase trade cooperation and interest coordination with my country's major foreign trade export markets, deepen cooperation with multinational companies from developed countries, actively integrate into the global procurement chain of multinational companies, and expand trade shares. At the same time, it is also necessary to actively explore the markets of developing countries, especially the emerging economies with great economic potential and vitality. Focusing on the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" and the promotion of RCEP cooperation, we will expand our business in the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. , the scale of trade in the African region, stabilize and upgrade the supply chain and industrial chain trade network of East Asian countries, and drive export growth and structural upgrading through investment cooperation and foreign contracted project construction.
Continue to enhance the innovation vitality of the foreign trade system. It is necessary to strengthen the openness and innovation of foreign trade systems, align with international high-standard economic and trade rules, adjust domestic trade laws, regulations and policies, innovate and promote systems and mechanisms that are in line with international high-standard economic and trade rules, implement the strategy of upgrading the quality of free trade pilot zones, and create an international A first-class free trade port, promoting institutional innovation in trade-related intellectual property rights, green and low-carbon, technical standards, corporate social responsibility, etc., promoting new foreign trade formats such as cross-border e-commerce, market procurement trade, overseas warehouses, and foreign trade comprehensive service companies Integrate development, give full play to the advantages of foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises, build and rely on the cross-border e-commerce platform of enterprises, promote the coordinated development of cross-border e-commerce advantageous enterprises and small, medium and micro enterprises engaged in market procurement trade, jointly develop international markets, rationally arrange overseas warehouses, and realize Facilitate overseas supply and marketing and win more opportunities in overseas markets.
Accurate implementation of bailout measures for foreign trade companies is also essential. Research should be strengthened to grasp the pain points and difficulties that restrict the development of foreign trade, and accurately implement relief measures. Increase financial and financial support for foreign trade enterprises, encourage financial institutions to innovate financing methods, build a joint venture between the government, banks, and insurance institutions to promote the financing chain of foreign trade enterprises, and strengthen the support of credit insurance and government guarantees for trade financing. Implement preferential tax measures for foreign trade enterprises, strengthen the efficiency of export tax rebates to help enterprises, and reduce the operating costs of foreign trade enterprises. Establish central and local foreign trade enterprise rescue funds to provide assistance to foreign trade enterprises affected by sudden changes in the international market, rising raw material costs, and violent exchange rate fluctuations, and provide short-term financing services for small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises.
