Identify Breakthrough Points, Cultivate New Highlights, And Enhance New Momentum For Foreign Trade
At the Shengdong Terminal of Yangshan Port in Shanghai, all 39 bridge cranes are in operation, completing about 30,000 standard container loading and unloading tasks every day. Compared with the same period last year, the loading and unloading volume increased by 15% to 20%; in Yiwu, Zhejiang, "Yixin" "Europe" China-Europe freight trains deliver new energy vehicles, mobile phones, computers and other Chinese products to more than 160 cities in more than 50 countries at a frequency of 8 trains a day; an overseas warehouse located in New Jersey, USA, the product distribution scope covers 15 countries in the United States In this state, consumers place orders on e-commerce platforms and receive the goods on the same day or the next day at the earliest...
During the Spring Festival this year, busy ocean-going cargo ships, shuttle trains between China and Europe, non-stop cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses, trade hubs and nodes, witnessed the deep integration of my country's trade with the world. Entering 2024, favorable conditions for the development of China's economy and foreign trade continue to accumulate. With the support of various "combination punches" of policies to stabilize the economy and foreign trade, new momentum for foreign trade has accelerated, and foreign trade companies have accelerated from the start, setting the stage for continued stability throughout the year. Run towards the good momentum with confidence and confidence.
At present, the world economic recovery is sluggish, the international market is unstable, uncertain and unpredictable, and competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Under such circumstances, if my country's foreign trade wants to achieve greater development, it must find new growth points. The Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of last year emphasized expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, with a lot of emphasis on the deployment of foreign trade work. It proposed to accelerate the cultivation of new momentum for foreign trade, consolidate the basic foreign trade and foreign investment, expand intermediate goods trade, service trade, digital trade, Cross-border e-commerce export.
Accelerating the cultivation of new driving forces for foreign trade is a persistent task. In fact, it has been reflected in the development process of foreign trade in recent years. For example, China has actively joined the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which has brought many opportunities to Chinese foreign trade companies. For another example, in the past two years, the export of the "three new" products represented by electric passenger vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells has grown rapidly, which is also a reflection of China's achievements in cultivating new drivers of foreign trade. In the future, while consolidating the existing momentum of foreign trade, we should continue to explore new advantageous industries and competitive products, further optimize the foreign trade structure, and help China's foreign trade enhance its ability to resist risks and achieve high-quality development.
The Central Economic Work Conference proposed "expanding intermediate goods trade, service trade, digital trade, and cross-border e-commerce exports", pointing out the direction for cultivating new drivers of foreign trade. These areas will also become breakthrough points and new highlights for my country's foreign trade development in the future. .
Expanding trade in intermediate goods is a new idea. Intermediate products are raw materials, components, etc. in the production process. They are the products that cooperate most closely with the international industrial chain and supply chain. Expanding trade in intermediate goods reflects that my country's manufacturing industry is undergoing transformation and upgrading, and the level of manufacturing has been significantly improved. Compared with trade in final goods, in addition to being traded as commodities, trade in intermediate goods is also a carrier of knowledge and technology. It is also the key to China's transition from a large trading country to a powerful trading country.
The importance of trade in services is that it will promote the aggregation and optimization of global talent, capital, technology, data and other resource factors, and greatly improve the quality and allocation level of factors. There is broad space for development of service trade, and it will increasingly become an important support for connecting domestic and international markets and promoting domestic and international dual circulation.
Digital trade has created new trade formats and trade models, which can effectively alleviate the information asymmetry between supply and demand, improve transaction efficiency, and reduce trade costs. The current vigorous development of the digital economy can promote the efficient operation of all links in the entire foreign trade process, improve the convenience of foreign trade import and export, and accelerate the release of the vitality of foreign trade business entities.
my country's cross-border e-commerce exports are booming, and new models are constantly emerging. More and more manufacturing companies are actively embracing cross-border e-commerce, broadening sales channels, and upgrading from exporting products overseas to exporting brands overseas. At the same time, as cross-border e-commerce platforms and logistics systems continue to improve, overseas consumers' purchasing habits are gradually shifting online, and cross-border e-commerce has become an important way for many foreign trade companies to obtain orders. The rise of domestic cross-border e-commerce has provided a new commercial infrastructure for overseas enterprises, providing strong support for the transformation of China's manufacturing and even the formation of unique global competitiveness.
Accelerating the cultivation of new momentum for foreign trade means not only maintaining China's market share unchanged, but also exploring new paths for foreign trade growth. This includes using new technologies, new rules and other methods to promote the development of foreign trade and expand new space for the development of foreign trade in diversified commodities. my country's foreign trade import and export enterprises should seize the opportunity, improve innovation capabilities and quality and efficiency, continuously enhance product competitiveness, and achieve sustainable development of foreign trade. At the same time, the government should also increase support, provide a better policy environment and service guarantees, expand trade scale, optimize trade structure, help China's foreign trade enhance its ability to resist risks, and jointly promote the foreign trade industry to a higher level.