Strengthening the national trade promotion system to help stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 12 (Reporter Xie Xiyao) Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said at the 2023 National Conference on the Promotion of International Trade on the 12 th that it is necessary to comprehensively promote the work of special classes serving foreign-funded enterprises to achieve greater results, and take multiple measures to promote foreign trade steadily.

Ren Hongbin said that it is necessary to promote the work of foreign-funded special classes from collecting and reflecting demands to conducting in-depth research, from tracking and solving problems to optimizing the business environment, from serving foreign-funded enterprises to helping local investment, and to attract and utilize foreign capital more vigorously.

According to reports, in the past year, the national trade promotion system collected more than 6,000 demands from foreign-funded enterprises, and responded to and solved more than 4,000 in time; Held more than 1,600 symposiums on foreign-funded enterprises and dialogues on optimizing the business environment; 1.365 million preferential certificates of origin were issued, involving an amount of US$ 60.78 billion, up by 22.9% and 28.8% respectively; Coordinate all parties to strengthen the response to economic and trade frictions and issue 36,000 early warning messages on economic and trade frictions; The Commercial Industry Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade took the lead in formulating 18 international standards, and the influence and voice of international rulemaking jumped.

In terms of stabilizing foreign trade, Ren Hongbin said that it is necessary to strengthen the function of trade promotion, improve the level of industrial services, and make greater efforts to support enterprises to explore overseas markets. Including making efforts to build brand exhibitions overseas, strengthening the publicity and promotion of free trade agreements and enterprise training, and improving the service efficiency of issuing certificates of origin.Running a high-level economic and trade exhibition well is a powerful starting point to help stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment. According to Ren Hongbin, Beijing will host the 16th China-Latin America Entrepreneur Summit and the 1st China International Supply Chain Expo, Guangxi will host the 20th China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, Jilin will host the 14th China-Northeast Asia Expo and Yunnan will host the 16th China-South Asia Business Forum. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade will also step up efforts to organize enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions and speed up the restart and upgrading of overseas exhibitions affected by the epidemic.