What is the "Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation in the first half of the year?Ministry of Commerce: The amount of trade in goods increased by 17.8% year -on -year

Cover news reporter Teng Yan

On July 29, the Ministry of Commerce held a special press conference. Yang Tao, deputy director of the General Department of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced the new progress of economic and trade cooperation in the "Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation in the first half of this year. The trade volume reached 6.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 17.8%year -on -year, accounting for 31.9%.

Yang Tao said that since this year, in terms of deepening the "Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation, the Ministry of Commerce has carried out the work including the first is to continue to consolidate the basic market for cooperation. Deepen the trading potential of the joint construction of the country, encourage the import of high -quality commodities, and accelerate the development of new foreign trade formats such as cross -border e -commerce and overseas warehouses. At the same time, optimizing foreign investment cooperation and attracting investment in China to China to come to China. In the first half of the year, my country and countries along the “Belt and Road” reached 6.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 17.8%year -on -year, accounting for 31.9%. Non -financial direct investment in countries along the route reached 650.03 billion yuan, an increase of 4.9%, accounting for 18.5%. During the same period, the actual investment in China along the route reached 45.25 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6%.

The second is to steadily expand new areas of cooperation. Docking the development needs of co -construction countries, promoting cooperation in the fields of green, digital, and supporting project construction cooperation in the fields of clean energy, ecological protection, information communication, and new infrastructure. Deeply develop the "Silk Road E -commerce", promote the establishment of e -commerce cooperation mechanisms with more countries, and successfully organize activities such as African Goods Online Shopping Festival, Live SCO E -commerce E -commerce Live, Buying in BRICS to help the co -construction of the country to expand trade New channels.

Third, high -quality implementation project construction. It steadily promoted key projects such as the Yawan high -speed rail and Hungarian and Cevoy Railway, and successively landed a number of "small and beautiful" projects to help local economic development and people's livelihood improvement. Implement the cooperation plan for China -Singapore Corporation of the International Land and Sea Trade, and accelerate the construction of the new land and sea channels. Promote the establishment of a demonstration park with ASEAN countries to jointly build economic and trade innovation development, deepen cooperation with the "two countries" with Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia, and promote the upgrading of the overseas economic and trade cooperation zone.

The fourth is to continuously deepen multi -bilateral cooperation. Comprehensively implement the "Nine Projects" of the China -Africa Cooperation Forum. Successfully organized a meeting of the Twelfth Economic and Trade Minister of Economic and Trade in the BRICS countries, and achieved many results such as the framework of digital economic partnerships. Hold the China -Central Asian Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum. Promote the establishment of a global high -standard free trade zone network, reach an early harvest arrangement of the Free Trade Agreement with Nicaragua, and start negotiations between the comprehensive free trade agreement, start negotiations with the Ecuador Dorod Poority Agreement, and promote the cooperation with the China -ASEAN Free Trade Zone. Promote negotiations between China, Japan and South Korea's free trade zone, and China, Belarus, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Peru and other free trade agreement negotiations and upgrading processes.

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