Ministry of Commerce Li Shuo: Four aspects to accelerate the development of new foreign trade formats and new models

21st Century Business Herald reporter Zhao Zijian Beijing report

On September 2nd, at the "2022 China Electronic Commerce Conference -Cross -border E -commerce Forum" in the 2022 Institute of Service and Trade in 2022, Li Shuo, deputy director of the Ministry of Commerce's Foreign Trade Department, said that the Ministry of Commerce will promote the promotion of "on promoting the quality and stability of foreign trade stability. The implementation of policy documents such as "Opinions, promoting the introduction of more pragmatic measures and optimizing the business environment in terms of the convenience of customs clearance, international payment settlement, etc. At the same time, it deepen international cooperation to accelerate the development of new foreign trade formats and new models.

"Since 2022, in the face of the severe and complex foreign trade development environment, the Ministry of Commerce has been in accordance with various localities and relevant departments to stabilize foreign trade. my country's foreign trade has held pressure, and the scale of import and exports has continued to grow, showing strong toughness." Li Li. "Li Li." Li According to Shuo, from January to July this year, the total value of imports and exports in my country was 23.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.4%year-on-year. Among them, exports were 13.37 trillion yuan, a year -on -year increase of 14.7%; imports were 10.23 trillion yuan, a year -on -year increase of 5.3%. The new momentum of foreign trade development has continued to increase, and new foreign trade formats and new models such as cross -border e -commerce have maintained rapid growth.

Li Shuo said that the current foreign trade development in my country still faces many challenges: the prospects for growth in major economies are not optimistic, the willingness to consume is insufficient, the expansion of foreign demand has slowed down, and the difficulty of acquiring orders has increased. At the same time, domestic and international logistics still need to further improve efficiency, unblocking the industrial chain and supply chain.

In this regard, Li Shuo said at the meeting that the Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote the implementation of policies, excavate new growth points of foreign trade, actively expand capacity, prevent reduction, and strong guarantees, and go all out to achieve foreign trade preservation and quality. The economic market has made greater contributions.

"New foreign trade formats and new models such as cross -border e -commerce are innovative practices for foreign trade entering a new stage of development, and it is also a new force for the innovation and development of foreign trade in my country. The new format has stimulated the vitality of foreign trade subjects, expanded the development of foreign trade, enhanced foreign trade operations. Efficiency has stabilized the supply chain industry chain of the foreign trade industry, realized the integration of industrial digitalization and digital trade, accelerating the development of new foreign trade formats and new models, which is conducive to promoting the high -quality development of trade, and it plays an important role in service to build a new development pattern. " Li Shuo said.

He said that under the leadership of the new development concept, the new model of foreign trade formats and new models is full of vitality and diverse forms:

First, new technologies and new tools such as network information are used for cross -border e -commerce. The second is the transformation and upgrading of traditional trade to form a market procurement trade method. Third, the division of trade has been further refined, forming a new type of main body such as comprehensive foreign trade service enterprises. Fourth, the integration and development of various formats, further integration and linkage of foreign trade functions, forming a "BTOBTOC" cross -border e -commerce overseas warehouse model. The efficiency of terminal delivery services has rapidly improved, bringing a better customer experience.

According to Li Shuo, in recent years, the Ministry of Commerce has strengthened the top -level design, improve support measures, continuously promoted policy supervision and service innovation, and created cross -border e -commerce supervision code, issued value -added tax, consumption tax, ticket -free tax exemption, and income tax Approve supporting policies such as levy, focusing on the rules and standard construction of the main body, and organizing a series of special actions to achieve positive results.

According to statistics, my country's cross -border e -commerce import and export scale increased by 10 years. In 2021, my country's cross -border e -commerce import and export scale was about 1.92 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.6%year -on -year, accounting for 4.9%of the total import and export.

Li Shuo revealed that in the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will accelerate the development of new foreign trade formats and new models, and give full play to the role of cross -border e -commerce.

The first is to promote policy implementation. Continue to implement the implementation of policy documents such as "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of New Foreign Trade Industry and New Models" and "Opinions on Promoting the Institution of Foreign Trade" and release policy dividends.

The second is to improve the policy system, promote the introduction of more pragmatic measures in the aspects of customs clearance, international payment settlement, unblocking international logistics, and innovative financial products to stimulate the vitality of the subject.

The third is to optimize the business environment, solidly promote the construction of comprehensive trial areas, improve the professionalization, scale, and intelligent level of overseas warehouses, enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of cross -border e -commerce, and build an industrial chain and ecological chain.

The fourth is to deepen international cooperation, make full use of RCEP, actively join CPTPP and DEPA, and vigorously develop "Silk Road E -commerce".

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