Multinational Enterprises Procurement Focus on China The Ministry of Commerce will introduce a number of pro-trade policies

"When production resumed during the epidemic, the government department gave us great help, and made a special application to allow us to start construction, so we will continue to invest in China and be optimistic about the Chinese market. A Chinese head of a multinational company told reporters.

The reporter learned from the press conference of the State Council Information Office that more than 100 leading multinational companies have confirmed to participate in this year's Canton Fair, of which 56.5% are from Europe and the United States, 26.1% are from the "Belt and Road" countries, and 23.2% are from RCEP countries.

Wal-Mart, Amazon, Auchan, Schneider, Aldi, Tesco, Coop ITALIA, Megos, Kesco, Mercadona, Klute, Lulu, Aeon, Changyou, Koper, Coop, New Zealand, and other leading businessmen attended the meeting. There are more than 200 people in Japan's Nitori group, and more than 100 people in the United States' Walmart and Central Procurement, Germany's Metro, Mexico's Koper, and France's Auchan.

The reporter learned that the Ministry of Commerce is ready to introduce a number of policies and measures to support new energy vehicle trade cooperation, support second-hand car exports, improve the development level of processing trade, and support the construction of overseas warehouses.

2 hours by land and water transfer to Hong Kong

"Now I can finally meet customers face-to-face. The person in charge of a large household production enterprise in Shanghai told reporters, "In the past few years at the Canton Fair, we have adopted the form of a live broadcast room, and the effect is worse than meeting customers directly." ”

In previous years, the Canton Fair was an important exhibition for him to meet new customers, and in addition, he would also participate in some exhibitions held overseas. "In the past few years, due to the epidemic, we could only send samples to overseas exhibitions, and the organizers displayed them uniformly, and the effect was unsatisfactory. Now, it's time to come face-to-face with your customers. ”

Another advantage of meeting customers directly, he says, is that "customers usually place orders by email, and if they can meet and talk more and trust each other, they will get more orders." ”

The 134th Canton Fair will be held in Guangzhou from October 15 to November 4, and the online platform will continue to operate normally.

At the opening of each Canton Fair, buyers from all countries and regions gather at the Canton Fair to actively negotiate transactions, focus on Made in China, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. It can be said that overseas buyers are the "lifeline" of the Canton Fair.

It is understood that the level of accessibility and convenience of transportation at this Canton Fair has been greatly improved. "We further encrypt routes from key airports such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen to all over the world, and before and after the Canton Fair, the airports in the province will have more than 2,000 international passenger flights per week (each round trip is counted as 2 flights), transporting about 300,000 passengers. Optimize the function of Pazhou Hong Kong and Macao Ferry Terminal, and open fast lanes for border inspection at major land ports such as Shenzhen and Zhuhai, so that more than 2.4 million passengers can be cleared daily at land ports in the province during the Canton Fair. Zhang Xin, vice governor of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, said at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office.

At the same time, he also had a new experience: "During this Canton Fair, we opened a route between Hong Kong International Airport and Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui China Hong Kong City Ferry Terminal, which is only a 5-minute walk from the Canton Fair Complex, and it only takes 2 hours each way. I took this flight to Hong Kong on September 8, and it took less than 2 hours to reach Hong Kong. ”

As of September 27, a total of buyers from 215 countries and regions have pre-registered, an increase of 23.5% over the same period of the 133rd.

According to Chu Shijia, director of the China Foreign Trade Center, the number of pre-registered buyers in Europe and the United States increased by 20.2% compared with the same period in the 133rd, of which European buyers increased by 19.1% and North America increased by 20.3%. The number of countries under the Belt and Road Initiative increased by 33.6 percent. RCEP countries grew by 21.3 percent. The top five industries with the highest number of pre-registrations are: electronics and home appliances, machinery, consumer goods, hardware tools, and home decoration.

At the same time, industrial and commercial organizations actively participated in the meeting. "There have been 53 industrial and commercial organizations from five continents, including the China-US General Chamber of Commerce, the China-Britain Business Council, the Peru-China Chamber of Commerce, the Malaysian China Chamber of Commerce, and the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Nigeria, an increase of 29.3% over the same period last year. He introduced.

As of September 27, more than 100 leading multinational companies have confirmed their participation.

The Ministry of Commerce will introduce a number of policies

"We are ready to introduce a number of policies and measures to support new energy vehicle trade cooperation, support second-hand car exports, improve the development level of processing trade, and support the construction of overseas warehouses. Vice Minister of Commerce Guo Tingting said.

Since the beginning of this year, the development of global trade has faced multiple pressures, and demand has continued to be sluggish. The world economic recovery is sluggish, overseas investment and consumption demand is not strong, and high inventories are still being digested.

Protectionism has intensified. Some countries engage in unilateralism, generalize national security, abuse trade protection measures, set up trade barriers, and interfere with the normal production and operation of enterprises and cross-border cooperation. A number of developing economies have suffered from debt crises. There is a shortage of foreign exchange and the ability to import is affected. Geopolitical spillovers. Some countries have promoted the so-called "de-risking and de-dependency reduction", politicizing and ideologizing economic and trade issues, which has seriously affected the stable and efficient operation of global industrial and supply chains. These pressures have also had an impact on China's foreign trade.

In order to stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade, China has issued a series of policies and measures, such as the "Opinions on Promoting the Stable Scale and Optimal Structure of Foreign Trade".

"With the joint efforts of all parties, China's foreign trade has shown strong development resilience and innovation vitality. Compared with the same period in 2019 before the epidemic, in the first eight months of this year, the scale of China's imports and exports and the number of foreign trade entities increased by more than 30%, the proportion of exports to emerging markets increased by nearly 7 percentage points, and the scale of new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce increased by 11 times, and green new energy products became export highlights. Guo Tingting introduced.

At the same time, according to WTO statistics, total global exports fell by 4.6% year-on-year in the first half of the year, 1.4 percentage points deeper than China's. China's global market share reached 14.2 percent, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over the same period last year.

At present, in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce, together with various localities and relevant departments, has intensified its work, launched more pragmatic measures to help foreign trade enterprises seize orders and expand the market, and strive to achieve the goal and task of promoting stability and improving the quality of foreign trade throughout the year, and make many contributions to the sustained economic recovery.

She introduced: "We will do a good job in key exhibitions, further optimize the visa policy, better facilitate the exchange of business personnel, and also give full play to the trade promotion role of embassies and consulates abroad." Strengthen enterprise-related training and financial services. We will continue to carry out special training and matchmaking meetings on trade hedging, RCEP chain stabilization and chain consolidation, and overseas warehouses. We will increase export credit support for foreign trade enterprises, especially small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises, and further expand the underwriting scale and coverage of export credit insurance. ”

In terms of promoting trade liberalization and facilitation, she said: "We will firmly uphold the multilateral trading system with the WTO at its core, oppose unilateralism and protectionism, adhere to high-level opening-up, accelerate the construction of a network of high-standard free trade zones, and inject more impetus into the global economic recovery." ”