Ministry of Commerce： We will formulate a development action plan to steadily promote the high-quality development of trade.

　　CCTV News:On December 9, the State Council Press Office held a press conference. Ren Hongbin, Assistant Minister of Commerce, and Li Xinggan, Director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting High-quality Trade Development and answered questions from reporters.

　　Recently, "Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting High-quality Trade Development" (hereinafter referred to as "Guiding Opinions") was released.

　　At the meeting, Ren Hongbin introduced that the Guiding Opinions is a programmatic document that guides and leads China’s foreign trade quality change, power change and efficiency change under the new situation, and gives full play to the important role of foreign trade in the overall development of the national economy. It has distinct strategic, guiding, directional and forward-looking.

　　Ren Hongbin said that the Guiding Opinions mainly have four characteristics:

　　First, the new development concept runs through the whole process of promoting the high-quality development of trade.Highlight the drive of innovation, strengthen the supporting role of manufacturing innovation in trade, enhance the ability of trade innovation, and cultivate new trade formats and new models. Emphasize coordinated development, encourage green trade, strictly control the import and export of products with high pollution and energy consumption, and realize sustainable development. Carry out the open concept and build a new open economic system at a higher level. Adhere to the principle of sharing and seek inclusive and mutually beneficial development prospects.

　　The second is to take "five optimizations" and "three constructions" as important measures to promote the high-quality development of trade.The Guiding Opinions emphasize that it is necessary to actively promote the optimization of international market layout, domestic regional layout, business entities, commodity structure and trade methods. In recent years, the "five optimizations" have achieved positive results. Compared with 2012, from January to October 2019, the proportion of exports to emerging markets increased by 5.5 percentage points to 48.8%; The proportion of exports in the central and western regions increased by 3.9 percentage points to 18.1%; The export proportion of mechanical and electrical products increased by 0.7 percentage points to 58.3%; The export proportion of private enterprises increased by 13.8 percentage points to 51.4%; The proportion of general trade exports increased by 10 percentage points to 58.2%. The Guiding Opinions also proposes to build a platform system to play a supporting role in trade. In recent years, the Ministry of Commerce has accelerated the "three constructions" of national foreign trade transformation and upgrading base, international marketing service network and trade promotion platform. Holding China International Import Expo has played an important role in cultivating new advantages in foreign trade competition.

　　The third is to deepen reform as a powerful engine to promote the high-quality development of trade.The development of China’s foreign trade in the past few decades is largely the result of promoting the reform of foreign trade system and fully releasing its development potential. The Guiding Opinions adhere to the problem orientation, focus on the shortcomings and weak links of foreign trade development, emphasize deepening the structural reform of the supply side and the reform of the foreign trade system, stimulate the vitality and innovation potential of the system, and promote the transformation of foreign trade development from factor-driven to innovation-driven, from scale and speed to quality and efficiency, from cost and price advantages to new competitive advantages.

　　The fourth is to further expand opening up as a lasting driving force for promoting the high-quality development of trade.The Guiding Opinions proposes to give full play to the demonstration and leading role of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, build a free trade port with China characteristics at a high level, deepen the "Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation, constructively participate in global economic governance, actively contribute more China initiatives and China programs, and accelerate the formation of a high-standard free trade zone network based on the periphery, radiating the "Belt and Road" and facing the world.

　　2020 is the closing year of building a well-off society in an all-round way and the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan. The Ministry of Commerce will adhere to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, adhere to the new development concept, adhere to the supply-side structural reform as the main line, and persist in taking reform and opening up as the driving force. According to the Guiding Opinions, it will study and introduce specific policies and measures, formulate action plans for high-quality trade development, strengthen coordination with relevant departments and localities, form joint efforts, and steadily promote high-quality trade development.