First, we will promptly introduce new policies. We will continue to implement the opinions on promoting a steady scale and an excellent structure of foreign trade, and at the same time, we will make policy research reserves in light of the new situation and new tasks this year. Some time ago, the Ministry of Commerce conducted a survey of the suggestions and demands of local and enterprise, and is now seizing the opportunity to carry out a new round of policy research and evaluation, striving to introduce it as soon as possible, and form a "combination" with existing policies.Second, we will accelerate the cultivation of new growth drivers. To the competitiveness of the industry, relying on the advantages of China's complete industrial base and complete manufacturing categories, expand the trade of raw materials, semi-finished products, parts and other intermediate goods. We will energize innovation and promote the development of new business forms and models such as cross-border e-commerce, bonded maintenance, and market procurement. We will give impetus to reform, formulate a catalogue of import and export goods of green and low-carbon products, accelerate the digitization of international trade documents, and promote the green development of trade and the digital transformation of the whole chain. Third, we will help open up new markets. There is a saying in the foreign trade industry: "A thousand emails, not as good as a meeting." To this end, we will continue to hold important exhibitions such as the Canton Fair and the Service Trade Fair, actively support enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions, continue to promote the facilitation of cross-border business personnel exchanges, create more conditions for communication between enterprises, help enterprises better connect with the market and customers, and win more orders. Fourth, we will unleash new import potential. We will expand imports of high-quality consumer goods, advanced technologies, important equipment, and key components, increase imports of energy and resource products and agricultural products in short supply at home, make good use of important exhibition platforms such as the CIIE, expand diversified import channels, improve import trade facilitation, and foster national innovation demonstration zones for promoting import trade.
Wang Wentao said that the Ministry of Commerce has designated this year as the "Year of consumption promotion" and organized various activities to promote consumption together with relevant departments and parties. First, highlight the festival season, combined with traditional festivals, public holidays and other consumption seasons, the Ministry of Commerce will organize online New Year goods festival, several business harvest, snow and ice consumption season and other activities. In addition, the Ministry of Commerce will also guide and support localities to explore their own advantages, combine local characteristics with folk customs, and cultivate iconic event brands. Second, we will promote the replacement of large consumer goods such as automobiles and home appliances with new ones. This is a key point in promoting consumption this year. China's automobile and home appliance market has entered the "era of equal emphasis on increment and stock", and the replacement demand and potential are huge. In order to stabilize and expand traditional consumption and meet the needs of consumers for replacement and upgrading, the Ministry of Commerce will strengthen policy guidance and open up the difficulties and blocking points of replacing old with new on the basis of respecting the wishes of consumers. Third, promote the consumption of domestic "fashionable goods". The "cross-border" collision and integration of high-quality domestic goods and cutting-edge consumption trends have stimulated new hot spots in residents' life and consumption. The Ministry of Commerce will continue to pay attention to the consumption trend of domestic "fashion products" and carry out relevant work, promote the protection and inheritance of time-honored brands and innovative development, and lay a cultural and commercial foundation for the consumption of domestic "fashion products". Fourth, we will continue to improve the consumption environment. In the cities, we will continue to promote the cultivation and construction of international consumption centers and improve the urban business system. In rural areas, we will carry out a three-year campaign for county-level commerce, build a well-equipped, two-way rural circulation network, and encourage industrial products to go to the countryside and agricultural products to go to the city, so as to release the potential of rural consumption.
