According to data recently released by the General Administration of Customs, in May, my country's monthly import and export volume was 3.45 trillion yuan, and the monthly import and export volume maintained positive growth for four consecutive months. Based on the foreign trade data for the first five months of this year, the resilience of my country's foreign trade is continuing to emerge.
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Emerging markets have grown significantly
Trade with the five Central Asian countries increased by 40%
In the first five months of this year, the total value of my country's foreign trade imports and exports was 16.77 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%. Among them, trade with emerging markets has become an important driving force for my country's foreign trade growth.
In the first five months of this year, the trade volume between my country and ASEAN reached 2.59 trillion yuan, and ASEAN continued to be my country's largest trading partner, with a year-on-year increase of 9.9%.
With the continuous interconnection of regional economic exchanges, my country's imports and exports to other members of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) have grown steadily. In the first five months of this year, my country's imports and exports to other RCEP members reached 5.11 trillion yuan , an increase of 4.5% year-on-year, and RCEP accounts for more than 30% of my country's foreign trade.
During the same period, my country's imports and exports to countries along the "Belt and Road" totaled 5.78 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%, of which Kazakhstan and other five Central Asian countries increased by 44%.
At present, the international situation is still complicated and severe, and the contraction of international demand is still continuing. my country's foreign trade "promoting stability and improving quality" is still under pressure. The Ministry of Commerce stated that it will step up efforts to promote foreign trade to stabilize the scale and optimize the structure, while stabilizing exports to developed economies, and guide enterprises to deeply expand the markets of developing countries and ASEAN and other regional markets.
Xu Yingming, director of the International Market Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce Research Institute: With the continuous release of RCEP benefits and the deepening and solid construction of the "Belt and Road", RCEP member countries, countries along the "Belt and Road" and ASEAN countries will become my country's The growth points of foreign trade development, green trade, digital trade, etc. will become emerging areas of my country's foreign trade development, and are expected to continue to grow in the future.
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New professions and new outlets emerge
Injecting new impetus into foreign trade development
The role of new business forms and new models in promoting foreign trade has also become more and more obvious. Today, there are more than 100,000 cross-border e-commerce entities in my country. With the continuous release of the vitality of cross-border e-commerce, a number of new occupations have emerged in various places, and at the same time, explosive products such as household new energy products have doubled overseas demand. The emergence of new occupations and new outlets is injecting new momentum into the development of foreign trade.
Under the new model, customer satisfaction is improved, and more and more orders are added. For enterprises, it can deliver goods quickly, reduce inventory, and the "superimposed effect" of multiple batches can enable small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises to realize profits scale.
According to statistics from Ali International Station, a cross-border e-commerce platform, since the beginning of this year, "enrollment expansion" has become a key word for cross-border e-commerce companies. become popular. From March to May this year, overseas buyers' demand for air conditioners increased by more than 50% year-on-year. Among them, "air conditioners that can generate electricity by themselves" that combine photovoltaic and energy storage systems are the most popular.
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Follow the trend of green and low-carbon development
Enhance international competitiveness
Focusing on the medium and long-term development of foreign trade, since this year, my country's market entities have actively followed the trend of green and low-carbon development, and continuously enhanced the international competitiveness of foreign trade products by quantifying and reducing carbon costs.
In order to help enterprises actively respond, the Nanjing Pilot Free Trade Zone supports the establishment of a "carbon cost quantitative analysis system based on export data". etc., accurately locate the carbon footprint in the production process of the enterprise, estimate the carbon cost, and generate a report with one click. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes.
After a systematic quantitative analysis of carbon costs and precise positioning of the source of carbon emissions, the platform can guide enterprises through a series of transformation and development measures such as modifying supplier access conditions and optimizing material selection, so that enterprises can avoid paying carbon tariffs and can Better export to international markets such as the EU.
Gu Shiyu, relevant person in charge of the Free Trade Zone Comprehensive Coordination Bureau of the Nanjing Jiangbei New Area Management Committee: In terms of open development and green development, we can provide our enterprises with more efficient and convenient services, which can help our export enterprises cope with the international green economy and trade. Rules play a greater role in reducing export costs.
Cui Weijie, Deputy Director of the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce: The Pilot Free Trade Zone is benchmarking against the new international economic and trade rules. This is not only an important manifestation of leading high-level institutional opening-up, but also can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and strengthen international trade for foreign trade companies. competitiveness.
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