Three Large Export Provinces, Sharply Reducing Foreign Trade Growth

Reporters recently learned from the national business meeting that the three major export provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong began to show a trend of monthly decline from the second half of 2011. The continued grim situation at home and abroad led these provinces to reduce their export growth expected to less than 10% this year. Research from three provinces and enterprises shows that at present, the pressure of foreign trade enterprises is generally very large. Up to now, the cost has risen to 20%, and hand orders have been further reduced. situation It will be very serious.

On the 9 day of the National Conference on Trade and development system and the 5 to 6 national business conference, the consensus was that the foreign trade faces both inside and outside. pressure Further increase, the first quarter of this year foreign trade situation will be very grim. The Ministry of Commerce has launched a series of measures to stabilize export growth. New policy 。

A member of the foreign trade system told reporters that the Ministry of Commerce or targeting the 2012 annual growth target of foreign trade in "10%".

Liang Yaowen, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of foreign trade and economic cooperation, said that in 2011, Guangdong's total foreign trade volume is expected to exceed 900 billion dollars, an increase of 16% over the same period last year. "A lot of analysis and investigation has been done in the past six months. Generally speaking, the situation is not optimistic this year. The external market has not shown signs of improvement. Guangdong accounts for over 60% of exports to Europe and the United States, so there is a lot of pressure. "Preliminary prediction, this year (province) import and export growth of 7.5%."

Jin Yonghui, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, said that the total import and export volume of Zhejiang in 2011 was expected to reach US $309 billion, an increase of 22% over the same period last year, while exports and imports increased by 19.9% and 17.2% respectively. However, the trend of monthly export growth has been showing an average decrease of less than 100% per month.

Jin Yonghui said that the latest monitoring of 1700 enterprises in the province showed that in November 2011, the proportion of contracts increased or remained flat in November 2011, accounting for 70.1%, down 10.2 percentage points from that in April. At the same time, trade friction increased by 14.7% in the first 11 months, up to 87. "Enterprises generally reflect that the total operating cost has increased by about 20%, which is difficult to digest." Jin Yonghui said.

Jin Yonghui told reporters that "the initial target of Zhejiang province is 11% increase in imports and exports this year, an increase of 10% in exports and an increase of 11% in imports." As long as there is no big case, the export growth will be 10%, and there is no possibility of a sharp fall. "To lose is not a problem of 8% and 9%, but a problem of negative growth."

Zhu Min, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, said that in 2011, Jiangsu's foreign trade overall maintained a steady growth. The total import and export volume was expected to reach US $540 billion in the whole year, an increase of 15% over the same period last year. In 2012, the initial growth of Jiangsu's foreign trade was expected to be around 8%, and imports and exports were almost the same level. "We have repeatedly discussed and analyzed that 8% is a difficult indicator to decide, but we must achieve such an index from the perspective of maintaining the province's economic growth throughout the year." It is understood that Jiangsu's electronic information, photovoltaic, shipbuilding accounted for 43% of the total exports of the three industries, since the second half of last year, the three major industries have seen a substantial decline.

"In 2012, we will maintain the stability and continuity of our foreign trade policy, and study new measures to consolidate and expand international market share." Chen Deming, Minister of Commerce, said at the national business conference that the export tax rebate policy will be basically stable, the tax rebate mechanism should be improved and the tax rebate progress should be accelerated. Stable processing trade policy. We will simplify the management of foreign exchange verification. Broaden the financing channels for foreign trade enterprises and improve the financial services for SMEs.

On 2012, the Vice Minister of Commerce, Zijin Mountain, held the national economic and trade promotion system working conference on 9, and said that the focus of our foreign trade work this year is to promote "two layout" and "three construction". Among them, "three construction" refers to the construction of three aspects, namely, foreign trade production base, trade platform and international marketing network. The "two layout" refers to the layout of foreign trade international market and the domestic regional layout of foreign trade.

Zijin Mountain has revealed that this year, the layout of the international market will be considered comprehensively, and the proportion of developing countries will be increased. "30 major developing countries will be selected according to the four factors: resources, population, existing market share and strategic position. They will be the key breakthroughs in developing countries and regions this year and in the next four years, and strive to increase the total foreign trade volume of these countries by 3% in 2015."

In terms of regional layout of foreign trade, Zijin Mountain said, "the state will start a subsidy policy for domestic and foreign trade, and support it based on factors such as natural resources, labor resources, industrial and transportation infrastructure in the region, and strive to increase the volume of foreign trade in the central and Western Regions by 3% in 2015."

Wang Shouwen, director of the foreign trade division of the Ministry of Commerce, told reporters in the gap of the national business meeting that in June this year, the Ministry of Commerce will hold a China commodity brand exhibition in Tanzania, Africa (which was held only in Europe and America), encouraging Chinese enterprises to develop more developing markets. In addition, it is preparing for the joint order of foreign trade orders between the eastern coastal areas and the central and western regions, combining the order advantages of the eastern coastal provinces with the cost advantages of the central and western regions, and developing the potential of foreign trade development in the central and western regions.