Shen Danyang Answers Business Operation In 1-2

The Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference.

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The Ministry of Commerce will focus on coordinating five projects this year to standardize e-commerce.

Shen Danyang, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said that

At the same time, some contradictions and problems have been exposed during the rapid development. For this reason, the Ministry of Commerce will focus on coordinating five tasks this year, including promoting legislation in the field of e-commerce and promoting the establishment of standard and unified e-commerce credit system.

The Ministry of Commerce and relevant departments are formulating policies to facilitate the second-hand car paction.

The Ministry of Commerce has held a regular press conference today. Shen Danyang, spokesman, said that the Ministry of Commerce and relevant departments are working on a policy to facilitate the paction of second-hand cars, which should not be too long.

Ministry of Commerce: China's foreign trade will be narrowed gradually after March.

The Ministry of Commerce held a regular news conference today, and press spokesman Shen Danyang said that the new growth momentum of China's foreign trade is accumulating, and it is expected that after March,

The decline will be gradually narrowed, and it will be possible for foreign trade to stabilize.

Ministry of Commerce: promoting the relaxation of foreign investment access restrictions in the financial services sector

Spokesman Shen Danyang said the Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote restrictions on foreign investment in financial, educational, cultural and other service sectors, and further liberalize the general manufacturing industry.

We should promote the implementation of various measures for the comprehensive opening up of Beijing's service sector, and do a good job in implementing the relevant policies on the liberalization of trade in services between Hong Kong and Macau in the mainland, and expand the depth and breadth of the opening of services.

The Ministry of Commerce will revise the catalogue of industries with foreign investment advantages in the central and western regions, and guide more foreign investment to the central and western regions.

We should innovate the opening mode of the inland border areas, accelerate the construction of the "three mutual" customs clearance along the inland coastal areas, and support the development and opening up of key border areas such as the border economic cooperation zone and the cross border economic cooperation zone.

Ministry of Commerce: the actual use of foreign capital in 1-2 increased by 2.7% over the same period last year.

The Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference today. Shen Danyang, spokesman, said that in 1-2 months, the actual use of foreign capital amounted to 141 billion 880 million yuan, an increase of 2.7% over the same period last year.

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to today's conference.

Today, I would like to inform you about the business operation in 1-2 and answer all your questions.

[Shen Danyang]: first, about

Operation condition

In 1-2 months, the domestic consumer market was generally stable, and the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5 trillion and 300 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2% over the same period last year, a 0.5 percentage point slower than the same period last year, and a 9.6% increase in real terms after deducting price factors.

According to the Ministry of Commerce monitoring, sales of 5000 key retail enterprises increased by 3.3% in the 1-2 months, 1.4 percentage points slower than the same period last year.

Main features:

First, network sales, communications equipment sales maintained a relatively high growth rate.

Statistics show that in 1-2 months, the online retail sales of physical commodities increased by 25.4%, accounting for 9.5% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods, and the total growth of the total volume of consumer goods was about 2.1 percentage points.

Sales of communications equipment increased rapidly, and sales volume of communication equipment sales increased by 20.1% over the same month in 1-2 months. The 4G mobile phone sales of key retail enterprises monitored by the Ministry of Commerce increased by 46.6% over the same period last year.

Two, service consumption continues to accelerate.

In 1-2 months, the national food and beverage revenue increased by 11.3% over the same period last year, up 0.1 percentage points from the same period last year, with the increase of 6.4% in the above quota unit and 1.3 percentage points.

The national box office has accumulated more than 11 billion 200 million yuan, of which the box office in February nearly 6 billion 900 million yuan, refresh the monthly box office record, and for the first time surpassed the North American market to become the world's first.

During the golden week of the Spring Festival, the number of tourist trips increased by 15.6% over the same period last year, and tourism revenue increased by 16.3% over the same period last year.

Three is the real estate heating up related consumption growth.

In 1-2 months, the number of household and building materials in the above quota units increased by 16.4% and 14.9% respectively, and the growth rates were 4 and 2.4 percentage points faster than the same period last year.

Four, consumer prices continue to rise.

In 1-2 months, consumer prices rose 2% over the same period, or 0.9 percentage points over the same period last year.

Among them, in February rose 2.3%, or 4 consecutive months of recovery.

According to the Ministry of Commerce monitoring, 1-2 months, 36 large and medium cities edible agricultural products prices rose 6.2% over the same period, of which pork and vegetable prices rose 24.3% and 19.3%, respectively, and the prices of fruits, mutton and eggs decreased by 13.7%, 12.1% and 4.8% respectively.

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[Shen Danyang]: two. About foreign trade.

According to customs preliminary statistics, 1-2 months, the national import and export 3 trillion and 310 billion yuan, compared with the same period (the same below) dropped 12.6%.

In dollar terms, the total import and export volume of US $510 billion 730 million decreased by 17.4% in 1-2 months.

In the month of February, the import and export of the country was 1 trillion and 430 billion yuan, down by 15.7%.

Among them, export 820 billion yuan, down 20.6%, imports 610 billion yuan, down 8%, surplus 209 billion 500 million yuan, down 43.3%.

According to the dollar, in the month of February, the national import and export of US $219 billion 700 million, down by 20.8%.

The main features of the foreign trade operation are as follows:

First, the decline in exports is larger, and the decline in imports has narrowed.

In February, the export growth rate of China showed a sharp decline, which was not only affected by the external demand downturn, but also related to the high base factor in the same period last year.

In January this year, the total import volume of 35 economies (70% of the total global imports) had dropped by 13.9%.

In addition, in February 2015, China exported 1 trillion and 35 billion 220 million yuan, the largest export volume since 2009, and a larger year-on-year base. A number of factors superimposed the export decline in February, an increase of 13.9 percentage points from last month.

Imports were dragged down by commodity prices, but imports fell by 6.7 percentage points in February compared with January.

Excluding price factors, exports dropped by 19.7% and imports increased by 1.7% in February.

The two is the decline in exports to major trading partners, which is obvious from the BRICs import differentiation.

In February, exports to the United States, Japan and the European Union decreased by 18%, 14.8% and 14.7% respectively, with a decline of 13, 14.3 and 7.3 percentage points respectively from the previous month.

Imports from the BRICs countries were significantly divided, with imports from Brazil and Russia increased by 19% and 0.1% respectively. Imports from South Africa and India fell by 19.1% and 17.8% respectively.

Three, the processing trade continued negative growth, and the proportion of other trade increased.

In February, general trade imports and exports were 789 billion 200 million yuan, down 17.6%, of which exports declined by 24%.

The import and export volume of processing trade was 448 billion 800 million yuan, down 15.6%, which has been negative for 12 consecutive months, of which exports dropped by 17.2%.

Other trade imports and exports were 196 billion 100 million yuan, down 7.3%, the proportion of total imports and exports increased by 1.2 percentage points, of which exports and imports fell by 12.3% and 2.7% respectively.

Four, the export of high-tech products is better than the whole, and the import volume of some bulk commodities rises or falls.

Mechanical and electrical products exported 479 billion yuan, down 18.4%.

The export of high-tech products was 237 billion 300 million yuan, down 11.6%, and the proportion of total exports increased by 3.3 percentage points over the same period last year.

Seven categories of labor-intensive products exported 168 billion 300 million yuan, down 28.8%, of which furniture, bags and shoes fell by 33.4%, 31.9% and 29.8% respectively.

Imports of some commodities rose or fell, including imports of crude oil, rubber, natural gas, iron ore, steel and soybeans increased by 24.4%, 14.9%, 13.8%, 8.5%, 6.8% and 5.8% respectively, and import prices fell 35.2%, 17.2%, 27.1%, 34%, 14.8% and 14.8% respectively.

Five, the growth rate of state-owned and foreign-funded enterprises has declined, and private enterprises' imports are increasing.

State owned enterprises imported and exported 226 billion 100 million yuan, down 20.8%, of which exports and imports decreased by 22.3% and 19.4% respectively.

Foreign enterprises import and export 687 billion yuan, down 13%.

Private enterprises import and export 520 billion 900 million yuan, down 16.9%, of which exports 362 billion 900 million yuan, down 23.2%, imports 158 billion 100 million yuan, an increase of 2.7%.

Six, exports in the eastern region are better than that in the whole country, and the decline in the central and western regions has widened.

The eastern region's imports and exports amounted to 12164 billion yuan, a decrease of 14.8%, a drop of 0.9 percentage points lower than that of the whole, of which exports decreased by 18.7%, representing a 2 percentage point increase in the total volume of exports nationwide.

The central region exported 60 billion 500 million yuan, and the western region exported 75 billion 300 million yuan, down by 28.7% and 29.4% respectively.

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[Shen Danyang]: three. About foreign investment.

In 1-2 months, the actual use of foreign capital amounted to RMB 141 billion 880 million yuan, an increase of 2.7% over the same period last year.

Presenting the following characteristics:

First, the actual use of foreign capital increased slightly, and the number of newly established enterprises declined.

In 1-2 months, 3396 foreign-invested enterprises were set up nationwide, down 11.4% compared with the same period last year. The actual use of foreign capital amounted to 141 billion 880 million yuan (equivalent to 22 billion 520 million US dollars), an increase of 2.7% over the previous year (excluding banking, securities and insurance data).

In the month of February, 1388 foreign-invested enterprises were set up nationwide, a decrease of 11.3% compared with the same period last year, and the actual amount of foreign investment was 53 billion 630 million yuan (equivalent to 8 billion 440 million US dollars), an increase of 1.8% over the same period last year.

Two, the actual absorption of foreign capital in the service sector continued to grow, of which the high technology service industry rose relatively high.

In the 1-2 month, the actual use of foreign capital in manufacturing industry was 39 billion 100 million yuan (equivalent to 6 billion 180 million US dollars), down 14.9% from the same period last year, and the proportion in the total volume of the manufacturing industry was 27.6%.

The actual use of foreign capital in the service sector was 89 billion 160 million yuan (equivalent to US $14 billion 210 million), an increase of 5.7% over the same period last year, accounting for 62.8% of the total national total.

Among them, the high-tech service industry has maintained growth, and the actual use of foreign investment is 15 billion 910 million yuan (equivalent to 2 billion 520 million US dollars), an increase of 156.6% over the same period last year, accounting for 22.5% of the total amount of foreign capital actually used by the real estate industry.

Among them, the actual usage of digital content and related services, information technology services, R & D and design services increased by 5 billion 180 million yuan (US $830 million), 4 billion 660 million yuan (equivalent to 720 million US dollars), and 3 billion 60 million yuan (equivalent to 490 million US dollars), up 538.9%, 134.4% and 68.8% respectively over the same period.

Three, investment in major investment sources fluctuated significantly, and the United States, Japan, Singapore, Britain and Germany showed growth.

In 1-2 months, the actual investment amount in the United States, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Germany were 6 billion 290 million yuan (US $1 billion), 4 billion 230 million yuan (660 million US dollars), 5 billion 750 million yuan (US $900 million), 2 billion 870 million yuan ($460 million) and 2 billion 740 million yuan (US $660 million), respectively.

Four, the number of contracted foreign capital in the central and western regions has increased significantly.

In 1-2 months, the amount of contractual foreign capital in the central and western regions was 25 billion 130 million yuan ($3 billion 820 million) and 15 billion 860 million yuan ($2 billion 440 million), up 26.2% and 14% respectively over the same period last year.

The actual use of foreign capital in the western region is RMB 9 billion 800 million yuan (US $1 billion 540 million), an increase of 8.1% over the previous year, which is 5.4 percentage points higher than the national growth rate.

Five, foreign M & A pactions are becoming increasingly active.

In 1-2 months, 199 foreign-invested enterprises were established by mergers and acquisitions, down 5.2% compared with the same period last year. The actual amount of foreign capital invested was 39 billion 920 million yuan (6 billion 90 million US dollars), an increase of 17.3% over the same period last year.

The share of mergers and acquisitions in actual use of foreign investment increased from 24.6% in the same period last year to 28.1% in 2016.

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[Shen Danyang]: four. About foreign investment and economic cooperation.

Foreign direct investment.

In the 1-2 month of this year, China's foreign direct investment in non-financial sector was 195 billion 970 million yuan (equivalent to 29 billion 920 million US dollars), an increase of 71.8% over the same period last year.

Investment in related countries of "one belt and one road" has reached 2 billion 230 million US dollars, an increase of 41.1% over the same period last year, accounting for 7.5% of the total period.

From the perspective of the composition of domestic investors, local outward foreign direct investment of US $25 billion 800 million is 2.95 times that of the same period last year, accounting for 86.2% of the total foreign direct investment in the same period.

From the perspective of the composition of the investment industry, foreign investment mainly went to the business services sector in the 1-2 months to 10 billion 260 million US dollars, up 31% from the same period last year, accounting for 34.3% of the total investment. The wholesale and retail trade increased by 75.4%, accounting for 14.3%, while the manufacturing industry accounted for 14.3%, while the manufacturing industry increased by 145.6%, accounting for 13.2%. The flow to the equipment manufacturing industry was 1 billion 820 million dollars, and the growth rate was 1 billion 820 million, which accounted for the foreign investment of the manufacturing industry.

Foreign contracted projects.

In 1-2 months, the new contract signed by China's foreign contracted projects amounted to 206 billion 650 million yuan (equivalent to 31 billion 550 million US dollars), an increase of 7.4% over the same period last year. The total turnover was RMB 121 billion 700 million yuan (equivalent to 18 billion 580 million US dollars), down 11% from the same period last year.

In 1-2 months, Chinese enterprises signed 421 new contracts for foreign contracted projects in related countries with "one belt and one road", and the newly signed contracts amounted to US $15 billion 460 million, accounting for 49% of the same period in the same period, up 53.2% from the same period last year.

Foreign labor cooperation.

In 1-2 months, 65 thousand foreign labor service workers were sent out, 4 thousand fewer than the same period last year.

In the month of February, 29 thousand workers were sent out, an increase of 5 thousand over the same period last year.

2 at the end of the month, there were 989 thousand migrant workers, an increase of 17 thousand over the same period last year.

[Shen Danyang]: five, about outsourcing.

In 1-2 months, the amount of service outsourcing contract signed by Chinese enterprises was 110 billion 770 million yuan (equivalent to 16 billion 920 million US dollars), and the execution amount was 79 billion 760 million yuan, representing an increase of 7.5% and 7.1% respectively.

The amount of offshore service outsourcing contract was 75 billion 540 million yuan, and the amount of enforcement was 52 billion 730 million yuan, representing an increase of 28.5% and 5.2% respectively over the same period.

In the month of February, the amount of offshore service outsourcing contract was 31 billion 980 million yuan, and the execution amount was 26 billion 740 million yuan, representing an increase of 17.1% and 40.6% respectively.

The main features are as follows:

First, the main contracting market pattern shows a trend of change.

In 1-2 months, the amount of offshore service outsourcing undertaken by the United States, China, Hongkong, the European Union and Japan was 10 billion 330 million yuan, 9 billion 700 million yuan, 8 billion 480 million yuan and 4 billion 330 million yuan respectively, representing an increase of -19.1%, 54.3%, -3.8% and -4.3% compared with the same period last year. Hongkong, China, has exceeded the European Union as the second largest contract market in China.

In addition, in the first 2 months, the amount of overseas service outsourcing contracted by Japan was 4 billion 210 million yuan, down 27.9% from the same period last year, and the market position of Japan is expected to continue to decline.

Two, the growth rate of business process outsourcing is increasing.

In 1-2 months, the implementation amount of offshore information technology outsourcing, business process outsourcing and knowledge process outsourcing in China's enterprises was 26 billion 910 million yuan, 8 billion 510 million yuan and 17 billion 310 million yuan respectively, representing an increase of -2.5%, 41.4% and 4.9% respectively, accounting for 51%, 16.1% and 32.8% respectively.

The main reason for the acceleration of the growth of business process outsourcing is the rapid growth of data processing, call center and supply chain management services, which has led to a 4.1 percentage point increase in the proportion of business process outsourcing.

Three, the scale of the market along the belt and road continues to expand.

In 1-2 months, the amount of service outsourcing contract for Chinese enterprises to carry out the "one belt and one road" service was 11 billion 800 million yuan, and the execution amount was 8 billion 830 million yuan, up 13% and 10.7% respectively over the same period last year.

Among them, the contract for undertaking service outsourcing in Southeast Asian countries amounted to 7 billion 360 million yuan, with an implementation amount of 5 billion 960 million yuan, an increase of 5.8% and 36.4% compared to the same period last year. The amount of contract to undertake service outsourcing in West Asia and North Africa was 2 billion RMB, and the execution amount was 1 billion 60 million yuan, up 80.8% and 10% respectively over the same period last year.

Four, the provinces along the Yangtze River Economic Belt maintain growth momentum.

In the 1-2 month, the amount of the contract for offshore service outsourcing along the Yangtze River economic belt was 41 billion 870 million yuan, and the implementation amount was 34 billion 720 million yuan, an increase of 12.2% and 2.1% compared to the same period last year, accounting for 55.4% and 65.8% respectively in the whole country.

Among them, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Yangtze River Delta region have good basic conditions and business environment, bringing together a large number of high-quality enterprises and excellent talents. The scale of offshore outsourcing business accounts for 95% of the Yangtze River economic belt, and is the main force for the development of service outsourcing industry.

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Shen Danyang: These are the first two months we have been informed of.

[reporter] this year's "government work report" put forward "to raise the level of foreign capital utilization". "China should always become an attractive foreign investment hot spot". Please analyze the situation of China's utilization of foreign capital this year. What specific considerations does the Ministry of Commerce have in raising the level of foreign capital utilization? Thank you.

Shen Danyang: according to the joint China World Trade Center conference, the global direct investment in 2016 is not optimistic, and we will inevitably be affected.

In fact, with the rising cost of domestic production factors, China's traditional advantages of attracting foreign capital have been gradually weakened, while the developed countries have implemented the strategy of "re industrialization", and developing countries have increased the preferential treatment of attracting foreign investment. The new situation has raised new challenges for China to raise the level of foreign capital utilization.

Despite the new challenges, we are still confident that we will further improve the level of foreign capital utilization and make our country an attractive foreign investment destination.

On the one hand, confidence comes from the existing foundation, and on the other hand, it comes from new actions.

In 2015, China's actual use of foreign capital hit a new high, reaching 135 billion 600 million US dollars, an increase of 5.5% over the same period last year, ranking the first in developing countries for 24 years in a row.

The joint China World Trade Center conference survey showed that in 2016 and 2017, China continued to be listed as the most promising investment destination country.

The survey of China Chamber of Commerce, China EU Chamber of Commerce and Japan China Investment Promotion Agency shows that most of the respondents are optimistic about the Chinese market.

In the first two months of this year, China's actual use of foreign capital was 141 billion 880 million yuan, an increase of 2.7% over the same period last year.

But we can not be satisfied with this. We must make every effort to create a more fair, pparent and predictable investment environment in accordance with the requirements of the government's work report, and further improve the level of foreign capital utilization.

To this end, the Ministry of Commerce will further promote the relaxation of investment access, deepen the reform of foreign capital management system, optimize the layout of foreign investment areas, improve the level of construction of free trade pilot zones, innovate the institutional mechanism of state-level economic and technological development zones, improve the investment environment according to the international high standards, and make effective efforts to make use of foreign investment this year. Six measures should be taken to improve the investment environment.

For example, we will continue to promote restrictions on foreign investment in financial, educational, cultural and other service sectors, and further liberalize the general manufacturing industry.

We should promote the implementation of various measures for the comprehensive opening up of Beijing's service sector, and do a good job in implementing the relevant policies on the liberalization of trade in services between Hong Kong and Macau in the mainland, and expand the depth and breadth of the opening of services.

We will revise the catalogue of industries with foreign investment advantages in the central and western regions, and guide more foreign investment to the central and western regions.

We should innovate the opening mode of the inland border areas, accelerate the construction of the "three mutual" customs clearance along the inland coastal areas, and support the development and opening up of key border areas such as the border economic cooperation zone and the cross border economic cooperation zone.

We will further increase the protection of intellectual property rights, improve the complaint mechanism of foreign-invested enterprises, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of investors.

Reporter: in March this year, Turkey stopped the investigation of safeguard measures for imported mobile phone products. What's the comment of the Ministry of Commerce?

[Shen Danyang]: in December 5, 2014, Turkey launched an investigation into the safeguard measures for imported mobile phone products. The Chinese side noted that the Ministry of economic affairs of Turkey terminated the investigation of safeguard measures for imported mobile phones in March 4th this year, and China welcomed the correct decision of earthwork in accordance with WTO rules.

The move will benefit the normal trade of mobile phone products worldwide and the overall interests of Turkey's communications industry.

China is also willing to promote cooperation between China and the Turkish industry and jointly promote the application and development of communication products.

[reporter]: in the first two months of this year, China's import and export has declined considerably. Many views are pessimistic about China's foreign trade this year. How do you see the overall situation of foreign trade this year? Can you achieve the goal of steady growth?

Shen Danyang: according to customs statistics, the total value of import and export in China has declined considerably in the first 2 months of this year. This reflects that the demand for international market is still very weak in 2016, and the foreign trade situation is still grim and complicated.

What needs to be explained is that in the first two months of 2015, the base was relatively high, and the export volume was $199 billion 890 million in January. The monthly export volume was the third highest in the whole year. In February, the export grew by 48.2% over the same period last year. The monthly growth rate was the highest in the whole year. With the influence of the Spring Festival, the data in the first 2 months of this year had many factors that could not be compared, and it could not fully reflect the trend of the whole year's foreign trade.

Although the situation is grim and complicated, we have many favorable conditions to do this year's foreign trade work. We still have the confidence and determination to work hard to fulfill the task of foreign trade development put forward in the government work report, promote the stability of foreign trade and play a greater role in economic and social development.

I know that many multimedia friends are concerned about this year's foreign trade situation, and take this opportunity to give you a brief analysis.

From the recent survey of 20 provinces and municipalities across the country, it is generally reflected that the overall situation of foreign trade in 2016 is more complex than that in 2015. The difficulties in 2015 have not been reduced or even aggravated.

From the international situation, the International Monetary Fund and the world bank and other authoritative institutions generally lowered the global economic growth rate in 2016 to the lowest level in 6 years. The Baltic Dry Index dropped to 349 points, the lowest level in history.

The prices of international commodities and raw materials continued to decline, still lingering low, the situation in some areas was turbulent, trade protectionism was rising, and trade frictions increased.

We also noted that the exports of the 30 major economies in the world recently released this year's foreign trade data have dropped sharply to varying degrees, of which more than 10 of the major economies with a decline of more than 2 digits, such as the US decreased by 10.7%, Japan's 12.9% down, South Korea's decline by 18.8%, Canada's fall by 12.4%, Brazil's decline by 17.9%, India's decline by 13.6%, and Taiwan's decline by 13%.

From the domestic situation, the factor cost of enterprises has continued to rise, the traditional competitive advantage of foreign trade has weakened, fixed asset investment has been slowing down, import demand has declined, especially the outward pfer of industries and orders is accelerating. The export of processing trade has declined for 12 consecutive months, exceeding the level of the international financial crisis.

These heralded difficulties in foreign trade are not short-term.

While fully recognizing the seriousness and complexity of the foreign trade situation, we also see that China's industrial structure with developed and developing countries still has strong complementarity. The infrastructure is complete, the industry is complete and the business environment is continuously improving. It has strong competitive advantages and comparative advantages. The fundamentals of China's foreign trade development have not changed.

At the same time, the structure of foreign trade development has been continuously optimized, pformation and upgrading, and power pformation are accelerating.

Some enterprises focus on the main industry, continue to innovate, cultivate their own brands, increase overseas marketing network construction, and continuously enhance their international competitiveness.

More importantly, according to the decision and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce and the relevant parties should do everything possible to achieve steady growth and unswervingly adjust the structure. A series of highly targeted policies and measures are being implemented or will be introduced. For example, we must vigorously clean up the import and export link fees, formulate a positive list of charges, further improve the level of trade facilitation, optimize the export tax rebate rate structure, ensure timely and full tax rebates, increase the support for export credit insurance and financing, increase the scale of short-term export credit insurance, guarantee the export insurance of complete sets of equipment, encourage the innovation of new business models such as cross-border electricity suppliers, and strive to cultivate new advantages in foreign trade competition.

This also means that the new growth momentum of foreign trade is accumulating.

Therefore, we expect that after March, the decline of China's foreign trade will gradually narrow down, and China's foreign trade will develop towards a stable trend.

Thank you for your question.

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[reporter] in this year's government work report, we proposed that we should deepen reform and opening up and build a new system of development.

Development depends fundamentally on reform and opening up. "

What specific ideas and measures do MOFCOM have in this regard? Thank you.

[Shen Danyang]: in accordance with the overall plan of "five in one" and the "four overall" strategic layout, and implementing the requirements of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing" and promoting the structural reform of supply side, the Ministry of Commerce has put forward some key tasks of deepening reform and opening up in this year's business field, including building a new business development system, upgrading the level of informatization, standardization and intensification, promoting the development of foreign trade and innovation, improving the level of foreign capital utilization, promoting the construction of "one belt and one road", expanding international cooperation in energy production, expanding all-round economic diplomacy, and promoting the coordinated development of open and safe eight aspects.

Every aspect of work has specific and in-depth measures to promote, for example, in promoting foreign trade innovation and development, we will follow the government work report set the "stability to better" work objectives, in accordance with the new requirements of building a new open economy system, do everything possible to promote steady growth and structural adjustment of foreign trade, and achieve better and better progress.

We have just mentioned some of the measures we need to do in foreign trade. Now we have to use our brains in terms of institutional mechanisms, especially in terms of how to reduce the cost of foreign trade enterprises, expand financing channels and enhance trade facilitation.

We should speed up the growth of new growth momentum of foreign trade, promote the development of processing trade, stabilize the export of traditional dominant products, and accelerate the development of cross-border e-commerce, market purchasing and trade mode, and comprehensive foreign trade service enterprises.

It is also necessary to carry out pilot projects for innovative development of service trade, increase service outsourcing model cities, and speed up the development of cultural foreign trade.

We need to implement a more positive import policy, guide consumption reflow, enhance import facilitation, improve import discount, credit and tax policies, expand imports of advanced technology and equipment, key components and raw materials for scarce energy.

Thank you for your question.

[reporter] the US Department of Commerce last week said it would take restrictive measures to ZTE, requiring ZTE suppliers to apply for export licensing orders before pporting any US equipment and components to ZTE.

Recently, there is news that China and the US Department of commerce are holding talks to discuss the fact that ZTE is listed in the "entity list". What is the comment of the Ministry of Commerce?

Shen Danyang: we have noticed relevant reports.

China's attitude towards this matter has been very clear.

At present, ZTE is communicating with the US Department of Commerce and making progress.

China hopes that the US side will proceed from the overall situation of Developing Sino US economic and trade relations and properly handle the matter, so as to avoid affecting the stable and healthy development of Sino US economic and trade relations.

Thank you for your question.

[reporter] the data on foreign investment and investment in China just released 1-2 months ago show that foreign investment is much higher than that of investment in China. Will this continue this year? Second questions about outsourcing, please analyze the reasons why Japan's market position in China's service outsourcing continues to decline.

[Shen Danyang]: first, the development trend of China's economic development and the whole international investment has undergone a very important change since 2014. It has become a net capital exporting country from the former capital importing country.

In fact, the published foreign investment statistics are not very comprehensive. According to comparable caliber, this situation has already appeared in 2014, and this trend is still developing, so this year's foreign investment growth will definitely exceed the growth rate of foreign capital utilization.

As for the total scale of foreign capital utilization and the total scale of foreign investment in the whole year, it is not easy to say that foreign investment will exceed foreign capital utilization.

The second question is about outsourcing of services. Japan was originally a big contractor for outsourcing services in China. From the current trend, its position is gradually decreasing, that is to say, the contracting out to China is declining.

This is not only the changing factors of the Japanese contract market, but also the structural change factors of the global service outsourcing market, and the specific reasons need to be analyzed in detail.

Thank you.

Reporter: Ministry of Commerce and other departments recently issued some opinions on promoting pilot parallel imports of automobiles. What are the policy contents of the opinion? What are the highlights? In addition, this year's government work report proposes to "activate the second-hand car market". It is understood that the Ministry of commerce is developing policies and measures to facilitate the paction of second-hand cars, can you talk about the relevant situation?

Shen Danyang: the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the "8 opinions on promoting parallel import pilot projects" with the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of public security and the Ministry of environmental protection.

The "opinions" put forward a series of policies and measures for the pilot parallel import of automobiles, including how to apply for automatic import license, how to deal with mandatory product certification, inspection and quarantine, declaration, registration and other details, and put forward specific requirements for automobile parallel import pilot enterprises to fulfill corresponding responsibilities of automobile product safety, quality, energy conservation, maintenance technology, information disclosure and so on.

At the same time, we should further clarify the regulatory responsibilities of pilot local government organizations in conducting pilot work.

This pilot "opinion" reflects the reform idea of "limiting subtraction and standardizing additions", which can be regarded as a bright spot.

With regard to the second-hand car market, China is now the world's largest new car market, and will become the largest used car market in the future, with great potential in the market.

At present, there are about 172 million cars in China, and more than 24 million new cars are added each year.

The proportion of used cars and new cars in developed countries is generally over 1.5:1. According to this ratio, the volume of second-hand car pactions in the future is expected to exceed 36 million. According to the estimated average cost of 55 thousand yuan, the paction volume can reach nearly 2 trillion yuan.

Doing this job can not only revitalize the stock of used cars, drive the increment of new cars, eliminate the amount of used cars, stimulate the potential of automobile consumption, but also promote the development of repair, maintenance, insurance, finance and other industries, and the benefits are great.

How can we activate the second-hand car market? The Ministry of commerce thinks that the most important thing is to make second-hand cars "sell, buy safely and use conveniently", so we must solve the outstanding problems such as remote location restriction, opaque information and inadequate service.

The Ministry of Commerce, together with relevant departments, is formulating policies to facilitate the second-hand car trade. It mainly aims at formulating targeted measures around these outstanding issues and striving to introduce them as soon as possible.

Thank you for your question.

[reporter]: 3. 15 just over the past two days, we noticed that this year, the sales of electricity suppliers reflect strongly, what regulatory measures will the Ministry of Commerce take?

[Shen Danyang]: just like two days ago, 3. 15 reflects very much multimedia. At the same time, the rapid development of e-commerce has exposed some contradictions and problems in development.

These exposed problems, the new problems brought about by virtual pactions on existing lines, also have problems arising from the existing institutional mechanisms that are not compatible with the development of e-commerce. We need to focus on improving policies and regulations, standardizing market order, and strengthening supervision.

To this end, the Ministry of Commerce will focus on coordinating five tasks this year.

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First, we must promote legislation in the field of e-commerce, and clarify the responsibilities of the electronic business platform and related parties.

Last year, we took the lead in drafting the "governance opinions on strengthening the infringement and counterfeiting behavior in the Internet field" (No. 77 of the State Office [2015]), organized the drafting of the "e-commerce legislative framework", and formulated the regulations on the regulation of the third party platform trading rules of Online retail.

This year, the finance and Economic Commission of the National People's Congress will cooperate with the NPC to conduct research and drafting of the electronic commerce law, and further study how to improve the regulatory measures.

The electronic commerce act, which is very much concerned by everyone, is drafted by the finance and Economic Commission of the National People's Congress. The Ministry of Commerce has done relevant legislative research and drafting work. It has been doing it last year and will continue to do well this year.

Two is to promote the establishment of a government led, multi-party participation, standard unified e-commerce credit system.

We should further strengthen the fight against infringement, counterfeiting and shoddy in the field of e-commerce, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, and establish a fair competitive market environment.

Three, we should promote the establishment of a cross regional and cross departmental law enforcement cooperation mechanism, strengthen the convergence of administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and enhance the joint efforts of supervision and administration.

The four is to implement online qualification examination and send real name system, strengthen the relevant information sharing between regulatory authorities and electronic business platform, and enhance the ability of tracing and tracing the infringement and counterfeiting behavior.

Five, it is necessary to organize relevant departments to continuously improve the key products such as consumer safety, infringement and piracy.

Last year, we launched the special rectification work of Internet infringement, counterfeiting and shoddy. The effect is good. We will intensify our efforts this year to continue this work.

Thank you for your question.

[reporter] Premier Li Keqiang put forward "Promoting Sino US and EU China investment agreement negotiations" in the "government work report" of the two sessions this year. We are very concerned about why we need to sign these two investment agreements and the progress of the negotiations.

Could you tell me something about it?

Shen Danyang: I think it is necessary to explain what is "investment agreement" first.

Investment agreements generally refer to agreements between countries on regulating pnational investment, aiming at promoting, protecting and regulating pnational investment.

By signing investment agreements, a government provides a stable, pparent and predictable investment environment for foreign investors, which is conducive to promoting pnational investment and economic development.

In particular, the current investment agreements in various countries will generally make arrangements for the opening of the investment market and provide broader market opportunities and more business opportunities for overseas investors, thus making it more conducive to promoting economic globalization.

China has signed investment agreements with more than 130 countries and regions in the world, but has not yet concluded investment agreements with the US and Europe. That is to say, the investment rules between China, the United States and Europe have not yet been arranged among the three major economies.

For this reason, China has initiated negotiations on bilateral investment agreements with the United States and the EU, trying to reach a high level agreement on the protection of pnational investment, fair competition among investors and market opening, thereby further improving their investment environment and market access, promoting pnational investment and promoting economic development.

On Sino US investment agreement negotiations.

Since its inception in 2008, the 24 round of negotiations has been progressing smoothly.

In July 2013, China and the United States agreed to enter the substantive negotiations with the mode of "pre admission national treatment plus negative list", and made significant breakthroughs in the negotiations.

Since then, the two sides have actively promoted various tasks, basically completed the work objectives of the text negotiation, and exchanged negative list bids in the nineteenth round of negotiations held in June 2015, and officially launched the negative list negotiations.

This negotiation has been highly valued by leaders of the two countries since its launch.

Especially during the state visit of President Xi Jinping to the United States in September last year, the leaders of the two countries confirmed that this negotiation is the most important item in the economic and trade relations between the two countries, and agreed to push forward the negotiations vigorously so as to achieve a mutually beneficial and win-win agreement.

This has injected strong political impetus to the negotiations.

In order to implement this consensus, China and the United States have further accelerated the pace of negotiations. 4 rounds of formal negotiations have been held in more than 5 months since the meeting of heads of state, so that new progress has been made in the negotiations.

On China EU investment agreement negotiations.

Since its inception in November 2013, the 9 round has already been carried out.

After concerted efforts, the two sides reached a consensus on the scope of the agreement by the end of 2015 and completed the goals set by the leaders of China and Europe.

The two sides agreed that the 5 round of negotiations will be held this year, and that we will increase the inter Council meeting so as to reach a high level and ambitious investment agreement at an early date. This will not only deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Europe, enhance the level of bilateral cooperation, create better products for our enterprises to invest in Europe, provide a higher level of protection, but also help me deepen reform and open wider to the outside world and build a new open economic system.

China will continue to uphold a positive, open and constructive attitude and work together with the European side to achieve a balanced and win-win outcome.

Thank you for your question.

The last question.

[reporter] in this year's government work report, we propose to expand the pilot project of cross border e-commerce, and support enterprises to build a number of overseas warehouses for export products. How can the Ministry of Commerce consider this?

[Shen Danyang]: the so-called "overseas warehouse" mode refers to the cross-border e-commerce enterprises in accordance with the general trade mode, the bulk of goods exported to overseas warehouses, after the completion of the electronic business platform sales, and then deliver goods to consumers abroad.

This is an innovative business mode. Supporting enterprises to build a number of export products "overseas warehouse" is not only an innovation in promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce, but also an important deployment for achieving steady growth and upgrading of foreign trade.

Since 2014, the Ministry of Commerce has conducted in-depth research on the establishment of "overseas warehouses" for cross-border e-commerce enterprises, and seriously understood the difficulties and problems of this model, and formed some work ideas.

Next, the Ministry of Commerce will accelerate the implementation of the requirements of the government work report, take effective measures to support the establishment of "overseas warehouses" by powerful enterprises in accordance with international rules, and further create a new bright spot in foreign trade development and new economic growth momentum.

Many people will ask what specific implementation and considerations we have. There are five points in our overall consideration:

First, we should further improve the efficiency of customs clearance; two, we should reduce logistics costs; three, we should shorten the marketing links; four, we should improve the delivery efficiency; five, we must help enterprises better integrate into the overseas circulation system.

This is the next step we should focus on.