This morning (September 28), Shanghai held a press conference. Zhang Guohua, deputy director of the Municipal Commerce Commission, attended and answered reporters' questions. Let’s take a look at the text excerpt ↓
Q:
Wenhui Report : Since June, the city’s economy has stabilized and improved, and foreign trade and foreign investment indicators have improved rapidly. In the second half of the year, the international and domestic environment facing the development of foreign trade and foreign investment remains complex and severe. What policy measures will Shanghai take next? ?
A:
Zhang Guohua: Openness is the most distinctive feature of Shanghai's economy. Since June, Shanghai has conscientiously implemented the national policy of stabilizing the economy, actively implemented the "21 Measures" of the city's anti-epidemic assistance to enterprises and the "50 Measures" for economic recovery and recovery. Combined with the large-scale visits and investigations, it has a deep understanding of the demands of enterprises, promoted various measures to directly reach enterprises, and focused on stabilizing the basic foundation of foreign trade and foreign investment. Foreign trade and foreign investment showed a positive trend of stabilizing and improving, fully reflecting the sustained vitality and resilience of our city's open economy. Foreign trade imports and exports resumed positive growth. From January to August, Shanghai's total import and export volume of goods was 2.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.8%; among them, exports and imports increased by 11.7% and 0.7% respectively. This is the first time that all three indicators have achieved positive growth since the epidemic, especially the growth rate of the total import and export volume in July and August exceeded 15%. The utilization of foreign capital has grown steadily. From January to August, the actual use of foreign capital was US$16.3 billion, an increase of 8.4%; 39 newly recognized regional headquarters of multinational companies and 14 foreign R&D centers were employed, with a total of 870 and 520 respectively.
In the next step, we will continue to implement the new round of policies of the country and the city, and in accordance with the general requirements of "the epidemic must be prevented, the economy must be stabilized, and development must be safe", coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic development, and refine the implementation in combination with the actual situation in Shanghai.
makes every effort to stabilize foreign trade, and mainly adopts four countermeasures and measures. First, promote the transportation of foreign trade goods to ensure smooth traffic, further compress the costs of empty boxes, dock loading and unloading, and short-distance card collection, short-term transfer of export tax rebates, and improve operation and customs clearance efficiency. The second is to continue to support foreign trade companies to expand the market, accelerate the development of cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouses, and facilitate cross-border e-commerce export returns and exchanges, etc. Third, we will continue to propose detailed measures in terms of stabilizing the industrial chain and supply chain, optimizing the cross-border trade business environment, increasing trade financial support, and further respond to the demands of foreign trade enterprises in terms of facilitating economic and trade personnel exchanges and strengthening foreign-related legal services. Fourth, guided by national strategies such as Pudong New Area leading area, free trade pilot zone, Lingang New Area, and Hongqiao International Open Hub , connect with RCEP and other international economic and trade agreements, accelerate the development of new international trade such as green trade and cross-border e-commerce, and optimize the trade structure.
makes every effort to stabilize foreign investment. First, seize the opportunity of the 5th CIIE, organize investment promotion activities such as Shanghai City Promotion Conference, further demonstrate Shanghai's broad market prospects and good business environment, and demonstrate Shanghai's determination and confidence to expand opening up. The second is to consolidate the service mechanism of specialists for key foreign-invested projects and accelerate the implementation of a number of key foreign-invested projects as soon as possible. The third is to innovate investment promotion models, give full play to the role of overseas offices and overseas partners, and continue to attract investment through online promotion and cloud negotiations. Fourth, further support foreign-invested enterprises to establish regional headquarters and foreign-invested R&D centers in Shanghai, revise and issue and implement the regional headquarters policies of multinational companies, and support the better development of multinational companies in Shanghai.
