The 132nd Canton Fair will open online on October 15

Date：2022-09-28 16:56:52

On September 27, the State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on the State Council's policies to support the stable development of foreign trade. Wang Shouwen, the International Trade Negotiator and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, attended and answered questions from reporters, introducing the situation of the 132nd Canton Fair being held online. The relevant content is as follows:
Shou Xiaoli, Deputy Director and Press Spokesperson of the Information Bureau of the State Council Information Office:
   Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Welcome to the regular briefing on policies of the State Council. The executive meeting of the State Council has deployed measures to further stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment. In order to help you better understand the relevant situation, today we have invited Mr. Wang Shouwen, the international trade negotiator and vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce, and asked him to introduce to you the relevant measures to support the stable development of foreign trade. situation and answer questions of interest. Also present at the regular policy briefing today are Mr. Li Xingqian, Director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce, and Mr. Jin Hai, Director of the General Administration of Customs.
   Next, we first invite Mr. Wang Shouwen to make an introduction.
Wang Shouwen, International Trade Negotiator and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce:
   Thank you, host. Ladies and gentlemen, friends from the press, good afternoon. I am very happy to participate in today's regular policy briefing of the State Council. First of all, on behalf of the Ministry of Commerce, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who cares about business work, especially foreign trade work.
   On September 13, the executive meeting of the State Council passed a number of policies and measures to support the stable development of foreign trade. Today, with the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce has officially issued the "Several Measures to Support the Stable Growth of Foreign Trade", which you can browse online. The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to foreign trade. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that reform and opening up should be used as a driving force for economic development, and exports should be actively promoted and imports should be expanded. Premier Li Keqiang has presided over the study and deployment of the stable growth of foreign trade for many times. Since the beginning of this year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce has cooperated closely with various localities and departments, and the vast number of foreign trade enterprises have risen to the challenge and strived to overcome the impact of various unfavorable factors. In the first eight months of this year, China's import and export volume reached 27.3 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%. It can be said that China's foreign trade has once again demonstrated strong resilience and vitality.
   At the same time, we should see that the development environment of foreign trade is becoming more and more complex, and the growth rate of the world economy and global trade has declined. Of course, my country's foreign trade is also facing some uncertainties, and the uncertainties are increasing. The pressure to maintain stable growth of imports and exports is increasing, and it is necessary to introduce a new round of foreign trade stabilization policies to help our enterprises. This time, the State Council reviewed and approved several policies and measures to support the stable development of foreign trade. There are three aspects. I will briefly introduce them.
   The first aspect is to enhance the ability to perform foreign trade contracts and further develop the international market. The document proposes that all localities should strengthen the protection of epidemic prevention, energy use, labor, logistics, etc., to ensure the timely delivery of foreign trade orders; to study and optimize the underwriting conditions of export credit insurance medium and long-term insurance; to accelerate the use of special funds for foreign economic and trade development; to support enterprises Participate in various overseas self-organized exhibitions, encourage places where conditions permit to expand the scale of overseas self-organized exhibitions, continue to improve the effectiveness of representative exhibitions, and further strengthen service guarantees for foreign trade enterprises who go abroad to participate in exhibitions and negotiate business under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control; Measures such as expanding the scope of exhibitors in the upcoming Autumn Fair, that is, the 132nd Canton Fair Online Exhibition, and extending the online exhibition time of the Canton Fair.
   The second aspect is to stimulate innovation and help stabilize foreign trade. The document proposes to add a number of pilot projects for market procurement trade methods, a number of import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones, and a number of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones; introduce policies and measures to further support the development of cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouses; speed up the introduction of facilitation Tax policy for cross-border e-commerce export returns and exchanges.
   The third aspect is to strengthen safeguard capacity and promote unimpeded trade. The document proposes to improve the efficiency of port collection and distribution and domestic transportation to ensure fast transit of import and export goods; continue to clean up unreasonable charges at ports; promote port quality and efficiency improvements; strengthen customs clearance facilitation services for foreign trade enterprises. Specific measures such as fast in and fast out of port goods.
   The Ministry of Commerce will continue to work with relevant localities and departments to closely monitor the operation of foreign trade, and do a good job in analyzing the situation. We must do a good job in the organization and implementation of the new round of foreign trade policies, and strive to provide good services for the vast number of foreign trade enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency, so as to ensure the completion of the goal of maintaining stability and improving foreign trade this year.
  thank you all.
Shou Xiaoli:
  thanks. Let’s start asking questions. Please inform your news organization before asking questions. (excerpt)
Shenzhen Satellite TV reporter:
   It was also mentioned just now that these policies and measures specifically proposed to hold the 132nd Canton Fair online exhibition well, and to actively support foreign trade enterprises to go abroad to participate in the exhibition to grab orders. Excuse me, how will the Ministry of Commerce organize and implement it? thanks.
Wang Shouwen:
   Thank you for your question. One of the 6 measures is to support foreign trade companies to go abroad to participate in exhibitions, and at the same time to organize the online exhibition of the upcoming 132nd Canton Fair. The Canton Fair is an important platform for China's foreign trade and opening up. We all know very well that it is an important channel for enterprises to explore the international market. On October 15 this year, the 132nd Canton Fair will open online. The arrangement of this Canton Fair is still that there are 16 categories of commodities and 50 exhibition areas in the export exhibition, and 6 major themes in the import exhibition, which are distributed in 50 exhibition areas. inside. This online Canton Fair will continue to carry out synchronous activities with 132 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones and 5 cross-border e-commerce platforms. , overseas warehouse owners, and shipping service providers, invite these companies together to provide services online. At the same time, we will also set up a "Rural Revitalization" area to support companies from all poverty-stricken areas to participate in the exhibition. There are five measures:
   The first is to expand the scope of exhibitors. As we all know, although the Canton Fair is the largest offline exhibition in the world, no matter how big it is, there are space limitations. Usually, at most 25,000 companies can participate in the offline exhibition. This time, we are an online exhibition. These 25,000 companies You can continue to participate in the online exhibition, and there is no space limit for the online exhibition, and willing companies can participate in the online exhibition after passing the qualification examination. After the invitation was issued, registrations were enthusiastic, and so far nearly 10,000 companies have signed up to participate in the online exhibition. In addition to the original 25,000, another 10,000 companies will participate in the online exhibition, which is impossible to achieve offline. These 10,000 companies include "specialized and new" small giant companies, high-tech companies , Manufacturing single champion enterprise. Therefore, we invite companies that are interested in participating in the online exhibition to pay attention to the information on the official website of the Canton Fair in time, and contact the local commercial authority to apply for participation.
   The second is to extend the online exhibition time. The online exhibition of the Canton Fair began after the outbreak of the epidemic. The 127th Canton Fair in 2020 was held online for the first time. At that time, the exhibition lasted for 10 days. We have extended the time for the 132nd Canton Fair this time. Among them, the functions of exhibitor connection and appointment negotiation are still 10 days, but for other functions, including online display, instant communication, trade matching, and conference services, we have extended the time to 5 months, that is, from October 15 this year. From today to March 15 next year, online exhibition companies can enjoy the services related to the online exhibition of the Canton Fair.
   The third is to optimize platform functions. We have a lot of experience in offline exhibitions of the Canton Fair. For online exhibitions, we must continue to optimize algorithms, improve search efficiency, and add a number of "cloud exhibition hall" functions to facilitate exhibitors to efficiently and accurately manage exhibits, strengthen exhibition guidelines, enrich customer service content, and provide Multi-channel services such as artificial intelligence online, artificial voice response, social media, etc., help buyers and exhibitors to better use online platform services.
   The fourth is to improve the effectiveness of investment promotion. We promote the global partner program, and carry out three-dimensional publicity through comprehensive application of marketing network, new media, cloud promotion platform, email and other tools. After several sessions of cultivation, the publicity effect is very obvious. The Canton Fair has been held for more than 130 sessions. When the offline exhibition was held, the number of professional buyers was about 200,000. After our training in the past few sessions, the number of professional buyers for the online exhibition of the last Canton Fair exceeded 500,000. This year, we will continue to Intensify efforts and invite professional buyers such as leading multinational companies, cross-border e-commerce retail chains, and foreign chambers of commerce in China to participate in the conference. We will also hold a "Trade Bridge" customized procurement briefing to promote related activities. We believe that this will further enhance the quantity and quality of professional buyers.
   Fifth, the exhibitor fee is waived. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council are very concerned about foreign trade enterprises and demand reductions in taxes and fees. We will continue to exempt enterprises from online exhibiting fees at this Canton Fair. In addition to the Canton Fair, the Ministry of Commerce will also develop online exhibitions with various localities, support overseas exhibitors, and encourage trade promotion agencies and exhibition companies to hold domestic online counterpart negotiations and overseas offline commodity exhibitions. Expand the market.
   There are still 17 days before the Canton Fair will open. We would like to take this opportunity to represent one of the organizers of the Canton Fair, the Ministry of Commerce of China, sincerely invites friends from the global business community to participate in the 132nd Canton Fair online to share business opportunities, cooperate with each other and achieve a win-win situation.