Promoting consumption, stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment:

Promoting consumption, stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment: what's the effect in 2019? How to do in 2020? At the media briefing of the 2019 national business conference held on the 30th, the heads of relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Commerce responded to the hot issues in the business field.

Promote consumption expansion and quality improvement

The 2019 national business work conference proposed that in 2020, to promote stable growth of consumption, we should enhance urban consumption, promote the upgrading of pedestrian streets, improve automobile consumption policy; expand rural consumption, promote e-commerce into rural areas, improve urban and rural logistics distribution system; promote service consumption, improve the quality and capacity of domestic services, etc.

Wang Bin, deputy director of the market operation Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that it is expected that in 2019, the total retail sales of social consumer goods will exceed 40 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 41.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 8% over the previous year, and the contribution rate of consumption to economic growth will exceed 60%, which will become the first driving force of economic growth for six consecutive years.

Automobile is an important area to promote consumption. Hu Jianping, deputy director of the market construction Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the Ministry of Commerce will focus on the whole chain of automobile circulation to promote the optimization and upgrading of automobile consumption. In terms of new cars, we will continue to improve the car consumption environment. In terms of second-hand cars, we should pay close attention to the revision of the management measures for the circulation of second-hand cars. In terms of the scrapped motor vehicles, we will promptly issue the detailed rules for the implementation of the management measures for the recovery of the scrapped motor vehicles. In the automotive aftermarket, we should actively study and promote policies and measures for the development of automobile refitting, sports events, culture, tourism, etc., so as to tap the potential of the automotive aftermarket.

In the field of service consumption, Xian Guoyi, director of the Department of service and trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in 2020, catering consumption will be promoted, and the scale and level of skilled personnel in the catering industry will be improved; the credit system of the domestic industry will be promoted, and the classified physical examination system of domestic service staff will be established; the consumption of community life service will be promoted, and the convenient service circle will be constructed.

Promote high quality development of foreign trade

Li Xingqian, director of the Department of foreign trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said that since this year, China has timely introduced policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade, focusing on helping enterprises reduce their burdens, creating a good trade environment and stabilizing the overall situation of foreign trade development.

"It is expected that the scale of foreign trade in the whole year will be stable at more than 30 trillion yuan, which is likely to exceed the scale of last year and reach a new high." Li Xingqian said that in terms of horizontal comparison, China's export growth rate is higher than the overall level of major global economies.

At the same time, the quality of foreign trade development continued to improve. Li Xingqian introduced that private enterprises play a prominent role in the main force, their contribution to general trade has increased, the layout of the international market has become more reasonable, and the export of high-tech, high-quality and high value-added products has grown rapidly.