Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Innovative Development of Foreign Trade

Improve the level of coordinated development.
Give full play to the leading role of industry leaders, explore the establishment of enterprise import and export alliances, and promote the deep integration of small and medium-sized enterprises into the supply chain.
Support leading enterprises to build a platform for sharing resources and capabilities.
Guide enterprises to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation with upstream and downstream enterprises in the overseas industrial chain to ensure supply and demand.
Stabilize the stock, promote the increase, and give full play to the leading role of foreign capital in the innovation and development of foreign trade.

Actively serve enterprises.
Establish and improve the linkage service mechanism for key foreign trade and foreign-funded enterprises.
Give full play to the role of trade promotion agencies and industry associations to jointly promote the resolution of difficulties and problems encountered by enterprises.

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Input of innovative elements and optimization of commodity structure

Protect and develop the supply chain of the industrial chain.
Ensure the production and export of important influential enterprises and key products in the global industrial chain, and maintain the stability of the international supply chain.
Expand the supply chain of key markets and realize the interconnection of logistics, business flow, capital flow, and information flow.
Promote the digital and intelligent development of the supply chain.
Build a comprehensive support platform for the emergency supply chain.
Improve the risk prevention and control capabilities of the global industrial chain and supply chain.
Actively participate in and promote international industrial chain supply chain guarantee cooperation.

Promote industrial transformation and upgrading.
Implement a new round of technological transformation and upgrading projects.
Carry out pilot demonstrations for the cultivation of advanced manufacturing clusters, and create a batch of national manufacturing high-quality development pilot zones.
Accelerate the construction of strategic emerging industrial clusters.
Encourage enterprises to implement green, intelligent, and service-oriented transformations.
Improve the competitiveness of the agricultural industry and build a number of high-quality development bases for agricultural product trade.

Optimize the structure of export products.
Actively promote large-scale complete sets of equipment such as electric power, rail transit, communication equipment, ship and ocean engineering, construction machinery, aerospace and other equipment to open up the international market.
Improve the international competitiveness of emerging industries such as biotechnology, energy conservation and environmental protection, new generation information technology, new energy, and robotics.
Promote the high-end and refined development of labor-intensive products such as textiles, clothing, luggage, shoes and hats.
Improve the ability of intensive and deep processing of agricultural products and the level of characteristic development, and expand the export of high value-added agricultural products.

Improve the quality of export products.
Strengthen overall quality management and strictly control the quality of the supply chain.
Strengthen the construction of quality and safety risk early warning and rapid response supervision system.
Build a batch of public service platforms for quality inspection of key export products.
Accelerate the mutual recognition of certification certificates and test results with key export markets.
Encourage enterprises to use international standards and advanced foreign standards, make full use of internationally recognized product testing and certification systems, and carry out production and quality inspections in accordance with international standards.

Optimize the import structure.
Adjust the tariffs of some products in due course.
Give full play to the guiding role of the "Encouraged Import Technology and Product Catalog" to expand the import of advanced technologies, important equipment and key parts and components.
Support the import of energy and resource products.
Encourage the import of high-quality consumer goods.
Strengthen the construction of the external agricultural industrial chain supply chain, and increase the import of agricultural products that are in short supply and meet the needs of consumption upgrades.
Expand the import of knowledge and technology-intensive services such as consulting, R&D and design, energy conservation and environmental protection, and environmental services, as well as tourism imports.

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Innovating development models and optimizing trade methods

Strengthen general trade.
Expand the scale of general trade, increase the added value of products, and enhance negotiation and bargaining power.
Encourage enterprises to strengthen research and development, brand cultivation, channel construction, and enhance the production and supply capabilities of key technologies and core components.
Establish brand promotion centers in regions, industries and enterprises where conditions permit, and encourage the formation of regional and industry brands.

Promote processing trade.
Increase support for demonstration zones and pilot cities for the transformation and upgrading of processing trade, cultivate and identify a new batch of pilot cities, and support the exploration of new initiatives for innovative development.
Improve the technological content and added value of processing trade, extend the industrial chain, and extend from processing and assembly to technology, brand, and marketing links.
Support the development of new business formats such as bonded maintenance.
Dynamically adjust the catalog of prohibited commodities for processing trade.

Develop other trade.
Implement the policy of promoting the innovation and development of border trade, and amend the "Administrative Measures on Border Trade between Peoples".
Develop a negative list of imported goods from the border miners’ mutual market, and carry out a pilot program for the on-site processing of imported goods from the border miners’ mutual markets.
Cultivate and develop border trade commodity markets and commercial centers.
Support the development of e-commerce in border areas.
Explore the development of new trade methods.
Support exploring and promoting the development of new types of international trade in free trade ports and pilot free trade zones.

Promote the integration of domestic and foreign trade.
Optimize the market circulation environment, facilitate enterprises to make good use of both the international and domestic markets, and reduce the cost of domestic sales of export products.
Encourage export enterprises to connect with large-scale domestic commercial circulation enterprises, build domestic sales platforms through multiple channels, and expand the scope of implementation of "same line, same standard, same quality" for domestic and foreign products.
Strengthen publicity and public services, and promote large-scale domestic sales and branding.

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Innovate operation methods and promote the construction of national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases

Improve organization and management.
Relying on various industrial clusters, speed up the construction of bases, enlarge and strengthen the leading industrial chain, improve the supporting industrial chain, and enhance the supply capacity.
Establish various forms of base management service agencies.

Build a public service platform.
Relying on research institutes, universities and colleges, trade promotion agencies, industry associations, professional service organizations and leading enterprises, build a public service platform for R&D, testing, marketing, information, logistics, etc.

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Innovate service models and promote the construction of trade promotion platforms

A number of comprehensive exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo and the Canton Fair will be well organized.
Benchmarking international first-class exhibitions, enriching and improving the functions of the China International Import Expo, focusing on improving the level of internationalization and specialization, enhancing attractiveness and international influence, and ensuring "the better the better.
" Study and implement a new model of online and offline integration of the China Import and Export Fair.
Expand the functions of exhibitions such as the China International Trade in Services Fair and the China International High-tech Achievements Fair.
Optimize existing exhibitions and cultivate a number of high-profile and influential international exhibitions.

Cultivate import trade to promote innovation demonstration zone.
Give full play to the demonstration and leading role of the demonstration zone in promoting imports, serving industries, and increasing consumption.
Improve the level of supervision and strengthen service innovation.
Study the establishment of tracking efficiency, evaluation and exit mechanisms.

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Innovate service channels and promote the construction of an international marketing system

Speed ​​up the establishment of an international marketing system.
Encourage enterprises to improve the marketing and service guarantee system through cooperation and self-construction, and carry out storage, display, wholesale, sales, order signing and after-sales service.
Promote the after-sales cloud service model and remote diagnosis and maintenance.
Focus on promoting the establishment of international marketing service outlets for brand enterprises in the automobile, machine tool and other industries.

Promote the construction of a public platform for international marketing.
Give full play to the platform's driving and demonstration role, and help enterprises to explore the international market.
Study the establishment of an evaluation and exit mechanism.
Build an international marketing public service platform network and share platform resources.

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Innovate business models and cultivate new momentum for foreign trade

Promote the development of new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce.
Actively promote the construction of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas, continue to explore good experiences and good practices, and study the establishment of comprehensive pilot area evaluation and assessment mechanisms.
Support the construction of a number of overseas warehouses.
Expansion of cross-border e-commerce retail import trials.
Promote cross-border e-commerce applications and promote business-to-business ( B2B ) business development.
Research and prepare for the establishment of cross-border e-commerce industry alliances.
Promote the pilot construction of market procurement trade methods, sum up experience and improve supporting services.
Promote the development of comprehensive foreign trade service enterprises, and study and improve supporting regulatory policies.

Actively promote the export of used cars.
Establish and improve the second-hand car export management and promotion system, expand the second-hand car export business, improve quality inspection standards, and implement national unified export inspection standards.
Strengthen the construction of the overseas after-sales service system for second-hand vehicles, encourage qualified enterprises to establish public spare parts warehouses in key markets, and improve the quality of after-sales services.
Cultivate and support the development of the second-hand car export industry organization.

Speed ​​up the development of emerging service trade.
Accelerate the development of foreign cultural trade, increase support for key national cultural export enterprises and key projects, and strengthen the construction of national cultural export bases.
Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of service outsourcing, carry out the dynamic adjustment of service outsourcing demonstration cities, and vigorously develop high-end productive service outsourcing.
Strengthen the construction of the national Chinese medicine service export base and expand the export of Chinese medicine service.

Accelerate the development of digital trade.
Vigorously develop digital trade, promote the construction of a national digital service export base, and encourage enterprises to transform into digital service and integrated service providers.
Support enterprises to continuously improve their trade digitization and intelligent management capabilities.
Build a public service platform for trade digitalization to serve the digital transformation of enterprises.

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Optimize the development environment and improve the guarantee system

Give full play to the innovative role of free trade pilot zones and free trade ports.
Expand open areas and promote the convergence of export-oriented economic entities and businesses in the pilot free trade zone.
Promote the promulgation of the Hainan Free Trade Port Law.
Focus on trade liberalization and facilitation, highlight system integration and innovation, study and optimize trade plans, steadily promote the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, formulate a list of goods and articles prohibited or restricted from import and export in Hainan Free Trade Port, and free entry and exit of goods and articles outside the list ; Promulgated a negative list of cross-border service trade in Hainan Free Trade Port to further standardize domestic regulations that affect the freedom and convenience of service trade, so as to accumulate experience for wider promotion in a timely manner.

Continuously improve the level of trade facilitation.
Further simplify the customs clearance process, streamline certificates and certification materials.
Innovate the customs inspection model and promote the reform of "online inspection".
Further improve the "single window" function of international trade, and promote the paperless operation of the entire process.
Establish a more intensive, efficient, and unobstructed new mode of ship customs clearance and inspection, and accelerate the promotion of the "single window" function to cover the entire chain of shipping and trade.

Optimize import and export management and services.
Improve the management of the import and export of bulk commodities.
Promote the reform of the import and export management system of key commodities in an orderly manner.
Strengthen the management of port charges, strictly implement the port charges list system, and continue to clean up and standardize the charges related to enterprises in the import and export links.
Lower port charges, further reduce and merge port charges, and lower government-priced port operating service charges.
Actively promote the expansion of the scope of paperless declaration of export tax rebates, and continue to accelerate the progress of export tax rebates.
Expand the pilot program for facilitation of foreign exchange receipts and payments in trade to facilitate cross-border e-commerce foreign exchange settlement.

Strengthen policy support.
Under the premise of complying with the rules of the World Trade Organization, we will increase fiscal and financial support.
Make good use of the special funds for foreign economic and trade development to promote stable and quality improvement and innovative development of foreign trade.
Implement financial support policies such as re-lending and rediscounting, accelerate the progress of loan placement, guide financial institutions to increase foreign trade credit, implement policies such as the phased extension of loan repayment, and increase support for small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises.
Give full play to the role of import and export credit and export credit insurance, further expand the coverage of export credit insurance, and appropriately reduce insurance premium rates in accordance with the principle of marketization.

Strengthen international logistics guarantee.
Ensure strong international shipping protection, enhance international air cargo capacity, and promote the facilitation of international road freight.
Enhance the capacity of freight transportation channels such as China-Europe freight trains, strengthen the construction of demonstration projects for assembly centers, and encourage operating companies to improve overseas logistics networks based on the principle of marketization, enhance the combined transportation, transshipment, and distribution capabilities of overseas logistics nodes, expand the source of return goods, and improve international operations Competitiveness.
Encourage port and shipping companies to strengthen cooperation with railway companies, and actively develop containerized iron-water combined transport.

Improve risk prevention capabilities.
Coordinate development and safety, and effectively prevent and avoid major risks.
Adhere to the bottom line thinking to ensure the security of food, energy and resources.
Efforts to build a modern export control system.
Strictly enforce export control laws.
Optimize export control licensing and law enforcement systems, and promote the establishment of export control compliance and international cooperation systems.
Improve the foreign trade investigation system and enrich the investigation tools.
Improve early warning and legal service mechanisms, and build a work system with multiple subjects and various forms.
Improve the trade remedy investigation work system and improve the ability and level of applying rules.
Improve the mechanism for dealing with trade frictions, and promote the formation of a multi-subject cooperative response work pattern.
Study the establishment of a trade adjustment assistance system.

Strengthen organization and implementation.
Strengthen the party's overall leadership over foreign trade work.
Give full play to the role of the State Council’s inter-ministerial joint conference system for promoting high-quality trade development, and promote the overall innovation and development of foreign trade.
The Ministry of Commerce should strengthen coordination and guidance with relevant departments, and all localities should do a good job of implementation.
Major situations are reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council in a timely manner.