CCTV News: Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Implementing the Strategy for Improving the Free Trade Pilot Zone". Experts said that in the context of the current interweaving of international environmental changes, the issuance of the "Opinions" responds to the uncertainty of the external environment with a high level of certainty in opening up to the outside world, which will help stabilize foreign trade, foreign investment, and enhance the confidence of market entities.

Highlight innovation and integration to enhance the confidence of market entities

Experts said that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed the implementation of the strategy of improving the free trade pilot zone. The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly proposes to encourage innovative and integrated exploration. The highlights of this "Opinion" are concentrated in pioneering and integrated exploration.

Cui Weijie, Vice President of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce: The pioneering nature of the "Opinions" is reflected in the introduction of a large number of "permitted" reform and opening up innovative measures. For example, qualified foreign-funded enterprises in and out of the district are allowed to carry out film post-production services, and well-known overseas arbitration institutions are allowed to set up business institutions in qualified free trade pilot zones.

Experts said that the integrated approach of the "Opinions" is reflected in the construction of five free and convenient policies and systems such as trade, investment, capital flow, transportation, and personnel exchanges, and data flow safely and orderly, and technology and industries. This is a further optimization and improvement of the policy and system system of the free trade pilot zones based on the early exploration of policy and system for ports in Shanghai, Hainan and other free trade zones.

Focus on the high-quality development of the free trade pilot zone industry

In addition, promoting the high-quality development of the free trade pilot zone industry and highlighting the integrated innovation of the entire industrial chain is another highlight of the "Opinions on Implementing the Strategy for the Improvement of the Free Trade Pilot Zone".

Zhao Fujun, researcher at the Foreign Economic Research Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council: In terms of institutional innovation, the integrated innovation of the entire industrial chain is more prominent, because institutional innovation is the core mission of the free trade pilot zone.

Foreign trade enterprises break through against the trend

Recently, the United States has abused tariffs, seriously undermining global economic and trade rules, disrupting the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, and also bringing huge challenges to my country's foreign trade export companies. Faced with the increasingly severe foreign trade situation, where does the confidence of Chinese companies come from, and how can we go against the trend and work together to meet the challenges? Today, let’s go to the front line of foreign trade in Shanghai together.

New products are constantly offline, and companies have sufficient orders

Recently, the United States has abused tariffs to disrupt the global trade order, which has had a significant impact on corporate sales, but this auto parts company in Shanghai is busy moving new factories and expanding production lines. 20 years ago, they started with a tire valve and have now become the world's number one in the market segment.

The confidence in the negotiation comes from the strong resilience of the supply chain and also from new products that are constantly offline. In the tire pressure detection system factory, the reporter saw that a sensor was installed on the tire valve, which completed a leap from a few yuan to a few dozen yuan. Last year, the market share of this spare parts was already among the top three in the world. In the future, they will also add Bluetooth communication, tire burst monitoring and other functions to the new generation of products.

The "two-way rush" at a docking meeting

The confidence of an enterprise not only comes from its own continuous growth, but also comes from the active actions of government departments. The Shanghai Municipal Commerce Commission recently held an offline "e-commerce to help foreign trade expand domestic sales matchmaking meeting". At 9 a.m., there are still 45 minutes before the docking meeting. 16 major domestic e-commerce platforms and nearly 80 foreign trade companies have come to sign in one after another.

At 9:45, the docking meeting officially began. On one hand, there are policy propaganda from the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Commerce and major e-commerce platforms, and on the other hand, a docking and negotiation booth was directly built, and many e-commerce companies lined up in front of the negotiation seats. On the tables of many e-commerce platforms, in addition to the famous brand with the words "Foreign Trade Premium, Welcome Home", there is also a "QR code", which foreign trade companies can scan the code to settle in directly.

At the negotiation meeting, the reporter met a foreign trader born in the 1990s. She brought a full "bag" sample. In front of the e-commerce stall, she demonstrated the function of vacuum-taking fresh bag products and called to arrange factory shipments.

Government Association sets the stage to help enterprises integrate domestic and foreign trade

In order to cope with the tariff war, all districts in Shanghai have also launched a series of measures to actively help foreign trade enterprises expand their domestic sales market by building an offline and online linkage platform for domestic and foreign trade integration.

Zhao Lantian, Deputy Director of the Commerce Committee of Jing'an District, Shanghai: In fact, the domestic consumer market is a large-scale consumer market, and it is growing and growing. It is precisely connected, reducing the cost of enterprises to convert domestic sales as much as possible, and supporting the smooth transformation of foreign trade enterprises.