Why should we be firm and steady in foreign trade?

Stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment is one of the important contents of the government’s work report this year to give priority to the goal of stabilizing employment and protecting people’s livelihood. Through comprehensive measures to stabilize foreign trade and the supply chain, promote import and export to promote stability and improve quality and balance of international payments, it can ensure employment, basic people's livelihood, market players, industry chain supply chain stability, and food and energy security for China , And make due contributions to stabilizing expectations, stabilizing foreign investment and stabilizing growth. In addition, the stabilization of foreign trade and foreign capital is not only related to the completion of the “six guarantees” and “six guarantees” for my country's job security and people's livelihood, but also related to the recovery of the world economy and the opening and stability of the industrial chain supply chain.

Stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment is an important part of ensuring residents’ employment. The priority goal of this year's government work report is to stabilize employment and protect people's livelihood. Foreign trade and foreign investment have driven the employment of 200 million people, of which 80 million are migrant workers. Stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment is to ensure employment. Stabilizing employment is an important part of protecting people's livelihood. Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign capital is also a safety net for stabilizing employment and protecting people's livelihood.

Stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign capital is an important component of protecting market players. There are more than 700,000 entities in the foreign trade market, more than one million foreign-funded enterprises, and my country's foreign direct investment and foreign investment attract 300 billion US dollars. Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign capital is to protect market players and ensure the stable development of market players. Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment is an important part of ensuring stable development of market players under the impact of epidemics.

Stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment can contribute to ensuring the stability of the international industrial chain supply chain. In the international division of labor, in the global industrial chain and supply chain, my country occupies an important position and is an important node in a double cycle. It connects not only developed countries but also developing countries, and is the central hub of double circulation. The epidemic impacts the global industrial chain supply chain and faces challenges and fracture risks. Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign capital is an important contribution to maintaining the stability, openness, and efficiency of the global industrial chain supply chain.

Stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment is an important part of high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. my country has signed cooperation documents with more than 170 countries to jointly build the “Belt and Road” initiative. It is particularly precious to strengthen interconnection when the epidemic impacts and the global economy is in a “big blockade”. The “Belt and Road” aims to strengthen the infrastructure construction and interconnection of countries from hardware to software and from infrastructure to cultural exchanges. Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment is an important part of the high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road”.

Stabilizing foreign trade and stabilizing foreign investment are important engines for promoting the recovery of the world economy. The IMF is expected to be affected by the epidemic this year, and the world economy will decline by more than 3%. As the engine of world economic growth, international trade shoulders the role of restarting the engine of economic growth. Stabilizing foreign investment in foreign trade is not only a way to promote domestic employment and protect people's livelihood, but also an inevitable way to boost world economic growth. The world economy has me in you and you in me. As the world's largest country in goods trade and the second largest country in foreign investment, my country has contributed more than 30% to world economic growth for more than a decade. Therefore, stabilizing foreign investment in foreign trade is also contributing to stabilizing economic growth and promoting world economic recovery.

Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign capital is an important part of opening up to the outside world at a high level and building an open economy. Despite the impact of the epidemic, my country has expanded the scope of market access for the service industry, promoted the management of negative lists, and expanded the opening of the service industry to the outside world when the general manufacturing industry is 100% open to the outside world. Accelerate the opening up of the financial industry and other service industries to expand space and development potential for stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment. It is precisely because the international division of labor has penetrated into the manufacturing service industry that stabilizing foreign trade and foreign capital has become the only way for high-level opening and promoting development. Not only that, to stabilize foreign trade and foreign capital is to keep the global industrial chain and supply chain open, stable, and efficient, and it is a specific practice and important contribution to the construction of a community of human destiny in the epidemic.