The cause of trade promotion has achieved leapfrog development in the past decade

release time:2022/11/1

The business community is a positive force to promote the recovery of the world economy and an important bridge to promote economic and trade exchanges between countries. Recently, the 20th National Congress of the CPC was successfully held. Countries around the world paid great attention to it, and the international business community gave positive comments. They believed that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China had mapped out a blueprint for China's development in the new era, added impetus to the global economic recovery, strengthened the confidence and determination of enterprises from all over the world to dig into the Chinese market, and looked forward to strengthening economic and trade cooperation with China.
As an important link between the Party and the government and the business community, and an important bridge for economic and trade exchanges and cooperation between domestic and foreign business communities, CCPIT has been actively engaged in foreign economic and trade work, such as trade and investment promotion, commercial legal services, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, providing support for foreign enterprises to carry out economic and trade exchanges in China, and also actively promoting Chinese enterprises to participate in global economic governance. Over the past decade, a series of work has been fruitful, and the international business community has made positive comments on it.
Ten years of hard work and fruitful results
"This decade has witnessed the best development, the greatest change and the widest influence in the trade promotion industry. It is an important manifestation of China's expanding opening-up, and an important witness for enterprises from all countries to share development opportunities and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results." Sun Xiao, spokesman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and secretary-general of the China International Chamber of Commerce, said at the regular press conference held by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade on October 27.
This is the first press release event held by CCPIT after the successful convening of the 20th CPC National Congress. A series of data about the ten years of CCPIT work have also been released to the public in a timely manner:
——The construction of the trade promotion system has been increasingly improved. Up to now, there are 903 local trade promotion organizations and 22 industrial trade promotion organizations in China. CCPIT has 30 overseas representative offices and 393 multi bilateral industrial and commercial cooperation mechanisms. ICC has 325000 member enterprises and 8 industrial committees. The national trade promotion system has been set up to serve foreign enterprises.
——The quantity and quality of participating in economic and trade activities increased. Over the past decade, nearly 300 major events attended by Chinese and foreign leaders have been organized. Nearly 3000 exhibitions are held at home and abroad, with an annual average of 300. Through four world expositions, we can tell Chinese stories objectively and truthfully.
——Actively promote the level of trade facilitation. So far, there are 54 service centers for free trade agreements and 17 service centers for local pilot free trade zones. The service scope of certificate of origin covers all China's FTA partners. The number of preferential certificates of origin issued will increase from nearly 100000 in 2012 to more than 1.4 million in 2021, with an average annual growth of 34%. A total of 45 million commercial certificates such as ATA carnets have been issued.
——Trade arbitration has achieved fruitful results. In the past decade, it has accepted 25500 commercial maritime arbitration cases, accounting for one fifth of the total number of foreign-related cases, involving 152 national and regional parties; The number of cases increased by 15.6% annually, the amount of disputes increased by 24.7% annually, and exceeded 100 billion yuan in the past five years.
——We will strengthen intellectual property services. In the past ten years, 575000 patent and trademark cases have been handled by CCPIT agencies, leading the country in foreign patent agency business; More than 20,000 commercial mediation cases were accepted, with an average annual growth of 12%.
——Actively contribute to the optimization of business environment and the response to economic and trade frictions. Over the past decade, CCPIT has set up 1532 business environment monitoring points and issued guidelines for business environment in 90 key countries and regions; There were 239 early warning institutions for economic and trade frictions, and 24 reports on global economic and trade frictions were released.
——Actively promote Chinese enterprises to participate in global economic governance. China Council for the Promotion of International Trade organizes Chinese enterprises to participate in the business activities of G20, APEC, BRICS and other multilateral mechanisms every year; Every year, Chinese experts are organized to put forward suggestions for more than 40 international commercial rules and practices, and 270 people are recommended to work in international organizations; Joined hands with more than 40 institutions at home and abroad to establish the International Organization for the Prevention and Settlement of Commercial Disputes; The China Council of the "Sustainable Market Initiative" was established to create an important platform for implementing the global development initiative.
Strengthen commercial law service and improve business environment
The reporter learned in the interview that various market entities are generally concerned about the changes in China's business environment, especially the environmental factors of the rule of law. It is universally acknowledged that legalization is not only the internal requirement of market economy, but also the fundamental guarantee for sound development and operation.
 
In the field of diversified dispute resolution, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has made continuous efforts, and its golden signboard is brighter. In the ten years of the new era, the number of arbitration cases accepted annually increased from 1143 to 4230, the amount of disputes increased from 17 billion yuan to 124 billion yuan, and in the past five years, the amount of disputes exceeded 100 billion yuan. Foreign related cases accounted for a quarter of the total number of cases, involving parties from 152 countries and regions abroad; The number of commercial mediation cases accepted in the year increased from more than 1800 to more than 4800, and the number of cases and the amount of subject matter have both increased significantly in recent years. China International Trade Arbitration Commission was awarded one of the five most popular arbitration institutions in the world. Published 64 copies of the "the Belt and Road" National Legal Studies, and founded the "Commercial Arbitration and Mediation" journal.
In response to economic and trade frictions, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade has more identity advantages. Give full play to the advantages of tight contact with enterprises, multiple overseas channels and sufficient legal resources, and organize the Chinese business community to make a positive voice. It has gone to the United States for 10 times to participate in 301, 301 and 232 investigation hearings, and refuted the false accusations in the United States. To undertake the work of excluding the goods subject to tariffs imposed by China on the United States and Canada. We built 239 early warning points for economic and trade frictions, launched the first report on global economic and trade frictions, and filled the global gap in quantitative analysis of economic and trade frictions. The voice of the Chinese business community against "decoupling and chain breaking" was firmly voiced on the discriminatory China related laws of relevant countries and regions in a timely manner. Industrial enterprises have been organized to deal with foreign economic and trade frictions against China from scratch. At present, nearly 100 cases have been dealt with.
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has a greater influence by actively exploring international legal cooperation. Actively perform their duties as observers of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Recommend hundreds of experts to international organizations such as the International Investment Dispute Settlement Center and the International Chamber of Commerce. 19 bilateral commercial legal cooperation committees were established to provide legal advice and support for Chinese enterprises to carry out international operations. Hold high-end forums such as "China Arbitration Week" and "International Mediation Summit Forum". We will promote the establishment of an international organization for the prevention and settlement of commercial disputes, enhance consensus, share experience, deepen cooperation with other countries, and effectively serve international commercial subjects. Promote the Madrid International Trademark System to use Chinese as the working language.
The CCPIT has made many breakthroughs in helping enterprises to operate internationally, and the business scope of CCPIT is broader. In the past ten years, the CCPIT system has reduced the application fee of 1.325 billion yuan for enterprises by issuing various commercial certificates. Since the RCEP came into effect, 109000 certificates of origin have been issued, with a visa amount of US $5 billion. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, 8738 force majeure factual certificates related to COVID-19 epidemic have been issued, and the cumulative amount of contracts is about 122.685 billion US dollars. The platform of Trade and Law Communication was opened, with 274000 consultations in the past two years. More than 6500 enterprises were investigated for compliance risks in international operations, and corporate compliance engineers were promoted to become new professions in China.

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