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Reporter: about foreign trade, how much has the epidemic affected import and export? What measures will be taken to reduce the impact of the epidemic on imports and exports? How to do a good job in stabilizing foreign trade throughout the year? Thank you.

Ren Hongbin: Thank you for your question. As one of the "three carriages" to promote economic development, foreign trade has always been highly valued by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and the general concern of the society. The novel coronavirus pneumonia has a temporary and phased impact on the foreign trade from the current situation. Our foreign trade has strong resilience and strong competitiveness, especially the ability of innovation and market development. Therefore, the long-term trend of foreign trade will not change.

After the outbreak, the Ministry of Commerce resolutely implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, quickly guided the national business system to monitor the operation of foreign trade, and accurately assisted enterprises. As we all know, in addition to the common problems of domestic enterprises, foreign trade enterprises also face many external factors, such as the difficulty of receiving orders, the difficulty of performing contracts, the poor international logistics, the increase of trade barriers, etc. the combination of these two problems makes the situation of foreign trade more complicated and severe.

In order to help enterprises return to work and production, guarantee orders, fulfill contracts and protect the market, the Ministry of Commerce issued 20 policies to cope with the epidemic, "stabilize foreign trade, stabilize foreign investment and promote consumption", issued the notice on promoting enterprises in the business field to return to work and production orderly under the premise of doing well in epidemic prevention work ", and various departments such as finance and taxation, people's Bank of China, customs and credit insurance also issued supporting policies. At the same time, 16 places including Guangdong, Zhejiang, Henan and Gansu have also introduced measures to help foreign trade enterprises overcome difficulties. At present, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan and other major foreign trade provinces have returned to work rapidly, and 90% of enterprises with more than ten million US dollars in Zhejiang Province have returned to work. For example, in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, in order to accurately meet the needs of returning employees, including airplanes, special trains and automobiles, and strengthen the resumption of production, many places have introduced practical and effective policies to solve the financing problem. For example, Suzhou supports the innovation of export import bank to carry out rescue capital business, as Chen said just now, and is also supporting from the central level We will support foreign trade enterprises with the strength of the export import bank to increase loans to foreign trade industries. Shandong timely issued policies and measures to support enterprises to participate in foreign exhibitions in an orderly manner and develop international markets

Novel coronavirus pneumonia will be further implemented in the next stage. The spirit of the Central Political Bureau Conference will be thoroughly implemented. In accordance with the spirit of the speech of general secretary Xi Jinping on the coordination of new crown pneumonia prevention and control and economic and social development, held yesterday, we will closely focus on the "six stability" work and do our best to stabilize the basic foreign trade market while we do a good job in epidemic prevention and control. For:

First, further enrich the policy toolbox. We will focus on export tax rebates, trade financing, export guarantee, and trade facilitation.

Second, further optimize the layout of the international market. One belt, one road and one strategy for the key markets along the "one belt and one road" will be adopted to promote trade flow.

Third, we will help enterprises more precisely. Summarize and promote the good practices and experience of returning to work and production, stabilize the supply chain, provide legal aid, and minimize the losses of enterprises.

Fourth, support the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce, market procurement and other new forms of foreign trade, and accelerate the construction of international marketing network.

Fifth, we will deepen opening up and actively expand imports. The third China International Import Expo will be well organized and a demonstration zone for import trade promotion and innovation will be built.

Sixth, strengthen communication and coordination with economic and trade partners, call on WTO members to lift unnecessary restrictions as soon as possible, create a good international trade environment, and jointly safeguard the stable and healthy development of global supply chain.

In the next step, we will, in accordance with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, strengthen our confidence and work hard. While resolutely winning the prevention and control of the epidemic, we will spare no effort to achieve the goal of stabilizing and improving the quality of foreign trade throughout the year, promote the high-quality development of trade, and make positive contributions to building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. Thank you.