Recently, the fifth China International Import Expo has been successfully concluded, with the intended transaction value reaching a new high. Through this big stage, more and more foreign enterprises have opened a broad market and become industry leaders.

Foreign trade is an important component of China's open economy, one of the "troika" of economic growth, and a key hub of unimpeded domestic and international double circulation. The report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC proposed to steadily expand institutional openness in rules, regulations, management, and standards. We will optimize and upgrade trade in goods, innovate development mechanisms for trade in services, develop digital trade, and speed up the building of a strong trading country.

In the new era, China is opening even wider to the outside world.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, the customs hall in Suzhou issues an average of 301 visas of origin every day. On the north bank of the Yangtze River, batches of sweet and fat Xinghua red paste crabs passed the inspection and quarantine of Taizhou Customs officers and were transported abroad... These ordinary scenes happen every day on the vast land of Jiangsu Province. In the past ten years, Jiangsu's total import and export volume increased from 3.45982 trillion yuan to 5.213.06 trillion yuan, continuously crossing the two steps of 4 trillion yuan and 5 trillion yuan.

Jiangsu's development is exactly the epitome of our country's great foreign trade country achievements and brilliant achievements of ten years. Over the past decade, new heights of opening up have been set up one by one, institutional "experimental fields" have become "high-yield fields", and a series of reform policies and service measures have been incubated and implemented, finally forming a pleasing report card.

During the ten years, our foreign trade has taken a new step of high-quality development. After surpassing 30 trillion yuan in 2018, trade in goods approached 40 trillion yuan in 2021, and its international market share increased from 10.4 percent in 2012 to 13.5 percent in 2021, strengthening its position as the largest country in global trade in goods.

In terms of exports, the structure of commodities has been improved, and the quality, grade and added value have been continuously improved. China's export leading industries are transforming from traditional labor-intensive industries to high-tech industries, and mechanical and electrical products, such as mobile phones, computers and integrated circuits, play the leading role. New forms of foreign trade have developed in an orderly way. The import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce has increased by nearly 10 times in five years, and the export volume of market procurement trade has increased by seven times in seven years.

In the past 10 years, China has adopted a series of hard and practical measures to create a market-oriented, law-based and international port business environment. Reduce time, documents and costs, effectively promote the continuous optimization of port business environment, and significantly improve cross-border trade facilitation.

Since the beginning of this year, foreign trade has faced significantly more risks and challenges, and the pressure to stabilize foreign trade has increased. The CPC Central Committee and The State Council attach great importance to this and have introduced several rounds of policies to stabilize foreign trade. The Ministry of Commerce has also worked closely with local governments and relevant departments to implement policies and introduced a number of supporting measures to stabilize foreign trade. Thanks to the concerted efforts of all parties, China's foreign trade has shown strong resilience, withstood pressure and maintained steady growth.

Statistics from the General Administration of Customs show that China's imports and exports totaled 34.62 trillion yuan in the first 10 months of this year, up 9.5 percent from the same period last year. Of which, the export was 19.71 trillion yuan, up by 13%; Imports reached 14.91 trillion yuan, up 5.2%; Trade surplus increased by 46.7% to 4.8 trillion yuan. China has maintained good economic and trade exchanges with ASEAN, the European Union, the United States and other major trading partners, and ASEAN has further consolidated its position as the country's largest trading partner. During the same period, China's trade with countries along the Belt and Road has increased significantly.

"Despite many difficulties and challenges, there are still many favorable conditions for the steady growth of China's foreign trade. On the whole, China's foreign trade has a sound industrial foundation, foreign trade enterprises are improving their performance and innovation capabilities, and trade with the global market is getting closer." "We will strive to keep foreign trade operating within a reasonable range, achieve the goal of maintaining stability and improving quality throughout the year, and continue to make positive contributions to the recovery of the national economy," said Shu Jueting, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Commerce.

To become a trading power

Recently, the production workshop of Qingdao Zhongwang Sanchang Aluminum Co., LTD., workers are busy in a tense and orderly manner, the company's processing and production of 60 tons of high-precision super flat aluminum plate will be exported to South Korea. Its self-developed high-precision ultra-flat aluminum plate is a necessary material for 5G communication parts, lithium battery automation equipment and new energy vehicle equipment, which is widely used in automobile, rail transportation, aviation, machinery, electronics and other industries.

"The company relies on scientific and technological innovation to be selected as' specialized and special new 'enterprises, the export of high-precision super flat aluminum plate in the industry technology leading, domestic and foreign market demand is very large." Zhao Wenfeng, director of import and export business of the company, said, "We just started foreign trade business this year, not very familiar with the customs clearance process, Qingdao Dagang Customs guide us to declare in advance and pre-audit, greatly improve the customs clearance time, to ensure the competitive advantage of products in foreign countries, since this year the company has completed the export value of 9.5 million yuan, is expected to further expand the export market next year."

Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao pointed out that to speed up the building of a trade power, we should pay more attention to independent innovation, pay more attention to high-quality development, promote domestic and external demand, import and export, trade in goods and services, trade and two-way investment, trade and industrial coordinated development, firmly grasp the initiative of development and security. Create new prospects for open, cooperative, inclusive and win-win international trade.

The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "China adheres to the basic state policy of opening up and firmly pursues the win-win strategy of opening up".

China will also import more high-quality products, deepen the development of comprehensive demonstration zones for wider opening of the national service sector, and expand the network of high-standard free trade zones open to the world... China's efforts to build an open world economy will bring more benefits to people around the world.

Wang Wentao stressed that among the main tasks of speeding up the building of a trade power, it is necessary to promote the optimization and upgrading of trade in goods, promote innovative development of trade in services, develop digital trade, deepen international economic and trade cooperation and improve risk prevention and control capacity.

"With the continuous improvement of China's international trade competitiveness, China's status as a major trading country has been fully established." Zhang Jianping, deputy director of the Academic committee of the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce, said that in the future, with an eye on the development goal of 2035 and the second centenary goal, China should make new contributions to Chinese-style modernization by speeding up the building of a trade powerhouse.

It's the golden season for companies to rush orders. The workshop of SMC Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Beijing's Tianzhu Free Zone is bustling with silvery metallic pneumatic components being packed and boxed for export to Japan, South Korea and countries along the Belt and Road. "Our 'report card' is very bright this year. Especially today, this batch of imported raw materials are very big and inconvenient to move. Thanks to Chief Ding, they came to inspect!" Said Han Rui, head of the company's import and export business. Door inspection, is Tianzhu Customs inspection Department deputy chief Ding Yuhao and his colleagues. "To act on the Party's 20 National principles and fulfill the requirements of building a strong trade country, we should start by solving the customs clearance difficulties encountered by enterprises one by one, do a good job in every inspection and inspection work, and escort products to the sea at the fastest speed." Ding Yuhao said.