china.com finance and economics August 23 - the Information Office of the state Council held a press conference on the afternoon of August 23. Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce, Wang Shouwen, vice minister and deputy representative for international trade negotiations, and Qian Keming, Vice Minister of Commerce, introduced their positive contribution to business, Strive to boost the situation of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and answer reporters' questions</spanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanbdsfid="69"class="bjh-p> spanbdsfid=" 69 "class=" bjh-p "spanspanbdsfid=" 70 "class=" bjh-strong "spanspanspanbdsfid=" 70 "class=" bjh-strong " <span <spanspan span <spanspan span span <spanspan span span span span span <spanspan span span> spanspan span <spanspan span span <spanspan span span span span span span span> spanspan span span span span span span span span span span span span spanspanbdsfid id=" 67 "class=" index module, a textwrap, and u u 3ygoc, the sort of <span <span <spanspan <spanspan span span> <<spanspan span span span span> spanspan span span span span span span span span span span span span span spanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanbdsfid="70" class="70" class="bjh-p-p" like like like-p, and "/ span
good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am very glad to be here today to attend the press conference organized by the Information Office of the State Council. First of all, thank you for your concern and support for business work</ this is a great historic undertaking created by our party and the people of the whole country. it is an important milestone in the process of china's socialist modernization
everyone is also familiar with the business cause. It connects domestic and foreign markets, connects urban and rural markets, relates to thousands of families, and also plays an important role in the great process of building a well-off society in an all-round way. Our country's position as a major economic and trade country has been further consolidated and strengthened, and the pace of building an economic and trade power has accelerated. China has become the world's second-largest consumer market and the largest trading country. China's utilization of foreign capital and foreign investment are firmly at the forefront of the world, and its ability to participate in global economic governance has been continuously strengthened, which has effectively promoted economic prosperity, social development and the improvement of people's livelihood. Span
next, I will briefly introduce the relevant situation of business work to you:
first, always adhere to the strategic base point of expanding domestic demand and promote the formation of a strong domestic market. China has a population of 1.4 billion, including more than 400 million middle-income people. It has formed a unique domestic market in the world and has the advantage of large-scale market. Therefore, domestic demand is the basic driving force of China's economic development, and expanding domestic demand is also an inevitable requirement to meet the needs of people's better life. We strive to promote circulation innovation, create a quarter hour convenient life circle, transform and improve pedestrian streets, promote the transformation and upgrading of retail industry, promote the innovative development of commodity market, improve the cold chain logistics facilities of agricultural products, improve the urban and rural logistics distribution system, promote the standardization of commercial circulation, and make the commercial circulation smoother and more convenient. We strive to promote the upgrading of consumption, such as in the fields of automobiles, household appliances, catering, housekeeping services and so on. In terms of cities, it has just announced the cultivation of international consumption center cities in five cities. At the same time, in rural areas, we will strengthen the construction of County commercial system and promote rural consumption. We focus on emergency protection and supply. In the face of sudden disasters, such as recent floods and multi-point epidemic outbreaks, we strengthen joint protection and supply. In 2020, China's retail sales of social consumer goods totaled 39.2 trillion yuan, and consumption has become the first driving force of China's economic growth for many years
Second, always adhere to expanding opening to the outside world and promote high-quality development with high-level opening. Opening up is the only way for national prosperity and development. Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important magic weapon for China's development to make new achievements. High quality development must be matched by a high level of openness. We have continuously expanded the areas of opening up and further relaxed market access. The national negative list of foreign investment access has been continuously reduced from 93 to 33. We relaxed the restrictions on the proportion of foreign shares in automobile, finance, securities and other industries, and promoted the comprehensive pilot demonstration of the opening-up of the service industry. We actively build new highlands and platforms for opening up, such as the pilot free trade zone. At present, there are 21 free trade zones in China. There is also a high-quality construction of Hainan free trade port to promote the innovation and upgrading of national economic development zones. There are also some platforms that we are actively promoting, such as China International Fair, Canton Fair, service trade fair, Consumer Fair, etc. We will accelerate institutional opening-up and establish and improve institutions and mechanisms that adapt to new trade formats and models such as cross-border e-commerce. We will promote the promulgation of the foreign investment law and relevant implementation regulations, fully implement the management system of pre admission national treatment plus negative list, connect with international rules, and promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation
Third, always adhere to business for the people and help win the battle against poverty. Winning the battle against poverty is one of the most arduous and complex tasks in building a well-off society in an all-round way. Starting from business work, we adhere to the people-centered development thought. On the one hand, give full play to the advantages of business and strive to explore the path of poverty alleviation with business characteristics, including the launch of business poverty alleviation measures in five aspects: e-commerce poverty alleviation, domestic poverty alleviation, foreign labor poverty alleviation, industrial poverty alleviation and border trade poverty alleviation. On the other hand, we should promote international cooperation in poverty reduction, actively coordinate relevant countries and international organizations to tilt resources to poor areas in the central and western regions and support industrial development in poor areas
Fourth, always adhere to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and promote mutually beneficial cooperation and common development. We actively promote the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road", deepen and jointly build national trade and investment cooperation, strengthen economic, trade and cultural exchanges, bring new development opportunities and broader markets to all countries, and let all countries share the dividends of our reform and development. Implementing cooperation and foreign aid projects well and providing assistance to developing countries, especially the least developed countries, is also our concrete practice in implementing the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. We have actively participated in international economic governance, put forward China's plan on multilateral occasions such as G20, APEC and BRICs countries, contributed China's wisdom, firmly maintained the multilateral trading system with WTO as the core, and promoted the construction of a global high-standard free trade area network
looking forward to the future, a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way has begun. According to the national requirements, we have made a clear positioning for business work. This positioning is that business work is an important part of the domestic cycle, an important hub connecting the domestic and international dual cycle, and will play an important role in the new development pattern. The positioning of business work is "three important", which is an important part of the domestic cycle. Business work includes domestic trade. It is an important hub of domestic and international double circulation, involving foreign trade, foreign investment, domestic trade, etc. Our work can play an important role in the new development pattern. We have a great responsibility and a glorious mission on the new journey. In terms of promoting domestic and international double circulation, we should stabilize the basic situation of foreign trade, deepen the "the Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation, promote the integration of domestic and foreign trade, build a high-level open platform, and strengthen bilateral and multilateral economic and trade cooperation. Therefore, the "three important" is specifically divided into five key tasks of domestic large cycle and five key tasks of domestic and international double cycle, which constitute the basic points of business work throughout the year
next, my colleagues Mr. Wang Shouwen and Mr. Qian Keming are willing to accept questions from the media. Thank you