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recently, the State Council issued the opinions on further stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment. This afternoon (August 13), the State Council Information Office held a regular policy briefing of the State Council. Ren Hongbin, Assistant Minister of Commerce, Zong Changqing, director of the foreign investment management department of the Ministry of Commerce, and Xie Wen, director of the goods and services tax department of the State Administration of Taxation, introduced the relevant situation and answered reporters' questions
according to renhongbin, since the beginning of this year, the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on human production and life. The world economy has fallen into the worst recession since the Great Depression of the last century. China's foreign trade and foreign investment are facing unprecedented challenges. According to the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce, together with 23 departments and units, has put forward a new batch of policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment in response to the difficult demands of enterprises and in combination with local experience and practices Make recommendations
"opinions" insists on expanding opening-up, highlighting legal compliance, fairness and transparency, and equal treatment of domestic and foreign investment. It puts forward 15 policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment in four aspects: improving fiscal, taxation and financial policies, developing new forms and models of trade, improving the level of customs clearance and personnel exchanges, and supporting key industries and key enterprises. It mainly includes a series of measures such as increasing export credit insurance support, adding a number of pilot market procurement trade methods, further standardizing and reducing the compliance cost of import and export links, and guiding the gradient transfer of processing trade</ in the next step, the ministry of commerce will work closely with relevant departments and localities to step up the implementation of various policies and measures, effectively enhance the sense of acquisition of foreign trade and foreign investment enterprises, firmly stabilize the basic situation of foreign trade and foreign investment, make more contributions to the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and promote the recovery and development of the world economy. (cctv reporter yuan bin, huang zhenglong, ge xiaowei)