4 trillion of domestic goods first questioned by Western media

In recent days, China's nine ministries, including the NDRC, have issued a request for priority purchases of Chinese goods in the 4 trillion economic stimulus package. After the message is heard, the term "buy Chinese" by foreign media has been "besieged" by Western media, accusing China of making protectionist noises, but an expert familiar with WTO trade rules 17th told reporters that the Chinese government's policy is a correction of discrimination against domestic products, in line with the WTO "　　The principle of fairness without discrimination. Foreign media refers to China's trade protectionism the Financial Times reported 17th that China's policy of "buying Chinese" will spark tensions with trading partners and exacerbate protectionist sentiment around the world. "The Chinese government's protectionist moves will mess up the pace of global economic recovery," the Australian newspaper said 17th, commenting on the issue of "China's purchase" to combat economic recovery.　　"China has tended to trade protectionism," The Wall Street Journal quoted Joaquin, president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 17th. The European Commission said 17th it was trying to "investigate clearly". "We will continue to pay close attention to the development of the incident and will certainly try to further investigate China's policies," Amadeu Altafah, a spokesman for the European Commission, told reporters in Brussels.　　"Experts say foreign media misreading of China's policy for foreign media, the sharp criticism," China's WTO Research Council executive director Weiwen told reporters that this so-called "buy Chinese" clause is in fact not foreign products restrictions and discrimination, on the contrary, in China suffers from the non-national treatment is the Chinese goods. Zhao, a researcher at the Institute of Commerce and Research, also told reporters that since the reform and opening up, the Chinese people's concept is goods superior to domestic products, which also caused China to suffer from the plight of non-national treatment.　　The policy of the nine ministries is to rectify this phenomenon, whether or not the financial crisis has occurred, China will do so, and trade protectionism has no relationship. Fully conform to the WTO principles China's WTO Research Council executive Director Weiwen also said that foreign media said that China's trade protectionism is clearly a misreading of the provisions of the nine ministries. As early as February this year, the Ministry of Commerce made it clear that China would not follow the footsteps of "buy American" and never "buy Chinese goods".　　China's behavior is to the domestic people suffered discrimination in return to a fair, we can justifiably say that this is fully in line with the WTO "non-discrimination" and "national treatment" principle. "Expert interview" a country's government procurement should embody public policy orientation the national Development and Reform Commission experts said that government procurement priority to adopt domestic products is international practice.　　Even the highly-American Lenovo computer was excluded from the purchase list by the U.S. government. Government procurement should follow what kind of value orientation, in the BMW incident, become the focus of public inquiry. Huain, a member of the drafting group of the Government Procurement law and a professor at Tsinghua University, said that all suppliers in government procurement have equal competition rights from a legal standpoint if BMW and Mercedes meetConditions, there is no legal problem in tendering, there is no reason to discriminate against it. But Huain also believes that government procurement should maintain a commercial orientation to ensure fair competition, on the other hand, there should be public policy orientation, such as protecting the independent brand and advocating environmental protection and so on.　　In 1999, the central government made it clear that the principle of using domestic cars should be adhered to by the party and government, and it should be adapted to the national economic development level and the ability of fund bearing. "Government procurement has never been a service and a guarantee for the civil service, and it has always been a social attribute and a guiding role," said a general citizen concerned. This direction is very important, even their own government is unwilling to use domestic brands of cars, how many people will choose? In addition, some experts said, "since the main purpose of the 4 trillion is to stimulate domestic demand, the preferred products are no doubt, that is worthy of the country, worthy of the people's ' government procurement ' project."　　The People's Daily survey showed that 97% of the population supported the government's purchases of domestic goods. (Xinhua News Agency, Legal Evening News, etc.)