Chen Deming responds to foreign goods cheaper than domestic

People's Daily Beijing March 7 (the People's Front report group) 16:30 P.M., the ninth session of the National People's Congress held a press conference.　　The Minister of Commerce, Chen Deming, was present and asked the journalist about promoting consumption and foreign trade. CCTV, Chinese network television Reporter: In recent years, there is a more peculiar phenomenon, many people like to go abroad to buy things, because some foreign goods than domestic and cheaper, and some goods are not domestic, this year the Ministry of Commerce has a focus is to expand imports, Minister Chen has just said,　　May I ask what policies and measures will be in this respect? Mr Chen said there was a phenomenon that Chinese residents went abroad to buy domestically manufactured goods, and that the situation was growing. This reason is multifaceted, on the one hand because our own national brands, high-end consumer goods card is not enough, so from the supply point of view can not meet the needs.　　On the other hand, with the improvement of people's living standard and the increase of income, many people, especially in the big cities, and the young people, and the youth, more advocating brand-name consumption and so on, so this phenomenon is now more and more. Chen Deming also pointed out that there are many reasons for this phenomenon, for example, some products in developed countries in marketing channels and agency links, it has some relatively high cost control. For example, we usually talk about the distribution system, in China, the system because it is newly established, is not perfect. Also, for example, our high-end brands operating costs are higher, of course, this is the current tax and the country is relatively high compared with the developed a little bit.