Ministry of Commerce: Shrinking external demand is the biggest difficulty for China's economic growth

A few days ago, the Deputy Minister of Commerce Zhongshan issued a signed article "a profound understanding of the development of foreign trade to the national economy contribution."　　The article expounds that, in the background of the international financial crisis still spreading, the shrinking of external demand is the biggest difficulty that our country's economic growth faces. The May import and export statistics of the general administration of Customs showed that China's imports and exports fell for seven consecutive months, and the decline continued to pull up, indicating that the foreign trade situation is still not optimistic. The general administration of Customs data show that the first 5 months of this year, China's foreign trade import and export value 7634. 900 million dollars, down 24. 7%. Among them, exports fell by 21. 8%, imports fell 28%. From the one-month data, exports fell 26 year-on-year in May. 4%, the drop is more than 22 in April. 6%, falling for the 7th consecutive month; The decline in imports has widened from 23% in April to 25.　　2%. The continuous decline in foreign trade data so that many authorities and people on the future of foreign trade trends made not optimistic expectations.　　Analysis pointed out that the global demand for the shrinking trend has not changed, the foreign trade situation is still a lot of uncertainty, the first half negative growth is a foregone conclusion.　　Mr. Zhong said that from the current situation of foreign trade development, China's foreign trade growth this year will be a certain extent of decline, the future will enter a period of low growth period, the focus of the stability of foreign trade should be placed in the insurance market share. It is understood that in the near future, the Ministry of Commerce will, in conjunction with relevant departments, improve export credit insurance policy and export tax policy, vigorously solve the financing difficulties of foreign trade enterprises, further reduce the burden of foreign trade enterprises, improve the level of trade facilitation, improve the processing trade policy, support the "go out" to　　Create a good environment for foreign trade Development. At the same time, we should pay attention to structural adjustment and insist on changing the mode of foreign trade development. Optimization of commodity structure, based on quality and science and technology trade, supporting the advantages of products, labor-intensive products and High-tech products exports, increase the independent intellectual property rights, independent brand products to promote the export. Optimize the market structure, further implement the market diversification strategy, while stabilizing the traditional market, vigorously develop the growth of good, potential of the emerging market often optimize the trade, continue to play the general trade on the domestic industry, the advantages of strong driving force, and actively promote the transformation and upgrading of processing trade,　　Accelerate the role of border trade in regional and sub-regional economic cooperation.　　From the government level, the Ministry of Commerce will improve the public service system of foreign trade with the relevant departments, improve the public service capacity, at the same time, make overall use of foreign trade, foreign capital, "go out" and other related policies, to achieve mutual promotion and coordinated development of all kinds of business, improve global resource allocation From the enterprise level, to enhance the ability of independent innovation, improve the technology, quality and brand value of export products, enhance market development ability, make full use of various platforms such as Canton Fair, and "go out" and other channels, improve the ability of policy application, use good enough to stabilize the current foreign trade promotion policies. (23B5)