Strong Actions "Solve Problems" for International Trade and Foreign-invested Businesses

——Interpretation of "Sixteen Policy Measures to Stabilize the Fundamentals of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment"

Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment is related to the overall economic and employment situation. It is important content and the main starting point for doing an excellent job in the "six stability" work and implementing the "six guarantees" task. Stabilizing the fundamentals of foreign trade and foreign investment is of great significance to stabilizing the province's economic operation.

A few days ago, the provincial party committee and the provincial government formulated measures and supporting policies to stabilize the province's economic operation. The "Sixteen Policy Measures for Stabilizing the Fundamentals of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment" is one of the 20 supporting documents. 16 policies for stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment, highlighting the principles of problem orientation, pragmatism, effectiveness, and quick results; closely integrating the central and provincial fiscal funding arrangements; and launching "short-term, smooth, and quick" measures that can be implemented immediately, quickly carried out, and practical as soon as possible. Achieve high gold content and strong practicality, and truly solve problems for foreign trade and foreign-invested enterprises.

I.            Policy "Combination Boxing" To Promote Foreign Trade To Maintain Stability And Improve Quality

Exports are one of the "troikas" driving economic growth and play an important role in stabilizing the economy and promoting development. At present, there are still many unstable and uncertain factors facing the development of foreign trade. There are risks such as the uncertainty of the epidemic, the instability of the international industrial chain and the supply chain, and the complexity of the international environment.

The main body of foreign trade import and export is enterprises. Under the pressure, how to speed up the transmission of a series of foreign trade policies to help enterprises to stabilize foreign trade has become a top priority. Among the 16 policies issued this time to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, there are 9 policies to stabilize foreign trade, highlighting the pertinence and timeliness, and facing the current difficulties in the development of foreign trade. Among them, 4 directly benefit foreign trade entities.

For key foreign trade enterprises, Hebei Province will increase policy support, encourage enterprises to carry out R&D innovation, build their brands, and improve product quality and competitiveness.

Orders are the lifeblood of foreign trade enterprises. In terms of helping foreign trade enterprises to seize orders and expand the market, we will build an online platform of "one country, one exhibition" and "multiple countries, one exhibition", organize 12 online trade promotion activities such as ASEAN special sessions, Japan and South Korea special sessions, and explore the use of "exhibition on behalf of" ” way to organize enterprises to participate in key overseas exhibitions.

To give full play to the role of credit insurance in guaranteeing the development of foreign trade, support will be given to foreign trade enterprises to purchase export credit insurance service premiums, and small, medium, and micro-enterprises will be favored.

In terms of imports, support will be given to advanced technologies, key equipment, and components imported by enterprises, and enterprises will be guided to expand imports of resources and energy such as iron ore and natural gas to ensure the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain.

In recent years, new business forms and new models such as cross-border e-commerce, comprehensive foreign trade services, and market procurement trade have become a vital force in the development of foreign trade and an important trend in the development of international trade.

To this end, Hebei Province proposes to support qualified cross-border e-commerce enterprises and overseas warehouse enterprises to expand cross-border e-commerce business; provide policy support to foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises that serve more small and medium-sized enterprises; support Baoding Baigou to carry out market procurement Pilot trade, and guide more enterprises to file on the online information platform.

In addition, in the field of service trade, Hebei Province will arrange special funds to reward qualified offshore service outsourcing enterprises. Cultivate 5 high-quality development clusters of service trade and 5 service outsourcing demonstration cities in the province, and arrange special funds for service import discounts in key areas in pilot areas, statistical monitoring of service trade, and brand promotion.

Other policies to stabilize foreign trade include supporting the construction of the Tangshan used car export pilot program, promoting the Shijiazhuang International Land Port to increase the number of China-Europe trains, and accelerating the development of 24 national-level foreign trade bases and 81 provincial-level foreign trade bases.

II.          Favorable policies enhance foreign investment confidence in Hebei.

In the construction of a new development pattern, foreign-funded enterprises can play a unique role in "introducing external and internal linkages", and are an important medium for linking two resources in the two markets.

From January to March this year, the province's actual utilization of foreign capital was 3.22 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 15.7%, achieving a "good start" in the first quarter. However, due to unexpected factors at home and abroad, the pressure to stabilize foreign investment has become more prominent. Among the 16 policies to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment launched this time, there are 4 policies related to stabilizing foreign investment.

The full implementation of the foreign investment incentive policy is one of the important measures to stabilize foreign investment this time.

Hebei Province will arrange a fund of 100 million yuan, and reward qualified key foreign-funded enterprises according to the proportion of the foreign party's paid-in registered capital and the actual foreign investment that does not exceed 2%, with a maximum of 10 million yuan. In addition, for the overseas Fortune 500 and global industry-leading enterprises to set up foreign-funded R&D institutions and qualified manufacturing enterprises, strategic emerging industries, and industrial design enterprises, financial support will be provided based on "one enterprise, one discussion".

These measures will help enhance Hebei's attractiveness to foreign-funded enterprises, attract more overseas Fortune 500 and global industry leaders to settle in Hebei Province, and guide foreign capital to invest more in advanced manufacturing, strategic emerging industries, and modern service industries in Hebei.

III.        The stabilization of foreign commerce and foreign investment was aided by high-quality open platforms.

Foreign trade and foreign investment are important windows to observe the degree of openness of a region. Various opening-up platforms are the "bridgeheads" that carry the development of foreign-invested enterprises in foreign trade. To build a new system of a higher-level open economy and stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade and foreign investment, we must make great efforts to build a platform for opening up to the outside world.

The 16 policies launched this time to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment specifically propose to support the construction of open platforms.

Continuing to expand the high-level opening to the outside world, continuously improve the degree of economic export, and create new competitive advantages, the construction of pilot free trade zones is a key measure.

To this end, Hebei Province will promote the construction of the Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone with high standards, arrange funds to give differentiated rewards and subsidies to the four areas through a comprehensive evaluation method, and support the areas to carry out high-level institutional innovation, improve infrastructure, enhance public service capabilities and promote Industrial cultivation and development.

The Economic and Technological Development Zone has become an important platform and carrier for foreign trade and investment attraction in Hebei Province.

To give full play to the guiding and leading role of special financial funds and attract various elements to the Economic and Technological Development Zone, Hebei Province will increase efforts in the construction of new infrastructure, the construction of public service platforms, investment promotion, talent recruitment, and publicity and promotion. , to enhance the carrying capacity of the park project.

At the same time, the economic development zones that are ranked A in the annual comprehensive assessment and ranked high in the classification will be rewarded to encourage them to strive for excellence and give full play to the demonstration and driving role of advanced economic development zones; Rewards are given to spur and motivate the economic development zones that are at the bottom of the ranking to catch up and overtake and strive to form a strong atmosphere of competitive development and achieve upgrades. (Hebei Daily reporter Feng Yang)