Under the New Situation, Strive to Promote Stable Growth and Quality Improvement in Foreign Trade

Against the backdrop of a complex and volatile global economy with increasing uncertainty, stabilizing foreign trade can not only address short-term economic fluctuations but also enhance the resilience of China’s economic development and its international competitiveness. The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held on April 25 this year clearly stated that it is necessary to adhere to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, unswervingly expand high-standard opening up, and make every effort to stabilize employment, stabilize enterprises, stabilize markets, and stabilize expectations, using the certainty of high-quality development to counter the sharp uncertainty of changes in the external environment. [1]1 The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee is the highest leading body of the Chinese Communist Party when the Central Committee is not in session. Its meetings set the policy direction for the country. Faced with the current complex and severe external environment and internal structural adjustment pressures, stabilizing the fundamentals of foreign trade, intensifying policy efforts to stabilize foreign trade, and resolving risks through proactive action are inevitable requirements for expanding China’s high-standard opening up and advancing the building of a strong trading nation.

在全球经济复杂多变、不确定性增多的背景下，稳外贸不仅可以应对短期经济波动，还能增强我国经济发展韧性、提升国际竞争力。今年4月25日召开的中央政治局会议明确指出，要坚持稳中求进工作总基调，坚定不移扩大高水平对外开放，着力稳就业、稳企业、稳市场、稳预期，以高质量发展的确定性应对外部环境急剧变化的不确定性。面对当前复杂严峻的外部环境和内部结构调整压力，稳住外贸基本盘，加大稳外贸政策力度，通过主动作为，化解风险，是扩大我国高水平对外开放、推动贸易强国建设的必然要求。

I. The Realistic Background for Promoting Stable Growth and Quality Improvement in Foreign Trade Development

一、促进外贸发展稳量提质的现实背景

Currently, China’s foreign trade is facing a new situation where external environmental uncertainty and internal structural changes are intertwined. External environmental changes, such as the sluggish global economic recovery and the rise of protectionism, have increased the uncertainty of China’s foreign trade development, while China is in a critical period of accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and striving to promote high-quality development. Against this backdrop, stabilizing foreign trade has strong practical significance. Under the current complex international and domestic situation, directly confronting various uncertain factors and actively promoting the stabilization of foreign trade means stabilizing the confidence and expectations for China’s economic development. Actively promoting stable growth and quality improvement in foreign trade is not only necessary for responding to changes in the complex external environment but can also inject vitality into China’s economic development, prompting China to actively integrate into the restructuring of global industrial and supply chains.

当前，我国外贸正面临着外部环境不确定性和内部结构性变化交织的新形势。全球经济复苏乏力、保护主义抬头等外部环境变化增大了我国外贸发展的不确定性，而我国正处在加快构建新发展格局，着力推动高质量发展的关键时期。在此背景下，稳外贸具有很强的现实意义。在当前复杂的国际国内形势下，直面各种不确定因素积极推进稳外贸，就是稳定我国经济发展的信心和预期。积极促进外贸发展稳量提质，既是应对复杂外部环境变化的需要，又可以为我国经济发展注入活力，促使我国积极融入全球产业链供应链重构。

The need to respond to changes in the complex external environment. On the one hand, the current sluggish global economic recovery is an important factor affecting China’s foreign trade development. On May 15 this year, the United Nations’ “World Economic Situation and Prospects as of Mid-2025” report projected that global economic growth would slow to 2.4% in 2025, down from 2.9% in 2024. [2]2 The United Nations report “World Economic Situation and Prospects as of Mid-2025” is a regular UN publication providing forecasts and analysis of global economic trends. The downward trend in the economy has led to a contraction in global market demand, exerting continuous pressure on China’s exports. On the other hand, the complex and volatile tariff policies of the United States have impacted the stability of China’s foreign trade and posed challenges to the stability of global supply chains. Slowing economic growth prompts countries to adopt protectionist measures to protect domestic industries and employment, and these protectionist measures further weaken the momentum of global economic growth by increasing costs and other means, obstructing the international economic cycle. Therefore, the complex external environment impacts the stability of global industrial and supply chains, and China’s foreign trade development faces a severe situation, urgently requiring the use of a policy toolkit for stabilizing foreign trade to cope with external environmental uncertainty.

应对复杂外部环境变化的需要。一方面，当前全球经济复苏乏力是影响我国对外贸易发展的重要因素。今年5月15日，联合国发布的《2025年全球经济形势与前景年中更新》报告预计，2025年全球经济增长将放缓至2.4%，低于2024年的2.9%。经济下行趋势带来全球市场需求萎缩，对我国出口构成持续压力。另一方面，美国关税政策复杂多变，冲击了我国外贸稳定性，并对全球供应链稳定性构成挑战。经济增长放缓促使各国采取保护主义措施以保护国内产业和就业，而这些保护主义措施又通过增加成本等方式，进一步削弱全球经济增长的动力，对国际经济循环造成阻碍。因此，复杂的外部环境冲击全球产业链供应链稳定，我国对外贸易发展面临严峻形势，亟需通过稳外贸政策工具箱应对外部环境不确定性。

The need to achieve high-standard opening up and high-quality development. In 2024, China’s foreign trade achieved both reasonable quantitative growth and effective qualitative improvement. In 2024, the total value of China’s goods trade imports and exports reached 43.85 trillion yuan, further consolidating its position as the world’s largest goods trading nation; the import and export structure was continuously optimized, with high-tech, high-value-added, and green-transformation-leading products such as the “new three” [3]3 “New three” (新三样) refers to China’s new export growth drivers: electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells, replacing the traditional “old three” (clothing, furniture, and home appliances). in foreign trade goods leading exports, demonstrating strong resilience in foreign trade imports and exports, laying the foundation for achieving stable growth and quality improvement in foreign trade; China’s super-large market provides more opportunities for global goods, and the supporting factors for promoting high-quality development in foreign trade remain stable. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC pointed out: “Opening up is a distinctive hallmark of Chinese-path modernization. We must adhere to the basic state policy of opening up to the outside world, persist in promoting reform through opening up, rely on the advantages of China’s super-large market, enhance our capacity for opening up while expanding international cooperation, and build a new system for a higher-standard open economy.” [4]4 The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in July 2024, focusing on comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-path modernization. Stabilizing foreign trade is a prerequisite for achieving high-standard opening up; the optimization of trade structure, improvement of quality, and enhancement of resilience can provide a solid foundation and stable expectations for high-standard opening up. Stabilizing foreign trade can also serve as a medium for the domestic and international dual circulation, promoting the optimization and upgrading of the domestic industrial structure and fostering high-quality development.

实现高水平对外开放和高质量发展的需要。2024年我国外贸实现既有量的合理增长，又有质的有效提升。2024 年我国货物贸易进出口总值达到43.85万亿元，货物贸易第一大国的地位更加稳固；进出口结构不断优化，外贸商品“新三样”等高技术、高附加值、引领绿色转型的产品领跑出口，外贸进出口展现出较强韧性，为实现外贸稳量提质打下了基础；中国超大规模市场为全球商品提供了更多机遇，当前推动外贸高质量发展的支撑因素依然稳固。党的二十届三中全会指出：“开放是中国式现代化的鲜明标识。必须坚持对外开放基本国策，坚持以开放促改革，依托我国超大规模市场优势，在扩大国际合作中提升开放能力，建设更高水平开放型经济新体制。”稳外贸是实现高水平对外开放的先行条件，贸易结构的优化、质量的提升和韧性的增强可以为高水平对外开放提供坚实的基础和稳定的预期。稳外贸还能作为国内国际双循环的媒介推动国内产业结构优化升级，促进高质量发展。

The need to maintain the stability of industrial and supply chains and enhance international competitiveness. Currently, global industrial and supply chains are undergoing profound adjustments, with clear trends toward regionalization and shortening of chains. Western countries are attempting to restructure supply chain systems oriented toward geopolitics, weakening China’s core position in global supply chains. Some developing countries, leveraging their low-cost advantages, are actively undertaking industrial transfers, posing severe challenges to China’s traditional status as the “world’s factory” and its cost-based competitive advantages. Geopolitical conflicts have increased the possibility of disruptions to global supply chains, posing potential threats to the security of China’s industrial and supply chains. Against this backdrop, unswervingly expanding high-standard opening up and persisting in stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment can enable China to continue deeply embedding itself in global industrial and supply chains, enhance its initiative in the restructuring of global supply chains, and improve its position in the global value chain by encouraging innovation, technological upgrading, and the development of new business forms, thereby securing a more favorable position in the global division of labor.

维护产业链供应链稳定和提升国际竞争力的需要。目前全球产业链供应链正经历深刻调整，区域化、短链化趋势明显，西方国家正在试图重构以地缘政治为导向的供应链体系，削弱我国在全球供应链中的核心地位，一些发展中国家凭借低成本优势积极承接产业转移，对我国“世界工厂”的传统地位和以成本为基础的竞争优势带来严峻挑战。地缘政治冲突加剧了全球供应链中断的可能性，对我国产业链供应链安全构成潜在威胁。在此背景下，坚定不移扩大高水平对外开放，坚持稳外贸稳外资可以使我国继续深度嵌入全球产业链供应链，增强我国在全球供应链重构中的主动权，通过鼓励创新、技术升级和新业态发展提升我国在全球价值链中的地位，使我国在全球经济分工中占据更有利的位置。

II. Key Focus Areas for Promoting Stable Growth and Quality Improvement in Foreign Trade

二、促进外贸稳量提质的发力重点

The Central Economic Work Conference in 2024 emphasized that to do a good job in economic work in 2025, it is necessary to adhere to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability. [5]5 The Central Economic Work Conference is an annual high-level meeting of the CPC and the State Council that sets the economic policy agenda for the following year. The key focus of stabilizing foreign trade revolves precisely around pursuing progress while ensuring stability. Stabilizing foreign trade first requires stabilizing the fundamentals of foreign trade amid changes in the complex external environment, using the policy toolkit to address the practical difficulties faced in China’s foreign trade development, and promoting steady growth in China’s foreign trade through coordinated policy efforts. On the basis of “stability,” it is necessary to further cultivate new drivers for China’s foreign trade development, improve the quality of foreign trade development, promote the optimization and upgrading of China’s industries, and expand high-standard opening up. The long-term goal of stabilizing foreign trade is to build a more balanced and diversified international market, actively align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, and participate in the multilateral trading system. This is an important guarantee for China to respond to changes in the external environment and enhance the resilience of foreign trade, as well as an institutional guarantee for the successful implementation of stabilizing foreign trade.

2024年中央经济工作会议强调，做好2025年经济工作，要坚持稳中求进工作总基调。稳外贸的发力重点正是围绕稳中求进展开。稳外贸首先要在复杂外部环境变化下稳定外贸基本盘，利用政策工具箱解决我国外贸发展中面临的切实困难，通过政策协同发力促进我国外贸稳步增长。在“稳”的基础上进一步培育我国外贸发展新动能，提升外贸发展质量，促进我国产业优化升级，扩大高水平对外开放。稳外贸的长期目标是构建更加均衡、多元的国际市场，积极对接国际高标准经贸规则，参与多边贸易体制，这是我国应对外部环境变化、提升外贸韧性的重要保障，也是稳外贸能够成功进行的制度保障。

Using the policy toolkit to stabilize the fundamentals of China’s foreign trade. High-standard opening up is an inevitable choice for accelerating Chinese-path modernization and is also key to consolidating and enhancing the positive trend of economic recovery. [6]6 Chinese-path modernization (中国式现代化) is a core concept of Xi Jinping Thought, describing China’s development model as distinct from Western modernization, characterized by features such as common prosperity and harmony with nature. Currently, China’s foreign trade faces increased impacts from external shocks. The primary goal of China’s policy to stabilize foreign trade is to stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade, effectively offsetting external adverse factors through the application of a series of policy tools to ensure the stability of trade scale and the resilience of economic development. It is necessary to further expand high-standard opening up, ensure that policies can directly reach enterprises and the public, improve implementation efficiency, help enterprises overcome difficulties, and enhance their international competitiveness. In response to the difficulties currently faced by foreign trade enterprises, effective measures to stabilize foreign trade should be introduced, providing precise and effective assistance to foreign trade enterprises, and using the policy toolkit to offer timely relief measures. Actively expand diversified markets, seize opportunities from international cooperation platforms such as high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, and deepen economic and trade cooperation with countries and regions along the routes. [7]7 The Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) is a global infrastructure and economic cooperation strategy launched by China in 2013. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) is a free trade agreement among Asia-Pacific nations that entered into force in 2022. It is also possible to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade; some foreign trade enterprises that have been significantly impacted may need to rely on the domestic market for absorption in the short term.

利用政策工具箱稳定我国外贸基本盘。高水平对外开放是加快推进中国式现代化的必然选择，也是巩固和增强经济回升向好态势的关键。当前我国外贸面临外部冲击影响加大，我国稳外贸政策的首要目标是稳定外贸基本盘，通过运用一系列政策工具有效对冲外部不利因素，确保贸易规模稳定和经济发展韧性。要进一步扩大高水平对外开放，确保政策能够直达企业和群众，提高落地效率，帮助企业克服困难，增强其国际竞争力。针对当前外贸企业面临的困难出台有效的稳外贸举措，精准有效帮扶外贸企业，使用政策工具箱提供及时的纾困措施。积极拓展多元化市场，把握高质量共建“一带一路”、《区域全面经济伙伴关系协定》等国际合作平台的机遇，深化与沿线国家和地区经贸合作。还可以加快内外贸一体化发展，部分受冲击较大的外贸企业，短期内需要依靠国内市场加以消化。

Deepen the reform of the foreign trade system to promote a leap in the quality of China’s foreign trade. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC [8]8 The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC, held in July 2024, is a major Party meeting that typically focuses on economic reform and development strategy. pointed out that we should “deepen the reform of the foreign trade system.” We must strengthen the coordination of trade policies with fiscal, financial, and industrial policies, and build a system of institutional support and policy backing for a strong trading nation. Policies to stabilize foreign trade should not only focus on the steady expansion of scale but also on a leap in quality, enhancing the competitiveness of China’s foreign trade in the world market. The traditional “world factory” model is facing challenges; China’s economy needs to transition to a higher-quality, more sustainable development model, which requires continuing to deepen the reform of the foreign trade system. One of the key levers for stabilizing foreign trade is to continuously enhance foreign trade competitiveness, promoting China’s position in the global value chain through technological innovation and brand leadership. Stabilizing foreign trade must be achieved within the process of dynamic industrial structure upgrading, selectively cultivating advantageous industries, and enhancing the influence of “Made in China.” In addition, cultivating new drivers of foreign trade and enriching the forms of foreign trade can reduce transaction costs, broaden market channels, form new competitive advantages, transform external pressure into new momentum for foreign trade growth, and use new momentum to expand new space for trade increments. Service trade is a potential source for China’s future export expansion, while green trade and digital trade are important directions for adapting to global development trends and cultivating new competitive advantages. By developing these emerging trade forms, we can build a more sustainable and competitive new pattern of foreign trade, thereby promoting high-quality development of China’s economy.

深化外贸体制改革，促进我国外贸质量跃升。党的二十届三中全会中指出，“深化外贸体制改革”。强化贸易政策和财税、金融、产业政策协同，打造贸易强国制度支撑和政策支持体系。稳外贸政策不仅要关注规模稳步扩张，还应该关注质量跃升，提升我国外贸在世界市场上的竞争力。传统的“世界工厂”模式面临挑战，我国经济需要向更高质量、更可持续的发展模式转型，这需要继续深化外贸体制改革。稳外贸的重要抓手之一是不断提升外贸竞争力，通过技术创新和品牌引领促进我国在全球价值链中地位提升。稳外贸要做到在动态产业结构升级中完成，有选择性地培育优势产业，提升“中国制造”的影响力。另外，培育外贸新动能，丰富外贸形式可以降低交易成本，拓宽市场渠道，形成新的竞争优势，将外部压力转换为外贸增长的新动能，以新动能拓展贸易增量新空间。服务贸易是中国未来扩大出口的一个潜力源，绿色贸易和数字贸易则是顺应全球发展趋势、培育新竞争优势的重要方向。通过发展这些新兴贸易业态，构建更加可持续、更具竞争力的外贸新格局，进而推动我国经济高质量发展。

Align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, and participate in the multilateral trading system. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “We should more actively align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, steadily expand institutional opening-up in rules, regulations, management, and standards, accelerate the creation of new heights for opening up, and build a new system for a higher-level open economy.” [9]9 This is a direct quote from a speech by Xi Jinping, often cited in policy documents to emphasize the direction of opening up. We should firmly uphold the multilateral trading system, actively participate in international organizations and multilateral conferences, promote the formulation and implementation of multilateral trade rules, open markets to reduce trade barriers, achieve optimal allocation of resources, and actively participate in negotiations on new issues such as digital trade, actively aligning with the formulation of trade rules in emerging fields like digital trade. In the long term, we should actively promote institutional opening-up, deeply integrate into the reconstruction of the global rule system, enhance China’s international status and voice in the reconstruction of the global rule system, thereby responding to changes in the external environment and creating a more stable and predictable international rule environment for the development of China’s foreign trade.

对接高标准国际经贸规则，参与多边贸易体制。习近平总书记指出，“要更加主动对接高标准国际经贸规则，稳步扩大规则、规制、管理、标准等制度型开放，加快打造对外开放新高地，建设更高水平开放型经济新体制”。我们应坚定维护多边贸易体制，积极参与国际组织和多边会议，推动多边贸易规则的制定和执行，开放市场降低贸易壁垒，实现资源优化配置，并积极参与数字贸易等新议题谈判，积极对接数字贸易等新兴领域贸易规则制定。长期来看，要积极推进制度型开放，深度融入全球规则体系重构，提升我国在全球规则体系重构中的国际地位和话语权，以此应对外部环境的变化，为我国外贸发展创造更稳定、更可预期的国际规则环境。

III. Policy Measures and Actions to Promote Stable Growth and Quality Improvement in Foreign Trade

三、促进外贸稳量提质的对策举措

Based on the key focus areas for promoting stable growth and quality improvement in foreign trade, and starting from the practical problems faced by foreign trade enterprises, we should establish a policy coordination mechanism for stabilizing foreign trade, increase financial support, expand diversified markets, promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, improve the competitiveness of foreign trade products, and innovate new forms of foreign trade business, thereby promoting the stable growth and quality improvement of China’s foreign trade.

根据促进外贸稳量提质的发力重点，从外贸企业面临的实际问题出发建立稳外贸政策协同机制、加大金融支持力度、拓展多元化市场、促进内外贸一体化发展、提高外贸产品竞争力、创新外贸新业态等方式入手，促进我国外贸稳量提质。

Establish a policy coordination mechanism for stabilizing foreign trade to stabilize market expectations. Strengthen trade remedies, help foreign trade enterprises stabilize orders, remove blockages and choke points, optimize the business environment, improve trade facilitation, promote “single window” digital services, optimize the efficiency of customs clearance for the entire import and export chain, reduce the operating costs of foreign trade enterprises, and provide enterprises with export tax rebate policy support and special fund support. Local governments can maintain close contact with foreign trade enterprises, determine industry relief “whitelists,” and provide precise services to business entities significantly impacted by tariff shocks. Accelerate the improvement of risk prevention and control mechanisms and overseas interest protection mechanisms, improve the comprehensive overseas service system, and enhance China’s ability to cope with global supply chain adjustments and market fluctuations. Strengthen expectation management, collect the policy needs of foreign trade enterprises and introduce corresponding policies to boost market confidence. According to changes in the situation, combine solving current prominent problems with promoting high-quality trade development, continuously enrich the policy toolbox for stabilizing foreign trade, promptly introduce new incremental policy measures, strengthen the coordination between the implementation of policies to stabilize foreign trade and the guidance of market expectations, strengthen policy publicity, interpretation, and market interaction, and guide the formation of stable market expectations.

建立稳外贸政策协同机制，稳定市场预期。加强贸易救济，帮助外贸企业稳订单，打通堵点和卡点，优化营商环境，提高贸易便利化水平，推广“单一窗口”数字化服务，优化进出口全链条货物通关效率，降低外贸企业的运营成本，给予企业出口退税政策扶持以及专项资金支持。地方政府可以与外贸企业保持密切联系，确定行业纾困“白名单”，对受关税冲击影响较大的经营主体提供精准服务。加快完善风险防控和海外利益保障机制，完善海外综合服务体系，增强我国应对全球供应链调整和市场波动的能力。加强预期管理，收集外贸企业政策需求并推出相应政策，提振市场信心。根据形势变化，把解决当前突出问题和推动贸易高质量发展结合起来，持续丰富稳外贸政策工具箱，适时推出新的增量政策措施，加强稳外贸政策实施和市场预期引导协同，加强政策宣传解读与市场互动，引导形成稳定的市场预期。

Increase financial support and innovate policy-based financial instruments. Optimize the regulatory policies for export credit insurance, optimize regulatory assessments, expand the scope of country coverage, improve underwriting capacity, provide preferential premium rates, implement rapid claims and advance payments, and stabilize enterprises’ confidence in order-taking and exports. Policy-based financial institutions can introduce new types of policy-based financial instruments to provide targeted support to foreign trade enterprises. Promote banks to accelerate the implementation of various policies to stabilize foreign trade, extend the financing coordination working mechanism to all foreign trade enterprises, focus on the risk hedging mechanisms for small and micro foreign trade enterprises, increase credit support guarantees for foreign trade enterprises, innovate forms of support for foreign trade enterprises, and formulate characteristic financial service plans on a “one enterprise, one policy” basis. Increase support for new forms of foreign trade business, improve cross-border financial services, strengthen financial supply in the field of cross-border e-commerce settlement, and help enterprises improve their level of exchange rate risk management.

加大金融支持力度，创新政策性金融工具。优化出口信用保险监管政策，优化监管考核，扩大国别承保范围，提高承保能力，提供优惠费率，实施快赔预赔，稳定企业接单和出口信心。政策性金融机构可以推出新型政策性金融工具，定向支持外贸企业。推动银行加快落实各项稳外贸政策，将融资协调工作机制扩展至全部外贸企业，重点关注小微外贸企业避险机制，增加对外贸企业的授信支持保障，创新对外贸企业支持形式，“一企一策”制定特色金融服务方案。增加对外贸新业态的支持力度，完善跨境金融服务，在跨境电商结算领域加强金融供给，帮助企业提升汇率风险管理水平。

Promote the diversification of trade markets and reduce dependence on a single market. Deepen economic and trade cooperation with regions such as ASEAN, the European Union, Africa, and Latin America, reduce dependence on a single market, focus on the structural increments of emerging markets, further develop markets in countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, continuously improve the quality of export products, and build export brands. By actively supporting enterprises to participate in internationally renowned exhibitions, increasing support for holding international exhibitions, and providing more public information services for foreign trade enterprises, provide services for enterprises to explore markets, help enterprises contact more diversified customers and understand the policies of other trading partner countries, and assist trade development. Expand the functions of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones and develop intermediate goods trade. By innovating the working model of government leadership, enterprise going global, and platform empowerment, gradually help enterprises break free from dependence on a single market and expand more global market alternatives.

促进贸易市场多元化，降低对单一市场依赖。深化与东盟、欧盟、非洲、拉丁美洲等地区的经贸合作，降低对单一市场的依赖，重点关注新兴市场的结构性增量，进一步发展共建“一带一路”国家和地区的市场，不断提升出口产品质量，打造出口品牌。通过积极支持企业参加国际知名展会，加大国际展会举办支持力度和为外贸企业提供更多公共信息服务等方式，为企业开拓市场提供服务，帮助企业接触更多元的客户并了解其他贸易伙伴国家政策，助力贸易发展。拓展境外经贸合作区功能，发展中间品贸易。通过创新政府主导、企业出海、平台赋能的工作模式来逐步帮助企业摆脱单一市场的依赖，拓展更多的全球市场替代。

Accelerate the reform for the integration of domestic and foreign trade, and assist foreign trade enterprises in exploring the domestic sales market. Strengthen the alignment of rules, unify standards for domestic and foreign trade, and build a unified national market. The government increases financial fund investment, financial institutions increase credit support, insurance institutions increase domestic trade insurance support, promote the reduction or exemption of rent, exhibition fees, and traffic fees for enterprises in difficulty, use the dual-wheel drive of “policies + activities” to help enterprises overcome difficulties such as market segmentation and standard differences, reduce the domestic sales costs of foreign trade enterprises, and build a platform for exporting to domestic sales. Encourage retail, e-commerce, and other channel enterprises and supply chain enterprises to open green channels, support foreign trade enterprises in selling to domestic consumers, and help enterprises that export to domestic sales expand the large domestic market.

加快内外贸一体化改革，助力外贸企业开拓内销市场。加强规则衔接，统一内外贸标准，建设全国统一大市场。政府增加财政资金投入，金融机构增加信贷支持，保险机构增加内贸险支持，推动减免困难企业的房屋租金、展位费、流量费，通过“政策+活动”双轮驱动，帮助企业克服市场分割、标准差异等难题，降低外贸企业内销成本，搭建出口转内销的平台。鼓励零售、电商等渠道企业及供应链企业开通绿色通道，支持外贸企业向国内消费者销售，帮扶出口转内销企业拓展国内大市场。

Promote technological innovation and brand building to enhance the competitiveness of foreign trade products. Continuously increase the technological content and added value of foreign trade products, promote the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, promote the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and shape new global competitive advantages. Actively promote the brand building of Chinese enterprises, enhance brand awareness and premium capacity, enhance the recognition of Chinese foreign trade enterprise brands among global consumers, enhance the competitiveness of advantageous export products, and stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade. Expand intermediate goods trade, leverage China’s advantages of complete industrial categories and advanced manufacturing technology, attract more intermediate goods to be designed and manufactured in China, stabilize the industrial chain and supply chain of key enterprises, deeply integrate into the global supply chain network, and ensure the security of the industrial chain and supply chain. Actively align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, give full play to the role of pilot free trade zones, and continuously release the potential of service trade development. Promote the innovative development of service trade, enhance the competitiveness of traditional advantageous services, encourage service exports, expand imports of high-quality services, implement a negative list for cross-border service trade, initiate the construction of demonstration zones for innovative development of service trade, make multi-point efforts in areas such as developing digital services and “bonded + services,” and promote the integrated development of goods trade, service trade, and digital trade.

推动技术创新和品牌塑造，提升外贸产品竞争力。不断提升外贸产品的技术含量和附加值，促进对外贸易转型升级，推动科技创新与产业创新融合，塑造全球竞争新优势。积极推进我国企业品牌建设，提升品牌知名度和溢价能力，提升全球消费者对我国外贸企业品牌认可度，提升优势出口产品竞争力，稳住外贸基本盘。扩大中间品贸易，发挥我国产业门类齐全和制造业技术先进的优势，吸引更多中间品在我国设计制造，稳定重点企业产业链供应链，深度融入全球供应链网络，确保产业链供应链安全。主动对接高标准国际经贸规则，发挥好自由贸易试验区作用，持续释放服务贸易发展潜力。推动服务贸易创新发展，提升传统优势服务竞争力，鼓励服务出口，扩大优质服务进口，实施跨境服务贸易负面清单，启动服务贸易创新发展示范区建设，在发展数字服务、“保税+服务”等领域多点发力，推动货物贸易、服务贸易、数字贸易融合发展。

Innovate new forms of foreign trade, and promote the integrated development of cross-border e-commerce. Improve the relevant policy support system, strengthen guidance and support for enterprises engaged in new forms of foreign trade, and vigorously promote the development of new foreign trade forms such as cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses, offshore trade, and green trade. Advance the construction of overseas smart logistics platforms, encourage overseas enterprises to integrate domestic and international resources, extend services to the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, and promote the integrated development of market procurement with cross-border e-commerce and comprehensive foreign trade services. Accelerate digital innovation, focus on the needs of cross-border e-commerce to provide one-stop comprehensive services, and research and introduce more supportive measures around improving customs clearance efficiency, optimizing tax collection and management, and perfecting financial services, so as to build a full-chain cross-border e-commerce ecosystem. Establish digital empowerment centers for industrial belts, build regional trade digital platforms, and further promote and regulate the development and growth of the cross-border e-commerce industry. In their overseas production capacity layout, Chinese enterprises can utilize technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to promote digital connectivity, raise the digital level of production and supply chains, and rationally arrange overseas business based on market demand and policy environment.

创新外贸新业态，促进跨境电商融合发展。完善相关政策支持体系，加强对外贸新业态企业的引导和扶持，大力促进跨境电商、海外仓、离岸贸易、绿色贸易等外贸新业态发展。推进海外智慧物流平台建设，鼓励海外企业整合国内外资源，向供应链上下游延伸服务，推动市场采购与跨境电商、外贸综合服务实现融合发展。加快数字创新，聚焦跨境电商需求提供一站式综合服务，围绕提高通关效率、优化税收征管、完善金融服务等方面研究出台更多支持举措，打造全链条跨境电商生态。建设产业带数字化赋能中心，搭建区域性贸易数字化平台，进一步促进和规范跨境电商产业发展壮大。中国企业在海外产能布局方面可以利用大数据、云计算、人工智能等技术，推动数字互联互通，提升产供链数字化水平，根据市场需求和政策环境，合理布局海外业务。

Online editor: Jing Mu

网络编辑：静穆