Xu Kunlin, Governor of Jiangsu province, requested that all regions of the province must deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on Jiangsu’s work, effectively stabilize the basic situation of foreign trade, solidly promote innovative development of foreign trade, cultivate and strengthen new forms and models of cross-border e-commerce, and take practical actions to achieve a stable and positive foreign trade situation in the province. He made the remarks at a working conference on foreign trade and cross border e-commerce that was held Tuesday in Suzhou.
Xu Kunlin pointed out that foreign trade plays an important supporting role in stabilizing growth and employment, building a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development. Therefore, it is necessary to scientifically evaluate the current foreign trade situation, dialectically look at the current situation, take a long-term view, and step up efforts to promote the stable scale and optimal structure of foreign trade.
He requested all parts of the province to make every effort to stabilize orders and expand markets, give full play to the role of exhibitions as key channels, accelerate the exploration and innovation of business models, and promote the efficient operation and integrated development of domestic and foreign trade.
The governor requires all regions to make every effort to enhance the export growth of key industries, key enterprises, and electric manned vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells, focus on expanding import channels, and actively expand the import of advanced technology equipment, key components, and high-quality consumer goods.
Xu Kunlin also demanded all regions to actively stabilize the industrial chain supply chain, encourage qualified enterprises to actively make overseas presence, build an international production, marketing, and service network, boost the extension of the industrial chain and value chain in processing trade, and promote the extension and expansion of multinational corporations from production and assembly bases to functional institutions.
Xu Kunlin emphasized that the current transformation and upgrading of foreign trade is in a critical period, making it necessary to remain steadfast and unremitting in transforming methods and driving forces.
He requested all regions in the province to focus on improving the international competitiveness of industries, accelerating the development of high-end, intelligent, and green manufacturing, promoting the deep integration of advantageous industries into the global industrial chain, and supporting foreign trade enterprises to participate in the construction of modern industrial systems.
Xu Kunlin also requested efforts to increase investment in research and development innovation, model innovation, and management innovation, to form a group of large enterprises with cross-border business capabilities that allocate factor resources and layout market networks globally, and to enhance the comprehensive competitive advantage of foreign trade enterprises.
He instructed all regions to vigorously develop service trade and digital trade, deepen pilot projects for innovative development of service trade, lay out and build public service platforms for digital trade, promote the construction of the "single window" digital trade sector, deepen the reform and innovation of development zones, innovate the system of free trade pilot zones, innovate the functions of customs special supervision zones, and innovate the management of open ports, effectively enhancing the supporting role of open carriers.
In the meantime, the governor emphasized that cross-border e-commerce has become a new driving force for foreign trade development, a new channel for transformation and upgrading, and a new lever for high-quality development. Therefore, it is necessary to place cross-border e-commerce development in a more prominent position, give full play to the advantages of the digital economy, focus on cultivating cross-border e-commerce enterprises and independent brands, and promote more foreign trade enterprises to play a radiation and scale effect.
Xu Kunlin demanded the integration of the advantages of manufacturing and cross-border e-commerce, the development of a cross-border e-commerce+industrial belt model, the integration of upstream and downstream resources in the supply chain, the acceleration of the improvement of the international logistics service system, the enhancement of international freight capacity, the active layout of overseas warehouses and the enrichment of services, the creation of a good industrial development ecology, innovative financial support, optimization of talent cultivation, the promotion of high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce, and the formation of more new growth engines for foreign trade.
