State Office: Promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and domestic and foreign trade related industries

The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Several Measures for Accelerating the Integrated Development of Domestic and Foreign Trade", proposing 18 work measures in 5 aspects.

The first is to promote the convergence and integration of domestic and foreign trade rules and systems. Promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade standards, and continuously improve the conversion rate of international standards. Promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade inspection and certification, and deepen international cooperation in inspection, quarantine, certification and accreditation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade supervision, and promote the smooth flow of domestic and foreign trade resource elements. Promote the same line, same standard and same quality of domestic and foreign trade products, and encourage all parties to adopt the "three same" certification results.

The second is to promote the docking of domestic and foreign trade market channels. Support foreign trade enterprises to expand the domestic market, and organize and carry out a series of activities for domestic sales of foreign trade excellence. Support domestic trade enterprises to use cross-border e-commerce, market procurement trade and other ways to open up the international market. Give full play to the role of platform exchange and docking to promote the integration of domestic and international markets.

The third is to optimize the environment for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and carry out special actions to crack down on infringement and counterfeiting. Improve the domestic and foreign trade credit system, and promote the sharing and application of enterprise credit information. Improve the convenience of logistics, and accelerate the development of rail-water combined transport in coastal and inland ports. Strengthen the support of domestic and foreign trade talents, and build a talent exchange and docking platform for online and offline integration, domestic and foreign trade integration.

Fourth, accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade in key areas. Deepen the pilot project of domestic and foreign trade integration, and encourage the increase of reform and innovation related to the integration of domestic and foreign trade. Cultivate integrated domestic and foreign trade enterprises, support the core enterprises of the supply chain to drive upstream and downstream enterprises to explore the domestic and international markets. Cultivate industrial clusters for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, and improve the level of integrated development of foreign trade in the central and western regions. Accelerate the construction of domestic and foreign trade brands, and support domestic and foreign trade enterprises to cultivate their own brands.

Fifth, increase fiscal and financial support. Implement relevant financial support policies and actively support the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Give better play to the role of credit insurance, and increase the comprehensive support for the integration of domestic and foreign trade credit insurance in accordance with the principle of marketization. Increase financial support and strengthen the service capacity of financial institutions for domestic and foreign trade enterprises.

Several measures to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade

Accelerating the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade is an inherent requirement for building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development, which plays an important role in promoting economic development, expanding domestic demand, and stabilizing enterprises. In order to implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, the following measures are proposed.

1. Promote the convergence and integration of domestic and foreign trade rules and systems

(1) Promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade standards. Benchmark against the international advanced level, establish and improve the working mechanism for the tracking and transformation of international standards, transform a number of advanced and applicable international standards, and continuously improve the conversion rate of international standards. Strengthen the compilation of foreign language versions of standards in key areas such as bulk trade commodities, foreign contracted projects, intelligent networked vehicles, e-commerce, payment and settlement, increase publicity and promotion, and help enterprises reduce the institutional cost of market conversion. Improve the "Belt and Road" joint construction of national standards information platform, further play the role of the "Technical Guidelines for Export Commodities", and optimize domestic and international standard services. Promote the pilot work of national service industry standardization (special for commercial circulation) and strengthen standard innovation.

(2) Promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade inspection and certification. Improve the function of the information platform for trade facilitation of conformity assessment services. Encourage inspection, testing and certification bodies to provide "one-stop" services. Promote international cooperation with more countries on electronic certificates for inspection and quarantine. Deepen international cooperation on inspection, quarantine, certification and accreditation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Promote the docking of testing and certification rules and mutual trust and mutual recognition of results in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, and promote "Bay Area Certification". Encourage inspection and testing institutions that meet the qualification requirements to participate in the inspection and acceptance of import and export commodities, and expand the scope of acceptance of third-party inspection and testing results. Strengthen the policy publicity of the green channel for compulsory product certification for products from export to domestic sale.

(3) Promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade supervision. Efforts should be made to eliminate various forms of local protection and market segmentation, accelerate the construction of a unified national market, promote the smooth flow of domestic and foreign trade resource elements, and promote fair competition between domestic and foreign-funded enterprises. Explore and improve the emergency mechanism for ensuring the supply of shortage drugs, establish a relevant system for the emergency use of medical devices, and facilitate the rapid entry of drugs, medical devices and other commodities into the domestic market in the event of natural disasters, public health incidents and other emergencies. Simplify procedures for the import of edible and medicinal substances for food processing. Support the sale of imported exhibits with mature regulatory methods and strong domestic demand.

(4) Promote the same line, same standard and same quality of domestic and foreign trade products. Optimize the identification method of products with the same line, same standard and same quality (hereinafter referred to as "three sames"), encourage enterprises to make self-declarations or entrust third-party institutions to certify their products to meet the requirements of the "three sames", encourage all parties to adopt the results of the "three sames" certification, and strengthen the promotion of "three same" enterprises and product information.

2. Promote the docking of domestic and foreign trade market channels

(5) Support foreign trade enterprises to expand the domestic market. Organize and carry out a series of activities to expand domestic sales of foreign trade products, strengthen market docking and promotion, encourage centralized procurement, and support high-quality foreign trade products to enter e-commerce platforms, shopping malls and supermarkets, pedestrian streets in business districts, factory discount stores, and commodity trading markets.

(6) Support domestic trade enterprises to expand the international market. Strengthen the publicity and business training of new forms and models of foreign trade and related policies, and support domestic trade enterprises to explore the international market by means of cross-border e-commerce, market procurement and trade. Promote the high-quality implementation of RCEP and other free trade agreements, and expand the international development space of enterprises.

(7) Give full play to the role of platform communication and docking. Give full play to the role of exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo, the China Import and Export Fair, and the China International Fair for Trade in Services, cultivate a number of domestic and foreign trade integration exhibitions, and promote the docking of supply and procurement in the domestic and international markets. Cultivate a number of domestic and foreign trade integration commodity trading markets, improve domestic and international marketing networks, strengthen production services, logistics distribution, brand cultivation and other functions, and promote the integration of domestic and international markets. Promote the quality and upgrading of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones, and encourage domestic and foreign trade enterprises to use the cooperation zones as a platform to carry out transnational operations.

3. Optimize the environment for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade

(8) Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights. Intensify the protection of trademark rights and patent rights of foreign trade enterprises, and carry out special actions to crack down on infringement and counterfeiting, focusing on clothing, shoes and hats, home furnishings, household appliances, etc. Implement e-commerce platforms' responsibility to review the qualifications and commodities of online operators, improve systems for handling complaints and reports, and promptly correct and stop online infringements.

(9) Improve the credit system for domestic and foreign trade. Give play to the role of the national credit information sharing platform, promote the sharing and application of enterprise credit information, and help enterprises obtain more credit support. Domestic and foreign trade enterprises are encouraged to use credit tools such as credit reports, insurance, and factoring to prevent market sales risks. Promote e-commerce platforms, industrial agglomeration areas, and so forth to carry out pilot projects for the establishment of a credit system, creating a credit environment conducive to the smooth flow of domestic and international markets.

(10) Enhance the convenience of logistics. Strengthen cross-border transportation cooperation with overseas ports, and encourage shipping enterprises to expand the scope of cross-border transportation of domestic and foreign trade goods based on market-oriented principles. Accelerate the development of rail-water combined transport in coastal and inland ports, and expand the scope of domestic and international routes and transportation services in major ports. Support eligible enterprises to carry out domestic and foreign trade container transportation on the same ship, and implement the two-way operation mode of import and export of domestic and branch lines of container foreign trade. Accelerate the construction of cross-border logistics infrastructure, and support the construction of global and regional international postal express hubs in key cities.

(11) Strengthen the support of domestic and foreign trade talents. Strengthen the construction of majors related to the integration of domestic and foreign trade, release a number of teaching standards, and create a number of core courses, high-quality teaching materials and practical projects. Support the development of domestic and foreign trade practice and skills training, and build a talent exchange and docking platform for online and offline integration, domestic and foreign trade integration.

Fourth, accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade in key areas

(12) Deepen the pilot project of domestic and foreign trade integration. Give the pilot areas greater autonomy in reform and innovation, accelerate the docking of international high-standard economic and trade rules, promote the convergence of domestic and foreign trade rules and systems, and replicate and promote a number of innovative experiences and typical cases. We should give better play to the demonstration and leading role of open platforms such as pilot free trade zones, state-level new zones, state-level economic and technological development zones, and comprehensive bonded zones, and encourage the intensification of reform and innovation related to the integration of domestic and foreign trade.

(13) Cultivate domestic and foreign trade integration enterprises. Cultivate a group of leading enterprises with international competitiveness and equal emphasis on domestic and foreign trade, enhance the ability of global resource integration and allocation, and support the core enterprises of the supply chain to drive upstream and downstream enterprises to develop domestic and international markets together. We will build a high-quality development base for agricultural international trade, and cultivate and expand agricultural enterprises that integrate domestic and foreign trade. Support Taiwan-funded enterprises to expand the mainland market, and support Hong Kong and Macao enterprises to expand the mainland market. We will increase assistance and relief for enterprises affected by unreasonable foreign trade restrictions, and support their integrated operation of domestic and foreign trade.

(14) Cultivate industrial clusters for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Cultivate and expand a number of industrial clusters for the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade in key areas. Promote the construction of commercial science and technology innovation centers, and promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and domestic and foreign trade related industries. Promote the development of the "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt" model, and drive more traditional industries to go to sea. Guide the gradient transfer of industries to the central and western regions and the northeast region, improve the level of integrated development of foreign trade in the central and western regions and other regions, and support the characteristic industries in the border areas to better connect the domestic and international markets.

(15) Accelerate the construction of domestic and foreign trade brands. Implement the "Thousands of Enterprises and Hundred Cities" trademark brand value enhancement action, promote the construction of national quality brand promotion demonstration zones, support the development of regional brands, and develop green, organic, geographical indications and public brands of famous and excellent new agricultural products. Support domestic and foreign trade enterprises to cultivate their own brands, encourage foreign trade OEM enterprises to cooperate with domestic brands, support circulation enterprises and platform enterprises to develop their own brands, and carry out brand cooperation with manufacturing enterprises. Encourage the development of reverse customization (C2M). Cultivate a number of discount stores of Chinese characteristic brand manufacturers. Build a new consumer brand incubation base to enhance the vitality of brand incubation and innovation in the field of domestic and foreign trade. Intensify the overseas publicity of Chinese brands and encourage time-honored brands to enter the international market. Cultivate demonstration enterprises with intellectual property advantages, support enterprises to give full play to the combination effect of patents, trademarks and other types of intellectual property rights, and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of brands.

Fifth, increase the intensity of fiscal and financial support

(16) Implement relevant financial support policies. On the premise of complying with WTO rules, we should make good use of the existing central and local financial funding channels, such as special funds for foreign economic and trade development, and actively support the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Local governments are allowed to issue special bonds to support the construction of logistics infrastructure such as national logistics hubs that meet the conditions of investment fields and projects, and smooth the distribution and transportation of domestic and foreign trade commodities.

(17) Give better play to the role of credit insurance. Strengthen the coordination of export credit insurance and domestic trade credit insurance, increase comprehensive support for integrated credit insurance for domestic and foreign trade in accordance with the principle of marketization, and optimize the conditions for underwriting and claims settlement. Insurance institutions are encouraged to carry out domestic trade credit insurance business, and promote insurance establishments to increase the underwriting capacity of domestic trade credit insurance through forms such as co-insurance and reinsurance under the premise of compliance with laws and regulations. Encourage qualified localities to support domestic and foreign trade integration enterprises in a market-oriented manner to purchase domestic trade credit insurance.

(18) Increase financial support. Make full use of the national integrated financing and credit service platform network and the national industry-finance cooperation platform to strengthen the service capacity of financial institutions for domestic and foreign trade enterprises. Under the premise of compliance with laws and regulations, financial institutions are encouraged to rely on accounts receivable, inventory, warehouse receipts, orders, insurance policies, etc. to provide financial products and services, and standardize the development of supply chain finance. Promote pilot policies for cross-border financing facilitation. Expand the scope of the pilot project of the bank settlement account system that integrates domestic and foreign currencies. Support more qualified payment institutions and banks to provide foreign exchange settlement services for new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce.

All localities and relevant departments should take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party, resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, actively promote the implementation of various policies and measures in accordance with the division of labor, break through the key blocking points that hinder the integration of domestic and foreign trade, help enterprises smoothly switch between domestic and international markets, and strive to achieve substantive breakthroughs as soon as possible. The local people's governments should improve the working mechanism, optimize public services, introduce supporting policies according to local conditions, and vigorously promote the integrated development of foreign trade in their local areas. The Ministry of Commerce, in conjunction with relevant departments, should closely track and analyze changes in the situation, give full play to the role of relevant work coordination mechanisms, strengthen coordination and supervision, ensure that various policies and measures are in place, and promptly summarize and promote good experiences and good practices in various localities.