China’s Foreign Trade

China’s Foreign Trade
(December 2011)
People’s Republic of China (PRC) the State Council press office

Catalogue

  Foreword
  I. Historical progress of China’s foreign trade
  Second, the reform and improvement of China’s foreign trade system
  Third, the contribution of China’s foreign trade development to the world
  Fourth, promote the basic balanced growth of foreign trade
  V. Building all-round mutually beneficial cooperative economic and trade relations
  VI. Realizing the Sustainable Development of Foreign Trade
  Concluding remarks

  Foreword
  Peace, development and cooperation are the trends of the world today. Since the reform and opening-up, China has followed the trend of economic globalization, continuously opened wider to the outside world, and actively carried out economic and trade cooperation with other countries on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. After years of development, foreign trade has become one of the most active and fastest growing parts of China’s economy, and China has also become one of the top trading countries in the world. The development of China’s foreign trade has closely linked China with the world, which has strongly promoted the modernization of China and the prosperity and progress of the world.
  China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. In the past 10 years, the integration of China’s economy into the global economy has been accelerated, and the vitality of China’s foreign trade has been further enhanced. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, the China government issued a white paper, giving a systematic introduction to China’s foreign trade.
  I. Historical progress of China’s foreign trade
  After the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, it insisted on independence and self-reliance and gradually carried out foreign economic and trade exchanges. However, due to factors such as the international political environment and the domestic planned economic system at that time, the development of foreign trade was relatively slow.
  In 1978, China entered a new period of reform and opening up. Vigorously developing foreign trade has become an important way for China to speed up modernization, change its backward appearance, promote economic development and improve its comprehensive national strength. Over the past 30 years, China has taken advantage of the long-term prosperity of the world economy and the in-depth development of economic globalization to open wider to the outside world, attract foreign investment, introduce advanced technology, transform and upgrade domestic industries, and realize the leap-forward development of foreign trade in full participation in international division of labor and competition.
  -The total volume of trade in goods ranks among the top in the world. In 1978, the total import and export volume of goods in China was only US$ 20.6 billion, ranking 32nd in the world trade in goods, accounting for less than 1%. In 2010, the total import and export volume of goods in China reached US$ 2,974 billion, 143 times higher than that in 1978, with an average annual growth rate of 16.8%. Among them, the total export value was US$ 1,577.8 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 17.2%; The total import volume was US$ 1,396.2 billion, with an average annual increase of 16.4%. China’s total exports and imports accounted for 10.4% and 9.1% of the world’s goods exports and imports, respectively, and became the world’s largest exporter and second importer of goods for two consecutive years.

  -The trade structure of goods has undergone fundamental changes. China’s export commodity structure changed from primary products to manufactured goods in 1980s, and from textile products to electromechanical products in 1990s. Since the beginning of the new century, the export proportion of high-tech products represented by electronics and information technology has been expanding. In addition to state-owned enterprises, foreign trade business entities also include foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises, whose total import and export volume has now exceeded that of state-owned enterprises. From 1980s to the beginning of this century, China’s processing trade developed vigorously, accounting for half of its foreign trade. In the development of China’s foreign trade, foreign-invested enterprises and processing trade have played a very important role.

  -forming an all-round and diversified import and export market pattern. After the reform and opening up, China has developed its foreign trade in all directions and established trade relations with most countries and regions in the world. Trading partners have grown from dozens of countries and regions in 1978 to 231 countries and regions at present. The European Union, the United States, ASEAN, Japan and BRICS countries have become China’s main trading partners. Since the new century, China’s trade with emerging markets and developing countries has been growing rapidly. From 2005 to 2010, the proportion of goods trade between China and ASEAN increased from 9.2% to 9.8% in China, from 4.9% to 6.9% in other BRICS countries, and from 3.5% and 2.8% to 6.2% and 4.3% in Latin America and Africa respectively.

  -The international competitiveness of service trade has been continuously enhanced. After joining the World Trade Organization, China’s service trade has entered a new stage of development, with rapid expansion of scale, gradual optimization of structure and ranking among the top in the world. The service trade in tourism, transportation and other fields is growing steadily, and the cross-border services and service outsourcing in the fields of construction, communication, insurance, finance, computer and information services, exclusive rights use fees and franchise fees, consulting and so on are growing rapidly. From 2001 to 2010, China’s total service trade (excluding government services) increased from $71.9 billion to $362.4 billion, an increase of more than four times. The proportion of China’s service trade exports in the world’s service trade exports increased from 2.4% to 4.6%, reaching $170.2 billion in 2010, rising from 12th to 4th in the world. The proportion of service trade imports increased from 2.6% to 5.5%, reaching $192.2 billion in 2010, rising from the 10th place in the world to the 3rd place.

  The development of foreign trade has strongly promoted the modernization of China, and China has grown into an open economy. Participating in international division of labor and competition, introducing advanced technology, equipment and management, and utilizing foreign direct investment have greatly promoted China’s technological progress and industrial upgrading, and improved its management level and market competitiveness. The rapid development of processing trade has brought into play the comparative advantage of abundant labor force in China and accelerated the process of industrialization and urbanization in China. Foreign trade directly drives more than 80 million employed people, of which more than 60% are from rural areas, and the income and life of employed people have been significantly improved. Together with domestic investment and consumption, foreign trade has become the three engines of China’s economic growth.

  The historical progress of China’s foreign trade is closely related to the development and changes of the international and domestic situation. Around 1980s, peace and development became the theme of the times. With the continuous advancement of economic globalization, the flow and allocation of capital, technology, products, markets, resources, labor and other factors in the world are more active. Scientific and technological progress led by information and communication has greatly improved production efficiency, and international industrial transfer has been deepened and developed. Economic globalization, scientific and technological progress, international industrial transfer and strengthening cooperation among countries have provided historic opportunities for China to integrate into the world economy. Following the trend of the times, focusing on economic construction, the government of China carried out reform and opening up, developed economic and technological cooperation with other countries, actively utilized foreign capital reasonably and effectively, and gave full play to its comparative advantages, which promoted the deepening of the division of labor in the international industrial chain and created favorable conditions for the development of foreign trade. In this process, foreign enterprises, especially multinational companies from developed countries, have gained a lot of investment opportunities in China, and their capital, technology, management experience and sales channels have increased in value, sharing the fruits of China’s rapid economic growth. The development of China’s foreign trade benefits from the reform and opening-up, from economic globalization, and from adhering to the road of mutual benefit, cooperation and win-win. The development of China cannot be separated from the world, and the prosperity and stability of the world cannot be separated from China.
  China is still a developing country. Compared with the world’s trade powers, China’s export industry is still at the low end of the global industrial chain, and the input of resources, energy and other factors and environmental costs are still relatively high, and the international competitiveness of enterprises and the anti-risk ability of some industries are relatively weak. It will be a long-term process to realize the transformation from a big trading country to a powerful trading country, and hard work is still needed.
  Second, the reform and improvement of China’s foreign trade system
  Before the reform and opening-up, China implemented mandatory planned management of foreign trade and the state was solely responsible for profits and losses. Since the reform and opening-up, China’s foreign trade system has undergone a transformation from mandatory planned management to giving full play to the basic role of market mechanism, from highly monopolized management rights to full liberalization, and from enterprises to independent management and self-financing. In the process of China’s negotiations to regain its status as a contracting party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and join the World Trade Organization, after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, China’s foreign trade system gradually integrated with international trade rules and established a unified, open and multilateral foreign trade system.
  In the early days of reform and opening up, the reform of China’s foreign trade system was mainly to reform the single planned management system, decentralize foreign trade management and operation rights, implement the foreign exchange retention system and establish a foreign exchange swap market. The absorption of foreign direct investment has enabled foreign-invested enterprises to enter the foreign trade field as new business entities, breaking the monopoly of state-owned foreign trade enterprises. Since then, China has implemented the contract system for foreign trade operations, and gradually replaced mandatory plans with guiding plans. According to the general rules of international trade, the export tax rebate system has been established. In October 1992, China clearly put forward the reform goal of establishing a socialist market economic system. According to this goal, the financial, taxation, finance, foreign trade and foreign exchange systems have been comprehensively reformed. In January, 1994, China government cancelled all financial subsidies for export, and the import and export enterprises became completely self-financing. The official exchange rate of RMB is merged with the market swap rate, and a single and managed floating exchange rate system based on market supply and demand is implemented. In the field of foreign trade management, enterprises have been privatized and the import and export agency system has been piloted. In the same year, the Foreign Trade Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) was officially promulgated and implemented, which established the principles of maintaining a fair and free foreign trade order and laid the basic legal system for foreign trade. In December 1996, China realized the convertibility of RMB under current account. At the same time, China has on many occasions significantly reduced tariffs and reduced non-tariff measures such as quotas and licenses. These reforms have enabled China to initially establish a market-based economy,Foreign trade management system and regulation system that give full play to economic leverage such as exchange rate, tax, tariff and finance.
  On December 11th, 2001, after 16 years of negotiations, China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization. According to the commitment of joining the World Trade Organization, China has opened wider to the outside world in the fields of industry, agriculture and service industry, and accelerated trade liberalization and trade and investment facilitation. In the process of fulfilling its commitments, China has deepened the reform of foreign trade system, improved the system of foreign trade laws and regulations, reduced trade barriers and administrative intervention, straightened out the government’s responsibilities in foreign trade management, promoted government behavior to be more open, fair and transparent, and pushed the open economy into a new stage of development.
  -accelerating the legalization of foreign economic relations and trade. After joining the World Trade Organization, China concentrated on cleaning up more than 2,300 laws, regulations and departmental rules. Those that do not conform to the rules of the World Trade Organization and China’s commitment to join the World Trade Organization shall be abolished or revised respectively. The newly revised laws and regulations have reduced and standardized the administrative licensing procedures, and established and improved the legal system of trade promotion and trade remedy. According to the Agreement on Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights of the World Trade Organization, China has revised the laws, regulations and judicial interpretations related to intellectual property rights, and basically formed a complete system of laws and regulations for the protection of intellectual property rights, which conforms to China’s national conditions and international practices.
  -further reducing tariffs and cutting non-tariff measures. During the transition period of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, the general tariff level of China’s imported goods gradually decreased from 15.3% in 2001 to 9.9% in 2005. By January 2005, most of China’s tariff reduction commitments had been implemented. According to the commitment, since January, 2005, China has completely abolished the import quotas, import licenses, special tenders and other non-tariff measures for 424 tariff lines, and only retained the license management of products subject to import control according to international conventions and the rules of the World Trade Organization to ensure life safety and protect the environment. In 2010, the general tariff level in China has dropped to 9.8%, of which the average tax rate of agricultural products has dropped to 15.2% and the average tax rate of industrial products has dropped to 8.9%. The tariff binding rate has been maintained at 100% since 2005.
  -Fully liberalize the right to operate foreign trade. According to the newly revised Foreign Trade Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 2004, since July, 2004, the China government has changed the foreign trade management right of enterprises from the examination and approval system to the filing and registration system, and all foreign trade operators can engage in foreign trade according to law. The cancellation of the examination and approval of foreign trade management rights has promoted the formation of diversified foreign trade management patterns of state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises. While the import and export of state-owned enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises continue to grow, the foreign trade of private enterprises has developed rapidly, and the market share of import and export has continued to expand, becoming an important business entity of foreign trade. In 2010, the import and export of state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises accounted for 20.9%, 53.8% and 25.3% of China’s total import and export respectively.
  -Further opening up the service market. China has earnestly fulfilled its commitment to join the World Trade Organization, providing overseas service providers with a wide range of market access opportunities, including finance, telecommunications, construction, distribution, logistics, tourism and education. Among the 160 branches of the World Trade Organization’s service trade classification, China has opened 100 branches, and the scope of opening is close to the average level of developed countries. In 2010, 13,905 foreign-invested enterprises were newly established in China’s service industry, and the actual utilization of foreign capital was US$ 48.7 billion, accounting for 50.7% of newly established foreign-invested enterprises and 46.1% of the actual utilization of foreign capital in the non-financial sector.
  -Create a fairer market competition environment. By establishing and perfecting the legal system of fair trade and the law enforcement and supervision mechanisms, China has curbed and cracked down on unfair trade practices such as infringement, dumping, smuggling and disrupting market order in foreign trade operations, and strived to provide a relaxed, fair and stable market environment for domestic and foreign enterprises. In accordance with domestic laws and international trade rules, China government has strengthened early warning and monitoring, and at the same time, it has taken measures such as trade remedy and anti-monopoly investigation to correct unfair trade behaviors of trading partners and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of domestic industries and enterprises. In response to the international financial crisis, China, together with the international community, resolutely opposes any form of trade protectionism, strictly abides by the relevant provisions of the World Trade Organization, treats domestic and foreign products equally when implementing the economic stimulus plan, and promotes fair competition between domestic and foreign enterprises.
  By 2010, China had fulfilled all its commitments to join the World Trade Organization. China’s practical actions of earnestly fulfilling its commitments have been affirmed by most members of the World Trade Organization. In 2006, 2008 and 2010, the government of China accepted three trade policy reviews of the World Trade Organization. The basic principles of non-discrimination, transparency and fair competition advocated by the World Trade Organization have been integrated into the laws, regulations and relevant systems of China. Market awareness, openness awareness, fair competition awareness, the spirit of the rule of law and the concept of intellectual property rights are more deeply rooted in China, which has promoted the further opening of China’s economy and the further improvement of the market economic system.
  Third, the contribution of China’s foreign trade development to the world
  The development of China’s foreign trade not only promoted the modernization of China’s economy and the promotion of its comprehensive national strength, but also improved the living standards of more than 1.3 billion China people, and made China’s economy a part of the world economy, which promoted the development of economic globalization in a direction conducive to the common prosperity of all countries and regions in the world.
  Reform and opening up and active participation in economic globalization have made China one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In recent 10 years, China, together with other emerging economies, has become an increasingly important force to promote world economic growth. According to the data of the World Bank, China’s GDP in 2010 increased by 4.6 trillion US dollars compared with that in 2001, accounting for 14.7% of the increase of the world economy in the same period. China’s GDP accounted for 9.3% of the world economy. According to the data of the World Trade Organization, from 2000 to 2009, the average annual growth rate of China’s export volume and import volume was 17% and 15% respectively, which was much higher than the average annual growth rate of 3% of the world trade volume in the same period.
  China’s foreign trade took the lead in stabilizing during the international financial crisis, which promoted the global economic recovery. After the outbreak of the international financial crisis in 2008, the China government adopted a series of policies and measures to stimulate the economy, expand domestic demand and stabilize the scale of import and export. In 2009, the world’s imports of goods decreased by 12.8%, while China’s imports increased by 2.9%, making it the only country among the world’s major economies to maintain growth. The China factor has supported the exports of many crisis-hit countries, stimulated the demand of global commodity markets, boosted people’s confidence, and played a huge role in promoting the recovery and growth of the world economy. During the third trade policy review of China, the World Trade Organization pointed out that during the financial crisis, China played a constructive role in stimulating global demand and made important contributions to world economic stability.
  The development of China’s foreign trade has improved the national welfare of China and its trading partners. With the accelerated integration into the world division of labor system, China has gradually developed into a major producer and exporter of industrial products in the world, relying on its labor cost advantage, strong industrial support and processing and manufacturing capabilities, and constantly improving labor productivity, providing inexpensive goods for countries and regions around the world and meeting various demands in the international market. China’s advantages of scale economy and processing cost in the global manufacturing sector partially digested the price increase of upstream production factors, and played a role in curbing global inflation and improving the actual purchasing power of consumers in trading partners.
  The development of China’s foreign trade provides a broad market for its trading partners. Since 2001, China’s total import of goods has increased by about five times, with an average annual growth rate of about 20%. China’s rapidly expanding imports have become an important driving force for world economic growth, creating a huge market space for its trading partners to expand their exports. At present, China is the largest export market of Japan, South Korea, Australia, ASEAN, Brazil, South Africa and other countries, the second largest export market of the European Union, and the third largest export market of the United States and India. China’s industrialization and urbanization are advancing rapidly, and domestic demand continues to grow. The expanding and opening market will provide more and more development opportunities for trading partners.
  China is one of the developing countries that have opened their markets to the least developed countries to the greatest extent. As of July 2010, China has implemented zero import tariff on more than 4,700 items of goods originating from 36 least developed countries with diplomatic relations, accounting for about 60% of all tariff items. China has promised to continue to expand the scope of preferential treatment to the least developed countries that have established diplomatic relations, so that the goods subject to zero tariff will reach 97% of all tariff items. Zero tariff measures have promoted the exports of the least developed countries to China. Since 2008, China has been the largest export market for the least developed countries. In 2010, China’s total imports of goods from the least developed countries increased by 58% over the previous year, accounting for about a quarter of the total exports of these countries.
  China has fully participated in and promoted the reform of global economic governance mechanism. China government actively advocates "balance, mutual benefit and win-win" as the goal of multilateral trading system reform, and strives to promote the establishment of a fair and just new international economic and trade order. As a rapidly growing developing country, China has actively participated in international dialogue and cooperation mechanisms such as the G20 summit, the BRICS leaders’ meeting, and the Doha Round negotiations, and strived to assume international responsibilities commensurate with its own development level and national strength. China has continuously strengthened cooperation with emerging countries in the fields of economy, finance, trade and investment, and promoted the development of the international economic order in a just, rational and win-win direction.
  China strictly fulfills its international obligations on export control. China has always advocated the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of all weapons of mass destruction and resolutely opposed the proliferation of such weapons and their means of delivery. The relevant laws of China clearly stipulate that necessary restrictions shall be taken on the import and export of fission and fusion substances or goods and technologies derived from such substances, as well as the import and export related to weapons, ammunition or other military materials. China has earnestly abided by international conventions on export control, fulfilled its non-proliferation commitments and made active efforts for international peace and regional stability. In recent years, the government of China has widely adopted internationally accepted norms and practices, and formed a complete export control system covering sensitive items and technologies such as nuclear, biological, chemical and missiles, which has provided a legal basis and institutional guarantee for better realizing the non-proliferation goal.
  Fourth, promote the basic balanced growth of foreign trade
  Whether a country’s foreign trade is surplus or deficit is mainly determined by its economic structure and the international competitiveness of its products or services. China does not deliberately pursue a surplus in foreign trade. China’s service trade has been in a certain deficit for a long time. China’s trade in goods was in deficit for most years before 1990. After 1990, with the large-scale undertaking of international industrial transfer, the competitiveness of manufactured goods increased, and the growth rate of exports exceeded that of imports, and China’s trade in goods changed from an overall deficit to an overall surplus. In 2005, China’s trade surplus of goods exceeded 100 billion dollars for the first time, and rose sharply for four years. In 2008, China’s trade surplus in goods reached an all-time high of $298.1 billion, and then gradually narrowed. In 2009 and 2010, the trade surplus of goods in China was US$ 195.7 billion and US$ 181.6 billion, respectively, down by 34.4% and 7.2% compared with the previous year. In 2010, the trade surplus of goods in China accounted for 6.1% of the total import and export volume and 3.1% of the GDP. Among the nine countries with the largest global trade balance (surplus or deficit), these two ratios of China are not on the high side.

  China’s trade surplus in goods reflects China’s position in international division of labor at the present stage. At present, China has great advantages in the processing and assembly of manufactured goods, and is the largest producer and exporter of industrial products. The United States and the European Union are the most important end consumer markets. As a large number of labor-intensive processing and assembly links have been transferred from Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, China to China, the original surplus of these countries and regions to the United States and Europe has also been transferred to China. As a result, at present, China’s trade surplus of goods mainly exists between China-US trade and China-EU trade, while China has a long-term trade deficit with major producers of industrial intermediate products such as Japan, South Korea and ASEAN. In 2010, China’s trade surplus with the United States and the European Union was US$ 181.3 billion and US$ 142.8 billion respectively, while its trade deficit with Japan, South Korea and ASEAN totaled US$ 141.6 billion. Chinese mainland’s trade deficit with Taiwan Province was $86 billion. China needs to import a large number of primary products to produce and export manufactured goods, so its trade with some primary product exporting countries is in deficit. It is precisely at this stage that China’s manufacturing industry and service industry have different levels and positions in international division of labor, so China’s trade in goods has a large surplus, while the trade in services has a long-term deficit.

  China’s trade surplus in goods mainly comes from foreign-invested enterprises and processing trade. In the process of deepening economic globalization, due to the refinement of division of labor and the requirements of economies of scale, more and more international trade is dominated by multinational companies, which is intra-industry trade or processing trade based on the division of labor in the value chain. Since the reform and opening up, China’s absorption of foreign direct investment has increased rapidly. For a long time, the proportion of import and export of foreign-invested enterprises and processing trade mainly operated by foreign-invested enterprises in China’s goods trade has remained at about 50%. Import and export and processing trade of foreign-invested enterprises are the main sources of China’s trade surplus in goods. In 2009 and 2010, the trade surplus of goods of foreign-invested enterprises was US$ 127 billion and US$ 124.3 billion respectively, accounting for 64.8% and 68.4% of the total trade surplus of goods in China in the same period, and the processing trade surplus was as high as US$ 264.6 billion and US$ 322.9 billion respectively, which was much higher than that of China in the same period. While foreign-invested enterprises have a large surplus in import and export and processing trade, state-owned enterprises have a deficit in import and export, general trade and other trade methods.
  The restrictions imposed by developed countries on some high-tech trade also affect the trade balance between China and some trading partners. China is in the period of accelerated industrialization, and it has great import demand for advanced equipment and high technology from developed countries. However, some developed countries still adhere to the old thinking and set many restrictions on the export of high-end equipment and high-tech products to China, resulting in a slow growth in the export of their related products to China. This has hindered China’s imports from these countries to some extent, which is not conducive to the balance of bilateral trade.
  China’s trade in goods changed from deficit to surplus, which improved China’s balance of payments and strengthened China’s ability to resist external risks. However, the sharp expansion of the surplus has also brought troubles to China’s economy. A large amount of RMB for export settlement has increased the difficulty and complexity of macroeconomic regulation and control. The sharp expansion of the trade surplus of goods has also increased the friction between China and some trading partners, which has exerted a sustained and greater appreciation pressure on the RMB.
  China government attaches great importance to the imbalance in the development of foreign trade and has adopted a series of policies and measures to curb the excessive growth of surplus. First, actively adjust the economic structure, strive to expand domestic demand, especially increase investment in improving people’s livelihood and stimulate residents’ consumption growth. Second, introduce a series of import expansion policies, simplify import management and import payment procedures, reduce the provisional import tax rate of some commodities, improve the import promotion system, and improve the degree of import facilitation. Third, adjust the export tax rebate policy, and successively reduce or cancel the export tax rebate for some commodities with high energy consumption, high pollution and resource. Fourth, modify the catalogue of prohibited and restricted categories of processing trade, expand the scope of prohibited categories, and promote the transformation and upgrading of processing trade. Fifth, to change the situation that the fluctuation range of RMB against the US dollar has narrowed since the Asian financial crisis, a managed floating exchange rate system based on market supply and demand with reference to a basket of currencies will be implemented from July 21, 2005. From the reform of exchange rate mechanism in July 2005 to the end of August 2011, the nominal exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar appreciated by about 30%.
  China’s measures to promote the balanced growth of foreign trade have achieved remarkable results. The trade surplus of goods has been decreasing continuously since 2009, and the ratio of the surplus to the total value of imports and exports and the gross domestic product has gradually decreased since 2008, and foreign trade is tending to balance. China’s efforts are not only the needs of China’s own economic development, but also the concrete actions to promote the structural adjustment and rebalancing of the world economy.
  V. Building all-round mutually beneficial cooperative economic and trade relations
  China’s foreign trade is all-round development. China insists on developing pragmatic cooperation and mutually beneficial and win-win economic and trade relations with all trading partners, regardless of size, wealth.
  The trade between China and developed countries has been growing steadily, achieving complementary advantages and mutual benefit. Trade between China and EU has developed steadily in recent years. EU exports to China are mainly manufactured goods, among which machinery, electronic products, transport vehicles, complete sets of equipment, core components and precision components with advanced technology are quite competitive in China market. The trade between China and the United States has a solid foundation for development. China exported a variety of consumer goods to meet the needs of American consumers, and at the same time, it continuously expanded its imports of electronics, aviation, biology, medicine, agricultural products and services from the United States, which also met the needs of China’s own development. The trade between China and Japan has the advantage of geographical proximity. Sino-Japanese trade has promoted the continuous cooperation and progress of the industries of the two countries, and also promoted the in-depth development of regional economic division and cooperation in East Asia. China’s trade and investment cooperation with developed countries such as Canada, Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand have maintained a good momentum of development.
  China’s trade with emerging markets and developing countries is growing strongly, with great development potential. In 2010, the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement was fully implemented, and 90% of the goods achieved zero tariffs, which effectively promoted the rapid growth of bilateral trade between China and ASEAN. China and ASEAN’s own unique and competitive goods freely enter each other’s markets, which meets the needs of both sides. The trade between China and South Korea has maintained sustained and steady growth, and the fields of mutual investment and economic cooperation between the two countries are very broad. The rapid growth of trade between China and other BRICS countries in recent years has promoted the strong development of their respective advantageous industries, showing that emerging economic markets have broad development prospects. In recent years, China’s trade with other developing countries has also increased at a relatively fast speed. The long-standing trade with Arab countries has been further developed, and the fields of economic and trade cooperation with Latin American countries have been continuously expanded. The trade with African countries has given full play to the complementary advantages of their resource conditions and economic structure, and promoted their respective development.
  China attaches great importance to the institutionalization of bilateral and regional economic and trade cooperation. At present, more than 150 countries and regions have signed bilateral trade agreements or economic cooperation agreements with China. China has established and maintained high-level economic dialogue mechanisms with major economies such as the United States, Europe, Japan, Britain and Russia. China actively participates in regional and sub-regional economic cooperation mechanisms such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the ASEAN-China-Japan-ROK (10+3) Leaders’ Meeting, the East Asia Summit, the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation, the Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation and the Great Tumen Initiative. China adheres to the policy of "being a good neighbor and partner" and establishes and develops various forms of border economic and trade cooperation with neighboring countries and regions.
  China actively participates in and promotes the process of regional economic integration. By the end of 2010, China had negotiated 15 FTAs or CEPAs with 28 countries and regions on five continents, and signed and implemented 10 FTAs or CEPAs. There are five ongoing negotiations on free trade agreements. China proposes to establish East Asia Free Trade Area. In 2010, China’s bilateral trade in goods with 10 partners of free trade agreements or close economic partnership arrangements (ASEAN, Pakistan, Chile, Singapore, New Zealand, Peru, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, China, Macao, China, Taiwan, China) reached 782.6 billion US dollars, more than a quarter of China’s total import and export.
  China has deeply participated in and promoted the Doha Round negotiations of the World Trade Organization, and strived to safeguard the authority of the multilateral trading system. China stressed that the negotiations should be conducive to the implementation of the principles of fairness and justice in the multilateral trading system, and reflect the Doha Round as the goal of the development round. China fully participated in the Doha Round negotiations on agriculture, non-agricultural products, services and rules, and submitted more than 40 negotiating texts independently, and more than 100 jointly with other members. In order to push forward the Doha Round negotiations, China has repeatedly expressed its willingness to make constructive contributions to the negotiations, which are commensurate with its own level of development.
  When resolving disputes with trading partners, China takes into account the interests of all parties and seeks common ground while reserving differences. Since joining the World Trade Organization, with the continuous growth of import and export, disputes and frictions between China and its trading partners have increased. The products involved are mainly textiles, shoes, tires, auto parts, steel and chemical products, and the controversial issues mainly involve intellectual property rights, trade balance, fair trade, food safety, environmental protection and other fields. China has always believed that dialogue is better than confrontation and cooperation is better than pressure, and efforts should be made to resolve disputes among trading partners through consultation and negotiation. China insists on giving consideration to and balancing the interests of all parties. Within the rules and system of the World Trade Organization, it uses multilateral and bilateral channels to resolve disputes through dialogue, consultation and negotiation. In recent years, China has taken many measures in expanding market opening, protecting intellectual property rights, promoting trade balance, reforming the RMB exchange rate formation mechanism, and regulating the import and export operation order, fully taking care of the concerns of trading partners. In the case that negotiation fails to resolve disputes, China has properly handled trade disputes with its trading partners through the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization, thus maintaining the stability of the multilateral trading system.
  VI. Realizing the Sustainable Development of Foreign Trade
  At present, there are still unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable problems in China’s foreign trade development, which are highlighted as follows: export growth mainly depends on the input and consumption of resources, energy, land, labor and environment, and the input of science and technology, management and innovation is insufficient, and the contradiction between foreign trade development and resource and energy supply and environmental carrying capacity is increasingly prominent; The competitiveness of enterprises in R&D, design, marketing and service is not strong, and the proportion of self-owned intellectual property rights and self-owned brand export products is not large; The contribution of foreign trade development to the three industries is not balanced enough; The scale and level of foreign trade in the central and western regions are still relatively backward; The quality and efficiency of foreign trade growth need to be further improved. China government is clearly aware of these problems and takes active measures to accelerate the transformation of foreign trade development mode and realize the sustainable development of foreign trade.
  Strive to cultivate the comprehensive competitive advantage of foreign trade development. Faced with the rising labor costs, the sharp rise in the prices of production factors such as resources and energy, and the weakening of the traditional low-cost advantages of export industries in recent years, the China government has put forward the strategic goal of transforming foreign trade from extensive development to intensive development. During the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-2010), the China Municipal Government adjusted the import and export tax policy, implemented the strategy of rejuvenating trade through science and technology, market diversification and winning by quality, carried out the pilot project of transformation and upgrading of processing trade, improved the financing and insurance services for import and export enterprises, promoted enterprises to accelerate technological progress and product structure optimization, and enhanced the comprehensive competitive advantage of foreign trade. Most import and export enterprises have withstood the impact of the international financial crisis, and import and export trade has achieved rapid recovery after the crisis. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period (2011-2015), China will strive to maintain its existing export competitive advantage, accelerate the cultivation of new advantages centered on technology, brand, quality and service, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, extend the value-added chain of processing trade, and improve the competitiveness and added value of enterprises and products. Vigorously develop trade in services and promote the coordinated development of trade in goods and services. Continue to open the service industry to the outside world, promote the development of service outsourcing, and strive to expand the export of emerging services. Finance and taxation, financial insurance, foreign exchange management, customs clearance, inspection and quarantine, logistics and transportation will further improve and implement relevant national policies, speed up trade and investment facilitation, and strive to promote the stable and healthy development of foreign trade.
  Accelerate energy conservation and emission reduction in the development of foreign trade. As early as 1994, the government of China formulated and published China’s Agenda for the 21st Century-China’s White Paper on Population, Environment and Development in the 21st Century, which incorporated energy conservation and emission reduction into national economic and social development goals. Both the Eleventh Five-Year Plan and the Twelfth Five-Year Plan regard reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission intensity as binding indicators. Since 2004, China has repeatedly lowered or even cancelled export tax rebates for some high energy consumption, high pollution and resource commodities, banned and restricted the processing trade of some such products, and encouraged import and export enterprises to keep up with international advanced environmental protection standards. In recent years, the proportion of "two high-tech and one capital" commodities in China’s export commodities has dropped sharply, and the export of new energy and energy-saving and environmental protection products has increased substantially. Most import and export production enterprises that have reached a certain scale have obtained ISO14000 and other standards related to environmental protection. China will strive to adjust the economic structure and industrial structure, accelerate the application of advanced energy-saving and environmental protection technologies, and promote the more coordinated development of foreign trade, resource conservation and environmental protection.
  Strengthen trade-related intellectual property protection. Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights is not only the need for China to fulfill its international obligations, but also the inherent requirement for transforming the mode of economic development and building an innovative country. Over the years, the government of China has done a lot of work in intellectual property protection, and achieved remarkable results in legislation, law enforcement, publicity, training and raising the awareness of intellectual property protection in the whole society. In 2008, China formulated the Outline of National Intellectual Property Strategy, which promoted the protection of intellectual property to the height of national strategy. From 2006 to 2011, China promulgated the China Action Plan for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights for six consecutive years, and implemented more than 1,000 specific measures in many fields, including legislation, law enforcement, education and training, cultural propaganda and foreign exchange. In 2010, the number of international patent applications filed by China through the Patent Cooperation Treaty reached 12,295, an increase of 55.6% over 2009, ranking first among countries in terms of growth rate, and ranking fourth in the world from fifth. At present, strengthening the protection of trade-related intellectual property rights is a common challenge for all countries in the world, and strengthening dialogue and cooperation has become the trend of intellectual property protection in the world. Under the relevant international conventions and respective legal frameworks, the Government of China will strengthen intellectual property exchange and cooperation with countries and regions around the world, and jointly promote the healthy development of intellectual property.
  Improve the quality and safety requirements of export commodities. On the whole, the quality of China’s export commodities is constantly improving, which is welcomed and recognized by consumers all over the world. In 2009 and 2010, there were 11.032 million batches and 13.054 million batches of China’s export goods inspected and quarantined by entry-exit inspection and quarantine institutions, and the unqualified rates were 0.15% and 0.14% respectively. The export value was US$ 429.27 billion and US$ 552.18 billion respectively, and the unqualified rate was 0.12% and 0.13% respectively. In 2010, China exported 127,000 batches of food to the United States, with a qualified rate of 99.53%; 138,000 batches of food were exported to the EU, with a qualified rate of 99.78%. According to the statistical report on the monitoring of imported food in the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan, in 2010, food imported from China was sampled at a high rate of 20%, and the qualified rate of sampling inspection was 99.74%, which was higher than that of food imported from the United States and the European Union in the same period. However, there are still a few enterprises in China that ignore the quality and safety of goods in order to reduce costs, and some foreign importers do not pay attention to quality and integrity, depress commodity prices and even directly instruct China producers to use unqualified raw materials. These actions have damaged the reputation of "Made in China". In view of these problems, the China Municipal Government has continuously improved the laws and regulations on commodity quality and safety in recent years, strengthened supervision in all aspects, and severely punished a few enterprises that violate laws and regulations and cause quality problems. In March 2011, China launched the "Year of Improving the Quality of Foreign Trade Commodities".We will further improve the licensing, certification and supervision mechanism for the quality and safety of foreign trade commodities, and improve the efficiency of ensuring the quality and safety of export commodities.
  Enhance the sense of social responsibility of import and export enterprises. With the continuous expansion of opening to the outside world, more and more enterprises in China realize that they need to bear corresponding social responsibilities while growing. This is not only conducive to social harmony and progress, but also conducive to improving the competitiveness and sustainable development capacity of enterprises. Governments at all levels in China are promoting enterprises to improve their sense of social responsibility, respect labor rights, safeguard consumers’ rights and protect the ecological environment by advocating the concept of Scientific Outlook on Development and harmonious society. At the same time, China government encourages enterprises to accept relevant social responsibility standards in import and export trade, and strive to obtain necessary social responsibility certification. Since the implementation of the new Labor Contract Law and its implementing regulations in 2008, import and export enterprises have generally established a system of "five insurances and one fund" (pension insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work injury insurance, maternity insurance and housing provident fund). China government regards enhancing corporate social responsibility as an important task to promote the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade. In the future, it will strengthen the publicity and training of corporate social responsibility, establish and improve the integrity management system of import and export enterprises, improve the supervision of corporate social responsibility by the whole society, carry out international cooperation in the cultivation and management of corporate social responsibility, and promote the import and export enterprises to continuously improve their level of social responsibility.
  Promote international cooperation in strategic emerging industries. Developing strategic emerging industries is of great significance to the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade and sustainable development. After more than 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s comprehensive national strength has been significantly enhanced, the level of science and technology has been continuously improved, the industrial system has been gradually improved, and the development of strategic emerging industries has laid a solid foundation. However, compared with developed countries, emerging industries in China are still in the initial stage of development. After the international financial crisis in 2008, all major economies in the world are accelerating the development of emerging industries. China regards the development of strategic emerging industries as an important task of industrial revitalization. In order to promote the development of key areas, while giving play to the basic role of the market in allocating resources, the China Municipal Government has strengthened policy guidance, standardized the market order, improved the investment environment and encouraged enterprises to improve their technological innovation capabilities. China’s basic policy of supporting the development of strategic emerging industries conforms to international trade rules, and it is willing to strengthen exchanges with other countries in scientific research, technological development and capacity building, and make joint efforts to create a new situation of international cooperation and development of emerging industries.
  Concluding remarks
  At present, the deep-seated impact of the international financial crisis is still emerging, and the long-term, arduous and complex nature of the world economic recovery is more prominent, and the global economic structure and trade pattern are facing profound adjustments. China’s foreign trade will also undergo new adjustments, and strive to realize the transformation from scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement, from relying mainly on low-cost advantages to enhancing comprehensive competitive advantages, and from a big trading country to a powerful trading country.
  The development of China’s foreign trade is still restricted by many uncertain factors and will encounter new difficulties and pressures. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, China will further expand its opening-up, promote reform, development and innovation through opening-up, strive to give full play to its own advantages, strengthen all-round international cooperation, and integrate into the world economy on a larger scale, in a wider field and at a higher level. China is willing to work with its trading partners to cope with the challenges facing the world economy and trade development, promote a more balanced, coordinated and sustainable development of foreign trade, and share prosperity with its trading partners to achieve a win-win situation.

Central Bank: The bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank has controllable influence on China’s financial market.

  CCTV News:According to WeChat official account, the People’s Bank of China, the central bank said in the column of monetary policy implementation report in the first quarter of 2023 that China’s financial institutions have little exposure to Silicon Valley banks, and the impact of the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley banks on China’s financial market is controllable. At present, China’s financial system is operating steadily, and the banking industry, which accounts for more than 90% of the total assets of the financial industry, is generally stable. Most banking financial institutions are within the security boundary, and 24 large banks, which account for about 70% of the total assets of the banking industry, have maintained excellent ratings.

The central bank said that in the next step, the financial management department will continue to strengthen the construction of the financial stability guarantee system and firmly hold the bottom line that no systemic financial risks will occur. First, accelerate the construction of the legal system for financial stability, promote the promulgation of the Financial Stability Law, and improve the market-oriented and legalized financial risk disposal mechanism. The second is to strengthen financial risk monitoring and early warning, and give full play to the early correction of the deposit insurance system and the role of market-oriented risk disposal platform. Third, continuously enrich the financial risk disposal resources, improve the management mechanism of the financial stability guarantee fund, and operate and cooperate with the deposit insurance fund and related industry guarantee funds in a two-tier manner to jointly safeguard financial stability and security.

Announcement of the State Council Customs Tariff Commission on Imposing Tariffs on Some Imported Goods Originated in the United States

Announcement No.1 of 2025 of the Tax Commission

  On February 1, 2025, the US government announced that it would impose a 10% tariff on all goods exported from China to the United States on the grounds of fentanyl and other issues. The unilateral imposition of tariffs by the United States is a serious violation of the rules of the World Trade Organization, which is not only not conducive to solving its own problems, but also undermines the normal economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States. 

  According to People’s Republic of China (PRC) Customs Law, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Customs Law, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Foreign Trade Law and other laws and regulations and the basic principles of international law, with the approval of the State Council, tariffs will be imposed on some imported goods originating in the United States from February 10, 2025. The relevant matters are as follows: 

  1. Impose a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas. See Annex 1 for the specific commodity range. 

  2. Impose a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery, large-displacement vehicles and pickup trucks. See Annex 2 for the specific commodity range. 

  Three, for the imported goods listed in the annex originating in the United States, the corresponding tariffs will be levied on the basis of the current applicable tariff rate, and the current bonded and tax reduction and exemption policies will remain unchanged, and the additional tariffs will not be reduced. 

  Annex: 1. List of goods subject to 15% tariff 

  2. List of goods subject to 10% tariff 

  The State Council Customs Tariff Commission

  February 4, 2025

One-week Statistics of North American Box Office Rankings (December 16th, 2016)

  Because Sunday coincides with the Christmas holiday of "Western Spring Festival", some companies suspended the release of box office data, and the accurate list was not released until Tuesday (December 27th). Rogue One:A Star Wars Story (a star wars story) won the championship with a profit of $64.37 million in the next week, and won the 20th weekly crown for Disney in 2016! In addition, the song and dance animation "Sing", "Big Cousin" Jennifer Lawrence and "Star-Lord" Chris Palat made by Lighting Entertainment talked about the romantic sci-fi "Passengers" and "Assassin&rsquo Creed" adapted from the classic action game. Creed) and "old white" Brian cranston and "son-in-law" James Frank pinch each other’s "Why him? 》(Why Him? ) ranked second, third, fourth and fifth. Although the next week’s decline of Grand Theft Auto 1 was nearly 60%, the market lost a lot of profits, but because of the Christmas warming effect, TOP12 only fell by less than 17.1%, with a total income of 171 million.

Directory:

I. North American Box Office Rankings (December 16-December 18, 2016)/Summary this week

Second, this week’s new films Sing, Passengers and Why Him? ","Assassin’s Creed "

Third, the new film release and rescheduling schedule/next week’s notice

I. North American Box Office List (December 23-December 25, 2016)

Sub-title companies accumulated the falling cost of cinemas over the weekend.

01 [01] Grand Theft Auto Disney 6437 286374157 -58.5% 200

02 [New] Sing Global 3529 5590 4022 75

03 [New] Passengers Sony 1485 2217 3478 110

04 [New] "Why him? Twentieth Century Fox 11051105 2917 38

05 [New] Assassin’s Creed Twentieth Century FOSS 10281777 2970 200

06 [01] Ocean Romance Disney 1166 161853587[ -288] -37.1%-

07 [04] "Coming" Paramount 27786452157[ -958] -50.3% 47

08 [15] "la la land" Lion Gate Peak 402 526 200[ +195] +356.2% 30

09 [02] Office Christmas Paramount 84531513210 -50.0% 45

10 [New] Collateral Beauty Warner New Line 700 7003028 36

11 [07] Manchester by the Sea RAtt 41514011208[ +842] +31.0%-

12 [03] Fantastic Animals Warner Bros. 503 207683036[ -590] -51.7% 180

(Weekend/Cumulative [unit: ten thousand dollars], cost [unit: one million dollars])

China, I’m coming.

Rogue One:A Star Wars Story, the first in the Star Wars series, unexpectedly dominated this year’s Christmas holiday. Disney still maintained the release scale of 4,157 cinemas for the "Grand Theft Auto", and recorded $64.37 million in the weekend for three days. The revenue of a single museum remained at $15,486, and North America accumulated nearly 300 million levels (286 million). This is Disney’s 20th box office week in 2016 (there are 52 box office weeks so far). After entering the Christmas file (November), it is only one week away from his home (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them). I believe that the last week of this year will still belong to Mickey Mouse.

But then again, with the bonus of Christmas, the next week’s decline rate of Grand Theft Auto 1 is still close to 60%, which still makes people feel a little disappointed. It is generally believed in the industry that "Grand Theft Auto" will copy the trend of Hunger Games 2: single spark can start a prairie fire (158 million, down 53.1% and ending at 424 million), because the scenes of these two films are similar — — All the paintings started between 150 million and 160 million, and all of them were closed for four days (Grand Theft Auto Christmas and Spark Thanksgiving). The next week, they all faced the challenge of an animation (Grand Theft Auto Sing, Spark and Frozen). Now it seems that Grand Theft Auto’s trip to North America may end between 420 million and 450 million. This means that Finding Nemo 2 has won the North American title in 2016, which is the first animation title in six years after Toy Story 3 in 2010. Since 1980, there have been five animation awards, namely Aladdin in 1992, Toy Story 1 in 1995, Shrek 2 in 2004, Toy Story 3 in 2010 and Finding Nemo 2 this year.

Overseas "Grand Theft Auto" landed in major ticket warehouses one after another. As of last Sunday, the global box office exceeded 400 million, and as of Monday, it exceeded 500 million (due to the statistical lag). It should only be a matter of time before the global break of 10, so Disney will become the first distribution company with three 400 million+in North America and four 1 billion+in the world in the same year. Oh, by the way, speaking of which, I’ll mention it by the way. As of December 19th, the global box office of Disney Pictures has exceeded 7 billion, surpassing last year’s global 6.89 billion dollars and setting a new record. That is to say, the three records of the highest box office in North America, overseas and the world set by Universal last year were all rewritten in less than a year.

The rapidly rising lights

This week, the runner-up was Sing, a musical animation co-produced by Lighting Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Universal Pictures opened a super-large scale of more than 4,000 cinemas for it, which earned $35.29 million on the third day of the weekend. As the film premiered on Thursday, the total box office had exceeded 55 million by the end of the weekend.

When The Secret Life of Pets was released, I summarized the characteristics of lighting entertainment. When DreamWorks was stagnant, Lan Tianqiang was only applauding the old Leica, and lighting entertainment has grown into the roof of the world of animation market. This is due to the two magic weapons of lighting — — Cost control and feature building. Needless to say, the production costs of Daddy Thief 2, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing are all reduced between 70 million and 75 million. Compared with the production cost of Disney Pixar, which is 200 million, it is definitely a model of frugality. The so-called characteristic creation is the positioning of the lighting lamp after two Despicable Me tests and Minions’s unexpected popularity. Since it can’t reach the depth of Disney, it doesn’t have the expansion power of DreamWorks, and it doesn’t have the concentration on stop-motion animation like Lycra, then — — Sell cute! This sale went from "daddy" to "good voice"! Looking back on the two animations of the Christmas file, Magic Hair Genie and Ocean Romance, all proved the revival of "singing and dancing", so "Good Voice" combined them to form a "singing and dancing" killer, bombarding your eardrum with 85 hot songs, forming a double-tube entertainment feast of watching and listening.

All-star dubbing lineup

According to the current trend, the film is expected to recover the cost of $75 million in two or three days, and North America has the possibility of hitting 200 million. Overseas paintings have been opened two weeks in advance, and they have performed brilliantly in many box office countries. If Disney is not too rebellious, the performance of the world is still bright.

The original sci-fi that two stars can’t save.

Ranked third is "Passengers" starring Jennifer Lawrence, the "Big Cousin", and Chris Palat, the "Star-Lord". Sony Pictures opened 3,478 cinemas for this film, which earned $14.85 million on three weekends, and the total revenue reached $22.17 million including the box office on Wednesday and Thursday. For a commercial sci-fi with two first-line stars, it is obviously a paste!

Comedians are everywhere

In a horizontal comparison, the opening of Passengers is not as good as Joey Struggle (17 million), which was also starred by the eldest cousin last Christmas, and the cost is as high as 110 million US dollars. Sony will lose money this time. In fact, in recent years, the original science fiction has been in a half-dead state, and Jupiter Ascending and Tomorrow World are all classic cases of vomiting publishers. The best-selling works are not without exception, but they are labeled with giant IP, such as "Jurassic" of dinosaurs, "Prometheus" of aliens and so on. After all, it is too difficult to build a sci-fi aerial and tell a complete story in just two hours. Judging from the current trend, the North American income of Sky Traveler is expected to stay at around 50 million.

Father-in-law and son-in-law tear cock drama

Ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, are the restricted comedy "Why Him" co-starred by Brian cranston and James Franco. 》(Why Him? ), and Assassin&rsquo Creed (& rsquo; s Greed)。 These two films were both released by 20th Century Flowserve Company. The former was released in 2917 cinemas and won $11.05 million on the weekend. The latter logged on 2,970 screens and recorded $10.28 million on the weekend, with an average performance.

Let’s start with the R-rated comedy, "Why him? John Hanberg, the screenwriter of the trilogy "Meeting the Father-in-law", wrote the script. When you see him, it is not difficult to guess "Why Him?" What’s the tone? This film, like "Meeting the Father-in-law", is a son-in-law’s life and death, and her husband’s strong rhythm of fighting mandarin ducks will inevitably lead to a happy ending. Although it is a life’s core monuments comedy at Christmas, it is not difficult to recover the cost of $38 million due to the R-rated restricted classification. Let’s talk about the adaptation of the best-selling game "Assassin’s Creed". Last year’s Shakespeare play "Macbeth" contributed to the triangular lineup of director Justin kusel+Shark+Cotillard. This year, this lineup was copied to "Assassin’s Creed" as it is. Of course, this is not accurate, because the project of "Assassin’s Creed" was actually earlier than that of Macbeth. The film was originally planned to be released in May 2015, but it was forced to be postponed to the end of 16 years after repeated filming.

Game adaptation — — It’s not easy to love you

There are almost no successful examples of game adaptation. As a veteran game fan, I have been catching up with Silent Hill, Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed from Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Marx Payne and Prince of Persia all the way, but I don’t know what the ghost will be like in Mysterious Sea. The fundamental reason why the game adaptation is difficult to succeed is the plot. Almost every next-generation game with a plot has a story capacity of more than ten hours, and the film must compress it to present it within two hours, which will inevitably lead to a sharp deletion of the plot. In addition, with the continuous innovation of CG technology, the cutscenes of many games have reached the level of blockbusters. Go to the cinema to see the adaptation! ? It seems that it is not an inevitable option.

In view of the fact that the cost of "Assassin’s Creed" is as high as $125 million, but only $17.77 million was opened on the 4th, Fox is facing huge losses.

Finally, put the meat to seduce and lick.

Notice on Giving Subsidies to Large Shopping Centers in this Municipality during the Epidemic Period in 2022

Bureau of Commerce of each district, Bureau of Commerce and Finance of Economic Development Zone, and relevant enterprises:

  In order to implement the requirements of "Specific Measures for Helping Enterprises to Rescue and Accelerate the Recovery of Consumption" (No.907 [2022] of Beijing Development and Reform Commission), increase the assistance of industries affected by the epidemic, support the stable development of large shopping malls, and encourage the department stores and shopping centers in this city to give rent relief to settled merchants during the epidemic, it is planned to give appropriate subsidies to operating enterprises that take rent relief measures. The relevant work is hereby notified as follows:

  I. Scope and conditions of support

  Applicable to the operating enterprises of department stores and shopping centers that meet the following conditions at the same time:

  1. Department stores and shopping centers with a construction area of more than 20,000 square meters within the administrative area of this Municipality (the complex is only a commercial part of the construction area, excluding office buildings and hotels, etc.);

  2. From January 1 to August 31, 2022, rent reduction measures were taken for more than 30% of the settled merchants (number), and the reduction time was more than 30 days (inclusive).

  Second, the subsidy standard

  Give a financial subsidy of not more than 500,000 yuan to large shopping malls with a construction area of 100,000 square meters (inclusive);

  Give a financial subsidy of no more than 250,000 yuan to large shopping malls with a construction area of 50,000 square meters (inclusive)-100,000 square meters;

  Large shopping malls with a construction area of 20,000 square meters (inclusive)-50,000 square meters will be given a financial subsidy of no more than 100,000 yuan.

  Third, the declaration process

  Large shopping malls in this city shall submit the following application materials to the local Bureau of Commerce and the Bureau of Commerce and Finance of Economic Development Zone (see Annex 1 for contact information) before August 31st.

  1. A copy of the business license.

  2. For large-scale shopping malls that use their own houses, copies of real estate registration certificate, planning and construction permit or other property rights certification materials are required (only the commercial part is required for the complex); If the leased premises are used, the relevant materials of the owner and a copy of the lease contract within the validity period shall be submitted.

  3 letter of commitment (see Annex 2 for the format).

  4. Enterprise information table (see Annex 3 for the format).

  The application materials are in duplicate, which shall be bound into volumes in sequence and stamped with the official seal of the enterprise. Project application materials will not be returned.

  Fourth, the job requirements

  1. The Bureau of Commerce of each district and the Bureau of Commerce and Finance of Economic Development Zone are responsible for the preliminary examination of the application materials of enterprises, confirming the declared area and rent reduction. Before September 10th, the confirmed list of enterprises and related materials will be formally reported to the Municipal Bureau of Commerce for review, and the project information passed through the review will be publicized on the extranet of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce. All reporting enterprises should ensure that the contents of the application materials are true, accurate and complete, and accept the supervision of the relevant departments. If there are violations of laws and regulations, they will bear corresponding responsibilities.

  2. After the funds are allocated, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce will entrust a professional organization to conduct spot checks on the actual rent reduction and exemption behavior of enterprises. For the false declaration, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce has the right to recover all the subsidy funds, and deal with it according to the "Administrative Measures for the List of Bad Credit Records in Beijing Commercial Fields (Trial)".

  3. The use of subsidy funds shall be subject to the supervision and management of relevant departments, and those who violate relevant regulations shall be dealt with according to relevant laws and regulations.

  4. Encourage all districts to study and introduce policies for the stable development and consumption promotion of large shopping malls in this district with reference to municipal subsidy policies. Please send a written copy to our bureau in time for the formulation and support of relevant policies.

  I hereby inform you.

Notice of Beijing Municipal Water Affairs Bureau on Printing and Distributing Beijing Water Resources Security Plan (2020 -2035)

District governments and relevant units:

  "Beijing Water Resources Security Plan (2020-2035)" has been considered and adopted by the executive meeting of the municipal government and the special meeting of the director of the urban work committee of the municipal party committee, and submitted for approval according to the procedures. It is hereby printed and distributed.

beijing municipal water affairs bureau    

September 15, 2022  

New Retail from Concept to Reality

Two years ago, Alibaba and JD.COM, the first and fourth largest Internet listed companies in China, respectively joined hands with Suning Yunshang and Yonghui Supermarket, and their transformation from "electricity" to "store" was regarded by the outside world as the horn of e-commerce bosses to go offline.
  Arribe cast a dense net. In November 2016, Sanjiang Shopping Announcement introduced Alibaba Zetai as its strategic investor, with an investment of 2.15 billion yuan. If Hangzhou Alibaba Zetai converts all exchangeable corporate bonds into shares, the shareholding ratio can reach 35%.
  In December 2016, Yiguo Fresh, which was invested by Ali, "took over" 237 million domestic shares of Lianhua Supermarket sold by Yonghui Supermarket (accounting for 21.17% of the total share capital of Lianhua Supermarket) and became the second shareholder of Lianhua Supermarket. Bailian is still the controlling shareholder of Lianhua Supermarket, holding a total of 42.73% of its shares.
  In January 2017, Yintai Commercial announced the privatization, in which Ali participated and will become its controlling shareholder with a shareholding ratio of 74%.
  In February 2017, Alibaba and Bailian Group announced a strategic cooperation.
  Similarly, JD.COM’s actions are actually quite a few.
  In June 2016, after JD.COM acquired No.1 Store, it started in-depth cooperation with Wal-Mart behind the latter. Wal-Mart will provide rich commodities through its global supply chain, and its physical stores in China will be connected to Dada, a crowdsourcing logistics platform invested by JD.COM and JD.COM.
  It is not difficult to see that the retail industry is quietly storing the kinetic energy of change.
  According to Chen Weihao, a partner of Huaping Investment, new retail has two main components: the first is the change of consumption demand of a new generation of consumers. Now the mainstream consumers after 70-90 are completely different from the previous generation. They pay more attention to product quality and service, personalization and technology, and at the same time, they have more disposable income and time. Under such circumstances, how can we meet the consumer demand? This is what the retail industry needs to respond to now.
  The second point is technological innovation. For example, he said that few people used Alipay three years ago, and there was no WeChat payment. E-commerce began to rise on the PC side, and the real O2O has not yet begun. The smart phone has brought an earth-shaking change to the whole mobile Internet. All these new retails are good for technology and consumers’ information collection and feedback, all of which are achieved by the further development of Internet technology.

On October 13th, 2016, at the Alibaba Cloud Habitat Conference, Ma Yun first put forward the concept of "new retail" in his speech. Ma Yun asserted that "the era of pure e-commerce will soon end. In the next ten or twenty years, there is no such thing as e-commerce. Only new retail, that is, online and offline and logistics must be combined, can a real new retail be born."
  The new retail concept was quickly accepted. All the giants in the retail industry will no longer talk about e-commerce and online shopping in 2017, but will advance on the new retail road. Fresh goods have always been the category that consumers buy the most frequently, and it seems logical for "new retail" to land here.
  In January 2016, Hou Yi, the former director of Jingdong Logistics, founded Boxma Xiansheng in Shanghai, and later received a high investment from Ali. Boxma Xiansheng adopted the business model of "online e-commerce+offline stores", and the functions carried by the stores further increased compared with traditional retail, integrating "fresh supermarket+catering experience+online business warehousing". It is generally believed that Boxma Xiansheng will become the No.1 project of Ali’s new retail. Up to now, Boxma Xiansheng has opened 13 stores covering Beijing, Shanghai and Ningbo.
  JD.COM is naturally unwilling to wait and die. In early 2016, JD.COM Fresh Food Division was established to accelerate the expansion of fresh food categories, quality control and cold chain logistics. Just after the Spring Festival in 2017, JD.COM set up a "secret force" outside the fresh food department. This organization is to do preparatory work for the development of offline fresh food stores in JD.COM. It is reported that the location of the offline fresh food store in JD.COM has been preliminarily determined: the first store is located in Yizhuang Dazu Square near JD.COM headquarters, with a business area of 4,000 square meters, and the second store is located in Wucai City, Qinghe Middle Street, Haidian District, with a business area of about 2,000 square meters.
  JD.COM’s own new retail boots have not yet landed. On July 19th, the first store of "octopus (octopus) fresh", a new online and offline integrated retail format led by Meituan, officially opened.
  Regardless of whether Meituan and JD.COM are benchmarking with Ali’s Boxma Xiansheng in the industry, this online and offline integration model can prove to some extent that new retail has been deeply cultivated from the past conceptual stage.

The cost of online traffic is getting higher and higher, while the proportion of commercial property leasing cost in the total cost of some physical retailers has dropped to less than 10%, and the gap between online and offline customer acquisition costs is narrowing or even reversing. Therefore, the continuous growth of pure e-commerce enterprises needs to rely on the integration and penetration of physical retail, and online and offline move from division to integration.
  Xue Yu, senior analyst of IDC China, said that the continuous improvement of user experience and operational efficiency is the core requirement for business transformation, and the trends of standardization, interactivity, integration and globalization will become the main features of the "new retail" era. The core of new retail is the supply chain and ecosystem formed with consumers as the center.
  Online is virtual, seemingly ethereal, and killing people is invisible; The offline is the truth. Although it is heavy, the knife is deadly. In the past, e-commerce enjoyed the benefits of online traffic, but ignored the fact that everyone was offline traffic before becoming online traffic, and offline traffic still had a lot of potential to be tapped, and offline also had many incomparable advantages online.
  The new circulation is to serve the new consumer demand and guide the changes of the upstream industrial chain through the satisfaction of consumer demand. According to the reporter’s understanding, it is generally believed in the industry that the advantages of offline Shangchao have always focused on the satisfaction of customer experience. In the future competition, physical retailing will face more challenges focusing on how to manage users well and complete the changes in the new retail era through social networks, big data and logistics.
  "E-commerce has inherent technological advantages under the transfer line. All innovative models are based on technical support, and the concept is also one of the advantages. The so-called concept is that the previous circulation is the terminal channel of production enterprises, but the new circulation form is for consumers, with the consumer demand as the core, because there is big data behind it." Li Mingtao, Dean of China International Electronic Commerce Center Research Institute, told reporters. The era of pure e-commerce will soon end, the form of pure retail will also be broken, and new retail will lead a new business model in the future.
  Cao Lei, director of China E-commerce Research Center, once said: "In the past, online and offline retailing was in a state of’ with you and without me, with me and without you’. However, since last year, the integration of online and offline, from O2O to new retail, has become a broad consensus in the industry. Everyone began to think about complementing each other’s advantages, jointly doing a good job in product and service experience, and jointly dividing this cake, not just competition. "
  Anxin county is rich in water resources. Baiyangdian Lake in Anxin County is an important water conservancy hub of Daqing River system, with an average total water resource of 41.24 million cubic meters for many years. The aquatic organisms in Baiyangdian Lake include plankton, benthos, fish and aquatic plants. At the same time, there are 26 species of birds belonging to 19 families, forming a good food chain structure and becoming an important aquatic product base in North China.

In order to truly replace the traditional retail model, "unmanned supermarket" must be better than "manned supermarket" on the basis of the existing model. So what does it take to be better than "someone"? Where are the benefits to consumers? Do we really need nobody?
  In the short term, "unmanned supermarket" is difficult to replace the traditional retail business model, but intelligent supermarket is an inevitable trend of retail industry. Now it can occupy a place in the market by satisfying people’s curiosity, but to completely replace the traditional retail model, it is necessary to keep up with the rapid development of science and technology and study a better technical support and service model.
  However, if only the hot concept hype of "unmanned supermarket" appears, it will be dispersed in a hubbub after the bubble is set off, and a new industry will not actually be formed. Then this technical concept of no hard goods is even more out of reach from the real retail reform.
  "Unmanned supermarket" is indeed one of many possibilities for the retail industry in the future, but now, it is still far from enough.

Multi-field indicators show a positive trend, and China’s economic development is strong.

  CCTV News:The National Bureau of Statistics released April CPI and PPI data on May 11th. The data shows that in April, consumer demand continued to recover, and CPI, the national consumer price index, rose by 0.1% month-on-month, and rose by 0.3% year-on-year, with a slight increase.

  From the ring comparison, CPI changed from last month’s decline to 0.1%. In food, the market supply is relatively sufficient, and the prices of fresh vegetables, shrimps and crabs, beef, eggs and fresh fruits have declined.

  Among non-food items, due to the increase in travel during the small holiday, the prices of air tickets, transportation rental fees, hotel accommodation and tourism all went up. Affected by the upward trend of international gold price and oil price, domestic gold jewelry and gasoline prices have increased.

  From a year-on-year perspective, CPI rose by 0.3%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the previous month. Among them, the prices of pork and fresh vegetables turned from falling to rising year-on-year, while the price declines of fuel cars and new energy cars all narrowed.

  He Xiaoying, deputy director of the Analysis and Forecasting Department of the Price Monitoring Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that from the same period of last year, China’s economy rebounded well, and the endogenous power continued to increase. The increase of core CPI excluding food and energy was larger than that of last month. Among the eight categories of goods and services that constitute CPI, except for food, tobacco and alcohol, the prices of the other seven categories have all increased year-on-year, and the recovery of consumer demand has been further consolidated.

  In April, industrial production continued to resume, and the national industrial producer ex-factory price index PPI decreased by 0.2% month-on-month and 2.5% year-on-year, which was 0.3 percentage points narrower than last month.

  Central Bank: RMB loans increased by 10.19 trillion yuan in the first four months of 2024.

  On May 11th, the central bank released financial statistics for April. Many indicators showed that the credit structure continued to be optimized and the interest rate remained low.

  According to the data of the central bank, from the perspective of money supply, at the end of April, the broad money balance was 301.19 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%.

  In terms of credit supply, at the end of April, the balance of RMB loans was 247.78 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%. In the first four months, RMB loans increased by 10.19 trillion yuan.

  Central Bank: In April, the interest rate of new loans for enterprises and individuals remained at a historical low.

  From the loan interest rate, in April, the weighted average interest rate of new loans issued by enterprises was 3.76%, 23 basis points lower than the same period of the previous year; The interest rate of new loans for individual housing is 3.7%, which is 48 basis points lower than the same period of last year, both of which are at historical lows.

  Zhang Jun, chief economist of china galaxy Securities, said that the credit supply in April was in line with the current economic growth. In the first four months, various loans increased by 10.19 trillion yuan, a higher level in the same period in history. In previous years, the "roller coaster" phenomenon of credit supply caused by the "good start" of financial institutions was alleviated in 2024.

  Central Bank: At the end of April, the stock of social financing scale was 389.93 trillion yuan, up 8.3% year-on-year.

  Judging from the scale of social financing, at the end of April, the stock of social financing scale was 389.93 trillion yuan, up 8.3% year-on-year.

  From the structural point of view, the growth rate of green loans and medium-and long-term loans in manufacturing industry remained at a high level of around 30%.

  At the latest symposium on green finance held by the central bank and other four departments, the central bank said that the capital demand of green and low-carbon related industries is huge, and it is necessary to give full play to the role of green finance in optimizing resource allocation.

  Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China, said that developing green finance is an important direction to achieve high-quality financial development. At the end of the first quarter, China’s green bonds issued nearly 3.6 trillion yuan, and now the balance is 1.9 trillion yuan.

  In April, the consumer price index rose by 0.3% year on year.

  Data one:It rose by 0.3%. The National Bureau of Statistics released data on May 11th. In April, the national consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.3% year-on-year, with an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the previous month. Among them, food prices fell by 2.7%, the same as last month, and non-food prices rose by 0.9%.

  China’s balance of payments remained basically balanced in the first quarter.

  Data 2:39.2 billion dollars. According to the latest data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, in the first quarter of 2024, China’s international payments remained basically balanced. Among them, the current account surplus was US$ 39.2 billion, accounting for 0.9% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the same period, which remained in a reasonable and balanced range.

  In April, the production and sales of new energy vehicles increased by over 30% year on year.

  Data 3:35.9% and 33.5%. On May 11th, China Automobile Industry Association released data. In April, China’s automobile production and sales showed a rapid growth year-on-year. Among them, the production and sales of new energy vehicles maintained rapid growth. In April, 870,000 vehicles and 850,000 vehicles were completed, up by 35.9% and 33.5% respectively, and the market share reached 36%.

Ministers @ you, read this warm article on people’s livelihood from seven angles!

  CCTV News:General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China thatYoung children have education, learning and teaching, earning from hard work, getting medical treatment for illness, providing for the old, living and supporting the weak.New progress has been made in the world to ensure that all people have more sense of gain in building and sharing development.

  In the future, how will these seven aspects of work be promoted? What changes will it bring to people’s lives? On October 22nd, ministers and directors of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the National Health and Family Planning Commission gave a detailed explanation at the press conference. Find the answer from their "good voice" together ↓ ↓

  Have a baby.

  Chen Baosheng, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Education:

  By 2020, the gross enrollment rate of preschool education (that is, kindergartens) will reach 85%, and now it is 77.4%; Inclusive kindergartens account for more than 80% of kindergartens, and now it is more than 60%.

  The stage of compulsory education is mainly a balanced development. Standardized development, integrated development, efforts to resolve the "school choice fever" and "large class size", by 2020, large class size must be completely eliminated. To solve the problem of students’ excessive academic burden, it is especially necessary to solve the problem of reducing the burden on schools and increasing the burden outside schools.

  Learn to teach.

  Chen Baosheng, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Education:

  The construction of teaching staff is very important to improve the quality of education and train qualified builders and successors. Therefore, we should study and put forward opinions on strengthening the construction of teachers, formulate relevant policies and measures, and mobilize teachers’ enthusiasm for education.

  We are fighting a tough battle to popularize high school education in an all-round way. By 2020, the gross enrollment rate in high school will reach over 90%. The gross enrollment rate of higher education reached 50%, and now it is 42.7%.

  By 2020, the college entrance examination enrollment system with China characteristics will be established, because it is a baton. We will continue to do this work, and the establishment of this system will lead to a series of institutional reform measures.

  You get what you earn.

  Yin Weimin, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security:

  In the next step, we will conscientiously follow the general requirements for employment in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, that is, to achieve higher quality and full employment.

  First, we should continue to adhere to the employment priority strategy and active employment policy, especially to combine employment policy with macroeconomic policy, industrial policy, fiscal policy and monetary policy. In the process of economic development, we should create more jobs, especially some high-quality jobs.

  Second, vocational skills training should be carried out on a large scale to improve the ability of workers to find jobs and change jobs.

  Third, we must continue to insist on entrepreneurship to promote employment. In recent years, why the employment situation has been relatively stable is that many college graduates, migrant workers and returnees are starting businesses. Entrepreneurship has a multiplier effect on employment, so we should support it.

  Fourth, we must safeguard the rights and interests of workers, especially the equal employment system.

  Finally, we still need to provide high-quality and efficient employment services, especially increasing Internet services, so that every worker who is willing to work can get help and support from the government in the public service system.

  Have a doctor for the disease

  Li Bin, Party Secretary and Director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission:

  In the next step, we will further deepen the reform of the medical and health system and promote the sinking of resources through the new mechanism of various forms of medical consortia that we are now establishing, so as to promote the radiation and promotion of superior resources of medical services to difficult areas. On the one hand, through our counterpart support to poor areas; On the other hand, by training local medical talents free of charge, including college students, the number of medical talents in these poverty-stricken areas will be increased and their quality will be improved.

  We should continue to strengthen the protection of people’s livelihood and expand the scope of contracted services of family doctors. Our current coverage is 430 million people, and we will continue to expand this scope. In particular, we must achieve full coverage of family doctor contract services for the poor, and some families with difficulties, chronic diseases and elderly people should focus on coverage.

  It is necessary to increase the intensity of health poverty alleviation and expand the types of diseases that are centrally treated. Now we have concentrated on treating nine kinds of serious diseases, and the next step is to expand the scope of diseases. For deep poverty-stricken areas, it is necessary to focus on tackling key problems and solve the problems of poverty caused by illness and returning to poverty due to illness.

  the elderly will be properly looked after

  Yin Weimin, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security:

  To solve the problem of how everyone can participate in the old-age insurance, it is necessary to fully implement the national insurance plan, which can register the specific situation of all uninsured people. Through this plan, those who are not insured will be mobilized to participate in the old-age insurance system.

  There are many measures to solve the problem of sustainable development of funds. First, the national overall planning of basic old-age insurance should be realized as soon as possible, and the first step will be taken next year. First, the central adjustment system of basic old-age pension can balance the burden of old-age insurance among different regions. Because our country is relatively large, regional development is very uneven, and the degree of aging is also very different; Second, the State Council has made a decision on the investment and operation of pension funds. Now, eight provinces have entrusted the National Social Security Foundation to invest and operate, with more than 400 billion yuan, which will enable the accumulated pension funds to maintain and increase their value; Third, allocate state-owned assets to enrich the social security fund, so that the social security fund can become larger and larger.

  Have a place to live.

  Wang Menghui, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development:

  In the next step, we will adhere to the goal of regulation and control, and maintain the continuity and stability of the policy. In particular, in accordance with the general secretary’s proposal, we should adhere to the positioning that "houses are for living, not for speculation" and accelerate the establishment of a housing system with multi-subject supply, multi-channel guarantee and simultaneous rent and purchase.

  According to my personal opinion, by the middle of this century, we will build a socialist modern power, at least we will achieve the living environment and living conditions reaching the advanced level in the world at that time, that is to say, all the people mentioned in the report will live in a proper place. This is only a basic condition. We should not only live in a place, but also live in a beautiful environment, that is, to build a beautiful China. At the same time, we must make our living facilities more convenient and complete, so that our people can live a happier life and have a stronger sense of acquisition.

  Help the weak.

  Huang Shuxian, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs:

  The first is to comprehensively improve the rescue guarantee system. The State Council promulgated the interim measures for social assistance, defined the "8+1" social assistance system, established a comprehensive temporary assistance system, comprehensively promoted medical assistance for serious and serious diseases, and coordinated the assistance and support system for urban and rural poor people.

  (At present, the structure of the complete system of social assistance in China can be simply summarized by a formula — — “8+1”。 8 refers to "minimum security, support for destitute people, disaster relief, medical assistance, education aid, housing assistance, employment assistance and temporary assistance"; 1, is the participation of social forces. The first eight items are government actions and the last one is social participation, which together constitute a complete social assistance system. )

  The second is to steadily improve the level of assistance and security. The financial funds used by governments at all levels for social assistance have increased from more than 180 billion yuan in 2012 to 250 billion yuan in 2017, and this figure has also increased year by year.

  Third, the management of assistance and security was constantly standardized, and the information of household registration vehicles, bank deposits, securities and property, housing security and other aspects was compared with relevant departments, which improved the accuracy of the identification of assistance objects and achieved accurate assistance.

Mach, an Afghan guy who is an "entrepreneur" in the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone: China’s development opportunities are the development opportunities of the world.

  International Online Report (Reporter Yao Yanxia): They came to China because of their yearning; Because of their dreams, they chose to stay. When foreigners "meet China", what kind of sparks will they collide with?

(Meet China) "Entrepreneurial Talent" Afghan guy Mach in Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone: China's development opportunities are the development opportunities of the world _fororder_ Mach

  Mach

  Wahid Ahmadzai, 27, is from Afghanistan. He studies, works and lives in China, and he is more accustomed to being called by his Chinese name Mach. From taking part in an entrepreneurial competition in college to starting his own company in China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone"), he valued the innovative development opportunities of China market. He also firmly believes that the development of China will surely drive the development of the world.

  On the day of being interviewed by reporters, handsome and sunny Mach looked out the window at the endless traffic and crowds in Beijing, and his thoughts could not help but return to many years ago. "I came to China at the age of 18, and China is my second hometown. I am here to study, live, make friends and see the world. I began to understand the world in China."

  In 2014, Mach came to Beijing from Afghanistan to study abroad and studied international trade at the University of International Business and Economics. At school, Mach teamed up with two China students to participate in the China College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program and the China International "internet plus" College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and won the silver medal in the competition. That experience opened the door for Mach to start a business in China.

(Meet China) Afghan guy Mach, the "entrepreneur" in Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone: China's development opportunity is the development opportunity of the world _fororder_ Mach (second from left)

  Mach (second from left)

  In September 2020, the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone was formally established. With the increasingly open China, Mach saw the opportunity and came up with new entrepreneurial ideas: he wanted to build a platform, break down the information barrier, let international talents and foreign enterprises better understand China’s policies and business environment, and help them achieve entrepreneurship and employment development.

  A month later, the construction of the CBD international talent port in Beijing Free Trade Zone was launched, and efforts were made to build a comprehensive talent development service platform integrating talent gathering, comprehensive services, development and cultivation, and exchanges and interactions. The positioning of this platform and Mach’s entrepreneurial idea "hit it off" quickly received a positive response from the relevant person in charge of Beijing Chaoyang District High-level Talent Service Center. The company that Mach wanted to start also quickly entered the registration procedure and became one of the first foreign-funded enterprises registered in the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone. From the idea to the company’s establishment, Mach couldn’t believe it. "When I came, I was an international student and I didn’t know anyone. I can develop step by step here, start a business step by step, etc., and get encouragement and support from the government, society and the market, which reminds me of one point: as long as you have an idea in China, you can achieve it. "

(Meet China) Afghan guy Mach, the "entrepreneur" in Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone: China's development opportunity is the development opportunity of the world _fororder_ Mach at the launching ceremony of Chaoyang International Talent Entrepreneurship Conference,

  Mach at the launching ceremony of Chaoyang International Talent Entrepreneurship Conference

  After the establishment of Mach’s company, the staff of Beijing Chaoyang District High-level Talent Service Center also guided him to carry out various tasks and helped him to connect with resources such as venues, media and public institutions.

  In the eyes of his friends, Mach has become an "entrepreneurial expert". He will explain the policies of Beijing Free Trade Zone to his friends with great interest, and tell them what are the advantageous industries in various districts of Beijing and what preferential measures are available for foreign investment … … In a foreign country, from an ignorant international student to an "entrepreneur" today, Maher said, thanks to the opportunities brought to the world by the increasingly open and high-quality development of China, "foreigners have always been concerned about the opportunities in China. As an entrepreneur, we very much hope to have a position, a mission and a direction. I think China is a country with mission, direction and orientation. Therefore, in such a country, the space for development is very good. "

  After work, Mach was also invited to participate in the "Global Youth Leaders Dialogue Project" of the globalization think tank. Last year, he and other foreign youths visited Jinan and Zibo in Shandong Province, China. During that trip, together with young people from many countries, he learned local development experience and started exchanges and dialogues with local governments and outstanding talents, which benefited Mach a lot. This year, he also participated in China International Fair for Trade in Services (hereinafter referred to as "Service Trade Fair") with the "Global Youth Leaders Dialogue Project". Maher said: "The Service Trade Fair has promoted the cooperation and exchange between China enterprises and overseas enterprises in the service trade sector, which provides enterprises with a higher platform and a display base. At the same time, it allows everyone to better explore how to further optimize service trade and let more corporate talents and markets pay attention to the track of service trade. "

  Mach said that whether it is to build a platform for young people from different countries to exchange ideas, learn from each other and learn from each other, or to build a platform for mutual cooperation and common development for enterprises from different countries, it has greatly reflected China’s efforts and achievements in promoting the building of a community of human destiny, "Global Development Initiative, ‘ Belt and Road ’ Rural revitalization … … China has indeed made a lot of achievements in these areas, and China has accumulated a lot of practice and experience, which can also be learned from overseas. Therefore, the development opportunities of China have become the development opportunities of the world. "

  Nowadays, Mach’s overseas business is growing. They help China enterprises connect with overseas human resources companies, and build service trade channels for China enterprises and foreign enterprises. As an entrepreneur, Maher wants to stay in China all the time, because he is full of confidence in the future development of China. "As an entrepreneur, I look at this matter from an entrepreneurial logic: When do we say that a company is particularly good? When it has a very good prospect. I think the prospect of China is very recognized and optimistic. We have always insisted that not only China will become better, but China will also drive the development of other countries. The community of human destiny is a very respectable value, so if you want to look at the future of China, you should look at its values. "