China's Foreign Trade Development Still Faces Many Challenges.

China's foreign trade development has maintained a sustained growth trend since the beginning of this year. According to the customs statistics of China, 1-4 months, the total import and export volume reached 1 trillion and 330 billion US dollars, an increase of 14% over the same period last year, of which 695 billion 870 million US dollars were exported, an increase of 17.4%, and imports of 634 billion 880 million US dollars, an increase of 10.6%. Among them, < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > textile < /a > a target= "_blank" href= "P", "clothing" exports 80 billion 160 million US dollars, increasing 16.5%.

At present, China's foreign trade has several notable features: < /p >

< p > 1. China's export growth rate is higher than other major trading partners.

In addition to Hongkong's export growth of 14% in 1-4 months, the growth rate of other major trading partners was generally low or even negative.

Exports of the United States, South Korea and Taiwan increased by 0.8%, 0.4% and 1.5% respectively (1-3 months). The EU increased by 5.7% (1-3 months), Japan fell 13.2%, India increased by 0.9%, and Brazil, Russia and South Africa decreased by 4.3%, 38.7% and 9.5%, respectively, far below the export growth rate of China over the same period.

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< p > two is the differentiation of the market structure of foreign trade.

On the one hand, the share of the two main export markets of the EU and Japan is declining.

In the first quarter of this year, my share of the EU's import market dropped by 0.8% compared with 2012, of which textile and garment market share dropped by 1 percentage points. In the Japanese import market, our share decreased by 1.2% compared with 2012, of which the share of textile and garment market decreased by 2.2%. At the same time, we maintained a relatively high growth rate for ASEAN, Russia, Africa and other emerging markets.

In 1-4 months, China's textile and garment industry reached 61.2% of ASEAN's growth rate, and Russia's exports reached 45.7%, far higher than the overall growth rate of exports.

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< p > three is the acceleration of external pfer of labor-intensive industries. According to incomplete statistics, the total investment of Chinese enterprises in labor-intensive enterprises in Malaysia, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Laos has exceeded US $1 billion.

Due to the rising cost of domestic labor and other factors such as the serious inversion of domestic and foreign market prices, the pfer of foreign enterprises to the outside world has become increasingly apparent, and orders have shifted outwards.

In 2012, seven major labor-intensive products (textiles, clothing, furniture, toys, bags, < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > shoes < /a > hat and plastic products) accounted for 0.7 percentage points lower in the EU market compared with 2011, while the US market dropped by 0.5 percentage points, and the Japanese market share dropped by 2.1 percentage points.

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< p > two, the current situation of China's foreign trade development, though the operation of foreign trade is better than expected in the first four months of this year, China's foreign trade development still faces many challenges throughout the year.

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< p > one is the weak demand growth in main export markets.

The world economy is still beset by quantitative easing policy in developed countries and sovereign debt crisis.

Lack of external demand has not fundamentally improved.

The International Monetary Fund and the world trade organization have also recently lowered the expected growth in global economy and Global trade volume in 2013.

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< p > two is more intense international competition.

As China's industrial upgrading and other developing countries undertake international industrial pfer, I compete with developed countries in technology and capital intensive industries, and compete with developing countries in traditional labor-intensive industries.

At the same time, quite a few foreign trade enterprises, including textile and garment enterprises, are still weak in terms of technological innovation, standard setting, marketing network and resource integration capability.

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< p > three is the weakening of traditional competitive advantage in foreign trade.

At present, raw materials, labor costs and energy resources and environment constraints are increasing, especially the recent appreciation of the RMB exchange rate and other reasons, which have weakened the low cost competitive advantage of enterprises.

Many traditional industries and small and medium-sized enterprises are also in a dilemma between survival development and competition adjustment due to lack of necessary capital, technology, talent accumulation and weak risk bearing capacity.

It is urgent to accelerate pformation and upgrading and foster new advantages in international competition.

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< p > four is the continuous warming of trade protectionism.

In 2012, our country encountered 77 cases of trade disputes initiated by 21 countries and regions, involving 27 billion 700 million US dollars.

Year-on-year growth of 12% and 369% respectively.

Among them, the textile and garment industry has always been the hardest hit area of trade protectionism.

In the first quarter of this year, 12 countries and regions launched 22 trade disputes survey to me, and the number increased by 22% over the same period last year.

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< p > three, foster new competitive advantages in foreign trade and enhance the competitiveness of textile and garment export.

The textile and garment industry is a traditional competitive industry in China. It is also a livelihood industry involving many employment. Promoting healthy, coordinated and sustainable development of textile and garment exports is of great significance to China's economic and social development.

At the same time, for a long time, China has provided cheap and inexpensive products for the world and our main trading partners by virtue of the advantages of the industrial chain, the advantages of scale economy and the cost of processing.

If there is no fair price and reliable quality of Chinese made textile and apparel, the life of consumers will be affected in many countries and regions around the world.

People's wardrobe may be more than a half empty. The living room and the office may be different from the present.

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< p > to promote the pformation of the foreign trade development mode including the textile and garment industry, the foreign trade department of the Ministry of Commerce will focus on the following work in 2013.

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< p > one is to increase the intensity of foreign trade pfer and structural adjustment.

Promote "five optimization".

Optimize the layout of the international market.

While consolidating the traditional Japanese and Japanese markets, we should increase the proportion of emerging markets and developing countries in the country's foreign trade.

We should optimize the domestic regional layout and consolidate the scale of foreign trade in the eastern coastal areas, while gradually increasing the proportion of the central and western regions in the country's foreign trade.

Optimize the main body of foreign trade.

While adhering to the common development of the main body of foreign trade and diversified ownership, we should gradually increase the proportion of private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises in China's foreign trade.

We should optimize the commodity structure, stabilize the export of traditional industries, and increase the proportion of products with high added value and export brands in the whole country's foreign trade.

Optimize trade mode.

Continue to innovate the trade mode, strengthen general trade, improve processing trade and develop other modes of trade.

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< p > two is a new advantage in accelerating foreign trade competition.

China's national economic and social development "12th Five-Year plan" outline put forward the need to strengthen the convergence of trade policy and industrial policy, and gradually form a new competitive advantage of technology based on technology, brand, quality and service.

Around this goal, we will carry out the work of "three constructions".

First, speed up the construction of demonstration bases for foreign trade pformation and upgrading, and provide public services for R & D, design, quality inspection, exhibition trading, trade promotion, information service, training and traceability of agricultural products for enterprises in the base.

Increase the proportion of bases in the foreign trade of the whole country.

In 2011 and 2012, the Ministry of Commerce approved 117 state-level pformation and upgrading demonstration bases, of which 24 accounted for 20% of the total textile and apparel industry.

The second is to speed up the construction of trade platform and promote the construction of commodity market and e-commerce platform combining internal and external trade.

In 2012, the Ministry of Commerce set up a pilot project of Zhejiang Yiwu Commodity City, Jiangsu Jieshi Bridge International Home Textile City and Zhejiang Haining a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > leather < /a > City as an internal and external trade.

At the same time, China and foreign trade brand exhibition will be held in Britain and Africa.

Excellent Chinese brands, including textile and clothing brands, will be introduced to relevant markets.

Relying on the platform of Canton Fair, we will organize a series of "design promotion trade" activities, organize a product design innovation competition, and organize domestic enterprises and foreign well-known a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > designer "/a" docking activities.

The third is to speed up the construction of international marketing network, promote the construction of various marketing networks, such as trade exhibition center, wholesale market and exclusive store, and build independent channels to improve the development and service capabilities of enterprises.

The above three key tasks are to promote the coordinated development of domestic and foreign trade.

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< p > three is to promote the coordinated development of domestic and foreign trade.

Relying on the trade fairs held in the eastern region every year, the foreign trade order docking activities in eastern, central and Western China will be held, pferring some indigestible orders from some eastern enterprises to the lower cost central and western regions, guiding foreign trade related manufacturing industries to shift from the southeast coast to the central and Western regions, and promoting the optimization of allocation of order resources in China.

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< p > four is to further optimize the development environment of foreign trade.

Closely cooperate with relevant departments, continue to stabilize foreign trade growth policies, and maintain policy stability and continuity.

To provide stable policy expectations and trade environment for the industry.

We should strive to serve the enterprises well and ensure the healthy and healthy development of textile, clothing and related industries.

At the same time, we also actively promote the construction of the free trade area with our major trading partners, improve our trade friction coping mechanism, and create a favorable external environment for our enterprises to develop import and export trade.

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