Authoritative departments intensively voiced multiple policies to escort and stabilize foreign trade.

　　"The monthly container production capacity has increased to 500,000 TEUs, and the shortage of empty containers in major ports in China has dropped to 1.3% in May, which has gradually eased." On June 24th, at the press conference held by the State Council Office, foreign trade logistics became one of the hot spots. In fact, tight logistics and rising freight rates have always been difficult problems faced by foreign trade enterprises in the near future, and they are also the focus of the work of relevant departments.

　　The reporter of the Economic Information Daily noticed that in just two days, at the the State Council executive meeting, the press conference of the State Council Office and the press conference of the Ministry of Commerce, a number of authoritative departments voiced their voices one after another, focusing on strengthening cross-border logistics cooperation, increasing transport capacity guarantee, freight rate supervision, strengthening supply and price stability, and stabilizing exchange rate, and brewing more support policies to help foreign trade enterprises develop and promote the stability and quality of China’s foreign trade.

　　All parties actively respond to ease the pressure on foreign trade enterprises.

　　"The capacity of 23 million TEUs is now put into shipping except for about 1% of the ships under repair, and even some non-container ships come to carry containers." At the press conference of the State Council Office on the 24th, Zhao Chongjiu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Transport, introduced it.

　　On the same day, Gao Feng, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said that Guangdong Province is taking effective measures to co-ordinate the prevention and control of epidemic situation and smooth the international logistics work, and do its utmost to solve the problem of ships pressing on Hong Kong. From 0: 00 on the 24th, the overall operation of Shenzhen Yantian Port was fully restored.

　　The reporter saw at the scene of Yantian Port that there are berths in 20 berths in the central and western port areas, and all the operating shore cranes have been fully opened.

　　These are just the epitome of all parties helping import and export enterprises to solve problems. Since last year, the shortage of international logistics has become a headache for foreign trade enterprises. "Some customers with relatively weak strength can’t bear the cost pressure caused by this, and the goods can’t be shipped out and piled up in the warehouse, which increases the inventory and turnover cycle." Chloe Wang, vice chairman of the board of directors of Shengwei International Holdings (China) Co., Ltd., told the Economic Information Daily.

　　"This year’s sales have increased a lot compared with the same period of last year, but the profit side is not very optimistic." A person in charge of a foreign trade enterprise in Ningbo said frankly that the increase in freight and raw material prices squeezed the profit margin.

　　Gao Shiwang, director of the Industry Development Department of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Mechanical and Electrical Products, told the Economic Information Daily that these factors have a great impact on foreign trade enterprises, especially some industries where raw materials account for a high proportion of costs, such as household appliances, low-voltage electrical appliances, machinery and tools. The transportation problem increases the inventory cost, and demurrage, container pressing and overnight expenses add up to be a big burden.

　　Solving these problems requires many efforts. In terms of customs clearance convenience, the General Administration of Customs has recently jointly launched 18 policy measures with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Transport, the General Administration of Market Supervision and other departments, focusing on optimizing processes, reducing costs, reducing time and improving efficiency, etc., and making efforts to solve the blocking points, pain points and difficult problems that the current market players are concerned about.

　　Some measures have achieved initial results. The reporter learned at Nanjing Customs that the customs introduced Yangshan — The new supervision mode of "joint loading and unloading, treating as one port" in Taicang Port realizes one-time declaration, one-time inspection and one-time release of container goods, effectively improving customs clearance efficiency.

　　In beibu gulf port, through scientific and reasonable organization of production and overall coordination of production resources in the three ports, the shortage of shipping space on ocean routes has been effectively alleviated. From January to May, the container throughput of this port increased by 29.5% year-on-year.

　　Li Jinhua, Marketing Manager of China Qinzhou Ocean Shipping Agency Co., Ltd., said that customers have been giving full play to the developed domestic transportation system and flexibly choosing delivery points. "Customers in the southwest area may have taken Qinzhou Port more, and now they will take Guangzhou Port or Shanghai Port, which is equivalent to an internal resource optimization and allocation."

　　Multi-sector intensive deployment, stable foreign trade, and policy strengthening

　　It is worth noting that stabilizing foreign trade will usher in more favorable policies. The executive meeting in the State Council on 23rd decided to take measures to accelerate the development of new foreign trade formats and new models, promote the upgrading of foreign trade and foster new competitive advantages. The meeting proposed to strengthen international cooperation in the fields of intellectual property protection and transnational logistics.

　　Multiple deployments are also carried out at the ministerial level. On the 24th, Gao Feng said that the Ministry of Commerce, together with the People’s Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, promoted financial institutions to continuously optimize exchange rate hedging products and services, and actively promoted the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Enterprise Exchange Rate Hedging Business Manual to provide targeted guidance for enterprises to hedge. He also made it clear that he will continue to pay attention to the exchange rate fluctuations and help foreign trade enterprises actively respond.

　　Earlier, in response to a reporter’s question from the Economic Information Daily, Gao Feng said that recently, the Ministry of Commerce, together with relevant departments, conducted in-depth research on 7,500 foreign trade enterprises through the foreign trade and foreign investment platform, and took measures together with relevant departments and local institutions, such as promoting import diversification and building stable trade channels for bulk commodities. In the next step, we will further optimize and improve the trade policy toolbox to help foreign trade enterprises reduce costs and expand the market.

　　The Ministry of Transport has made it clear that it will work with the Ministry of Commerce and other departments to continue to implement relevant measures to stabilize foreign trade, guide international liner companies to continuously increase the supply of Chinese mainland’s export routes, improve the container turnover efficiency, and guide local transportation departments to ensure the stability and smoothness of the international logistics supply chain while doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control. In terms of price, it will cooperate with the market supervision department to strengthen the supervision of maritime port charges and investigate and deal with illegal charges according to law.

　　The General Administration of Customs has previously stated that the next step will be to fill the "short board" in terms of port collaborative governance, deep cooperation between enterprises and enterprises, and cross-departmental data sharing.

　　Business associations are also actively taking measures. Gao Shiwang said that with the support of the Ministry of Commerce, various import and export chambers of commerce have strengthened communication and cooperation with shipowners’ associations and China Shipping Remote Control, and are seeking more effective solutions for foreign trade enterprises.

　　Seize the opportunity of development and accelerate the transformation and upgrading

　　Regarding the situation faced by China’s foreign trade, Pang Chaoran, an associate researcher at the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, believes that the recent recovery of external demand and the return of orders have driven China’s export growth, while short-term unfavorable factors such as exchange rate, inflation, shipping, chip supply and rising labor costs have increased the cost of export enterprises. "But these disturbing factors are exogenous, phased and temporary in general." He told reporters.

　　Liu Xingguo, a researcher from the Research Department of china enterprise confederation, said in an interview with the Economic Information Daily that at present, China’s foreign trade enterprises not only have to deal with many challenges, but also face greater opportunities, with both favorable and unfavorable factors.

　　In Pang Chaoran’s view, relevant departments and foreign trade enterprises should seize the opportunity to accelerate the process of moving towards the high-end link of the industrial chain and continuously enhance their foreign trade competitiveness in the process of continuous transformation and upgrading of domestic production capacity.

　　Pang Chaoran suggested that from the policy point of view, all departments should still pay close attention to the changes in the situation, find out the emerging and trend problems in time, make pre-judgment and early warning, and provide stable policy support for the sustained and healthy development of foreign trade enterprises; Enterprises should accelerate transformation and upgrading, constantly improve the international competitiveness and bargaining power of products, promote short orders to become long orders, and prevent price changes from affecting profits.

　　Liu Xingguo believes that while government departments take appropriate measures, enterprises should also take the initiative to seize the opportunity to accelerate development: First, strengthen cost management and maximize the pressure of cost increase; Second, scientifically and cautiously use innovative tools in international financial markets to partially eliminate the impact of RMB exchange rate fluctuations; The third is to speed up innovation and development, transformation and upgrading, and enhance the bargaining power of foreign trade enterprises in international trade with high-quality products.

　　In fact, foreign trade enterprises are already taking active actions. Chloe Wang said that overall, the export market is expanding this year, and the company is further expanding its production capacity and intensifying supply chain integration. "In order to cope with the uncertainty in the future, the company will improve product competitiveness and expand more international markets as an important task in the second half of the year."