Continue To Support The Transfer Of Processing Trade To The Midwest And Northeast Regions
Processing trade is an important part of my country's foreign trade and open economy, and plays an important role in promoting the steady growth of foreign trade, promoting industrial upgrading, and stabilizing employment. Since the reform and opening up, my country's processing trade has achieved long-term and rapid development. From 1981, the import and export volume was only 2.5 billion US dollars to 1.3 trillion US dollars last year, with an average annual growth rate of 16.5%. According to customs data, in the first quarter of this year, the import and export of processing trade was 1.79 trillion yuan, accounting for 18.1% of the total import and export value.
Cui Zheng, a professor at the China Academy of Open Economics at Liaoning University, said in an interview with a reporter from China Trade News that processing trade is mostly distributed in labor-intensive industries, and an important part of "stabilizing foreign trade" is to increase support for labor-intensive export companies. help and support. The gradient transfer of processing trade can give full play to the advantages of labor resources in the central and western regions, and better ensure the business stability of supply chain-related industries and social employment stability.
"Now the proportion of processing trade in the central, western and northeastern regions of the country has increased. In 2022, the proportion of processing trade in the central, western and northeastern regions has reached 29.4% of the national processing trade, and only about 22% in 2017." International Trade Negotiations of the Ministry of Commerce Representative and Vice Minister Wang Shouwen said at the regular policy briefing of the State Council a few days ago that we have achieved relatively good results in encouraging the transfer of processing trade to the central, western and northeastern regions. For example, Zhengzhou has formed an important mobile phone industry base in the airport area, with an annual output value of more than 320 billion yuan; Chongqing has built the world's largest notebook computer production base, with an output of 74 million notebook computers last year; Sichuan, Chengdu, Anhui , Hefei has built a relatively large-scale intelligent manufacturing and processing trade industrial base for integrated circuits, which has also solved a large number of jobs.
However, Cui Zheng said that there are still some problems in the process of gradient transfer of my country's processing trade to the central and western regions: on the one hand, the industrial supporting capacity of the undertaking area is insufficient, and it is difficult to form a large-scale industrial cluster; on the other hand, my country's current The main mode of foreign trade transportation is still sea transportation, while the added value of labor-intensive products produced in the central and western regions is low, limited by location factors and transportation capacity, the cost of commodity transportation and logistics is relatively high, and the delivery cycle is relatively long , which makes many companies take a wait-and-see attitude towards inland relocation.
In order to better build a key undertaking area for the gradient transfer of processing trade, since last year, Sichuan has issued the "Implementation Opinions on Undertaking the Orderly Transfer of Manufacturing Industry" to explore a variety of processing trade undertakings such as full-chain undertakings, partial undertakings, and "two ends outside" processing trade undertakings. Takeover mode. Guangxi issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the High-quality Development of Processing Trade", which proposed to focus on cultivating local characteristic industrial clusters and achieve the goal of doubling the growth of processing trade within five years. Yang Chunting, director of the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that Guangxi's existing four national-level processing trade gradient transfer key areas have played a huge role in promoting the development of Guangxi's processing trade industry and export-oriented economy, and have effectively promoted Guangxi's industrial upgrading. A 100 billion yuan electronic information gathering area and a bulk commodity processing gathering area near Hong Kong will be formed.
Wang Shouwen said that the next step is to continue to support the transfer of processing trade to the central, western and northeastern regions on the existing basis. To this end, the second batch of national processing trade industrial parks will be identified, and the 13th processing trade product expo will be held in Dongguan, Guangdong next month to organize industrial docking between the central and western regions, northeast regions and coastal regions, and promote the transfer, transformation and upgrading of processing trade . In addition, it is necessary to promote the development of new processing trade formats such as bonded maintenance. The products to be repaired are generally of relatively high value, so they are not very sensitive to transportation costs, especially for products with high value and small size, maintenance in the Midwest and Northeast regions has advantages. As of the end of last year, 228 bonded maintenance projects had landed in more than 20 provinces and cities, with a value of more than 31.1 billion US dollars and created 40,000 jobs. These 40,000 jobs are high-quality jobs. Now the relevant regulations allow the global maintenance of 70 tax code products in 8 categories in the comprehensive bonded area. In the future, we will work with the customs to guide the localities, especially the enterprises in the comprehensive bonded area, to carry out the global bonded maintenance business of these 70 tax numbers.
