The 128th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) will be held online from October 15 to 24 for 10 days, Gao Feng, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said on October 10.

At the regular online news conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on the same day, Gao Feng said that continuing to hold the Canton Fair Online is conducive to further playing the role of the Canton Fair as a platform for all-round opening to the outside world, promoting the stable and healthy development of foreign trade under the normal epidemic prevention and control, and unblocking the foreign trade industrial chain and supply chain. The Ministry of Commerce will strive to provide better and more convenient services for exhibitors and merchants. Chinese and foreign enterprises and merchants are welcome to actively participate in the exhibition, negotiate and purchase.

Canton Fair is an important platform for China's opening up and international trade cooperation, which has never been interrupted since its establishment in 1957. From June 15 to 24 this year, the 127th Canton Fair was held on the Internet, which is also the first time that China has "moved the integrity of Canton Fair to the cloud".

Gaofeng said on the 10th that in the first eight months of this year, China's foreign trade imports and exports gradually stabilized and improved, better than expected. In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will focus on the ten tasks of promoting stability and improving quality of foreign trade throughout the year.

Gao Feng said that regarding the foreign trade situation of the whole year, on the one hand, "there is support.". Since the beginning of this year, a series of stable foreign trade policies and measures issued by the State Council have been implemented continuously, and the policy effect has been released continuously. The demand in the international market picked up partially, and the PMI index of some major economies in the world improved in August. On the other hand, "there is pressure.". At present, the global epidemic has not been fully and effectively controlled, the international market demand has shrunk seriously, the latest global goods trade prosperity index released by the WTO has reached a record low, unilateralism and protectionism have risen, and uncertainties and unstable factors have increased significantly. The situation of China's foreign trade development is still grim and complex.

In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will focus on the following work: first, firmly implement the foreign trade policies to ensure that the relevant policies will benefit the market players as soon as possible; second, fully support enterprises to grasp orders and run the 128th Canton Fair; third, accelerate the cultivation of new business forms and new modes of foreign trade; fourth, actively promote the expansion of the export of necessities, continue to do a good job in the export of epidemic prevention materials, and strictly control the export quality To standardize the export order; fifth, to promote the innovation and development of trade; sixth, to guide the gradient transfer of processing trade and stabilize the development of processing trade; seventh, to actively promote the innovation and development of border trade; Eighth, to actively expand imports and well run the third China International Import Expo to speed up the construction of import trade to promote innovation demonstration zone; Ninth, to support the transfer of export products to domestic sales; tenth, to continue to enhance the competitiveness The level of trade facilitation.

This article comes from the central broadcasting network.