Foreign trade and foreign investment are not only important indicators to measure the regional economic development trend, but also an important window to observe the level of opening to the outside world.
In 2021, due to the epidemic, foreign exchanges were limited, containers were in short supply, and sea freight continued to rise, making the external situation more complex. All localities have comprehensively strengthened their services to enterprises, actively cultivated new business forms and models, and injected new impetus into the stable development of foreign trade.
In 2022, in the face of the complex and severe external environment of China, in order to escort the “open door stability” of foreign trade, the policies for stabilizing economic growth in various regions were deployed earlier and more vigorously.
This newspaper published a special report today, reviewing the achievements of foreign investment and foreign trade in the past year from the perspective of various regions, and witnessing the footprints of the new year. Please pay attention and look forward to further discussion and new voices.
□ Wu Guangning, Lin Wenjian
Never stop, work tirelessly. Before and after the Spring Festival, the majority of investment promotion cadres in Xiamen firmly grasped the great opportunity of many Fujian businessmen returning home for the new year. The “top leaders” of the city and district took the lead in promoting it, and leaders at all levels actively participated in family investment promotion and paid close attention to investment promotion.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, Xiamen sorted out a list of 60 entrepreneurs visited and contacted by municipal leaders during the Spring Festival. Municipal leaders visited entrepreneurs, helped enterprises solve practical problems on the spot, worked with entrepreneurs for high-quality development in the new year, further deepened project linked services, and built a pro Qing government business relationship.
Xiamen Investment Promotion Office, together with the Municipal Bureau of industry and information technology and the Municipal Federation of industry and commerce, jointly organized the Fujian business New Year Symposium, which was attended by 39 chambers of Commerce. The person in charge of the association of Fujian businessmen at home and abroad made in-depth docking with various investment promotion carriers in Xiamen, and inspected the area of Jimei new town in Xiamen. The activity widened the bridge and link with Fujian businessmen at home and abroad.
As a native of Xiamen, Feng Mingwei, vice president of Shanghai Xiamen chamber of Commerce and director of Shanghai Jieli Freight Co., Ltd., participated in the investigation. In 2021, he led the introduction of Shanghai Jieli cross-border e-commerce logistics enterprises to settle in Xiamen. He said that attracting investment into Xiamen has felt the affinity and efficiency of Xiamen governments at all levels.
At the beginning of the Spring Festival, Siming District of Xiamen city joined hands with Xiamen state owned Capital Operation Co., Ltd. to carry out capital investment. At present, the projects under negotiation include the introduction of Red Star Yuedong company, a leading cultural and entertainment enterprise, to settle in Siming District, and promote the settlement of its Time Warner IP theme park with exclusive national authorization and its own incubated seed projects; Promote the establishment of China Russia boxing sports cooperation event operators; Promote a number of projects such as the night scene characteristic light show project of the first wharf.
The relevant person in charge of Siming District said that Siming District will provide a good policy environment and efficient services. Specifically, Siming District will provide support from the aspects of policy incentives, examination and approval, publicity and promotion, and jointly plan projects with development prospects with capital operation companies, so as to further enhance the influence of Siming District’s cultural and tourism brand, optimize industrial supply and enhance the core competitiveness of the industry, Boost the high-quality development of cultural tourism industry.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the flow of international funds and personnel has been greatly limited. How to break through the constraints of the epidemic has become an urgent problem for foreign investment in Xiamen. On the first day after the Spring Festival holiday, the main leaders of Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce met with the representatives of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization ITPO (China · Beijing). The two sides exchanged cooperation plans for the new year, discussed the entrusted investment promotion, joint investment promotion, jointly expand the tentacle of foreign investment promotion, extend the scope of publicity, and plan foreign business groups in China to come to Xiamen, so as to explore new clues and new projects.
The person in charge of Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce said that in 2022, we will continue to do a solid job in epidemic prevention and control and stabilizing foreign investment, focus on promoting the action of “tackling key investment projects”, pay equal attention to projects and industries, pay equal attention to negotiation and signing and landing, innovate ways and methods, and strive to introduce a number of large-scale, industrial excellent and driving projects, so as to overcome the difficulties of foreign investment under the epidemic, Firmly stabilize the basic market of foreign investment.
It is understood that Xiamen achieved fruitful results in attracting investment in 2021. A total of 10960 investment projects completed business registration throughout the year, with a total planned investment of 1.76 trillion yuan. There are 462 high-energy projects with a total investment of 364.1 billion yuan, including 162 world top 500 projects and 24 Unicorn projects. High quality projects such as Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.Limited(300750) and byte jump have been implemented, and leading enterprises such as AVIC lithium battery and Shilan Jike have increased capital and expanded production. In addition, Xiamen issued professional investment promotion opinions, established the municipal investment promotion center, and successfully held the 21st CIFIT, Xiamen University Centennial Celebration, global alumni Investment Promotion Conference and other large-scale investment promotion activities.
