“With the policy guidance and strong support of the commerce department, we overcame the epidemic, exchange rate, shipping, rising raw materials and other difficulties by adjusting the product structure and innovating the mode of operation, and achieved contrarian growth. In the first quarter, the export volume of aluminum products was 195 million yuan, an increase of 37% over the same period last year.” On April 25, fan Lei, sales director of Luoyang Longding Aluminum Co., Ltd., said.
According to the data, the import and export value of Henan’s foreign trade in the first quarter reached 203.37 billion yuan, ranking ninth in the country, with a year-on-year increase of 5.1%, achieving a good start.
Strong policy support will help foreign trade enterprises enhance their international competitiveness. Since last year, Henan Provincial Department of Commerce has conscientiously implemented the national and provincial decision-making and deployment of “stabilizing foreign trade”, optimized the market development policies of supporting enterprises, issued the recommended list of international exhibitions and domestic sales exhibitions, included the use of agent exhibition services to participate in overseas exhibitions in the scope of support, encouraged enterprises to use the online exhibition and trade platform to grasp orders, and supported enterprises to participate in export domestic sales exhibitions with high popularity and good effect; Adjust and optimize export credit insurance and continue to expand the coverage of government unified insurance platform for small, medium-sized and micro enterprises; Jointly with Henan Branch of China export and Credit Insurance Corporation, a package of assistance policies were issued to help foreign trade enterprises rebuild after the disaster; Jointly with Henan Branch of the export import bank to carry out special financial assistance activities for flood fighting and stable foreign trade in 2021, and guide enterprises to make good use of the special loan line of 5 billion yuan to stabilize production and operation.
At the same time, Henan Provincial Department of Commerce carried out the activity of “10000 people helping 10000 enterprises”, urged all localities to implement the “white list” and “service officer” system of key “three foreign” enterprises, accurately serve enterprises, continuously optimize the foreign trade business environment and stabilize the market players. Closely follow up and serve Foxconn, accelerate the cultivation of new trade subjects, and promote more enterprises to enter the international market. Further facilitate enterprises to handle import and export procedures and support enterprises to obtain more import and export qualifications and quotas. Timely organize import and export business training, improve the professional quality of enterprise employees, and help enterprises make full use of the policies benefiting the field of foreign trade.
It is understood that the Department of Commerce of Henan province collects and publishes the recommended catalogue of key exhibitions, Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) combined with targeted market development activities, supports enterprises to participate in exhibitions with great influence and good results, helps enterprises to deeply cultivate the traditional market, strive to maintain the market share of the United States, continuously expand the market share of emerging markets, and promote the export of products suitable for the Chinese market to domestic sales. Guide all localities to accurately carry out industrial investment promotion, improve the industrial chain, improve the degree of industrial agglomeration, and build a characteristic foreign trade industrial base. Support the construction of Jiyuan National Processing Trade Industrial Park and build a high-level undertaking platform. Actively apply for the construction of a national foreign trade transformation and upgrading base, continue to support enterprises in overseas patent application, trademark registration, management system certification and product certification, cultivate new products with competitive advantages and build international well-known brands.
In addition, Henan Provincial Department of commerce actively promotes the innovation of supply chain financial services, improves the system integration service capacity of foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises, and guides more small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises to use foreign trade comprehensive services. For example, promote the healthy development of the pilot procurement trade mode in Xuchang market, cultivate and introduce various foreign trade subjects through multiple channels, accelerate the agglomeration of more high-quality brands and commodities inside and outside the province, expand the agglomeration and radiation effect, and expand the trade scale.
(Wang Yanan)
