Bright Net News On the morning of March 1, the State Council Information Office held a press conference to introduce the high-quality development of commerce. Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce, said that the business operation in the past year was stable and improving, which was better than expected. From the perspective of domestic consumption, it has continued to recover steadily; from the perspective of foreign trade, both in terms of scale and international market share, it has reached a new high, the use of foreign capital has grown rapidly, foreign investment has remained stable, and multilateral and bilateral economic and trade cooperation has achieved new breakthroughs.
Consumption is the first driving force for economic growth. Stabilizing consumption plays an important role in stabilizing the macroeconomic market. The current spread of the epidemic has brought greater pressure to the recovery of consumption. In this regard, Wang Wentao responded that from last year, consumption continued to recover steadily, and the total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 12.5%, especially the online retail sales of physical goods accounted for 24.5%. Smart consumption, green consumption, and healthy consumption are all growing rapidly, and consumption has returned to the first driving force of economic growth.
“But we also saw that there have been some situations in consumption since the fourth quarter of last year, that is, the downward pressure is increasing. The social zero growth rate was 4.9% in October, 3.9% in November, and 1.7% in December. In general, we feel that, The downward pressure on consumption is still very large, and the pressure on stabilizing consumption this year is not small.” Wang Wentao said frankly.
Regarding how to make efforts to promote the stable recovery of consumption, Wang Shouwen said that the commerce department will conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, firmly implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand, coordinate the epidemic prevention and control and consumption promotion work, and do everything possible to promote the continuous recovery and upgrading of consumption, from three In one aspect, the fundamental role of consumption in economic development will be enhanced.
First, do a good job in implementing policies and enhance the vitality of the main body of the consumer market.Consumption, especially basic consumption and aggregated consumption, are most directly affected by the epidemic, such as catering, accommodation, and retail, which are more affected by the epidemic, and these industries have more difficulties, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. great living pressure. According to the deployment of the State Council, 14 departments of the State Council jointly issued a number of policies to promote the recovery and development of difficult industries in the service industry, and put forward strong and targeted rescue and assistance policies for these industries, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. Put these bailout policies into place.
The second is to innovate ideas and methods, and run consumption promotion activities well.Last year, the business system organized a series of activities such as the National Consumption Promotion Month, the Online New Year’s Day, the Double Product Online Shopping Festival, and the Carnival of Time-honored Brands. Through evaluation, these activities have played an obvious positive role in promoting consumption. This year, under the premise of effective epidemic prevention and control, the commerce department will summarize the experience and practices of last year’s consumption promotion activities, and continue to organize a series of consumption promotion activities. For example, the launching ceremony of the “2022 National Consumption Promotion Month” will be held in Beijing tonight. In the next period of time, through the integration of online and offline various activities to promote consumption, such as consumer expo, car carnival, home consumption season, to stabilize the consumption of key commodities, at the same time, with the help of the great success of the Beijing Winter Olympics The “ice and snow fever” and ice and snow consumption, organized various forms of ice and snow themed consumption promotion activities.
The third is to serve a better life and create a consumption upgrade platform.In terms of cities, the commerce department launched five cities to cultivate international consumption centers last year. After nearly a year of cultivation, we will summarize and improve. At the same time, we will further promote the high-quality development of pedestrian streets, carry out the demonstration and creation of smart business districts and smart stores, and accelerate the construction of a “fifteen-hour convenient living circle” that is convenient for residents’ lives. We will also encourage the development of new business forms, new models and new scenarios. There are innovations in many places, and some characteristic neighborhoods and Internet celebrity check-in places have been formed. The commerce department will support qualified places to develop the first store economy and the first launch economy, expand new types of consumption such as customization, experience, intelligence, and fashion, develop green and healthy consumption, and better meet the people’s needs for a better life. (Reporter Yang Yu)
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