China Has Maintained Its Position As The World's Largest Trade In Goods For Five Consecutive Years

Affected by the global epidemic in recent years, the toy industry has also encountered problems such as rising raw materials and poor logistics and transportation. But even in such a context, China's toy industry has maintained a steady development. This is behind the efforts of the entire toy industry chain in creating upgrades and other aspects.

 

The toy industry is a microcosm of China's foreign trade. over the past decade, China's goods trade imports and exports have reached record highs, increasing from 24.4 trillion yuan in 2012 to 39.1 trillion yuan last year, an increment of up to 14.7 trillion yuan, a figure close to the total value of imports and exports for the whole of 2009. the 30 trillion yuan mark was broken in 2018, followed by 2021, which is close to the 40 trillion yuan The mark. The international market share has also increased from 10.4% in 2012 to 13.5% last year, and the position of the world's largest country in trade in goods has become more consolidated. Since 2017, China has maintained its position as the world's number one country in goods trade for five consecutive years. In the past decade, the continuous rise in the scale of China's trade in goods fully reflects that China is not only the "world factory", but also the "world market", providing the global market with high-quality and inexpensive goods, while also providing a broader Chinese market for all countries. Development opportunities.

 

Qualitatively speaking, the quality development of foreign trade continues to advance, and foreign trade operators are more dynamic. In the past ten years, foreign trade business entities grew by 1.7 times, foreign trade "circle of friends" continues to expand, and "One Belt and One Road" along the trade of countries continue to deepen and smooth, the domestic regional layout is more optimized, the import and export ratio of China's central and western regions from a decade ago 11.1% to 17.7% last year, an increase of 6.6 percentage points. The structure of import and export commodities is more optimized, and the new momentum of foreign trade development is continuously stimulated. This decade, the high-quality development of foreign trade is a vivid picture of the transformation and upgrading of "Made in China" to "Made in China", China's foreign trade is stronger in participating in international competition, playing a greater role in the economic engine, and a stronger foundation for long-term development.

 

Over the past ten years, the national customs around the general situation of national economic and social development, strengthen supervision and optimization of services to promote the development of high-quality foreign trade.

 

First, continue to optimize the port business environment. Import and export supervision documents from 86 to 41, the overall customs clearance time has been compressed by more than half over the past four years, which saves every minute and every hour can be converted into economic benefits for enterprises.

 

Secondly, we support the construction of an open platform for foreign trade. Promote the innovative development of comprehensive bonded zones, at present, there are 156 comprehensive bonded zones nationwide. Actively carry out innovation in customs supervision system in the pilot free trade zone, adhere to the principle of "manageable, open", study and develop the framework of Hainan free trade port customs supervision program. Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, Pilot Free Trade Zone, Hainan Free Trade Port import and export significantly increased.

 

Third, actively promote the orderly development of new foreign trade, "online bonded imports" "cross-border e-commerce B2B direct exports" "cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse" and other regulatory models to meet the Cross-border e-commerce enterprises' development needs, so that "buy global" and "sell global" become a reality.

 

Fourth, deepen the international cooperation of customs. We have established friendly and cooperative relations with customs authorities in 171 countries and regions, participated in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Customs Organization (WCO) and other FTAs such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), and actively participated in global customs cooperation and governance. Support the construction of "One Belt, One Road" and promote the trade of more than 100 kinds of high-quality agricultural and food products from countries along the route to China from 2013 to 2021. Promoting the mutual recognition cooperation of "Accredited Operators" (AEO), nearly 4,000 Chinese enterprises with advanced customs certification enjoy the same customs clearance facilities abroad as those at home, reducing trade costs and creating a favorable external environment for China's foreign trade.