Openness is a distinct hallmark of Chinese-style modernization.

Deepening the reform of foreign trade system is of great significance.

Deepening the reform of foreign trade system is an intrinsic need for promoting high-level opening up and building a new system of open economy at a higher level. It provides institutional support for the construction of a strong trading country and has significant practical and profound historical significance.

It helps to cultivate new drivers for foreign trade development. Digitalization and greening are the new directions and trends in the development of international trade, and are also the two new drivers for product innovation and structural upgrading of foreign trade. Deepening the reform of foreign trade system requires actively responding to the trends of trade digitalization and greening. On the one hand, digital technology empowers traditional trade, which can enhance the service level of traditional goods trade, further enhance the tradability of services, expand new forms of trade such as digital product trade and digital service trade, and promote more small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals to participate in international trade at a lower cost. On the other hand, the green development of trade can promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, drive the accelerated development of related industries such as domestic new energy and new materials, enrich the supply of products in the international market, enhance product added value and international market competitiveness.

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It helps to promote the construction of a new development pattern. Building a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and the mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation is an inevitable choice to adapt to the new stage of China's development and shape new advantages in international cooperation and competition. Deepening the reform of foreign trade system is an important content to promote the construction of a new development pattern. The Decision proposes to "strengthen the coordination of trade policy and fiscal, financial, and industrial policies, build a system support and policy support system for a strong trading country, and accelerate the integration reform of domestic and foreign trade." These reform measures help to promote the connection and integration of domestic and foreign trade rules and systems, promote the connection of domestic and foreign trade market channels, help enterprises to switch smoothly between domestic and international markets, enhance the risk resistance ability of enterprises, and achieve the mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation. In addition, deepening the reform of foreign trade system can create a systematic environment conducive to the development of new business forms and models, break the local protection and market segmentation, accelerate the construction of a unified national market, promote the construction of a high-standard market economic system, unblock the domestic circulation, and improve the quality and level of international circulation.

It helps to enhance the resilience and security level of industrial chains and supply chains. The current international trade and industrial division pattern is facing reshaping, and the complexity and uncertainty of the external environment continue to rise, further highlighting the importance and urgency of enhancing the resilience and security level of industrial chains and supply chains. Deepening the reform of foreign trade system takes the prevention of risks as an important task, further perfects the trade risk prevention and control mechanism, and improves the export control system and trade remedy system. A series of reform measures to prevent and resolve traditional and new trade risks have been implemented in succession, which helps to unblock the supply and demand blockage in the international market, ensure the security of important strategic materials, effectively respond to trade protectionism, stabilize the basic plate of foreign trade through extending, supplementing, and strengthening the chain, and effectively prevent and resolve various risks and challenges, ensuring the autonomy, controllability, stability, and smoothness of industrial chains and supply chains.

Focus on key areas and clarify key tasks.

To better adapt to the needs of building a high-level socialist market economic system and the new situation of changes in international economic and trade rules, it is necessary to accurately identify changes, respond scientifically to changes, and actively seek changes, focus on new problems and trends in the foreign trade field, pay more attention to system integration, highlight key points, and focus on the actual effect of reform. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized to "promote the optimization and upgrading of goods trade, innovate the development mechanism of service trade, develop digital trade, and accelerate the construction of a strong trading country." The key tasks of deepening the reform of foreign trade system can be carried out around the key areas supporting the construction of a strong trading country.

Promote the optimization and upgrading of goods trade. Optimizing the foreign trade structure and promoting green development are the main directions to achieve the quality and upgrading of goods trade. On the one hand, while strengthening and expanding emerging industries, promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industry exports, consolidate and enhance China's position in the global value chain division of labor; on the other hand, conform to the new requirements of global sustainable development, promote the green transformation of goods trade, improve China's international competitiveness and discourse power in the low-carbon field, and better cope with the challenges brought by new green trade protection rules such as carbon tariffs. Specifically, first, continue to expand border opening and enhance China's position in the global value chain. Accelerate the construction of bulk commodity trading centers and global distribution and distribution centers, support all kinds of entities to orderly layout overseas circulation facilities, support qualified regions to build international logistics hub centers and bulk commodity resource allocation hubs, etc., to promote the upgrading of traditional goods trade. Steadily expand institutional opening, create a first-class business environment, better play the role of market mechanisms, and motivate enterprises to strengthen the attack on key core technologies, allowing enterprises to participate in the global industrial division of labor and innovation division of labor at a deeper level and a higher level, and improve the quality and efficiency of trade development. Second, deepen the linkage between industry and trade, and actively promote the innovative development of green trade. Strengthen the coordination of trade policy and fiscal, financial, and industrial policies, promote low-carbon development of upstream and downstream industries and related industries with green trade, drive the supply chain system to transform in the direction of greening, and promote the construction of a green low-carbon industrial chain and supply chain cooperation system; guide financial institutions to carry out supply chain financial services, develop green credit, provide green and low-carbon transformation financing services for upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain; support enterprises to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the field of green trade, actively dock with international rules to develop green products, and improve the competitiveness of green product trade.

Innovate the development mechanism of service trade. Service trade is an important part of international trade and an important field of international economic and trade cooperation. Its high-quality development has increasingly become a new engine for China to accelerate the development of foreign trade and a new driving force for deepening opening up. First, focus on institutional opening, around building a high-level opening platform and a "test field" for institutional innovation, and dock with international high-standard economic and trade rules. Fully implement the negative list of cross-border service trade, promote the comprehensive pilot demonstration of service industry opening up, actively and actively promote the digital process of service trade, create a demonstration area for the innovative development of service trade, further expand the scope of global service trade cooperation, and build a diversified and high-standard service trade network system. Second, support qualified regions to accelerate the development of offshore trade. As a new trade model, offshore trade is more compatible with the emerging digital trade and new service trade. By optimizing and integrating the supply chain through professional trade intermediaries, it can reduce transaction costs, effectively promote the free flow of factors, and optimize allocation. It is of great significance for expanding new space for foreign trade development, improving China's global competitiveness, and international market resource allocation capacity. In developing new types of offshore international trade business, the focus should be on deepening reforms in optimizing the financial account system, developing offshore financial business, and improving tax competitiveness.