"The total volume of foreign trade imports and exports has increased by about 8%." The plan report submitted for review on the 5th shows that China's import and export trade will strive to achieve positive growth in 20.10.

Foreign trade is an important engine driving China's economic development. Under the impact of the international financial crisis last year, foreign trade was “injured”. The total import and export volume for the year was 2,207.27 billion US dollars, down 13.9% year-on-year.

After three consecutive quarters of decline, China’s foreign trade exports “turned positive” for the first time in December last year, an increase of 17.7%. In January of this year, foreign trade import and export continued its upward trend, with a year-on-year increase of 44.4%.

Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said that as long as there is no major change in the domestic and international situation, it is entirely possible that China's foreign trade will achieve a recovery in 2010.

“The order has warmed up, and the company’s operating rate and willingness to invest have doubled.” Yan Yalian, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and deputy inspector of the Zhejiang Provincial Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department, has already felt the recovery of China’s foreign trade. She believes that this is the result of the continuous improvement of the external economic environment and the comprehensive role of China's stable external demand policy measures.

"Of course, we can't be too optimistic about the situation. In the post-crisis era, the global demand structure has undergone major changes. The average annual growth of more than 20% of foreign trade in the past few years is not realistic," said Yan Yalian.

Liang Yaowen, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, said that the foundation of the world economic recovery is unstable, trade protectionism is clearly rising, and that China's foreign economic and trade development methods are still extensive, and the core competitiveness of foreign economic and trade enterprises is not strong. External demand will still face many challenges.

Take the growing trade friction as an example. In 2009, there were more than one hundred trade friction cases involving Chinese products, involving about 12 billion US dollars. Since the beginning of this year, the United States, the European Union and Argentina have successively initiated trade remedy investigations on China's drill pipe, coated paper and clothing products.

"We can't give up because of temporary foreign demand shrinkage or protectionist pressure." Liu Jie, deputy of the National People's Congress and director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Commerce, said that foreign trade is an important way to give full play to China's comparative advantages, promote full employment, and increase residents' income. The continuity and stability of a stable external demand policy must be maintained.

“Domestic enterprises should improve their independent innovation capabilities in key technology areas and enhance the core competitiveness of products and solutions.” Sun Yishu, chairman of the National People’s Congress and chairman and CEO of Inspur Group, suggested that companies can actively explore ways to explore international markets in different ways. For example, try to reduce trade friction by promoting localized operations.

Representative Liang Yaowen believed that the structural adjustment of foreign trade and the transformation of development mode are important driving forces for the transformation of China's economic development mode. In the context of the current complicated domestic and international economic situation, the key is to continue to develop diversified markets, vigorously develop service trade, continuously optimize trade structure, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade on the basis of stabilizing external demand.