As the epidemic situation changes and prevention and control policies continue to be optimized, many places are shifting their focus to "fighting for the economy."
Recently, a number of local governments have taken action and launched “groups to go overseas” to attract investment.
In the early morning of December 9, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province provided charter flights and organized an investment promotion team to go to Europe to carry out investment promotion work.
It is reported that this is the first charter flight service for economic and trade cooperation in France and Germany organized at the local government level in China since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020.
Prior to this, on November 17, Suzhou had organized the first batch of economic and trade charter flights to Japan. Hundreds of investment recruiters and heads of foreign trade companies carried out investment promotion work in Japan and secured orders of more than 1 billion yuan.
At the same time, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces have also recently launched cross-border investment promotion operations.
This is the first batch of outbound investment promotion business delegations organized at the provincial level dispatched by the above two provinces since the outbreak of the epidemic.
On December 6, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting to analyze and study the economic work in 2023.
The meeting emphasized the need to vigorously boost market confidence, focus on stabilizing growth, stabilizing employment, and stabilizing prices, promote the overall improvement of economic operations, and make a good start for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
On December 7, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council issued the "Notice on Further Optimizing and Implementing the Prevention and Control Measures for the New Coronavirus Epidemic", known as the "New Ten Articles", which covers ten aspects including risk area division, nucleic acid testing, and isolation methods.
further optimization.
Analysts believe that with the changes in the epidemic prevention and control situation, many places have begun to shift their focus to promoting the overall improvement of economic operations, and "fighting for the economy" is becoming a concerted action in many places.
Containers from the Guangzhou Free Trade Zone port have been "going out to sea in groups" in many places in recent days. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places have taken urgent action.
According to incomplete statistics, so far, at least 20 economic and trade delegations have been successfully organized across the country to go overseas.
From November 17th to 23rd, the Suzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau of Jiangsu Province organized a charter flight service to Japan. Hundreds of investment recruiters and heads of foreign trade companies went to Japan to carry out investment promotion activities. This became the first time that China's local government level organized this event since the 2020 epidemic.
Charter services for large economic and trade groups.
It is understood that the "Investment Promotion Team" of various districts and cities under the jurisdiction of Suzhou visited 62 companies and relevant institutions, held 3 exchange and promotion meetings, and reached 32 investment projects with an intended investment of US$1.86 billion; foreign trade companies actively
Expanding the market and grabbing orders, we visited more than 200 Japanese customers and strived for orders worth over 1 billion yuan.
From December 9th to 18th, the charter flight service to France and Germany organized by the Suzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau started again.
Local media reported that this charter flight is China’s first economic and trade group charter flight to France and Germany since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020.
According to reports, this charter service was led by the main person in charge of the Suzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau, with a total number of more than 200 people. Among them, county-level cities and districts under Suzhou such as Zhangjiagang, Kunshan, Changshu, and Taicang also sent 30 "investment agents"
Team" with more than 100 people.
At the same time, about 100 senior executives from foreign trade companies went to Europe to maintain customers and win orders.
Not only Suzhou, but also Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, has previously built an "international business flight" channel. The commerce, finance, public security, immigration and other departments have worked together to provide one-stop services for local companies to go overseas.
Relevant policies show that when Nanjing's foreign trade enterprises go overseas to participate in exhibitions, negotiate and other business activities, the transportation expenses and entry quarantine expenses incurred will be subsidized at a rate of no more than 50%, and the entry and exit air tickets can be reimbursed up to 8,000 yuan.
Zhejiang, which is also a major foreign trade province like Jiangsu, has recently officially launched the "Thousands of Groups and Thousands of Enterprises to Expand the Market and Grab Orders" campaign.
On December 4, a team composed of relevant leaders from the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and other provincial departments began a six-day trip to Europe.
This European trip is the first stop of Zhejiang Province’s “Thousands of Groups and Tens of Thousands of Enterprises to Expand the Market and Grab Orders”. This action is led by the Provincial Department of Commerce and the government, and coordinates enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions and conduct business negotiations.
Negotiate to help companies expand overseas markets.
In the view of the local government, this move will further release positive signals for market expansion, encourage development confidence of foreign economic and trade enterprises, and enhance development expectations.
It is said that Zhejiang will also organize more than 10,000 companies to participate in economic and trade activities abroad through charter flights, shared flights, flights and other modes.
Ningbo business charter flights to Europe to "grab orders" Source: Ningbo Evening News In fact, as early as July, the Jiaxing Municipal Commerce Bureau in Zhejiang Province began planning to charter flights out of the country to grab orders and customers.
Although more than 80 people signed up after various publicity and instigation, nearly half of the companies soon backed down because they were worried that they would not be able to come back due to the impact of the epidemic prevention policy.
The turning point came from the end of November to the beginning of December. With the optimization of prevention and control measures, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and other provincial departments put into practice the long-planned overseas business delegations and organized foreign trade companies' trips to Japan and Europe.
On December 4, a group participating in the Asian Textile and Garment Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, from Jiaxing, Zhejiang, also took a chartered flight to Tokyo, Japan. There were nearly 100 people from 50 exhibiting companies in the chartered flight.