Ministry of Commerce: Support the digital transformation of traditional wholesale and retail industries, promote consumption expansion and improvement.

On July 17, the Department of Commerce Development held a symposium on the pilot work of the modern commercial distribution system in Chongqing. The meeting emphasized the following points: first, it is necessary to combine the overall situation with distinctive features, identify the positioning of pilot work, rely on local resources and industrial advantages, form unique paths and models for the development of modern commercial distribution, and enhance the recognition of pilot work. Second, it is necessary to combine revitalizing existing resources with optimizing new resources, support the digital transformation of traditional wholesale and retail industries, accelerate the renovation of old commercial facilities, promote the transformation and upgrading of physical commerce, vigorously develop new productivity, promote new technologies, new formats, and new models, cultivate high-quality commercial increment. Third, it is necessary to combine strengths and weaknesses, optimize the layout of county-level commercial distribution facilities, create consumer integration scenarios, enrich brand supply, stimulate the vitality of decentralized market consumption, comprehensively expand and upgrade convenience living circles, guide high-quality commercial resources to sink into communities, continuously improve the urban recycling system of renewable resources, be close to the people, and serve the masses. Fourth, it is necessary to combine facility construction with service improvement, vigorously develop digital supply chains, promote standardized distribution construction, coordinate construction and operation, strengthen closed-loop management, and ensure that pilot projects continue to play their effective role.