The Party group of the Ministry of Commerce held a meeting to convey and study the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference.

On December 12th, Wang Wentao, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, presided over a party group meeting to convey and study the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and to discuss the deployment of the work. The meeting pointed out the need to deeply study and implement the important speech by General Secretary Xi Jinping, benchmark the requirements of the central government, and focus on promoting the high-quality development of commerce to ensure the effectiveness of the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference in the field of commerce. Efforts should be made to boost consumption, expand the supply of high-quality goods and services, optimize the implementation of policies replacing old products with new ones, and unleash the potential of service consumption. It is necessary to steadily promote institutional opening up, orderly expand autonomous opening up in the service sector, and optimize the layout scope of free trade pilot zones. Promote innovative development in trade, promote the integration of trade and investment, domestic and foreign trade, optimize and upgrade commodity trade, encourage and support service exports, actively develop digital trade and green trade. Deepen the reform of the foreign investment promotion system and mechanism, shape new advantages in attracting foreign investment. Guide the rational and orderly cross-border layout of production and supply chains, improve the comprehensive overseas service system. Promote the high-quality development of jointly building the "Belt and Road." Promote the signing of more regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements.