Zhanjiang foreign trade: the economy in the first quarter: people are mixed.
Judging from the economic operation in the first quarter reported by the city's economic situation analysis meeting, the city's economy in the first quarter was mixed. Fortunately, the overall economic growth has been steady, industrial benefits have been significantly enhanced, investment has been significantly enhanced, and foreign trade exports, trade logistics, private economy and income growth of urban and rural residents have accelerated; The worry is that the momentum of economic growth has slowed down significantly. In the first quarter, the city's GDP growth rate dropped at a high level, 4.3 percentage points lower than that of the same period last year, 65,438 0.7 and 2.5 percentage points lower than that of the whole country and the whole province respectively, ranking first in the province.
From June to March, the total import and export volume of our city was 720 million US dollars, an increase of 7 1.3%. Import and export work is gradually coming out of the quagmire of the financial crisis, showing a recovery growth.
In the first quarter, Dongxing benefited from expanding production, importing a large amount of crude oil, and the import volume increased greatly. On the export side, the export of traditional commodities maintained rapid growth. Aquatic products and their deep-processed products, electromechanical products and furniture account for 64.5% of the city's total exports, and exports to some emerging markets such as Russia and India have grown rapidly.
However, it is undeniable that Zhanjiang's foreign trade and economic cooperation work is still very weak. In terms of attracting investment, there are not many foreign-funded projects under discussion, construction and planning except the Sino-Kuwait joint venture refining and chemical integration project, and the stock of foreign capital is seriously insufficient; The development of foreign capital utilization in counties (cities, districts) is extremely unbalanced, and most counties (cities, districts) are in a passive situation. In the first quarter, among the counties (cities, districts) in the city 10, there are still three counties (cities, districts) with zero number of newly approved foreign-funded projects.
This year is the first year of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan and also the year of major projects. How to seize this opportunity to make the cake of "foreign trade and economic cooperation" bigger and stronger? Wang Xiaosui, director of the Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, said that in terms of utilizing foreign capital, it will rely on major projects to conduct targeted investment promotion and industrial chain investment promotion for multinational enterprises. Taking the Sino-Kuwait joint venture Guangdong refining and chemical integration project as the leader, we will focus on planning and introducing a number of petrochemical industrial chain projects with high correlation, large investment and strong driving force, as well as supporting projects and enterprises; Based on iron and steel projects, Chenming Pulp Project and Zheng Da Project, we will carry out investment promotion for iron and steel products deep processing, paper industry cluster, modern agricultural projects and other related projects.
In terms of foreign trade, it will further strengthen economic and trade cooperation with ASEAN. Actively strive for provincial support, strengthen cooperation with China-ASEAN Business Council, run the annual meeting of China-ASEAN Logistics Industry Cooperation Committee, China-ASEAN Modern Agricultural Cooperation Demonstration Zone and China-ASEAN Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Zhanjiang Annual Meeting, actively build a docking exchange platform with ASEAN industries, guide foreign trade enterprises to actively use 90% of the trade products of China and ASEAN countries, and expand import and export trade with ASEAN countries with zero tariffs.
In addition, we will continue to do a good job in the examination and approval of bonded logistics centers (type B) and promote infrastructure construction. It is reported that the approval of Zhanjiang Bonded Logistics Center (Type B) has been clearly supported by the leaders of the General Administration of Customs, but we have not made substantive contact with the Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. In the next step, we will further strengthen communication and coordination with relevant departments of the provincial government and actively strive for the support of the provincial government.