On January 17, the reporter learned from the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province that in 2021, the three business indicators of Guangdong's foreign trade, foreign investment and consumption reached a record high, of which the import and export is expected to exceed 8 trillion yuan for the first time, and the actual utilization of foreign investment exceeds 180 billion yuan. Foreign trade hit a record high against the trend Global trade was impacted by the epidemic, and Guangdong's foreign trade bucked the trend and stabilized the basic foreign trade under many adverse factors. Since 2021, Guangdong has made a series of policy "combination punches" to promote high-quality trade development by focusing on the "top ten projects". Guangdong has issued "10 high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce" and "8 innovative development of market procurement trade". Seven comprehensive test areas have been included in the pilot of cross-border e-commerce retail import. It is expected that the scale of cross-border e-commerce and market procurement will both exceed 300 billion yuan in the whole year. It is expected that the import and export of the top 100 trade enterprises in the whole year will account for more than 1 / 3 of the province. Guangdong has also implemented the "15 articles on processing trade" to support the cultivation of the first batch of 20 leading enterprises in processing trade. It is expected that the import and export of processing trade will exceed 2.2 trillion yuan in the whole year. Financial innovation provides strong guarantee and injects "living water" into the source of foreign trade development. The underwriting scale of policy export credit insurance exceeds US $100 billion, and "trade finance and trade" provides financing support of RMB 2.4 billion for small, medium-sized and micro foreign trade enterprises. The utilization of foreign capital increased steadily and rapidly In the past year, Guangdong innovation held the Symposium on multinational corporations' investment in Guangdong during the 14th five year plan and the annual conference on multinational corporations' investment, with a total investment of more than 400 billion yuan. The investment sources of the contracted projects are all over major countries and regions in the world, involving strategic emerging industries such as electronic information, new materials, new retail, modern food and modern logistics, adding new momentum to the high-quality economic development of Guangdong. Guangdong has also continuously optimized its services and promoted eight commercial banks to invest 300 billion yuan of credit funds to support the construction of key foreign-funded enterprises and projects. At the same time, 194 key foreign-funded enterprises have established point service accounts. It is estimated that there are more than 62 projects with a capital of more than US $100 million in the province, and the actual foreign capital is US $16 billion, an increase of about 50% year-on-year. The utilization of foreign capital in the whole year has increased steadily and rapidly. Expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption upgrading Over the past year, Guangdong has accelerated the development of new consumption such as live e-commerce and smart stores. It is expected that the province will carry out 3.2 million live broadcasting activities. At the same time, the "2021 national online New Year Festival" and the third "double product online shopping festival" were organized to promote the construction of live broadcasting bases for five major e-commerce industries such as clothing, digital and beauty. It is estimated that the province's online retail sales will reach 3.3 trillion yuan, an increase of more than 10%, ranking first in the country. Guangdong has also added seven national e-commerce comprehensive demonstration counties into rural areas, built 52 county-level e-commerce service centers and more than 6000 e-commerce service stations, and trained nearly 300000 e-commerce talents. It is expected that the province's rural online retail sales will be 63 billion yuan, an increase of more than 15%, and actively contribute to the revitalization of villages and towns. (Xinhua News Agency)