On March 20th, He Yong, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, stated at the regular press conference that promoting the integration of domestic and foreign trade is an important measure to build a new development pattern. The Ministry of Commerce will strengthen policy support for the integration of domestic and foreign trade, and encourage financial institutions to increase their support in financing, interest rates, and other aspects. We will make every effort to stabilize foreign investment, further expand the areas of opening up, and focus on researching pilot projects to expand opening up in education, culture, and other fields. Currently, in the face of an increasingly complex, severe, and uncertain external environment, China's super large domestic market is a strong support for foreign trade enterprises. While supporting enterprises to explore diversified international markets, we will take four measures to help foreign trade enterprises better rely on the domestic market and effectively respond to external shocks and challenges, "said He Yongqian. Specifically, He Yongqian introduced that the Ministry of Commerce will organize domestic sales activities for high-quality foreign trade products. One of the key tasks this year is to carry out the China Tour of Foreign Trade Excellence, which is a platform specially built for foreign trade enterprises to expand their domestic sales. The main content is' 1+10+N ', which means holding a launch ceremony, leveraging the role of 10 major economic provinces, and carrying out various forms of exhibition, sales, and negotiation activities to help foreign trade enterprises broaden their domestic channels, "said He Yongqian. Promote the integration of internal and external standard certification. He Yongqian stated that the Ministry of Commerce will conduct a survey on the connection between foreign trade standard certification and relevant departments, organize domestic and international standard comparisons, improve the consistency of domestic and international standards, break through the bottleneck of domestic sales of exported products, and reduce the cost of enterprise market transformation system. Strengthen policy support for the integration of domestic and foreign trade. She stated that the Ministry of Commerce will coordinate and make good use of existing funding channels to support enterprises in expanding their markets, while complying with WTO rules. Implement domestic trade credit insurance policies, support enterprises to adopt insurance methods, and diversify their trade risks; At the same time, encourage financial institutions to increase their support in financing, interest rates, and other aspects. Build a comprehensive service platform. He Yongqian said that in response to the unfamiliarity of foreign trade enterprises with the domestic market, we will cultivate and strengthen integrated public service platforms and comprehensive service enterprises for domestic and foreign trade, providing high-quality and efficient policy consultation, standard certification, market development, financial insurance and other "one-stop" comprehensive services for foreign trade enterprises to expand their domestic sales. Regarding the measures to stabilize foreign investment in further expanding open areas, He Yongqian stated that the Ministry of Commerce will focus on implementing the "2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment" and make every effort to do a good job in stabilizing foreign investment from three aspects. Further expand the areas of openness He Yongqian said that last year, the Ministry of Commerce promoted pilot projects to expand the opening up of value-added telecommunications, biotechnology, and wholly-owned hospitals in some areas. At present, 13 foreign-funded enterprises have been approved for value-added telecommunications services, more than 40 foreign-funded enterprises have implemented biotechnology projects, 3 newly established wholly foreign-owned hospitals have been approved, and many foreign-funded enterprises are actively promoting investment projects in pilot open areas. This year, we will continue to accelerate the implementation of pilot projects in related fields, steadily and orderly expand the scope of pilot projects, and focus on studying the expansion of open pilot projects in education, culture and other fields, "she revealed. Continuously building the 'Invest in China' brand. He Yongqian stated that the Ministry of Commerce will prepare to go to key and emerging investment sources such as Europe, the United States, South Korea, Singapore, and the Middle East to carry out a series of themed activities on "Investing in China". At the same time, we will focus on hosting the 25th China International Trade and Investment Fair and creating a landmark exhibition for "investing in China"; Organize theme promotion activities such as free trade zones during the CIIE. Support various regions to focus on key countries and carry out investment promotion activities in a standardized and orderly manner according to local conditions under the framework of "investing in China". Continuously optimizing services and environment. This year, we have launched the work of 'Service Guarantee for Foreign Enterprises', creating a service exchange platform that is' no matter what, no matter what', actively promoting the solution to the difficulties faced by foreign-funded enterprises in China. We will continue to provide equal support to domestic and foreign enterprises to participate in large-scale equipment updates, trade in of consumer goods, government procurement, bidding and other activities, and provide a fair competitive environment for foreign-funded enterprises, "said He Yongqian. (New Society)