On July 31, the enlarged meeting of the Party group of the Ministry of Commerce was held in Beijing in the middle of 2020. Guided by Xi Jinping’s new socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics, the conference fully implemented the spirit of the nineteen and nineteen sessions of the party’s second, third and fourth plenary sessions of China’s Communist Party, and enhanced the "Four Consciousnesses", "four confidence" and "two maintenance". Comrade Zhong Shan, Secretary of the Party group and Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, presided over the meeting and made a concluding speech.

Novel coronavirus pneumonia has been faced with the sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia since this year. General Secretary Xi Jinping made decisive decisions, personally directed and personally deployed, adhered to the people centered approach, put the people’s life safety and health in the first place, and led the people’s war, the general war, the blocking war and the epidemic prevention and control in the whole country to achieve the major strategic results, and the economy was steadily recovering. Reply. This is fundamentally due to the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the remarkable superiority of the socialist system, which shows the comprehensive national strength accumulated over a long period of time and the strong cohesion of the people of the whole country.

The meeting said that in the first half of the year, business reform and development faced unprecedented challenges. The Party Party committee resolutely implemented the spirit of general secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions, conscientiously implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and coordinated the efforts to promote epidemic prevention and control and business reform and development, and achieved positive results. The business operation has been stable and better than expected, consumption has gradually rebounded, the decline rate of foreign trade has narrowed, foreign investment has stabilized in the middle of the decline, foreign investment has been basically stable, and positive progress has been made in multilateral and bilateral cooperation, which has made due contributions to economic and social development.

The meeting pointed out that in the first half of the year, the Party group of the Ministry conscientiously fulfilled the political responsibility of managing the party and governing the party, comprehensively strengthened party building, strengthened ideological guidance, and provided strong political guarantee for winning the battle of epidemic prevention and control. We will resolutely implement the central epidemic prevention and control plan, ensure the supply of daily necessities, carry out international anti epidemic cooperation, promote the resumption of work and production, strengthen the epidemic prevention and control of overseas enterprises and project personnel, and do a good job in internal prevention and control. We will try our best to stabilize the basic market of foreign trade and foreign investment, promote the introduction of supporting policies and measures, hold the Canton Fair Online, set up comprehensive test zones for cross-border e-commerce, and issue a new negative list of foreign investment access. We will implement the foreign investment law and its supporting regulations. We should actively expand domestic demand and promote consumption, introduce policies and measures to promote consumption, organize and carry out consumption promotion activities, and develop online consumption. One belt, one road, economic and trade cooperation should be deepened and the 6+1 business will be promoted. The electricity supplier will be promoted into the countryside, the transformation and upgrading of the pedestrian street will be organized, the third session will be organized, the port construction will be promoted, the business poverty alleviation will be promoted, and the Sino US economic and trade frictions should be handled. We should deepen bilateral and multilateral economic and trade relations, actively participate in the G20 and other global economic governance platforms, promote the signing of RCEP within the year, promote the negotiation of China Cambodia free trade agreement and China EU investment agreement, and promote the reform of WTO.

The meeting stressed that this year marks the end of the 13th five year plan for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and it is of great responsibility to do a good job in business work. We should do a good job in the "six stability" work, implement the "six guarantees" task, comprehensively promote the normalization of epidemic prevention and control and business reform and development, promote the domestic and international dual circulation, and strive to complete the annual targets and tasks. First, we should firmly promote the construction of political organs, strengthen political beliefs, adhere to political leadership, improve political ability and conserve political ecology. Second, we will spare no effort to stabilize foreign trade, make efforts to stabilize the main body of foreign trade, increase policy support, cultivate new business forms and new models, and successfully run the third China International Fair. Third, we should do everything possible to stabilize foreign investment, make efforts to stabilize the stock of foreign capital and expand the increase of foreign investment, further expand the opening up and optimize the business environment. Fourth, we should take various measures to promote consumption, make efforts to innovate circulation and promote consumption, enhance urban consumption, expand rural consumption and develop service consumption. Five, one belt, one road, one belt, one road, international cooperation, the second summit forum, and the key projects. Sixth, steadily promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation, promote the improvement of global economic governance, accelerate the implementation of the strategy of free trade zone, and do a good job in bilateral economic and trade work. Seventh, we should consolidate and expand the effectiveness of poverty alleviation through business development, carry out in-depth poverty alleviation in e-commerce, home economics, foreign labor services, industry and border trade, and make more contributions to the decisive victory in poverty alleviation and the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.

Members of the Party group of the Ministry attended the meeting and spoke. The main responsible comrades from various departments of the Ministry, some special commissioner’s offices, public institutions directly under the Ministry and the chamber of Commerce attended the meeting. Responsible comrades of the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed in the Ministry and trade audit bureau attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates.