150 major water conservancy projects are expected to incite 6.6 trillion yuan to invest in transportation and major agricultural investment expansion.

　　Carry out steady investment, accelerate the progress of mega-projects in multi-key areas.

　　On July 13th, the State Council held a routine briefing on the State Council policy, releasing a clear signal that 150 major water conservancy projects will be arranged, with a total investment of about 1.29 trillion yuan, which can drive direct and indirect investment of about 6.6 trillion yuan.

　　In fact, not only water conservancy projects, but also a large number of super-major projects, including comprehensive transportation system construction, high-standard farmland construction and modern sewage treatment system engineering, are stepping up planning and promotion. Industry experts interviewed by this reporter said that focusing on short-term benefits to the people’s livelihood, we should speed up top-level planning and increase policy efforts to promote the landing of a number of super-large projects, which is conducive to stabilizing investment and stabilizing the economy, as well as the national economy and people’s livelihood.

　　The the State Council executive meeting held on July 8th studied and deployed 150 major water conservancy projects in 2020-2022 to promote the expansion of effective investment and enhance the ability to prevent floods and droughts.

　　The briefing held by the State Council Office on the 13th further disclosed the relevant details. Su Wei, Deputy Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission, introduced that there are five major types of 150 major water conservancy projects, including 56 flood control and disaster reduction projects, 26 water resources optimal allocation projects, 55 irrigation water saving and water supply projects, 8 water ecological protection and restoration projects, and 5 smart water conservancy projects, among which 96 projects involve major national strategies such as coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.

　　In terms of investment scale, the total investment of 150 major water conservancy projects is 1.29 trillion yuan, 5 projects exceed 50 billion yuan, 4 projects range from 30 billion yuan to 50 billion yuan, and 18 projects range from 10 billion yuan to 30 billion yuan.

　　Not only water conservancy projects, but also focusing on making up shortcomings. Since the beginning of this year, major investment projects in many fields have been accelerated, especially a number of major projects with huge total investment have begun to accelerate planning.

　　A few days ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and other seven departments jointly issued the Opinions on Expanding Effective Investment in Agriculture and Rural Areas and Accelerating the Shortcomings in the Field of Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers. The "Opinions" require that we should speed up the construction of major short-board projects in 11 key agricultural and rural areas such as high-standard farmland, cold chain logistics facilities for agricultural products storage and preservation, modern agricultural parks, animal and plant protection, coastal modern fishing ports, rural human settlements improvement, rural water supply security, township sewage treatment, smart agriculture and digital villages, rural roads and rural power grids.

　　The national video and telephone conference on expanding effective investment in agriculture and rural areas held on July 10 emphasized the need to effectively increase investment in agriculture and rural areas. The meeting pointed out that expanding effective investment in agriculture and rural areas is an urgent requirement to improve the level of modernization in agriculture and rural areas, and it is necessary to continuously increase investment around key areas and strive to reverse the downward trend of investment.

　　The main works of 120 bridges across the line have all been completed … … Recently, the construction of Lhasa-Linzhi section in sichuan-tibet railway has been reported frequently, and the construction of Ya ‘an section in Sichuan and Linzhi section in Tibet will soon start. The construction of other landmark major traffic projects, such as the Shenzhen-China Passage, is also accelerating.

　　According to the data of the Ministry of Transport, from January to May this year, the investment in transportation fixed assets was 1,022.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.9%. The reporter of the Economic Information Daily learned from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd.") that as of July 1, the new railway line had opened 1,178 kilometers, including 605 kilometers of high-speed rail.

　　The person in charge of the Ministry of Construction of China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd. said that a number of key projects, such as Yinchuan-Xi ‘an high-speed railway, Hebei section of Beijing-xiong’an new area intercity railway, Hefei-Anqing high-speed railway and Huai ‘an-Zhenjiang railway, which are planned to be opened in the second half of this year, are progressing in an orderly manner and will be opened as scheduled. It is estimated that about 4,400 kilometers of new railway lines will be opened this year, including about 2,300 kilometers of high-speed railway.

　　A few days ago, Li Xiaopeng, Minister of Transport, mentioned at a ministerial meeting that in the second half of the year, we should do our best to speed up the construction of a transportation power, prepare a good plan, solidly promote various batches of pilots, and promote major projects. At the same time, efforts should be made to expand effective investment in transportation fixed assets.

　　The industry pointed out that the huge investment scale and long industrial chain of major projects have obvious effects on expanding domestic demand, stimulating economic growth and promoting employment, and will also benefit people’s livelihood and lay a good foundation for China’s modernization.

　　Taking water conservancy construction as an example, "major water conservancy projects are important infrastructure to ensure national water security, and they are also important areas for national infrastructure to make up for shortcomings." Ye Jianchun, vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that these 150 major water conservancy projects can directly and indirectly drive investment of 6.6 trillion yuan, and at the same time increase employment by about 800,000 jobs annually.

　　"The role of investment in the bottoming economy in the second half of the year is more prominent, and infrastructure investment is an important force." Fan Ruoying, a researcher at the Institute of International Finance of Bank of China, told the Economic Information Daily that in the planning of major projects, efforts should be made to promote the construction of "two new and one heavy" related projects. It is necessary to make overall planning from the top-level design level. On the one hand, we should proactively lay out high-tech and emerging industries, increase the layout of new infrastructure projects such as 5G infrastructure, new energy vehicle charging piles, artificial intelligence and industrial internet, and encourage localities to carry out "new infrastructure" projects in light of their own economic characteristics to avoid repeated construction. On the other hand, we attach great importance to investment in short-board areas. Combined with the epidemic prevention and control, floods and other disasters, the shortcomings in related fields in China have been exposed. In the future, we should increase investment in public health facilities, major water conservancy projects, poverty alleviation, agriculture and rural areas, and ecological and environmental protection.

　　Zhang Liqun, a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Department of the State Council Development Research Center, told the Economic Information Daily that at present, the most prominent problem that restricts the further recovery of China’s economy is insufficient demand. In the next step, we should work hard to boost infrastructure, and do a good job of making up shortcomings by combining long and short. In the second half of the year, we should focus on the overall long-term planning and accelerate the planning and construction of overall long-term large-scale projects.

　　The promotion of major projects is inseparable from financial support. In addition to accelerating the landing of financial and financial funds, the industry pointed out that deepening the reform of investment and financing system, especially attracting social capital, is also of great significance for promoting major project construction.

　　Su Wei said that the total investment scale of 150 major water conservancy projects is very large, and it is necessary to deepen the reform of investment and financing system and raise funds for project construction through multiple channels.

　　Fan Ruoxuan also suggested establishing and improving a long-term mechanism to attract private capital to invest in key areas, continuing to break down hidden obstacles for private capital to enter key areas, and boosting market participants’ confidence in long-term investment and operation. Flexible arrangement of financing mode, encourage commercial financial institutions to participate in the project through creditor’s rights, equity, asset support plan and other ways. Moderately relax the entry threshold for foreign investment in infrastructure, and introduce long-term foreign investment to participate in related projects under the premise of controlling risks. In addition, give greater play to the role of policy finance, and support major infrastructure projects through special construction funds and supplementary mortgage loans (PSL) to support specific areas of infrastructure. (Reporter Sun Yuhua, Ban Juanjuan, Wang Lu)

　　According to the data released by the General Administration of Customs recently, the import and export of goods in China increased by 4.8% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, and the export increased by 8.4%, reversing the slight decline in foreign trade from January to February, and the foreign trade showed accelerated growth on a monthly basis. The export growth data is even brighter. In March, exports increased by 23.4% year-on-year and 48.4% quarter-on-quarter, which was significantly higher than the export level from January to February. These data show that the advantages of China’s foreign trade development have emerged, showing strong resilience and a smooth start.

　　At present, due to the persistent geopolitical conflicts, the tightening of monetary policies in major countries, high inflation and the uncertainty of global financial markets, the trade of all countries in the world is tightening, and the foreign trade competition is becoming increasingly fierce. China’s high labor productivity, constantly improving R&D level, strong industrial supporting capacity, large-scale market space, strong policy guarantee and continuous release of institutional innovation dividends constitute the comprehensive advantages of foreign trade toughness and stability, which reflects strong foreign trade competitiveness. To realize the strategy of strengthening the country by trade, we must take stabilizing confidence and boosting expectations as the basic foothold, and promote foreign trade subjects to have firm confidence in facing difficulties and turn it into positive and effective action consciousness, so as to better cope with various risk challenges and promote the leap from quantitative change to qualitative change in foreign trade.

　　Expectation refers to a kind of psychological activity, which is a future psychological judgment formed on the basis of understanding the reality. In economics, expectation is the judgment of different subjects in the economy, such as government, enterprises and people, on the economic development trend, and accordingly they take corresponding actions. Generally speaking, with sufficient information, economic subjects can better understand the long-term factors affecting economic development, make correct judgments and take rational actions. However, under the condition of asymmetric information, economic subjects may only pay attention to the current situation and be influenced by short-term factors, forming irrational expectations for the future, making wrong judgments and behaviors, and affecting long-term economic development. At present, China’s foreign trade shows a stable and positive trend in the complex external environment, but there are also short-term fluctuations and difficulties. If foreign trade expectations weaken and irrational expectations appear, it will not be conducive to the stability and long-term sustainable development of foreign trade. Therefore, we must focus on the long-term, boost the good expectations of foreign trade development, guide foreign trade-related subjects to correctly understand the fundamentals of China’s foreign trade development, rationally judge the comprehensive advantages and long-term foundation of foreign trade development, and take scientific and reasonable actions.

　　To boost foreign trade expectations, we must strengthen our faith. Eliminate the interference of short-term factors and bad news in foreign trade, emphasize the long-term belief in foreign trade development, and make long-term plans. It is not the short-term performance of some indicators that will boost the good expectations of foreign trade, and it is even more impossible to simply adopt a short-term single policy based on the ups and downs of some indicators. Instead, we should focus on the long-term development of trade, continuously adjust and improve policies, make a good combination of foreign trade policies, and put forward scientific and clear path plans for long-standing problems in foreign trade. Only in this way can foreign trade subjects comprehensively and rationally grasp the current situation and future of foreign trade, strengthen their beliefs and continue to exert their strength. A few days ago, the the State Council executive meeting put forward the idea of "continuously enriching, adjusting and perfecting relevant policies, and implementing a combination of policies to stabilize foreign trade", which brought good expectations for foreign trade development from a policy perspective.

　　To boost foreign trade expectations, it is necessary to effectively implement and coordinate various policies and measures. According to the current situation of foreign trade development, in view of various deep-seated problems and constraints in foreign trade development, we should earnestly implement various policies to stabilize foreign trade and strengthen foreign trade, pay attention to coordinating and connecting all policies and measures, promote the balanced linkage among long-term foreign trade goals, key tasks, macro policies and reform measures, avoid policy conflicts and overlapping of executive agencies, strengthen policy synergy and improve good expectations for the effectiveness of foreign trade policy implementation.

　　To boost foreign trade expectations, we need to strengthen publicity and communication to reduce information asymmetry. Through various channels, strengthen publicity and communication with foreign trade subjects, and strengthen foreign trade subjects’ cognition of various support policies and comprehensive advantages of foreign trade; Through the scientific interpretation of the strategy of strengthening the country by trade, we will increase the publicity of scientific planning and effective programs for foreign trade development, and enhance the rational expectations of foreign trade subjects for China’s high-level opening up. Respond to the demands and concerns of foreign trade enterprises in a timely manner, strengthen information symmetry, break down information barriers, and actively guide the healthy development of foreign trade subjects’ psychological expectations.

　　It is also necessary to deepen the reform of foreign trade system to boost foreign trade expectations. With the goal of building a new open economic system at a higher level, we should continue to create a first-class foreign trade business environment, take the construction of a free trade pilot zone and a free trade port as an opportunity, deepen institutional reform in key areas of foreign trade, fully implement reform measures, promote foreign trade liberalization and facilitation, effectively transform government functions, build a service-oriented government, and create an open, transparent, fair competition, open and innovative foreign trade environment. At the same time, it will promote foreign trade subjects to form a positive understanding of future development space and opportunities, boost development expectations and activate foreign trade momentum. (This article Source: Economic Daily Author: Lan Qingxin)

Another traditional paper media belongs to "silence"

On September 21st, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Daily published a closing speech on the front page, saying that it was "officially announcing the fall of another paper media". Earlier, on September 18th and 19th, the newspaper issued a notice of publication suspension for two consecutive days, saying, "According to the requirements of adjusting the orientation of newspapers and optimizing the structure of newspapers and periodicals, it was decided through research that the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Newspaper will be closed from September 21st, 2015."

On September 21st, the front page of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan newspaper was closed.

This special issue named "A Brief History of News" consists of 8 editions. In addition to publishing the closing words and displaying the front pages of 24 previous issues, several employees of the former Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Newspaper are invited to write or edit the edition, which is divided into two sections: "Xiangjiang River is not corrupt" and "Qian Shan alone".

Liu Yuan, a former executive editor-in-chief of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Daily, revealed in Weibo that on the afternoon of 20th, he made a farewell special issue with former colleagues of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Daily who rushed back from various places to see off this beloved newspaper. "We come and go with dignity."

According to public information, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Newspaper belongs to xiaoxiang morning herald Society and was renamed from the previous Hunan Economic Newspaper. It was officially launched on June 6, 2011 and distributed simultaneously in Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, Hunan.

More than four years later, this newspaper was fixed in the 1454th issue.

"In the past four years, it has recorded the morning dew and sunset of the city, adhering to the belief that’ Xiangjiang River does not rot my way and is not alone’, and it has promoted the civilization and progress of the city bit by bit. We used to do our best, and we tried our best. " The newspaper wrote this in its closing remarks.

In 2014, Hunan’s state-owned cultural resources were reorganized on a large scale. The Propaganda Department of Hunan Provincial Party Committee called the heads of major media and cultural enterprises in the province to announce the "Reform Plan for Deepening the Management System of State-owned Cultural Assets in the Province". According to this plan, newspapers and periodicals such as xiaoxiang morning herald, Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, Legal Weekly, Golden Eagle and Contemporary Business Newspaper will be placed under the management of Hunan Daily Newspaper Group Co., Ltd.

At that time, some insiders analyzed that due to the conflict in the positioning of newspapers under the Hunan Daily Newspaper Group, it was imperative for some newspapers to suspend publication.

According to the report of shanghai securities news, the basic idea of this plan, which has been brewing for nearly a year, is similar to that of Shanghai: under the premise of effective public opinion management, intensive management, specialization and large-scale production will be carried out, horizontal competition will be eliminated, and cultural media enterprises with advantages will become bigger and stronger.

In recent years, the domestic traditional paper media have accelerated their "death", and many newspapers, including Evening News, Competitive Newspaper, Daily News and Life News, have stopped publishing or closed down one after another.

Cross-border e-commerce has maintained strong growth, overseas warehouses have become an important platform, and market procurement and trade methods have developed rapidly.
Accelerate the development of new foreign trade formats and new models.

Expand the pilot scope of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive experimental zone, actively promote the development of overseas warehouses, and support qualified places to develop offshore trade … Around accelerating the development of new foreign trade formats and new models, the the State Council executive meeting held recently determined a series of measures. Relevant persons pointed out that the new format and new mode are the effective force of China’s foreign trade development and an important trend of international trade development. The policy measures put forward at this meeting involve a variety of new formats and new models, which are highly targeted and help to further promote the upgrading of foreign trade and cultivate new competitive advantages.

The scale of cross-border e-commerce has increased nearly 10 times in five years.

In recent years, new foreign trade formats and new modes in China have developed rapidly, and cross-border e-commerce is one of them. According to the data of the General Administration of Customs, in 2020, the import and export of cross-border e-commerce in China was 1.69 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.1%.

Since the beginning of this year, cross-border e-commerce has continued to maintain strong growth. Gao Feng, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in the first quarter of this year, the import and export of cross-border e-commerce reached 419.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 46.5%. There are the following new features: First, from the perspective of channels, cross-border e-commerce relies mainly on third-party platforms and gradually develops various new channels such as independent websites, social networking sites and search engine marketing. Second, from the main point of view, from the early individual and trade-oriented enterprises to the integration of trade-oriented enterprises and production enterprises, many production enterprises have changed from offline to online, and the digitalization level has improved significantly. Third, from the product point of view, from simply paying attention to cost performance to paying attention to brands, quality, standards and services, customized and personalized products have grown rapidly.

"In terms of scale and speed, the development of cross-border e-commerce has maintained a double-digit growth rate in recent years. The total scale has increased nearly 10 times in five years, and its proportion in foreign trade has continued to increase, especially under the impact of the epidemic, which has played an important role in stabilizing foreign trade." Zhang Jianping, director of the Regional Economic Cooperation Research Center of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told this reporter that in order to further promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, it is necessary to continue to increase support, such as expanding the pilot scope of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive experimental zone, optimizing the list of cross-border e-commerce retail imports, facilitating the management of cross-border e-commerce import and export returns, and formulating guidelines for cross-border e-commerce intellectual property protection.

Improve the digital and intelligent level of overseas warehouses

In the process of cross-border e-commerce development, overseas warehouses are important support points. The data shows that there are more than 1,800 overseas warehouses of cross-border e-commerce in China, which are distributed in Russia, Japan, South Korea, the United States and other countries and regions, and the growth rate will reach 80% in 2020, covering an area of over 12 million square meters.

"Overseas warehouses have become a new type of foreign trade infrastructure supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce, and are an indispensable and important link and platform for the development of cross-border e-commerce. By setting up overseas warehouses in the destination country, and then transporting the goods in batches, sorting, packaging and transporting them according to the local market, logistics efficiency can be effectively improved and comprehensive operating costs can be reduced. Especially during the epidemic prevention and control period, the advantages of overseas warehouses are prominent, because there is sufficient stocking, and local logistics can deliver faster. " Zhang Jianping said.

The the State Council executive meeting proposed to encourage traditional foreign trade enterprises, cross-border e-commerce and logistics enterprises to participate in the construction of overseas warehouses, improve the digitalization and intelligence level of overseas warehouses, promote small and medium-sized enterprises to borrow ships to go out to sea, and drive domestic brands and dual-innovation products to expand the international market space.

Zhang Jianping said that a series of measures not only focus on promoting more market players to participate in the construction of overseas warehouses, but also emphasize the application of new technologies, which will provide more powerful support for the development of overseas warehouses. "With the increasing support from all sides, there is still a lot of room for the development of overseas warehouses in the future, especially the construction of a new generation of intelligent logistics system, which will make overseas warehouses operate more efficiently and play a more important role, thus promoting cross-border e-commerce. Make greater contributions to stabilizing foreign trade and promoting the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade."

Actively develop the way of market procurement trade.

Focusing on new formats and new models, the the State Council executive meeting proposed to actively develop market procurement trade methods.

As a new trade model created for foreign trade transactions of "multi-variety, multi-batch and small-batch" in specialized markets, market procurement trade has developed rapidly in many places in recent years. Recently, in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, the export scale of the pilot market procurement trade of Da Lang Wool Trade Center launched at the end of last year exceeded 10 billion yuan. Up to now, 1,487 pilot operators of procurement trade in Dongguan market have been registered, and the export commodities involve furniture, daily necessities, textiles and clothing, etc., and are exported to 141 countries and regions.

"Market procurement trade mode has the characteristics of fast customs clearance and convenience. Foreign trade operators can purchase goods in the approved market gathering area and go through export customs clearance procedures at the purchasing place. Accelerating the development of market procurement trade methods will help enhance the ability to collect goods and brand influence, and further tap the trade potential. " Zhang Jianping said.

In addition, the executive meeting of the State Council proposed to guide foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises to improve the efficiency and risk control level of centralized tax refund, support enterprises in comprehensive bonded areas and pilot free trade zones to carry out bonded maintenance, and support qualified places to develop offshore trade.

Zhang Jianping said: "Next, we should speed up the development of new foreign trade formats and new models, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, formulate relevant rules in digital trade, and further promote international exchanges and cooperation. In this process, the Pilot Free Trade Zone can play a more active role and continue to promote the high-quality development of foreign trade. " (Reporter Qiu Haifeng)