The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting on July 30th to analyze and study the current economic situation and deploy economic work for the second half of the year. The meeting emphasized the need to expand high-level opening up to the outside world and stabilize the basic balance of foreign trade and investment. At the Phase II dock of Nansha Port Area in Guangzhou, Guangdong, a huge bridge crane lifted over 400 containers of goods such as refrigerators and small household appliance accessories onto the ship. Thanks to the newly opened direct flight route to Qiankai Port on the west coast of South America, logistics costs have been significantly reduced. In the first half of this year, China's import and export of goods reached a record high of 21.79 trillion yuan. Among them, exports amounted to 13 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%. China's foreign trade maintains strong resilience, achieving overall growth, quality improvement, and controllable variables. Ports are the forefront hubs for foreign trade import and export. In the vibrant port terminals, there is a password for the continuous growth of China's new foreign trade momentum and advantages, and the high-level opening up to the outside world reaching a new level. The increase in the "new content" of foreign trade lies in the continuous rise of China's manufacturing "hard power". The Zhan blue large gantry crane can be easily grasped, and the orange red ship unloader operates efficiently... Yantai Port in Shandong Province is a bustling scene. The "Weili Qinqin" ship, carrying 28000 tons of Chinese made construction machinery and equipment, sailed from Yantai Port to Guinea. The changes are clear at a glance. ”A senior employee of Yantai Port said, "In the past, cargo ships mainly loaded rough processed agricultural products, light industry textiles and other commodities with relatively limited value. Nowadays, Chinese made goods that go out to sea here are mainly high-tech and high value-added products such as precision instruments and high-end machinery and equipment. The value and technological content carried by each ship have doubled." Through the port, it can be seen that innovation has become a distinctive background of foreign trade. Backed by a complete and continuously iterative supply chain in China, through high-end, intelligent, and green transformation, the innovation power of Chinese products has been widely recognized by global consumers. From coffee machines, floor sweepers, and fabric fibers to electric vehicles, ships, airplanes, and industrial machinery, innovative, high-quality, and competitive Chinese manufacturing and creation continue to emerge, and export growth momentum is orderly transformed and replaced. The competitiveness of high-tech and high value-added products in our country is constantly increasing. In the first half of this year, the export of mechanical and electrical products increased by 9.5% year-on-year, accounting for 60% of the total export value. Among them, high-end equipment closely related to new quality productivity increased by over 20%, and the "new three samples" products representing green and low-carbon increased by 12.7% year-on-year. The leap in the "new content" of foreign trade lies in the expansion of China's foreign trade "circle of friends". Since the beginning of this year, Yantian Port Area of Shenzhen Port in Guangdong Province has added 11 international routes, weaving a dense "global network" of nearly 100 routes every week. In the first half of the year, an average of over 40000 TEUs were shipped from Yantian Port to the world every day. To the north, 1418 domestic independent brand commercial vehicles recently completed export loading operations at the roll on/roll off terminal company and set sail for South America on the "Minjiang Estuary" ship, marking the opening of the "Tianjin Port Qiankai Port" international roll on/roll off route and a new channel for car companies in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region to go global. The route has been extended, and trading partners are spread across five continents and four seas. China is a major trading partner of over 150 countries and regions. In the first half of this year, China's import and export to countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road" totaled 11.29 trillion yuan, up 4.7% year on year, and the diversified market pattern continued to expand. The "new content" of China's foreign trade is not only reflected in the optimization of product and market structure, but also in the vigorous development of new formats and models. With just one click of the mouse, you can buy and sell globally. The strong innovation ability, new business models, and large market scale of e-commerce have promoted the vigorous development of global e-commerce cooperation. China has reached 35 Silk Road e-commerce partner countries, created a series of cooperative brands, built 120 online and offline national pavilions, established 65 direct procurement bases in 19 countries, and held more than 100 e-commerce "cloud lectures" business training sessions, effectively promoting global e-commerce cooperation. From busy docks to extended shipping routes, from shuttling giant ships to constantly upgrading operational standards, the changes in ports are a microcosm of the upgrading of foreign trade quality. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce stated that we must continuously shape new driving forces and advantages in foreign trade, firmly maintain the global trade order, work together with more trading partners to achieve win-win results, and inject more stability into global trade growth. (New Society)