People’s Daily Online, Taiyuan, October 11 (Zhang Tingting) During the National Day, many places in Shanxi Province continued to suffer from heavy rainfall, and many rivers experienced obvious flooding. Floods exceeding the police occurred in the lower reaches of Fenhe River and the upper reaches of Qinhe River, tributaries of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and the flood control pressure increased. On October 10, I learned from the Shanxi Provincial Emergency Rescue Headquarters that the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government responded quickly, started the disaster relief response at the first time, and allocated and allocated relief materials and funds in a timely manner. Party committees and governments at all levels, the people and the rescue team were United in their efforts to carry out disaster relief work in an orderly manner. At present, the basic livelihood of the affected people has been guaranteed, and the production and living order is accelerating.

　　Race against time to promote various flood control and emergency rescue work. Image provided by Yuncheng Daily.

　　From October 2 nd to 7 th, there was a large-scale heavy precipitation in Shanxi Province, with the precipitation of 15.4 ~ 285.2 mm and over 200 mm in 18 counties. Affected by continuous heavy rainfall and upstream water, the flow of the Shanxi section of the Yellow River continues to increase, and many places such as Wuma River in Qingxu County of Taiyuan City, Xinjiang Section of Fenhe River and Yanwu Section of Fenyang River in Lvliang City are in danger. The rainfall process has a short interval, a long duration and a large rainfall range, which has led to a wide range of disasters. However, at present, the disaster situation is generally controllable and has not caused many deaths and injuries.

　　After the flood disaster occurred, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government attached great importance to it and immediately gave instructions to arrange the deployment of flood control and disaster relief work, demanding that the flood control and disaster relief work be done without relaxation. The provincial government has organized meetings, and relevant responsible comrades and working groups of provincial emergency, water conservancy, natural resources, housing construction, transportation and other departments went to various places to inspect and guide flood control work.

　　The dam near Qiaodong Village in Xinjiang section of Fenhe River executed Kouhelong. Photo by Jin Yumin

　　Shanxi province actively responded to the danger and spared no effort to rescue. It is understood that on October 9, this round of flood peak has been successfully merged into the Yellow River in Miaoqian Village, Wanrong County, Yuncheng City, and the water potential of Fenhe River and its tributaries, Qinhe River and tributaries is generally stable and continues to decline; Six provincial mine rescue teams with 160 people and more than 40 high-power pumps have rushed to the scene of the Xinjiang section of the Fenhe River for pumping operations; The breach of Fenyang Yanwu section of Ciyao River in Lvliang City has been completely blocked; The uptrend of Changyuan River Bridge on Nantongpu Line has been rushed through … … Up to now, all dangerous places have been effectively controlled.

　　On October 8, at the resettlement site of Xinjiang Gymnasium in Yuncheng City, two medical staff on duty (left) learned about the physical health of the people affected by Hongfeng. Gao xinsheng photo

　　Disaster relief is urgent, and resettlement sites for displaced people have been set up nearby in Shanxi. The living materials of the resettlement sites are abundant, and the basic livelihood of the displaced people has been properly resettled and guaranteed. Party committees and governments at all levels take the safety of personnel as the top priority, implement safety measures from village to village, evacuate people, ensure the safety of important facilities and nearby villages, prevent secondary disasters, and effectively guarantee the safety and life of relocated people. At present, Shanxi Province has abundant reserves of disaster relief materials, and has urgently allocated disaster relief materials such as cotton tents, single tents, folding beds, cotton trousers, cotton coats and quilts to Daning, Pingyao, Jiexiu, Xiaoyi and Fenyang. Emergency arrangements will be made to allocate provincial disaster relief funds to support disaster relief work such as the relocation and resettlement of affected people in severely affected areas and the restoration and reconstruction of damaged houses. After the disaster, all kinds of enterprises and social organizations from all over the country donated money and materials to support the disaster relief. The relevant departments of Shanxi Province expressed their gratitude for the help of one party in trouble and support from all directions.

　　The Shanxi Provincial Emergency Rescue Headquarters requires that the investigation of hidden dangers should be further strengthened, the prevention of secondary disasters such as geological disasters should be strengthened, the development of rain and flood should be closely monitored, the flood of the Yellow River should be strictly prevented, and the safety of personnel should be the top priority, so as to do a good job in emergency relocation and resettlement of the affected people, properly distribute disaster relief funds and materials, do a good job in health and epidemic prevention in the affected areas, effectively protect the basic livelihood of the affected people, and ensure that the affected people have enough to eat, wear warm clothes and live safely.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 9 th, news analysis: The growth rate of foreign trade rebounded in May, reflecting the warmth of the economy and the need to strengthen foreign trade.

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Zou Duowei and Xie Xiyao

　　According to the data released by the General Administration of Customs on June 9, in the first five months of 2022, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade was 16.04 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.3% over the same period last year. Among them, the import and export in May increased by 9.6% year-on-year and 9.2% month-on-month, respectively, and the cumulative growth rate and monthly growth rate rebounded from last month.

　　Analysts believe that compared with April, the signs of recovery in foreign trade import and export in May sent a positive signal of economic recovery.

　　According to Li Kuiwen, director of the Statistics and Analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs, the import and export of foreign trade achieved steady growth in the first five months, especially in May, the import and export of goods in the Yangtze River Delta region increased by nearly 20% month-on-month, and the import and export recovered significantly.

　　On June 9, 2022, a cargo ship was loading foreign trade containers at the fully automated terminal of Qingdao Port, Shandong Port. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Yu Fangping)

　　Since March this year, foreign trade has been under pressure to slow down due to the epidemic situation in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and other "foreign trade towns" to varying degrees, coupled with the high base in the same period last year, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the surge in commodity prices.

　　In order to help foreign trade enterprises to guarantee orders, markets and confidence, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have recently deployed a series of measures to stabilize foreign trade intensively, and implemented policies to help enterprises out of difficulties in terms of ensuring smooth logistics, increasing fiscal and taxation support, and speeding up export tax rebates and customs clearance efficiency, which effectively helped stabilize the basic market of foreign trade.

　　From the data of foreign trade in the first five months, China’s foreign trade situation has improved, and both imports and exports with major trading partners have increased.

　　In the first five months, ASEAN continued to be China’s largest trading partner, accounting for 14.8% of China’s total foreign trade value; In the same period, China’s economic and trade exchanges with countries along the "Belt and Road" were also closer, with imports and exports increasing by 16.8% year-on-year, accounting for 31.9% of China’s total foreign trade value, effectively promoting the complementary advantages of the industrial chain and supply chain.

　　A series of assistance policies constantly stimulate the vitality of foreign trade market players. The data shows that in the first five months, the number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in China increased by 5% year-on-year, providing solid support for stabilizing foreign trade. Among them, the import and export of private enterprises, the main force of foreign trade, increased by 11.8%, accounting for 49% of China’s total foreign trade value, up by 1.5 percentage points year-on-year.

　　In addition, the export of some high-tech and high value-added products has maintained rapid growth, demonstrating the continuous improvement of the competitiveness of foreign trade export products. In the first five months, China exported 5.11 trillion yuan of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 7%, accounting for 57.2% of the total export value. Among them, the automobile was 119.05 billion yuan, an increase of 57.6%.

　　On May 26, 2022, in Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, workers of a garment enterprise produced garments exported overseas. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Liang Xiaopeng)

　　Regarding the reasons for the rebound in foreign trade growth, Zhang Yu, deputy director of the International Economic and Trade Research Office of the Institute of Finance and Economics of China Academy of Social Sciences, believes that on the one hand, with the improvement of the epidemic prevention and control situation, all localities have gradually resumed work and production, and logistics, transportation, production and operation have improved; On the other hand, a series of measures from the central government to the local government have been accelerated to take effect, which has played a promoting role in stabilizing the basic development of foreign trade.

　　Although the development of foreign trade showed a recovery growth trend, experts said that they should remain awake and should not be blindly optimistic because the data improved.

　　Zhang Yu believes that the current economic situation at home and abroad is still complicated and severe. China’s foreign trade development still faces many uncertain factors such as epidemic situation, Fed’s interest rate hike, geopolitics, exchange rate fluctuations, etc. It is still necessary to further resolve the pressure and stabilize expectations to maintain stability and improve the quality of foreign trade.

　　The the State Council executive meeting held on June 8th emphasized that stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment is related to the overall economic situation and the overall employment situation. While implementing the policy of stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment, we will further increase support. The meeting made further arrangements from the aspects of expanding the import of high-quality products, maintaining the stability of the international industrial chain supply chain, and studying the phased reduction and exemption of port-related charges.

　　"The superposition of these policies will definitely promote the growth of foreign trade." Wang Shouwen, vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce and deputy representative of international trade negotiations, said that while closely monitoring the operation of foreign trade, all localities and relevant departments should also introduce some local support measures in light of the actual situation, so as to improve the efficiency of policy implementation and enable foreign trade enterprises to achieve stable growth and improve quality by enjoying policy dividends under a series of uncertainties.

　　For the future trend of foreign trade, experts said that with the effective implementation of a package of policies and measures to stabilize growth, foreign trade logistics will be further unblocked, and enterprises will resume work to reach production and speed up further, and China’s foreign trade is expected to continue to maintain a warming momentum.