Since the beginning of this year, facing the impact of COVID-19 on our city's economic operation, our city's commerce departments have focused on key points, dredged blockades and overcame difficulties, and made every effort to stabilize the basic market of foreign trade. From January to April, the import and export volume totaled 5.122 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 7.3%, ranking second in the province. Among them, the import amount of mineral products, mainly copper concentration powder and gold concentration powder, is 4.224 billion yuan, which has become the mainstay to support our city's foreign trade business.

Focus on key points to ensure that the production capacity of core enterprises does not fall. The commerce department conducts an in-depth analysis of the foreign trade import and export business according to the changes of industries, region and amounts, and determines the "key points" for stabilizing the foreign trade business. The commerce department will combine the "service officer" system with the front-line service enterprise system, set up special work classes, and guide enterprises to make full use of fiscal, financial, taxation, social security, employment and other policies, so as to help enterprises solve difficulties and bail out difficulties, and ensure that the production capacity of core enterprises does not fall. From January to April, the import and export volume of Zhongyuan Gold Smelter LLC reached 4.109 billion yuan, accounting for 80% of the city's total foreign trade.

Dredging the blocking point, the commerce department pressed the "acceleration button". In view of the problems such as the lack of smooth resumption of work and insufficient operating funds, the commerce department has successively handled force majeure factual certificates for Huayang Food Co., Ltd. and Guoxin Environmental Protection Technology Co., LTD., involving a contract value of 2 million yuan. At the same time, the commerce department coordinated with specialized export credit insurance enterprises to exempt all the small and micro enterprises whose export value was less than ＄3 million and the insured amount was less than $3 million last year, as well as all import and export enterprises in national and provincial poverty-stricken counties from paying premiums. At present, 8 of the 11 enterprises insured in the city this year are exempt from paying premiums in full. 222 key commercial circulation and "three foreign" enterprises were sorted out, and the  loan demand was 12.562 billion yuan, which was reported to the municipal financial service center.
      The commerce department overcame difficulties and helped enterprises do a good job in cross-border e-commerce. With Sanmenxia e-commerce industrial park as the carrier, the commerce department applied for the special fund of 5.89 million yuan for the industrial park to be included in the municipal financial budget. Through the industrial park, it successfully signed a contract with Alibaba to introduce "Tmall going out to abroad" and "helping farmers to broadcast live" to help all kinds of enterprises to carry out online sales. The commerce department will make every effort to apply for provincial-level special funds to ensure that enterprises can survive the epidemic smoothly and attract the return of export business.