Xinhuanet Tianjin, October 18 (Reporter Song Rui, Wang Ning) On the 18th, the 2024 Haihe International Consumption Forum with the theme of "Seizing New Policy Opportunities and Stimulating New Momentum for Consumption" opened in Tianjin. Hosted by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government and jointly organized by the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Xinhuanet, the forum brought together leaders from the Ministry of Commerce, Xinhua News Agency, Tianjin Municipality and relevant provincial and municipal commerce departments, well-known experts and scholars and representatives of leading enterprises to discuss and seek the construction of an international consumption center city.
In July 2021, Tianjin was approved as one of the first five international consumption center cities to be cultivated and built. Over the past three years, Tianjin has continuously optimized the consumption environment, gathered global popularity and resources, launched new consumption formats, new scenarios and new experiences, and created an international consumption center city with unique "international style", "trendy model", "cultural model" and "science and technology model".
In the past three years, Tianjin has successively promulgated policies such as the Implementation Plan for Cultivating and Building an International Consumption Center City in Tianjin (2021-2025), the Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of an International Consumption Center City in Tianjin (2023-2027), and the Decision on Promoting and Safeguarding the Construction of an International Consumption Center City, which have provided a solid guarantee for Tianjin to accelerate the construction of a national consumption center city.
In order to implement the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the steady growth of consumption, improve the long-term mechanism for expanding consumption, build an international consumption innovation and exchange platform, and better play the role of consumption as the "main engine" of economic growth, this forum systematically sorted out the achievements of the construction of international consumption center cities, focused on new formats, new models and new scenarios of consumption, and issued the voice of Tianjin and demonstrated Tianjin's actions.
The panelists believed that consumption is the main growth driver of China's economy, and the key to seizing new policy opportunities is to closely follow the trend of consumer demand and launch products and consumption scenarios that are recognized by consumers, so as to stimulate new consumption momentum.
Zhou Mi, director of the Center for Chinese Urban and Regional Studies at Nankai University, said that China is the world's second largest consumer market with a solid foundation. In recent years, the mainland's consumption structure has been continuously optimized, the efficiency of business and tourism services has been improved, and the trend of consumption integration formed by regional linkage has also increased.
Guangdong Winshang.com Data Service Co., Ltd. is an offline brick-and-mortar retail business company, providing marketing and related data services, and also cooperating with the commerce department in business district analysis, brand analysis, and first-store economic analysis. Wu Chuankun, chairman of the company, believes that since China cultivated an international consumption center city, the company's business has grown rapidly, which also reflects the huge potential of China's consumer market.
At the meeting, the Department of Consumption Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce released excellent practice cases and innovative measures for the cultivation and construction of international consumption center cities; Nankai University released the "Research Report on the Cultivation and Construction of Tianjin International Consumption Center City".
This year's forum also held a number of supporting activities such as the 2024 Tianjin Key Commercial Project Investment Promotion Conference, the "Consumer Industry Upgrading" Forum, and the "Cross-border Overseas Innovation Service for Consumer Enterprises" Forum.
Source: Xinhuanet client