Positive factors are increasing, confidence continues to improve, and China's economy continues to stabilize and improve.

News: On May 20, "Xinwen Lianbo" reported good news about my country's shipbuilding industry, foreign trade enterprises, urban construction, grain production and other industries. The positive factors presented in many fields and aspects have once again injected confidence into the prospects for my country's continued economic growth in the next stage.

In the first quarter of this year, the three major indicators of my country's shipbuilding increased simultaneously.

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on May 20 that my country's three major shipbuilding indicators maintained synchronized growth in the first quarter, with major shipbuilding provinces performing outstandingly. 90% of the country's shipbuilding completions were export ships.

From January to March this year, my country's shipbuilding completion volume was 12.35 million deadweight tons, a year-on-year increase of 34.7%; the number of new orders received was 24.14 million deadweight tons, a year-on-year increase of 59.0%; the number of orders on hand was 154.04 million deadweight tons, a year-on-year increase of 34.5%. Calculated in terms of deadweight tons, the three major indicators accounted for 53.8%, 69.6% and 56.7% of the global total respectively.

Judging from the distribution of shipbuilding provinces and cities, the total shipbuilding completion volume of the five provinces and cities of Jiangsu, Shanghai, Liaoning, Shandong, and Zhejiang accounted for 90.1% of the national total. Among them, Jiangsu, a major shipbuilding province, accounted for 50.1% of the country's shipbuilding completions in the first quarter and won more than 30% of the world's orders. While the number is large, the level of digitalization, intelligence, and greenness of ships is also getting higher and higher. Not long ago, many high-tech ships in Jiangsu have been put on trial or delivered. Like this container ship, which has the largest heavy box load in the world, many indicators have reached the world's leading level. It only takes 14 months to build such a ship.

From January to March, my country's ship exports amounted to US$9.92 billion, and ship exports accounted for 90% of the country's completed shipbuilding volume.

New orders signed by key foreign trade companies have improved for four consecutive months

A recent survey by the Ministry of Commerce shows that since the beginning of this year, as global trade has continued to recover as a whole, my country's key foreign trade companies have signed new one-way contracts, and the confidence of foreign trade companies in the development has continued to increase.

In the first four months of this year, my country's import and export volume increased by 5.7%. In April, my country's import and export growth rate increased significantly to 8%. Behind the growth in foreign trade scale is that my country's foreign trade companies continue to improve the international competitiveness of their products, use new technologies to explore overseas markets, and win new international orders. In Yiwu, Zhejiang, the majority of foreign trade companies keenly capture and grasp sports economic business opportunities such as the Olympic Games and European Cup. In the first four months, Yiwu's exports of sports goods increased by 45.6%. my country's cross-border e-commerce platform has also established a multilingual site and launched an artificial intelligence foreign trade assistant, which can realize multilingual real-time translation and one-click generation of graphics, text, and video content.

From a market perspective, my country's trade with both traditional and emerging markets has shown a growth trend. In April, driven by factors such as inventory digestion and demand recovery, China's imports and exports to traditional markets shifted from decline to increase, with imports and exports to the EU increasing by 3.3% and the United States increasing by 6.2%. At the same time, imports and exports to emerging markets continued to maintain a high growth rate, with ASEAN and Belt and Road countries increasing by 14.4% and 9% respectively.

A recent survey by the Ministry of Commerce shows that the number of new orders signed by key foreign trade companies has been improving for four consecutive months, and more than 80% of the Canton Fair exhibitors have maintained or increased their orders on hand.

On May 20, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Data Administration and other four departments issued guidance and proposed 13 specific measures to promote urban digital transformation in all areas, processes and all aspects. In terms of cultivating and strengthening the urban digital economy, relevant departments will further promote the in-depth integration of digital technology with primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and encourage platform companies to build multi-level industrial Internet service platforms. At the same time, it will also promote the digital transformation of producer service industries such as finance and logistics, and lifestyle service industries such as commerce, cultural tourism, and health care. The guidance also proposes to explore the use of social security cards as a carrier to establish a “all-in-one card” for resident services. Explore and construct data space applications such as personal enterprise carbon accounts and carbon footprints to better serve high-efficiency urban governance and promote the construction of Chinese-style modern cities.

During the "Three Summers" season, all regions are seizing the farming season and making every effort to do a good job in summer harvest, summer management, and summer planting to lay a solid foundation for a bumper grain harvest throughout the year.

The waves of wheat are rushing to collect. Nearly 80% of the 9.1 million acres of wheat in Sichuan Province have been harvested. In order to improve the progress of wheat harvesting, Mianyang Youxian District has implemented rural land trust services to guide farmers to gather scattered land, unify field management, and concentrate harvesting. The wheat-producing areas in southern Hubei have now entered the end of harvest, and the main producing areas in the north have begun large-scale mechanical harvesting. Cross-region operation reception stations have been set up in many places for agricultural operators to provide logistical support for them.

In Anhui, a major grain-producing province, more than 43 million acres of wheat are being harvested from south to north. The province plans to invest in about 170,000 high-performance combine harvesters to seize the fine weather in the next few days and step up harvesting. At the same time, various regions in Anhui have done a good job in vacating warehouses and consolidating warehouses to ensure that summer grain grains are returned to warehouses.

Shaanxi, Xinjiang and other provinces and regions adapted to local conditions and used new equipment and new technologies to support summer management. At Dacozhuang Farm in Xingtai, Hebei Province, this self-propelled sprinkler irrigation machine is operating, integrating watering, fertilizing, and spraying pesticides, and can water 600 acres of land in one day. Laixi, Shandong Province has built a smart agricultural big data platform. Farmers can set up programs on their mobile phones, and sprinkler machines and drones can "cooperate with each other" to carry out "one spray and three prevention" operations. Gansu's Hexi Corridor vigorously promotes new wheat irrigation technologies, making drip irrigation more precise, saving water and fertilizer. This year, Jiuquan City has focused on developing more than 1.3 million acres of highly efficient and water-saving farmland.

At present, 2.1 million acres of early rice in Ganzhou, Jiangxi have entered the tillering stage, and pest and disease control is particularly critical. This year, the local area actively promotes the application of multi-level prevention and control methods such as solar insecticidal lamps and plant protection drones to improve the efficiency of insect control and lay a solid foundation for a bumper grain harvest.

my country's civil aviation international passenger volume exceeded 5 million in April

Reporters learned from the Civil Aviation Administration of China that in April, civil aviation carried a total of 55.95 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 10.6%.

Domestic passenger traffic increased by 8.1% compared with the same period in 2019, and international passenger traffic exceeded 5 million, returning to 83.8% of the same period in 2019. The recovery level exceeded 80% for three consecutive months.

Currently, my country has international passenger flights to 70 countries, among which there are 5 new countries with flights to Kuwait, Serbia, Tanzania, Luxembourg, and Papua New Guinea compared with 2019.

The number of passenger flights between countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative has recovered to 4,053 flights per week, which is approximately 76.6% of 2019 and 3.5 percentage points higher than the industry average recovery level.