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Ministry of Commerce: China maintains an open and welcoming attitude towards US Commerce Secretary Raymond's visit to China

In response to the ※ that U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raymondo will visit China in the near future, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce Shu Jueting responded at a regular press conference of the Ministry of Commerce on the 13th that China is open and welcoming to Minister Raymondo's visit to China. Maintain communication with the United States on this. China will continue to work to resolve mutual concerns in the economic and trade field through dialogue and communication, and promote constructive and practical cooperation.

At the press conference, Shu Jueting also responded to other economic and trade issues of concern to the outside world. During US Treasury Secretary Yellen's visit to China, China asked the US to take practical actions to respond to China's major concerns about the suppression of US economic sanctions. A reporter asked what concrete steps China would like to see. Could you tell us what China's demands are?

Shu Jueting said that in recent years, the United States has used various excuses such as so-called national security, human rights, Xinjiang, Iraq, Russia, and fentanyl to put a large number of Chinese companies on the "blacklist" of various sanctions and suppression, which has seriously harmed China firmly opposes the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. The United States is required to immediately stop its unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies, lift unilateral sanctions on Chinese companies, and effectively inject positive energy into Sino-US economic and trade cooperation.

In response to the Japanese government's announcement that the new regulations restricting the export of semiconductor manufacturing equipment will come into effect on July 23, Shu Jueting responded that for some time, individual countries have politicized economic and trade issues, generalized national security, and artificially weakened their ties with China in semiconductor and other fields. This will seriously damage the interests of both companies, undermine the long-standing mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation pattern in the industry, and impact the security and stability of the global industrial chain. It is hoped that the Japanese side will proceed from safeguarding its own interests and the overall situation of China-Japan economic and trade cooperation, abide by its commitments to free trade and market economy, abide by international economic and trade rules, and avoid political interference in the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, restrict the normal independent operation of enterprises and fair competition between enterprises.

§Shencheng

Yesterday, the Shanghai International Energy Trading Center, a subsidiary of the Shanghai Futures Exchange, issued an announcement to solicit opinions on Shanghai export container settlement freight index futures contracts and related business rules.

● According to the relevant statistical monitoring data of the Shanghai Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, as of the end of May 2023, the loan balance of Shanghai inclusive small and micro enterprises was 1007.563 billion yuan, breaking the trillion yuan mark for the first time.

The results of the comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of domestic waste classification in Shanghai in the first half of this year were released yesterday. The average score of 16 districts was 95.3, reaching an excellent level. Jing'an, Yangpu and Hongkou ranked in the top three.

§domestic

●As the first batch of achievements of my country's large-scale ancient Chinese medicine book sorting and protection project "Chinese Medical Collection", the "Chinese Medical Collection · Health Preservation Volume" edited by the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and published by the National Library Press was released at the National Library on the 13th.

● The core module of the world's first onshore commercial modular small reactor "Linglong No.1" reactor completed factory acceptance on the 13th at Dalian Nuclear Power Petrochemical Co., Ltd. of Yizhong Group. This marks a zero breakthrough in China's technological innovation of modular small reactors and the localization of major nuclear power technology and equipment.

●The people's courts closely focus on the theme of "justice and efficiency", serve the overall situation and serve the people's justice, and accelerate the modernization of trial work in terms of trial concepts, trial mechanisms, trial systems, and trial management.

The State General Administration of flood control launched a four-level emergency response to Inner Mongolia, Jilin and Heilongjiang on the 20th of the same day, and sent an additional working group to Heilongjiang to guide flood control and disaster relief work.

§International

● North Korea test-fired the "Mars Cannon -18" intercontinental ballistic missile on the 12th, calling the missile the "core weapon system" of the strategic armed forces ".

●The Sudan Neighboring Countries Summit was held in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, on the 13th. After the meeting, a communiqué was issued to oppose foreign interference in Sudan's affairs and urge the two parties to the Sudan conflict to immediately conduct comprehensive negotiations to peacefully resolve the conflict that lasted for several months.

●Thailand's new parliament held its first joint meeting of the upper and lower houses on the 13th. Because the only nominated prime minister candidate and the leader of the Yuanjin Party, Pita Lindjalunla, failed to win the support of more than half of the members, the parliament failed to elect a new prime minister.

● Russian media quoted Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on the 13th and reported that the emergence of US-made F-16 fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons in Ukraine will be regarded by Russia as a nuclear threat from the West. Ukrainian President Zelensky and U.S. President Biden met on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius on the 12th to discuss long-term defense cooperation.

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