In the new year, Guangzhou will promote the integrated development of business, tourism and culture, proposed to build network business city initially, and construct international conference destinations, which are the new business objectives and new formulation of the government this year. Yesterday, the Municipal Commission of Commerce revealed to reporters in detail about the "small target" of this year, the ultimate goal is to build an international business center。

First, modern business city

In 2016, total volume of retail sales in Guangzhou had reached 870.65 billion yuan, an increase of 9%, total wholesale and retail sales up to 5597.28 billion yuan, an increase of 10%. Pilot work, for example, domestic trade circulation system innovation and development, logistics standardization and so on,  achieved periodical results, accumulated a series of replicable and propagable experience, the integration of business, tourism and culture, co-governance and co-management of business district, transformation and upgrading "3 + X" public service platform of professional wholesale market and so on. Through the hosting of Guangzhou International Shopping Festival, the International Food Festival and other activities, retail, catering and other consumer get the ball rolling. City Commerce Committee said that this year Guangzhou will keep on promoting the leap through "Millennium business" to "modern business". It will innovate retailling entity development model, guide retail enterprises through the superposition of e-commerce, experience consumption, cultural tourism and other new consumer experience services, to achieve competition differentiation, to encourage Tianhe Road business district to create a world-renowned business district. And it will also promote the integrated development of business, tourism and culture, to create a number of key functional areas with integration of commerce and culture, to promote the transformation of the development of catering industry

Second, Strong Foreign Trade City

In 2016, the city's total import and export volume had reached 856.69 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1%. Of which the exports is 518.7 billion yuan, an increase of 3%; imports is 337.99 billion yuan, an increase of 3.3%. In Guangdong, the largest foreign trade province of China, Guangzhou's indicators are with positive growth respectively and higher than the national, provincial and domestic major city level. Trade in services import and export achieved 37.81 billion US dollars, an increase of 29.6%. This year, Guangzhou will build a strong foreign trade market, accelerate the development of new forms of foreign trade, carry out market procurement trade pilot, while continuing to develop tourism shopping, accelerate the development of financial leasing, especially aircraft leasing, actively research and pilot bonded import and export business, and endeavour to achieve a breakthrough between CBU and parallel imports of vehicles

Third, "Network Business City"

The whole year of 2016, Guangzhou cross-border electronic import and export value came to 14.68 billion yuan, an increase of 1.2 times. Over the same period, the national cross-border electronic import and export value came to 49.96 billion yuan, an increase of 38.7%. Among 60 domestic cities that carried out import and export business, Guangzhou was the leader, accounting for 29.4% of the total value of imports and exports across the country, accounting for 64% of the province. Among them, Guangzhou's exports accounted for 36.3% of the country, imports accounted for 23.1%, both ranking first in the country. Among this year's key work, the city commercial committee proposed "build network business city" for the first time. For the approved cross-border electronic comprehensive test area, this year they need to develop measures to speed up the development of cross-border electronic business, promote construction of public service cross-border electronic business platform, support B2B export, direct purchase import and online shopping import of bonded leading enterprises bigger and stronger, to promote online shopping bonded export pilot. At the same time, this year will witness the speeding up development of e-commerce, promotion of Pazhou Internet innovation gathering area to declare national electronic business demonstration base, cultivation of a number of leading enterprises

Fourth, International Conference Destination

Last year, Guangzhou allied with "Fortune" magazine, announced to the world 2017 "Fortune" forum settled in Hua city. At the same time, successfully held the seventh China - GCC FTA negotiations and other international conferences, take the opportunity of the meeting platform to promote business opportunities in Guangzhou. In addition, also held Guangzhou International Investment Conference, summer Davos "Guangzhou Night" and other activities, visited the United States and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other places to carry out investment promotion. In 2016, Guangzhou held 538 exhibitions, an increase of 11.6%, the exhibition area was 8,965,000 square meters, an increase of 4%. The cross-city meeting session of city's key venues whose number of people exceeds 100 increased by 21%. It has promoted the French wisdom Austrian group, Munich exhibition, VNU and other well-known international exhibitions and companies to cooperate with Guangzhou. City Commerce Committee said that this year they will try to build an international conference destination city, to promote more international meetings to settle in Guangzhou. It aims to construct international exhibition center, introduce and cultivate of exhibition and exhibition enterprises. And actively fight with national ministries and commissions over leading more state sponsored international conference with global influence into Guangzhou