BEIJING, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Yunnan Province has recently rolled out a total of 12 measures to stabilize its foreign trade to minimize the impacts from COVID-19 outbreak.
The province will strengthen coordination and communication with neighboring countries, and ensure unblocked ports to achieve smooth flow of goods and people and comprehensively resume the foreign trade.
It will also expand exports of key commodities such as mechanical and electrical products, agricultural products, nonferrous metals, and phosphate chemicals, and fully promote the construction of isolation and quarantine facilities in overseas immunization zones.
Meanwhile, it will strive to promote the cross-border e-commerce development and expand the scale of cross-border e-commerce imports and exports.
Yunnan will also further simplify the procedures for border trade declaration and customs clearance, support the construction of import and export commodity markets and business centers for South Asia and Southeast Asia, and launch the agricultural product inspection and quarantine risk assessment to expand access to agricultural products. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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