On April 16, it is learnedfrom the Municipal Bureau of Commerce that in the first quarter of this year, the city's total export volume of foreign trade reached 2.71 billion yuan, ranking second in HubeiProvince. To be specific, more than 100 million yuan was achieved by such leading enterprises as Xingfa Chemicals Group Co., Ltd., Angel Yeast, Dongyangguang Chemical Foil Co., Ltd..Meanwhile, a number of major enterprises such as Qugu Food, Humanwell Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Lijia Technology Co., Ltd.saw a great rise in export with an increase of more than10 percent in spite of the coronavirus crisis.

　　In order to help foreign trade companies accurately respond to the impact caused by the epidemic, the city has smoothedthe green channelsoffinancial services,actively acquired support fromthe provincial foreign economic and trade enterprisesemergency credit funds of 10 billion yuan and thespecial loan of 15 billion yuan from China Export-Import Bank Hubei Provincial Branch, andpromotedthe implementation of “Chu Trade Loan” to focus on solving the financing problemsof some small and micro foreign trade enterprises.

　　In addition, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce actively supported medical materialproduction enterprises in getting foreign trade management rights and export certification, by doing business through appointmentand approving applications even if some required documents are missing. The bureau firmly grasped the “window period”ofglobal medical supplies and promoted exports bymajor medical enterprises such as Allmed Medical products Co., Ltd.and Huaqiang High-tech Co., Ltd. In the first three months of this year, the city’s export of medical supplies exceeded 5 million dollars and the export of tea and oranges by foreign trade enterprises such as Sanpinyuan, Qingfengyuan and Qugu Foods also increased rapidly. Furthermore,export-import enterprises with actualachievements in the whole cityreached 230, including 8 newcomers.

　　The service hall has also set up an action column for the fight against the epidemic, aiming to publicize anti-epidemic policy documents and key information, to carry out statistical analysis of key firms affected by the epidemic through questionnaires, and to solve the problem of information asymmetry. Besides, it has putonline such modules as loan renewal, rollover, delayed payment for capital and interest,and post-loan supervision and warningwhilecontinuously optimizingthe online contact-free financing acceptance and docking process. (Reporter Jie Xingwei, correspondent Liu Yali)