MOFCOM said it will, over the 15th Five-Year Plan period, deepen Belt and Road
economic and trade cooperation and push trade innovation. Policy priorities
include expanding green-trade and cross-border e-commerce links with partner
countries, promoting exports and imports of emerging-industry foreign-trade
products, and increasing imports of high-quality goods from partner countries to
support their industrial development. The ministry will continue zero-tariff
treatment for least-developed countries with diplomatic ties to China and will
implement comprehensive zero-tariff measures for African countries that have
diplomatic relations with China. MOFCOM also flagged plans to boost services
trade—notably R&D and design cooperation—roll out a Thousand Sails outbound
cultural trade plan, and expand digital trade.
