Processing trade "to domestic sales", the challenge is not small. Zhuo Xian, a researcher at the Development Research Center of The State Council, analyzed that compared with enterprises engaged in general trade, processing trade enterprises are more difficult to "switch to domestic sales." "Regardless of incoming material processing or material processing, processing trade enterprises' two ends outside ', the brand is an international brand, the demand is in the international market, and the sales channel is also subject to the international distribution network." Order-oriented production makes it lack of own brands, patents, domestic market channels are not smooth, does not adapt to domestic consumer demand, and naturally difficult to turn to the domestic market." "Said Zhuo Xian.

In the long run, the "breakthrough" of processing trade must also get rid of the inherent impression of the "low-end" of the industrial chain. Through the development of new forms of business such as bonded maintenance, China's processing trade is expanding to both ends of the "smile curve" and climbing to a more favorable position in the international industrial chain and value chain.

The aircraft engine nacelles, Marine diesel engines and other products into the comprehensive bonded area maintenance product catalog; Enterprises in the comprehensive free trade zone are allowed to carry out bonded maintenance business of the Group's domestic sales of self-produced products, and return to China after maintenance, without being restricted by the maintenance product catalog; Allow domestic goods to be repaired to enter the comprehensive bonded area for maintenance and export directly to overseas...... In order to promote the development of bonded maintenance business in comprehensive bonded zones and pilot free trade zones, the Opinions have released many positive signals.

In addition to the comprehensive free trade zone and free trade pilot zone, the Ministry of Commerce and other departments have also made it clear that they will speed up support for a number of medical devices, electronic information and other self-produced export products "two outside" bonded maintenance pilot projects. At the same time, in the processing trade transformation and upgrading of obvious results in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, Dongguan, Guangdong province, Tianjin Binhai New Area to carry out "two outside" bonded maintenance pilot, support enterprises to carry out related business.

Carry out more processing trade of high value-added products, promote the optimization of the structure of processing and manufacturing products, and enhance the irreplaceability of industrial clusters... New business forms and new technologies are accelerating the incubation, and China's processing trade is expected to achieve butterfly change.

According to data released by the General Administration of Customs, the technological content of China's processing trade exports has continued to improve, and high-tech products have accounted for more than 60%. Among them, the import and export growth rate of processing trade in six high-end industries, including new materials, biomedicine and medical instruments, high-end equipment, electronic information, new energy vehicles, instruments and meters, has accelerated significantly, accounting for the total import and export value of processing trade from 8.6% in 2012 to 34.4% in 2022. Driven by the processing trade industry, the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Chengdu-Chongqing regions have formed high-tech industrial clusters with their own characteristics.