China's national trade promotion system helped stabilize the country's foreign trade and investment portfolio in 2025, according to delegates at Tuesday's National Meeting on Trade Promotion and the sixth session of the sixth National Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).

The trade promotion system helped boost the nation's foreign trade and optimized the environment for Chinese foreign investment, according to delegates.

Facing a complex international trade landscape in 2025, the national trade promotion system helped enterprises expand markets, strengthen momentum, and improve the business environment, achieving relatively fast growth in foreign trade.

"The 'Thousand Groups Going Abroad' initiative has been highly effective. Throughout the year, we organized 2,144 delegations to visit 92 countries and regions for field research and business talks, vigorously promoting companies' global market expansion and industrial layout. We issued over 8.413 million certificates of origin, an increase of 18.94 percent compared to the previous year," Ren Hongbin, chairman of the CCPIT, said at the meeting in Beijing.

"We held over 830 symposiums for foreign-invested enterprises, with more than 6,500 such companies participating. We collected 1,022 items of feedback and requests from foreign-invested enterprises and facilitated the resolution or provided direct responses to 741 items," Ren said.

CCPIT said the world economy is expected to grow at a moderate pace in 2026 and said efforts to stabilize foreign trade will be intensified, while the service and guarantee system for foreign investment will be improved. High-standard opening up will be pursued to deepen convergence of interests with all countries and create a new landscape of win-win cooperation, the council said.