2003年,全市商贸流通系统按照党十六大和十六届三中全会精神,围绕市委、市政府的中心工作,紧紧抓住商贸发展的新机遇,努力克服非典和部分物价上涨造成的影响,采取积极措施,不断拓宽商品流通渠道,全面强化商贸服务功能,加速推进现代流通方式,努力扩大对外开放和深化商贸企业改革,大力推进系列放心工程,为宁波社会经济的快速健康发展作出了应有的贡献。全市实现社会消费品零售总额521.5亿元,比上年增长12.7%。2004年商贸流通工作面临的外部形势,仍然是机遇大于挑战。世界经济正在逐步回升,国际市场对资源性商品、工业原材料、农产品以及劳动密集型日用消费品的需求日趋旺盛,以信息运用技术产品为代表的高能技术产品需求开始回升,国际货币基金组织预测,2004年世界经济增长4%,世界贸易增长5%。我国经济发展已开始步入新一轮快速增长期,经济增长率明显提高,国内需求 In 2003, in accordance with the spirit of the 16th CPC National Congress and the Third Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Party, the city’s commercial circulation system concentrated on the central task of the municipal party committee and government and firmly grasped the new opportunities in business and trade and made efforts to overcome the impact of SARS and some price increases. Take active measures to continuously broaden the channels for the circulation of commodities, comprehensively strengthen the functions of commerce and trade, speed up the promotion of modern modes of circulation, strive to expand opening to the outside world and deepen the reform of commerce and trade enterprises, vigorously promote the series of relief projects and make the rapid and healthy social and economic development of Ningbo proper Contributions. The city realized a total retail sales of 52.15 billion yuan of social consumer goods, an increase of 12.7% over the previous year. The external situation facing trade and commerce in 2004 remains an opportunity greater than challenges. The global economy is gradually picking up. The demand for resources-based commodities, industrial raw materials, agricultural products and labor-intensive consumer goods in the international market is on the rise. The demand for high-tech products represented by information technology products starts to pick up. The International Monetary Fund forecasts, In 2004, the world economy increased by 4% and world trade by 5%. China’s economic development has begun to enter a new round of rapid growth period with a marked increase in economic growth rate and domestic demand