Ten o'clock news report | Yibin sets the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" for white liquor industry; Cheng Long teams up with Lao Shao to present New Year TV commercial; Zhang Yu signs agreement to expand Thai market.

Ministry of Commerce "Policy + Activity," Enhancing Import Trade Facilitation On February 5, during a regular press conference, the Ministry of Commerce, in response to the question "What measures will China take next to actively expand imports," stated that it will promote a dual-wheel drive of "policy + activity" to better unleash the potential of the Chinese market. First, it will expand openness. Through mutual development partnerships in trade agreements, it will accelerate the implementation of a 100% tariff zero-tariff measure for 53 African countries with which China has diplomatic relations. It will push for trade agreements or upgrade free trade agreements and orderly expand market access. Second, it will empower policies. It will research and issue special policies to further improve the facilitation of import trade, optimize the source and regional structure of imported goods, and promote a virtuous interaction between imports, investment, and consumption. Third, it will innovate activities. It will continue to hold the Import Expo and promote the "Export China" brand with greater efforts and more concrete measures to expand imports. Yibin Sets "Five-Year Plan" for Baijiu Industry Recently, the Sixth People's Congress of Yibin City, at its seventh meeting, voted to pass the resolution on the guidelines for the economic and social development plan for the fifteenth five-year plan of Yibin City. It was revealed that during the "five-year plan" period, Yibin will continue to promote the development and strengthening of the high-quality baijiu industry: support Wuliangye in becoming a "World 500" enterprise, strengthen a batch of baijiu industry backbone enterprises, and improve the supporting service levels in research and development design, filling and storage, inspection and testing, financial services, brand marketing, and digital empowerment, aiming to break through an annual revenue of 300 billion yuan. Suqian City Investigates Construction of Wine Industry Chain On February 4, Chen Wei, vice mayor of Suqian City, secretary of the Party Working Committee, and director of the management office of the Jiangsu Brewing Industrial Park (Yanghe New District), investigated the progress of the wine industry chain construction work. He emphasized that the construction of the wine industry chain is the core support for the high-quality development of the Yangtze River New District. It is necessary to always regard attracting investment as an important means to promote industrial development and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of attracting investment. It is also necessary to persistently optimize the business environment, strengthen proactive and front-line service awareness, and timely and effectively solve the difficulties in the development process of enterprises, ensuring the high-quality and efficient progress of all kinds of projects, and laying a solid industrial foundation and consolidating development forces for building the "core area of China's wine capital." New National Standard for Maotai Wine Geography Published Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation (National Standardization Management Committee) issued a notice approving and publishing GB/T 18356-2026 "Quality Requirements for Geographical Indication Products Maotai Wine (Guizhou Maotai Wine)" national standard. This standard will come into effect on August 1. New Research Results on "Five Grains Fragrance" Recently, the Wuliangye flavor team completed new research titled "Extensive 'Heart-cut' 2D GC-MS/Olfactometry, complementary to Aroma Extract Dilution Analysis, Odor Activity Value evaluation, and Aroma Recombination Study, the contribution of Wuliangye raw materials to baijiu flavor..."