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A |     　　讯 8月20日，商务部召开例行新闻发布会。会上，有记者提问：前7个月，中国的进口增速亮眼，商务部怎么看？“出口中国”系列活动作用如何？　　对此，商务部新闻发言人何亚东表示，今年前7个月，我国进口增长22%，保持了良好增长势头，我国自150多个贸易伙伴的进口实现正增长。

B | 这些数字的背后，是中国超大规模市场潜力的持续释放，彰显中国市场的韧性和活力。    MACON, Ga. -- A South Carolina man previously convicted of smuggling protected turtles between the United States and Hong Kong faces new allegations of turtle-related crimes in Georgia. Bibb County sheriff's deputies arrested and jailed Steven Verren Baker, 43, of Holly Hill, South Carolina, on Tuesday and charged him with 15 felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals.No lawyer was listed in Georgia court records for Baker, who remained jailed Friday with bail set at $8,250. His South Carolina lawyer has since died.Deputies were responding to a call about an abandoned dog in Macon when they noticed turtles being held in a basin nestled in a pile of trash, WMAZ-TV reports. They wrote in an incident report that a woman identified as Baker's mother told deputies that Baker had left the turtles with her about two months ago. The mother agreed to hand the turtles over to deputies, saying she had been unable to get her son to retrieve them.A veterinarian said the turtles were suffering from long-term malnutrition, bacterial and fungal infections, sepsis and shell deformities.The turtles included 11 rare albino red-eared sliders, one brown red-eared slider and two pink-bellied side necks. There was also a Chinese golden thread turtle, which is considered endangered in the wild, but is legal to breed in captivity.Baker pleaded guilty in 2018 to one count of conspiracy to smuggle wildlife in federal court in South Carolina after postal inspectors at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York found 46 turtles concealed among noodles and candy in four packages in early 2016. The turtles would be placed in socks and shipped through the mail in boxes labeled “snacks.”Five other men pleaded guilty in the South Carolina court case, but officials described Baker as the ringleader. Federal officials say Baker was sending turtles from the United States to Hong Kong, as well as receiving turtles from Hong Kong. It's illegal to trade turtles abroad without a permit when they are protected by a treaty called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.Baker served more than two years in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release that ended in April 2022.Baker was also ordered to forfeit $263,225, which is what officials said the turtles were worth.。　　一方面，主动扩大进口的政策成效显现。我国有序扩大自主开放和单边开放，推动进口潜力不断释放。5-6月，自非洲进口同比增长23.5%，鳄梨、苹果、橙子等水果进口分别增长1.3倍、89.6%、27.9%。另一方面，品牌活动的带动效应明显。截至目前，“出口中国”系列活动已在境内外举办超40场，近百个国家的优质产品通过系列活动平台扩大了在中国的影响力。　　下一步，商务部将坚持“政策+活动”双轮驱动，强化“出口中国”与“购在中国”“投资中国”联动，强化与进博会、消博会等重大展会协同，更好释放中国大市场的潜力，与世界共享中国发展机遇。版权申明：凡注有“”或电头为“”的稿件，均为独家版权所有，未经许可不得转载或镜像；授权转载必须注明来源为“”，并保留“”的电头。    。

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