how a small border town buys and sells globally
2024-09-04
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original title: how a small border town buys and sells globally
the booming development of new formats such as cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses, and live broadcasting is rapidly changing the foreign trade pattern of border cities. these regions are also looking for new development opportunities in the new wave of foreign trade. at present, how is the development of new formats of foreign trade in border cities? what measures have been taken by the local government to promote the development of new formats? how to promote industrial agglomeration and development in the future?
erenhot, inner mongolia: make every effort to expand mutual trade
economic daily reporter yu jian
in the border trade zone of erlianhot city, xilingol league, inner mongolia autonomous region, there is a busy scene: goods from mongolia, russia and belarus are continuously transported into the country through the erlianhot port.
ye siyang, general manager of erenhot yongsheng investment co., ltd., told reporters that in recent years, among the imported goods in erenhot, the goods declared for on-site processing accounted for more than 90%, including belarusian frozen bone-in beef, russian flax seeds, mongolian uncombed cashmere, etc. when there are a lot of goods, more than a dozen trucks can come in a day. in the past two years, imported goods include chocolate, milk powder, mongolian robes, etc. many border residents have conducted secondary sales through live broadcasts, and the sales volume is good.
erenhot is one of the 13 pilot cities in the country for the policy of on-site processing of imported goods in border trade. its border trade zone enjoys the import commodity policies of 15 countries including mongolia, russia, north korea, south korea, the five central asian countries, belarus, ukraine, etc. at present, erenhot is vigorously cultivating and developing new formats focusing on "border trade + on-site processing" and making every effort to expand the types of border trade and on-site processing goods. from january to july this year, the transaction volume of border trade between border residents in erenhot was 427 million yuan, of which 417 million yuan was on-site processing and 10.66 million yuan was secondary trading goods. more than 150,000 border residents participated, and the income of border residents participating in border trade transactions increased significantly.
erenhot is located in the northern part of inner mongolia autonomous region, facing the mongolian port city of zamyn-uud in the north, and the two cities are 4.5 kilometers apart. it is an important node city on the silk road economic belt and the china-mongolia-russia economic corridor, and is also the closest border land port city to the capital beijing. as the largest comprehensive port opened to mongolia in my country, erenhot port has outstanding advantages in the types of imported and exported goods and transportation capacity. it currently has three national first-class ports: railway, highway, and aviation.
in recent years, relying on its port advantages, erlianhot has actively integrated into the construction of the "belt and road" and the china-mongolia-russia economic corridor, vigorously developed leading industries such as international trade logistics, import and export processing, and actively explored the coordinated and linked development of the "three zones" of the china-mongolia economic cooperation zone, the border residents' barter trade zone, and the border economic cooperation zone. from january to july this year, the import and export cargo volume of the erlianhot port reached 12.18 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 9.2%; the import and export trade volume reached 26.35 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%; and 2,033 inbound and outbound china-europe trains were inspected and released, a year-on-year increase of 11%.
zhao rigetu, associate researcher at the inner mongolia belt and road institute of the inner mongolia academy of social sciences, believes that in recent years, inner mongolia has firmly grasped the major opportunity of the country's construction of a new development pattern, actively integrated into the domestic and international dual circulation, and deepened cooperation with relevant countries in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, energy and minerals, and has achieved certain results. it is recommended to further strengthen the interaction between the border and the hinterland, improve the complementary development mechanism between the border and the hinterland, give full play to the industrial advantages, location advantages and resource advantages of the border areas, efficiently match the regional economic and trade and industrial needs, promote the integrated development of the border and the hinterland, and comprehensively form a foreign trade cooperation mechanism for border cities that supports each other, promotes each other, complements each other's advantages, and combines the strong.
the relevant person in charge of the erenhot municipal bureau of commerce said that the next step will be to accelerate the construction of infrastructure in the china-mongolia erenhot-zamyn-uud economic cooperation zone and strive to close the border and operate it as soon as possible. promote the transformation of the export channels and checkpoints in the cross-border trade zone, accelerate the launch of export business, and realize the export of daily necessities through cross-border trade channels. in addition, actively guide foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises to improve the scope and quality of services, continuously improve service levels, and encourage platform service enterprises to reduce the operating costs of service enterprises in the park.
xinjiang horgos: port functions become more diversified
geng dandan, reporter of economic daily
with the rapid development of the e-commerce industry, cross-border live streaming and other digital foreign trade methods are becoming an important way for some foreign trade companies to obtain orders and promote their brands overseas. the cross-border live streaming team of yiwu international trade city, the china-kazakhstan horgos international border cooperation center, is active in various shops, becoming a new highlight of horgos' foreign trade development.
"hello everyone! welcome to the live broadcast room!" early in the morning, the e-commerce anchor wulidalayi bektayi started busy mode with her mobile phone in hand. wulidalayi bektayi is one of the more than 20 international anchors employed by the cross-border e-commerce live broadcast project of yiwu international trade city. these more than 20 anchors come from different countries such as russia, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, and uzbekistan. they introduce chinese products in seven languages, including russian, kazakh, chinese, english, kyrgyz, tatar, and uzbek, mainly to consumers in russia and central asian countries.
jin xingzhong, chairman of horgos yiwu international trade city (co., ltd.), introduced that this year they will set up 500 e-commerce live broadcast rooms, 300 of which will be for the international market. they will actively connect with self-media experts with millions of fans in central asia and reach cooperation intentions with them to enable china's high-quality products to "go global" better.
the reporter saw more than a dozen container semi-trailers loading overseas parcels at zhongguang zhida international trade co., ltd., also located in the horgos cross-border e-commerce industrial park, ready to be shipped to central asia and russia. jiang yong, deputy general manager of horgos zhongguang zhida international trade co., ltd., said that thanks to horgos' "postal, commercial and postal cross-border combined relay" transportation model, the customs clearance time has been shortened by an average of 4 to 5 days. it is reported that "postal, commercial and postal cross-border combined relay" is an innovative cross-border transportation model that integrates the resources of postal and commercial express companies to achieve rapid transportation of mail and goods.
in recent years, the horgos area has taken the cross-border e-commerce industry as an important starting point to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade in the comprehensive bonded zone, giving full play to the cross-border e-commerce distribution center, cross-border e-commerce supervision and inspection center, international mail exchange station (interchange bureau) and other functional places, and at the same time introduced a number of leading foreign trade enterprises, achieving full coverage of cross-border e-commerce export declaration modes such as 9610, 9710, 9810, and 1210. up to now, there are 34 cross-border e-commerce enterprises in the horgos comprehensive bonded zone. from january to june this year, the cross-border e-commerce achieved a trade volume of 2.731 billion yuan, an increase of 8.72% year-on-year.
horgos continues to accelerate its opening up to the outside world. especially since the establishment of the horgos area of the xinjiang pilot free trade zone last year, projects such as tir and railway express have been first implemented here, cross-border e-commerce at the port and trade between new border residents have been put into operation one after another, and the diversified development of port functions has continuously generated new momentum for foreign trade growth. in addition, the horgos area of the xinjiang pilot free trade zone has applied for a pilot program for the processing of imported goods, promoted the construction of a 200,000-ton grain storage base, created an imported grain and oil reserve processing base, and applied to build and improve functional areas such as bonded logistics, bonded warehousing, and bonded processing.
the policy advantages and functional areas are important guarantees for attracting enterprises to settle down. from january to june this year, 30 cross-border e-commerce enterprises, 23 bonded processing enterprises, and more than 40 bonded logistics enterprises were settled in the comprehensive bonded zone; the total import and export value reached 27.047 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 101.8%. bater, deputy director of the office of the management committee of horgos comprehensive bonded zone, said that the advantages of the multiple policy superposition of "comprehensive bonded zone + supporting zone + free trade pilot zone" will be fully utilized to promote the emergence of new business forms and new models, and play a leading role in promoting the construction of the horgos area of the china (xinjiang) free trade pilot zone.
pingxiang, guangxi: cross-border e-commerce is gathering faster
economic daily reporter tong zheng
at the cross-border e-commerce live broadcast base in the border export processing industrial park in pingxiang city, guangxi, anchors are introducing products to consumers in asean countries in front of the camera. clothing, cosmetics, small appliances, etc. are the products they mainly recommend.
it is reported that the e-commerce live broadcast base has 20 real-scene live broadcast rooms, 5 open warehouse live broadcast rooms, more than 40 young anchors of minority languages, an average of more than 60 live broadcasts per day, and an average sales volume of more than 30,000 yuan per broadcast. from january to july this year, the live broadcast base's online sales totaled more than 350 million yuan.
in april 2020, the state council approved the establishment of the china (chongzuo) cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone. in march 2021, pingxiang built and operated the china (guangxi) free trade zone chongzuo area cross-border e-commerce public customs clearance center. so far, 27 e-commerce companies have settled in the china (chongzuo) cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, of which 17 have successfully carried out business. from january to july this year, the import and export trade volume of cross-border e-commerce in pingxiang city exceeded 6 billion yuan, an increase of more than 400% year-on-year, and the scale exceeded the total amount for the whole year of 2023.
in order to promote the gathering of cross-border e-commerce industry, pingxiang actively builds cross-border e-commerce industrial park, introduces cross-border e-commerce related enterprises to settle down and develop, integrates industrial chain resources such as warehousing and logistics, anchor training, supply chain services, import and export trade, establishes cross-border e-commerce logistics border warehouse, and creates a cross-border e-commerce industrial cluster integrating procurement, cold chain, warehousing, processing, trading, distribution, sales and other functions. zhou yunbiao, director of pingxiang e-commerce development service center, introduced that in recent years, pingxiang city has seized the development opportunities of "internet +", found its position, actively integrated into the "belt and road" and rcep, connected with asean countries, and vigorously promoted the development of new formats such as cross-border e-commerce.
taking advantage of mature park infrastructure and port logistics advantages, pingxiang has accurately recruited investors and introduced companies such as cainiao network, thereby attracting companies such as chongzuo ernst & young, guangzhou xincheng, and guangxi feiyue supply chain to settle in pingxiang border export processing industrial park. at the same time, pingxiang has increased its support for settled enterprises, encouraging them to set up cross-border e-commerce product selection centers, border stocking warehouses, and sorting and collection warehouses to accelerate the formation of cross-border e-commerce industry clusters. at present, there is a cross-border e-commerce product selection (stocking) center, a cross-border e-commerce live broadcast base, and two cross-border e-commerce sorting and collection warehouses in the cross-border e-commerce industrial park, with a total area of 18,000 square meters. from january to july this year, the import and export trade volume of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in the park reached 2.989 billion yuan, accounting for 48% of the city's cross-border e-commerce import and export trade volume.
at the same time, pingxiang city has launched a series of "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt" activities to promote in-depth cooperation between local cross-border e-commerce logistics companies and domestic manufacturing companies such as the shenzhen underwear association. taking advantage of the efficient logistics of cross-border e-commerce to reach asean within one day, as well as the advantages of the entire industrial chain of stocking, live broadcasting and assembly and sorting, it attracts manufacturing companies to stock their products in pingxiang border warehouses and expand the asean market through cross-border e-commerce trade.
zhou yunbiao said that in order to promote the high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce, the next step is to continue to optimize the business environment, increase support for enterprises, further attract more enterprises and projects to settle in, and promote industrial agglomeration and development.
source: economic daily
