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reporter fang zhuoran

on october 1, 2024, jiemian news learned from shanghai customs that in the 75 years since the founding of the people's republic of china, the total value of shanghai's import and export goods has grown from us$119 million in 1950 to us$599.033 billion in 2023.

today, significant progress has been made in the construction of shanghai's international shipping center. shanghai port has gradually moved from the huangpu river to the deep sea, with river, sea, land, air, and rail connections all over the world. the construction of the international trade center continues to make new breakthroughs, and trading partners have evolved from the early stage of reform and opening up. more than 20 countries have expanded to more than 200 countries and regions currently. in 2023, shanghai's total port trade in goods will rank first among global cities; high-level opening-up systems and mechanisms have been further improved. the ciie fully demonstrates the open pattern, and the shanghai free trade pilot zone system innovation has achieved fruitful results...

the all-dimensional transportation channels of river, sea, land, air and railway are efficient and smooth, and the shanghai international trade center's global hub level is continuing to improve. since 2009, the container throughput of shanghai port has ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years. the high-quality development of shanghai shipping center is inseparable from the pioneering reforms in the field of shipping services.

in may 2022, shanghai port pioneered the pilot foreign-funded liner "coastal piggybacking" business, allowing qualified foreign-funded liner companies to own non-five-star flag ships to carry out operations between dalian, tianjin, qingdao and shanghai yangshan port. the above yangshan port is coastal piggy-backing business of foreign trade containers at international transit ports.

since the pilot, yangshan customs, a subsidiary of shanghai customs, has used institutional opening to solve the difficulties and blockages that plague enterprises, attracting foreign shipping companies such as maersk, cma cgm, and pil to adjust transit routes to busan and singapore in batches to carry out "coastal piggybacking" business at shanghai port. , the transit time of import and export goods is reduced by about 7 days to 14 days.

data show that as of the end of august this year, the coastal throughput of foreign-owned liner vessels has exceeded 126,000 teus.

as my country's largest international air port, one-quarter of the country's inbound and outbound passengers and one-half of the international logistics enter and exit through shanghai airport. relying on the advantages of shanghai's airport port with dense international routes, the airport port is becoming a new channel for shanghai's trade to go out to sea.

according to shanghai customs statistics, in the first eight months of this year, the number of cross-border e-commerce export declarations at shanghai airport port reached 336 million, a year-on-year increase of 28.62%, with a total amount of 52.767 billion yuan and a weight of 299,000 tons.

these data mean that on average, nearly 1.4 million cross-border e-commerce parcels are exported by air in shanghai every day. faced with the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce exports, shanghai pudong international airport customs, a subsidiary of shanghai customs, has accelerated the reform of its supervision business, allowing data to "run away more" and companies to "run away less."

at present, relevant cross-border e-commerce logistics companies declare a shipment of e-commerce goods and receive customs release information 5 minutes after the data is successfully matched. the goods can then be shipped out on flights as soon as possible, improving the speed of customs clearance of goods and the efficiency of storage capacity turnover, avoiding goods are stuck in warehouse.

at 14:00 on september 15, accompanied by the sound of the whistle, a "china-europe express-shanghai" loaded with 110 standard containers set off from the shanghai minhang station of the railway and rushed to the manzhouli port. after exiting the country, it will go to moscow, st. petersburg and belarus, russia. minsk and other cities.

at present, the "china-europe express-shanghai" has achieved full coverage of the china-europe line, china-russia line, and central asia line, connecting more than 80 overseas cities and stations, becoming a logistics channel for shanghai to connect eurasia.

since the beginning of this year, shanghai station customs, a subsidiary of shanghai customs, has been continuously optimizing existing facilitation measures and ensuring efficient and convenient customs clearance of import and export goods of the "china-europe express-shanghai" through innovations in supervision means and methods. in the first eight months of this year, the customs has supervised the entry and exit of 67 "china-europe express-shanghai" trains, carrying more than 7,000 teus of import and export goods, with a total weight of about 60,000 tons and a cargo value of 2.5 billion yuan.

in addition, shanghai’s competitive advantages in foreign trade continue to expand.

recently, the liquefied natural gas (lng) dual-fuel powered large container ship "cma cgm belem" built by hudong-zhonghua (group) co., ltd., a subsidiary of china state shipbuilding corporation, and china shipbuilding industry trading co., ltd., was under the supervision of shanghai customs. traveling across the ocean.

today, shanghai has become the only city in the world that houses the three "crown jewels" of the shipbuilding industry: aircraft carriers, large luxury cruise ships, and large lng carriers.

since the beginning of this year, the three major shipbuilding companies in shanghai under china state shipbuilding corporation, hudong-zhonghua shipbuilding, jiangnan shipbuilding and waigaoqiao shipbuilding, have been operating at full capacity, and the momentum of ship exports from shanghai port has continued to be strong.

according to shanghai customs statistics, in the first eight months of this year, shanghai exported 43.86 billion yuan of ships, a year-on-year increase of 104.8%. while the number is growing, the proportion of green ships using clean fuels such as methanol and lng is also increasing.

at the country's largest automobile export terminal, shanghai's waigaoqiao port area haitong terminal, since this year, there have been an average of 2-3 ro-ro ships carrying more than 3,000 cars going out to sea from the waigaoqiao port area haitong terminal every day. to more than 100 countries and regions around the world.

in the first eight months of this year, the shanghai waigaoqiao port district customs under shanghai customs supervised a total of 926,000 vehicle exports, a year-on-year increase of 26.8%, of which new energy vehicle exports accounted for more than 30%.

as the "brain" of modern industry, integrated circuits are one of the cores of a new round of industrial transformation. shanghai is the region with the most complete integrated circuit industry chain, the highest technical level, and the strongest comprehensive capabilities in my country. its industrial sales scale accounts for about 20% of the country's total.

at the same time, shanghai is the largest port for import and export of integrated circuits in the country, accounting for about one-third of the country's import and export scale.

shanghai customs has created a full-process customs supervision innovation model that comprehensively covers all aspects of chip design, chip manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment manufacturing and logistics supply chain, as well as various business entities. in the first eight months of this year, the import value of 76 integrated circuit companies that have applied the integrated circuit regulatory innovation policy at shanghai port was 80.75 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.1%.