Foreign trade enterprises start “busy mode”
Spring comes early. The afterglow of the Spring Festival holiday has not yet dissipated. Foreign trade enterprises have started a “busy mode” on factory workshops, port terminals, land ports, and China-Europe Railway Railway Lines. Foreign trade imports and exports are booming. The “fighting map” at the beginning of the year in various places indicates Enterprises are opening up a good situation for foreign trade in the new year with positive actions.
In Jiangyin, Jiangsu, the ship platform of China Shipbuilding Chengxi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. is busy and orderly. In the harbor pool, a large black and red bulk carrier under construction is particularly conspicuous. This is the second foreign trade ship under construction by the headquarters of China Shipbuilding Chengxi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. this year. Because it complies with the latest green environmental protection and energy-saving standards, this series of ships is very popular in the international market and is expected to be delivered to Greek ship owners in April.
Based on this green and environmentally friendly bulk carrier, while taking on new orders, the company is also vigorously promoting the transformation and upgrading of shipbuilding products, and promoting the expansion and strengthening of the latest environmentally friendly ship types independently developed, such as 50,000-ton tankers and 41,800-ton dump ships. . To escort “going out to sea”, Jiangyin Customs, which belongs to Nanjing Customs, keeps pace with the development of new quality productivity in the ship industry, opens up green channels in terms of inspections, material supply, etc., and makes every effort to smooth the “last mile” of ships going out to sea.
“The heavy weapon of a great power” is ready to go international, and “small and beautiful” people’s livelihood consumer goods are also conveying their charm to the world. In the intelligent production workshop of a hat making company in Jiangsu, the fully automatic cutting bed is accurately cutting the fabric at a frequency of 120 meters per minute, and the laser embroidery machine outlines exquisite patterns on the brim of the hat. The continued deepening of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) has brought tangible dividends to enterprises. With the fourth round of tax cuts in the Japanese market implemented, product tariffs have been reduced from 3.2% to 2%, and will eventually reach zero tariffs in the future. The tariff costs saved by each hat are translated into price advantages and market competitive advantages. In January 2025 alone, the company’s order trade volume exported to Japan exceeded 3.29 million yuan, and it applied for 30 RCEP certificates of origin, an increase of 87.5% year-on-year.
Recently, accompanied by a loud whistle, under the supervision of Suzhou Customs under the jurisdiction of Nanjing Customs, a China-Europe freight train loaded with 100 standard boxes slowly set off from Suzhou Railway West Station and headed towards Central Asia. This train mainly carries white goods, mechanical products and daily necessities, and is the first China-Europe freight train launched in Suzhou in the New Year of the Snake.
The “Iron Camel Caravan” set off with full loads, and trains loaded with “Made in Jiangsu” drove along the railway tracks to the distance. Stable railway logistics has broadened the channels for enterprises to go overseas. In January this year, the Jiangsu Province International Freight Train carried a total of 16,010 standard containers of cargo, with a total of 195 trains running. Among them, the number of outbound trips in Central Asia reached 96, an increase of 38.7% year-on-year.
While more and more “Made in China” are going abroad, there are also many “good goods for overseas shopping” that enrich the lives of Chinese people. In the Changzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Jiangsu Province, the intelligent sorting system is running at high speed, and batches of cross-border parcels are waiting to be sent to the whole country; on the display screen of the customs CT machine inspection equipment, three-dimensional images of products are rapidly imaged, outlining cross-border electricity A vivid picture of the booming business industry.
As the world’s largest goods trading country, an average of about 120 billion yuan of goods flows between China and the world every day. Data shows that in January this year, the container throughput of Shanghai Port exceeded 5 million TEUs, setting a monthly record high. This achievement not only set a record that Shanghai Port itself has maintained, but also made it the world’s first port to exceed 5 million TEUs in a single month; Shenzhen Port’s foreign trade container throughput in January reached 2.853 million TEUs, an increase of 15.5% over the same period last year. , optimize the cargo structure and achieve a “good start”… From the data of my country’s ocean ports, you can feel the vitality of China’s foreign trade imports and exports.
In 2024, my country’s export scale exceeded 25 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 25.45 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%, maintaining growth for eight consecutive years, showing strong momentum and vitality. In 2025, the external environment will become more complex, with more uncertain and unstable factors, the influence of geopolitics, unilateralism and protectionism will increase, and the steady growth of foreign trade will face severe challenges.
To promote the stability and quality of foreign trade, local governments and relevant departments respond to corporate expectations in a timely manner, so that policy dividends benefit more companies and help foreign trade enterprises go further and better. After sorting out the newly released government work reports in various places, “stabilizing foreign trade” has become a high-frequency word for various places in 2025, and what appears together is “high-quality development”. Continuous efforts will be made to stabilize foreign trade policies to provide more support for enterprises to innovate and upgrade and expand the international market. New momentum for foreign trade is being released at an accelerated pace, and the pace of greening and digitalization is accelerating.
In 2025, my country will further increase its efforts to stabilize foreign trade policies. While strengthening support for foreign trade enterprises in various aspects such as finance, finance, and business environment, independent opening and unilateral opening will be promoted in an orderly manner, and the free trade pilot zone will further improve quality and efficiency, service trade, green trade, and digital trade. There is a lot of room for development in emerging trade fields.
“Customs will take proactive actions to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of policy supply, and promote the better transformation of positive factors and favorable conditions in all aspects into high-quality development of foreign trade.” Sun Meijun, Director of the General Administration of Customs, pointed out that it will earnestly implement the promotion of foreign trade to promote foreign trade in earnest.” Several measures to stabilize growth, increase the implementation and effectiveness evaluation of the 16 customs support measures, deepen taxation research, promote the improvement of tax policies, extend the list of measures to enjoy AEO (certified operators) enterprises, and make good use of the “Customer Chief’s policy to send Home-to-door” and “one-to-one” customs enterprise coordinators and other customs and enterprises contact and cooperation mechanisms to amplify the policy combination effect. Special measures have been introduced and implemented for customs to promote stable growth in foreign trade to help enterprises expand exports and stabilize market share.
Meng Yue, head of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in 2024, the Ministry of Commerce promoted the issuance of a series of measures such as the “Several Policy Measures on Promoting Stable Growth of Foreign Trade”. This year, we will accelerate the implementation of various policies and measures, work with all localities and departments to strictly implement policies, promote effective good experiences and practices, help foreign trade enterprises stabilize orders, clear up bottlenecks and checkpoints, and promote the stable development of foreign trade. In line with the trend of digital trade development, expand the application of electronic trade documents, and encourage the digital development of the entire trade chain. At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce will also provide services and guarantees for enterprises, continue to hold special training on green trade, cross-border e-commerce, etc., and improve the comprehensive development capabilities of foreign trade enterprises.
Author: Our reporter Zhang Yi, Guangming Daily (Page 03, February 16, 2025)
[Editor in charge: Ma Rui]
