Fujian pilot free trade zone takes advantage of "One Belt And One Road" to create a new highland of opening-up
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Fuzhou, April 20(huang xueling and shen zhimao) from the moment it was officially launched on April 21, 2015, fujian pilot free trade zone has taken up the task of deepening reform and opening up, promoting cross-strait exchanges and promoting "Hester" cooperation.
Over the past two years, the pilot free trade zone in fujian has built a new pattern of big channels, big trade and big cooperation by integrating into the "One Belt And One Road" development, and promoted fujian to create a new highland of opening up from a new historical starting point.
Connectivity of the "One Belt And One Road" and "sea, land and air" corridors
In xiamen haicang free trade zone, three china-europe (xiamen) trains full of goods leave here every week for the three European terminals of lodz in Poland, nuremberg in Germany and tilburg in the Netherlands. At the same time, wines, meats and daily necessities produced in European countries are also brought back to xiamen through this train.
In December last year, the china-europe (xiamen) railway line became the first railway line in China to join the china-europe "trade in safety and wisdom" project (full name of the "pilot program of china-europe safe and intelligent trade routes"), making it faster and safer for enterprises to export goods to Europe.
The products of fuyao glass, TPV technology, dell and other companies are frequent customers of the china-europe (xiamen) train.The person in charge of TPV technology, a taiwan-funded enterprise, told the reporter that as soon as the goods were released by the customs and boarded the train, the relevant information was sent to the polish customs through the data exchange system. The polish customs would not inspect the goods inspected by the Chinese customs in principle, effectively saving the customs declaration time and inspection cost.
Since it was put into operation in 2015, the china-europe (xiamen) line has run 137 trains, with a total export value of 1.81 billion yuan.
Now, a blueprint has been drawn for a silk road hub city: the china-europe (xiamen) railway line will exceed 4 billion yuan in value this year, and a new direct route to Moscow is about to open.Xiamen port added 8 southeast Asian container lines and 2 cruise lines, and the cargo throughput from asean region to xiamen port increased by 65.6% year on year.The German hermes aviation logistics project with an investment of 120 million us dollars will also open a special cargo line from fuzhou to Istanbul in the near future, creating an air logistics channel to Europe...
We will promote cross-border direct purchases in foreign trade
French wine, German beer, Dutch milk powder...Enter the new silk road cross-border trading center in fujian pingtan free trade zone, and the cross-border direct purchase mode of "offline experience + online purchase" brings new shopping experience to pingtan citizens.
Different from pingtan Australia before to town in Taiwan and Taiwan small commodities "goods", the main market of new silk road cross-border trading center is equipped with the United States, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other products more than 20 countries life pavilion, more than 20000 kinds of original imported goods, here "sell goods around the world", and more than 15% cheaper than general store.
"Relying on the special duty-free policy and the unique overseas direct mail procurement system, the 'new silk road' has saved nearly 30% of the circulation costs and greatly improved the price competitiveness of overseas commodities."Pingtan new silk road cross-border development co., LTD.
Relying on the "One Belt And One Road" construction, cross-border e-commerce has become a new driving force for foreign trade growth.In 2016, cross-border e-commerce in fujian pilot free trade zone realized import and export value of about 3.6 billion yuan.
"Go global" and speed up the expansion of foreign cooperation
"No matter where you are, you can easily transact seafood across borders with the click of a mouse on our trading platform."Xue yongfu, vice-president of the china-asean seafood exchange, told reporters that more than 350 types of seafood from around the world can now be traded on the exchange.
Since its official operation in March 2015, the spot trading volume of seafood products on the exchange has soared from hundreds of thousands of yuan in the past to hundreds of millions of yuan, making it one of the most important Internet trading service platforms along the "21st century maritime silk road".This is the historical development opportunity brought by the "One Belt And One Road" initiative.
Xue yongfu introduced that as a third-party trading platform, "sea exchange" absorbs leading seafood enterprises from China and asean countries as members, and provides a trading platform of "online trading, offline delivery and cross-border settlement" for bulk seafood spot goods.In September 2016, hkex signed a cooperation agreement with jf Malaysia to jointly build an industrial cooperation base covering an area of 62,000 mu with an investment of 3.29 billion yuan in Malaysia.
"As of 2016, the exchange has developed 358 fishery enterprise members, with the annual transaction amount exceeding 30 billion yuan.In the future, we will continue to set up bases in asean countries and build new platforms for win-win cooperation.According to xue yongfu, a branch center of the exchange is under construction in myanmar and Vietnam, and the "maritime silk road futures exchange (Cambodia)" has been approved by the Cambodia securities regulatory commission.
Driven by the "One Belt And One Road" initiative, now more and more fujian enterprises have accelerated the pace of "going out".Statistics show that in 2016, the pilot free trade zone of fujian completed 131 outbound investment projects and the outward direct investment reached 4.4 billion us dollars, a year-on-year increase of 6.28 times and 10.43 times.(after)