Looking at China's foreign trade 'including new volume' through port terminals

ThePolitical Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China helda meeting on July 30th to analyze and study the current economic situation anddeploy economic work for the second half of the year. The meeting emphasizedthe need to expand high-level opening up to the outside world and stabilize thebasic balance of foreign trade and investment.

At thePhase II dock of Nansha Port Area in Guangzhou, Guangdong, a huge bridge cranelifted over 400 containers of goods such as refrigerators and small householdappliance accessories onto the ship. Thanks to the newly opened direct flightroute to Qiankai Port on the west coast of South America, logistics costs havebeen significantly reduced.

In thefirst half of this year, China's import and export of goods reached a recordhigh of 21.79 trillion yuan. Among them, exports amounted to 13 trillion yuan,a year-on-year increase of 7.2%. China's foreign trade maintains strongresilience, achieving overall growth, quality improvement, and controllablevariables.

Ports arethe forefront hubs for foreign trade import and export. In the vibrant portterminals, there is a password for the continuous growth of China's new foreigntrade momentum and advantages, and the high-level opening up to the outsideworld reaching a new level.

Theincrease in the "new content" of foreign trade lies in the continuousrise of China's manufacturing "hard power".

The Zhanblue large gantry crane can be easily grasped, and the orange red ship unloaderoperates efficiently... Yantai Port in Shandong Province is a bustling scene.The "Weili Qinqin" ship, carrying 28000 tons of Chinese madeconstruction machinery and equipment, sailed from Yantai Port to Guinea.

Thechanges are clear at a glance, "said an old employee at Yantai Port.Throughthe port, it can be seen that innovation has become a distinct color of foreigntrade. Backed by a complete and continuously iterative supply chain in China,through high-end, intelligent, and green transformation, the innovation powerof Chinese products has been widely recognized by global consumers. From coffeemachines, floor sweepers, and fabric fibers to electric vehicles, ships,airplanes, and industrial machinery, innovative, high-quality, and competitiveChinese manufacturing and Chinese creation continue to emerge, and exportgrowth momentum is orderly transformed and replaced.

Thecompetitiveness of high-tech and high value-added products in our country isconstantly increasing. In the first half of this year, the export of mechanicaland electrical products increased by 9.5% year-on-year, accounting for 60% ofthe total export value. Among them, high-end equipment closely related to newquality productivity increased by over 20%, and the "new threesamples" products representing green and low-carbon increased by 12.7%year-on-year.

The leapin the "new content" of foreign trade lies in the expansion ofChina's foreign trade "circle of friends".

Since thebeginning of this year, Yantian Port Area of Shenzhen Port in GuangdongProvince has added 11 international routes, weaving a dense "globalnetwork" of nearly 100 routes every week. In the first half of the year,an average of over 40000 TEUs were shipped from Yantian Port to the world everyday.

To thenorth, 1418 domestic independent brand commercial vehicles recently completedexport loading operations at the roll on/roll off terminal company and set sailfor South America on the "Minjiang Estuary" ship, marking the openingof the "Tianjin Port Qiankai Port" international roll on/roll offroute and a new channel for car companies in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei regionto go global.

The routehas been extended, and trading partners are spread across five continents andfour seas. China is a major trading partner of over 150 countries and regions.In the first half of this year, China's import and export to countries jointlybuilding the "the Belt and Road" totaled 11.29 trillion yuan, up 4.7%year on year, and the diversified market pattern continued to expand.

The"new content" of China's foreign trade is not only reflected in theoptimization of product and market structure, but also in the vigorousdevelopment of new formats and models. With just one click of the mouse, youcan buy and sell globally. The strong innovation ability, new business models,and large market scale of e-commerce have promoted the vigorous development ofglobal e-commerce cooperation.

China hasreached 35 Silk Road e-commerce partner countries, created a series ofcooperative brands, built 120 online and offline national pavilions,established 65 direct procurement bases in 19 countries, and held more than 100e-commerce "cloud lectures" business training sessions, effectivelypromoting global e-commerce cooperation.

From busydocks to extended shipping routes, from shuttling giant ships to constantlyupgrading operational standards, the changes in ports are a microcosm of theupgrading of foreign trade quality. The relevant person in charge of theMinistry of Commerce stated that we must continuously shape new driving forcesand advantages in foreign trade, firmly maintain the global trade order, worktogether with more trading partners to achieve win-win results, and inject morestability into global trade growth. (Source: People's Daily)