Hits:Updated:2022-12-09 12:12:09【Print】
The government is leading efforts to fight the economy, not only by providing free mail but also by charter flights.
The fourth quarter of each year, is often the traditional peak season of China's foreign trade, but also the foreign trade enterprises at the end of the sprint grab orders, determine the next year's annual capacity layout of the key period.
Recently, a topic "Zhejiang will organize 10,000 enterprises to go abroad to participate in economic and trade activities" became popular. Netizens found that Suzhou and other places have also chartered planes to go abroad to grab large orders, and strive to catch up with business opportunities ahead.
Zhejiang and Suzhou once again took the lead. We can not help but sigh: Jiangsu and Zhejiang are really good places, not only "free mail" but also "charter" ah!
File photo: Zhoushan Port of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Photo by Tang Jiankai
Charter flight order
Strive to be a "Top economic Student"
On December 4, a group of officials from Zhejiang provincial Department of Commerce and other provincial departments and enterprise representatives drove to the airport to start a 6-day European tour. This is the first group led by Zhejiang provincial department of Commerce to go to the sea to grab orders.
This is also the first stop of Zhejiang Province's recently launched "thousands of enterprises to expand the market to grab orders action." Subsequently, Zhejiang Province will organize more than 10,000 enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions and carry out business negotiations through charter flights, joint flights and other modes.
One day later, on December 5, a business charter flight of a Sichuan foreign trade enterprise set sail in Chengdu to carry out economic and trade promotion activities, which means that the "group sailing" business charter flight organized by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce to expand the market in Europe officially began.
On the charter flight, 40 people from 31 foreign trade enterprises from food, medicine, automobile, furniture, agricultural products and other industries flew to France, Germany and Italy for a nine-day economic and trade promotion activity. This is also the first overseas business delegation organized by Sichuan at the provincial level since the epidemic.
These are also the first provincial-level overseas business missions organized by the two provinces since the outbreak of the epidemic. In addition to the "provincial team", the country has also led a number of cities to grab orders.
The Suzhou Bureau of Commerce organized charter flights to Japan from November 17 to 23, and the large business group's charter flights to Japan won more than 1 billion yuan in new orders, according to the official account of Suzhou News on November 7. In addition, charter flights to France and Germany organized by the bureau will also depart.
Some netizens noticed that Suzhou's "jump start" came shortly after the release of the 20 measures to optimize prevention and control. In the vast majority of local governments are still watching, Suzhou has made a decisive decision to attract investment, and strive to be a "fight for top economic students".
As local epidemic prevention and control measures continue to be optimized and adjusted, the number of groups to "go to sea to grab orders" has grown. According to incomplete statistics, Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan and other places have also organized the relevant government departments to go to sea to grab orders.
Zhejiang enterprises take charter flights to negotiate overseas. Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce
One meeting is worth a thousand emails
"Worthy of you, Zhejiang!" "Good speed, always ahead of business opportunities!" On the related news, countless netizens commented and liked, and one even commented: "This news actually makes me a little tearful."
Since 2020, due to the repeated delay of COVID-19 and the complex international environment, the communication and negotiation between foreign trade enterprises and foreign customers have been hindered. Now, foreign trade enterprises go abroad, competing for orders, stable share of the horn sounded again, people and enterprises are happy.
"The main purpose of this event is to send a signal that, with the optimization of epidemic prevention and control measures, it is time for people to 'go to sea' to do business, and don't be afraid of anything." Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce related staff bluntly.
"We hope that through government departments taking the lead in going global, we will send a more positive signal to enterprises so that they will have more confidence and willingness to take the initiative to go global and gain more opportunities to compete and cooperate with their international counterparts in the New Year." Zhejiang extension market economic and trade delegation Secretary General Li Lin also said.
One meeting is worth a thousand emails. Li Lin introduced that the preliminary research found that many enterprises have concerns about "going out", so the government needs to set an example to give enterprises confidence.
Businesses are also encouraged by the government's strong support. According to some Zhejiang foreign trade bosses, since last month has been frequently received to promote overseas market mobilization text messages, when many bosses in the first time to sign up.
"This is the first time that companies have participated offline in the European Food Ingredients and Health Ingredients Exhibition since the outbreak of the epidemic." Zhejiang above biotechnology Co., LTD., said the overall effect of the exhibition is good. Only from the first day of the exhibition, enterprises and more than 60 customers docking negotiations, the intention of the transaction of about 12 million dollars.
"In these two days, 60 or 70 customers will come to our booth for face-to-face communication." The person in charge revealed that next year, the enterprise will further increase the participation in the global offline exhibition, so that the product to the world.
In the past, "going out" may only require a plane ticket, but now it requires not only the courage to expand the market, but also the conviction to change the status quo.
"I went to a suitcase full of samples; They come back full, and they bring back new products that customers have ordered." Ding Yandong, general manager of Ningbo Rumanx Door & Window Accessories Co., LTD., gained a lot from the 12-day charter trip.
"Market demand has changed, industry winds have changed, and many of the popular styles are now obsolete." Ding mentioned that learning and progress are his biggest gains. Foreign traders deeply feel that the industry's vigorous digitization process and the wide application of new technologies, which suddenly gave him a sense of urgency and crisis, and strengthened his determination to promote the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.
Chengdu International Railway Port is located in Qingbaijiang district of Chengdu. Chengdu International Railway port
The year-end sprint to stabilize the economy
The "money" vibe is back
While netizens are still joking that "we can't make money in the future, we can't blame the epidemic anymore", officials and business owners in Zhejiang and other places have already packed up their luggage and flew abroad to do business.
This shows how important sound foreign trade is to our economy. The total value of China's imports and exports in the January-November period was 38.34 trillion yuan, up 8.6% year on year, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Monday, despite a challenging external environment.
Zhuang Rui, a professor at the National Institute for Opening-up at the University of International Business and Economics, said multiple factors, including repeated epidemics, rising costs and exchange rate fluctuations, have affected the enthusiasm and activity of some enterprises in foreign trade in winter. In this context, the rapid growth of foreign trade plays an important role in stabilizing the macro-economic market.
The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly calls for "speeding up the building of China into a trade powerhouse", lays out important measures to adhere to opening-up, and emphasizes "promoting the optimization and upgrading of trade in goods", "innovating the development mechanism of trade in services", and "developing digital trade". At a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held on Thursday, the Communist Party of China said, We will promote high-level opening-up and make greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment.
"The trend of steady and qualitative improvement in China's foreign trade remains unchanged." Zhuang Rui said that in the key window period of stabilizing economy in the year-end sprint, we should go all out to implement the package of policies and measures for stabilizing economy, and ensure that our foreign trade will continue to make a positive contribution to consolidating the upward trend of economic stability.
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