China News Service, Yiwu, March 4 (Reporter Zhang Bin Xi Jinyan) The word "Chuang" has always been used consistently. Yiwu, Zhejiang has always been the "vanguard" of China's reform and opening up.
More than forty years ago, reforms were blowing vigorously.
In September 1982, the Standing Committee of the Yiwu County Party Committee at the time made a decision: allowing farmers to do business, allowing long-distance trafficking, allowing the opening of urban and rural markets, and allowing multi-channel competition-this historical decision called the "Four Permits" opened up Later, the story of the world's "small commodity capital".
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox, the stacked containers in the Yiwu Railway Port are waiting to be loaded on the "Yixin Europe" China-Europe Express.
Photo by Xi Jinyan
History is always "rhyming".
Facing the new round of reform and opening up, the construction of a pilot free trade zone has become a major strategic move made by China.
In 2020, under the background of the expansion of the China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Yiwu will enter the new heights of reform and opening up in the new era, and propose to build the "five freedoms" focusing on trade, investment, capital exchanges, transportation exchanges, and freedom of entry and exit. The small commodity trading system of China.
"Looking back on the development history of Yiwu, whenever a key node, Yiwu can always "break" the key direction and make the right choice." said Lin Yi, secretary of the Yiwu Municipal Party Committee.
As he said, under the background of China’s accelerating construction of a new development pattern, and with the help of the free trade zone construction, Yiwu is boldly experimenting, boldly breaking through, and making independent reforms to lay the foundation for the continued prosperity of the market and explore new ways for the country’s trade system innovation. The overall goal of the world's "small commodity capital" is steady and far-reaching.
Yiwu International Trade City.
Comprehensive photo by Tong Duo
Leveraging on Dongfeng Pathfinder Trade System Innovation
In the process of constructing a new development pattern of "double cycle", how to establish trade rules and regulatory rules that are compatible with new trade formats? Yiwu has the advantage of pioneering and testing first-it has trade relations with 233 countries and regions, and there is a connection behind it. More than 2 million small, medium and micro enterprises...Trade is the biggest basic market for Yiwu's development.
How to make mass trade more convenient and free?
Finance is both a difficulty and a pain point: In the past, a large number of cross-border e-commerce sellers in Yiwu market had difficulties in collecting foreign exchange through banks.
In order to facilitate trade balances, Zhejiang Chouzhou Commercial Bank, which was born in the Yiwu market, obtained the qualification for cross-border e-commerce foreign exchange collection and settlement in 2020.
Yiwu Jiaolapace E-commerce Co., Ltd. has been selling pajamas, children’s clothing and other products on the FORDEAL cross-border e-commerce platform in 2019. The payment method used was a third-party payment company, which is not convenient for cash withdrawal and foreign exchange settlement, and the handling fee is also relatively high. high.
Since the direct connection between the FORDEAL platform and Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank was launched, the settlement of foreign exchange has been facilitated and compliant, and the RMB arrival speed has been accelerated.
"It used to take 2 days for the withdrawal to arrive, but now it becomes a second level. Compared with third-party payment channels, now every 10,000 US dollars in withdrawals saves about 200 yuan in handling fees." The person in charge of the company said.
At present, the core of Yiwu's full effort to build a free trade zone is the free flow of trade, investment, capital exchanges, transportation exchanges, and personnel in and out.
For example, in order to allow foreign businessmen to "come in", Yiwu implements a full-process and fully-closed-loop invitation service mechanism to ensure that foreign businessmen can successfully complete procurement and trade activities; centered on the "quickness" of examination and approval, the reform of the registration confirmation system for commercial entities is fully implemented and foreign investment registration is completed. Facilitate reform and implement virtual registration of enterprise clusters.
At present, the number of newly established enterprises in the free trade zone has exceeded 12,000, which has doubled the number of entities.
A foreign businessman is working at the international business window of Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank.
Photo by Zhang Bin
Riding the wind into the global fast lane of buying and selling
"The approval of the free trade zone has opened up new imagination for us." In the words of Deng Chaofeng, the head of the company at Zhejiang International Trade Supply Chain Service Co., Ltd., located in Yiwu Port, it became Yiwu's entry into the "free trade zone era". Vivid footnotes.
Deng Chaofeng said that the company has been engaged in the export of auto and motorcycle parts for a long time and is well versed in the potential of the second-hand car market in Asia and Africa.
As Yiwu was approved as a pilot area for the export of second-hand cars by the Ministry of Commerce, they quickly "snap the beach" and exported the first second-hand car in Yiwu through the "Yixin Europe" train on February 9.
"After testing the water, the customer response has been very good, and now there are two batches of more than 50 vehicles still under negotiation."
He said that from "just dare to think" to "let go", this is inseparable from the free trade zone policy dividend.
On October 18, 2020, Yiwu held a free trade zone construction work conference, fully launched the "100-day tackling" action, implemented wall chart operations, established a free trade zone construction work leading group, established trade, investment, capital, transportation, personnel and Digital government and business environment "5+2" reform special class.
A reform meeting is held every week to study and solve the pain points and blockages, and promote the construction of the free trade zone from the two dimensions of supervision and service.
Bei Xudong, the person in charge of the transportation reform special class, said that in the process of market research, they learned that with the rapid development of Southeast Asian e-commerce, Yiwu's rapid growth in ASEAN trade has also put forward new requirements for logistics.
After many investigations, relevant parties finally promoted the opening of Yiwu-Manila round-trip international cargo flights to meet the air transport needs of the Southeast Asian market.
Today, Yiwu promotes multi-platform linkages such as the Free Trade Zone and the Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Yiyongzhou's opening of large channels, and China-Europe freight trains to make freight cheaper and more convenient.
In 2020, there will be 974 Yiwu China-Europe Express trains (accounting for 70% of Zhejiang Province’s shipment volume), an increase of 90.2% year-on-year. It will play a huge role in smoothing the international and domestic "dual cycle" and transporting anti-epidemic materials.
It is reported that in 2021, Yiwu will build two major hub systems, the Yiwu National Trade and Logistics Hub and a series of overseas hubs, to unblock the three major channels of "Yixin Europe", "Yiyong Boat", and the Air Silk Road, linking seaports, dry ports, and air ports. , Information Port "Four Ports", to achieve a one-stop service of global sourcing, transfer and distribution, import and export consolidation, and create a world-wide cargo destination of 100 million tons.
Digital empowerment takes the opportunity to accelerate the global journey
Today, Yiwu is taking digital transformation and digital empowerment as its starting point, with greater intensity of reform and innovation, and accelerating reforms in various fields.
Business owners want to know whether the company is in the free trade zone or not?
Can I enjoy the preferential policies of the free trade zone?
With the trial operation of the "Digital Map" in Yiwu, you can find out by searching the map.
The map establishes a unified place-name address database, realizes the integration of multiple regulations, and increases the function of identifying the free trade zone. In addition, it integrates the data of Yiwu Market Supervision Bureau, Taxation Bureau, Financial Office and other departments to build accurate corporate portraits and realize multi-departmental sharing. Complete administrative approval and daily supervision work efficiently.
"The digital transformation of trade is the core and highlight of the free trade zone construction." The relevant person in charge of the Yiwu Market Development Committee said that Yiwu has explored a wide range of digital trade rules, which can be digital platforms, digital supervision, and digital currencies.
For example, the digital platform (Chinagoods) that serves a large number of small, medium and micro entities that has been launched on the Chinese, English, and Arabic sites, and the platform's GMV (total turnover) has exceeded 16 billion yuan.
As the construction of the free trade zone is getting better, more and more companies in Yiwu hope to achieve diversified development.
Zhang Xuefeng, the person in charge of Zhejiang Ruimai Import & Export Co., Ltd., which mainly imports household cleaning products, hopes that in the future, it will be able to take advantage of Yiwu's rich advantages in merchants to re-export products to overseas small and medium-sized countries, and truly achieve "global trading".
From the external environment, the global trade situation this year and in the future is still full of uncertainties.
It is understood that Yiwu will boldly explore the way, actively cultivate and actively shape, and while better integrating into the "double cycle", it will take advantage of the trend to build Yiwu Terminal, a world cargo ground, and a trading paradise.
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