China News Service, Qinzhou, August 28 (Reporter Lin Hao) "With the convenience of external transportation and the reduction of customs clearance costs, Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group is deploying more and more international production lines to Qinzhou, China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone. In the Hong Kong area (hereinafter referred to as the Qinzhou Port area), our customs declaration business volume is growing rapidly." Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. customs broker Zhao Yi told reporters.

　　Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group in the Qinzhou Port area.

Zhao Yi introduced that the company mainly imports wood chips, coal and other raw materials from the international market, and produces forest pulp and paper products that are sold to ASEAN, European and American markets.

At present, as demand continues to grow, expanding production capacity has increased the agenda.

　　The Qinzhou Port area is the only area near the sea with the largest area among the three areas of the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Mo Fuwen, deputy director of the Qinzhou Port Area Management Committee, introduced on the 28th that the potential and advantages of the Qinzhou Port area lie in the sea. Since its establishment in August 2019, the area has focused on building a new gateway port for land and sea in the west and an economic gathering area to the sea, striving to build China— ASEAN Cooperation Demonstration Zone.

　　The new gateway port of the western land and sea passage begins to take shape

　　The construction of a new gateway port for land and sea in the west is a key task undertaken by the Qinzhou Port area.

Mo Fuwen told reporters that this year, the cargo throughput of Qinzhou Port is expected to reach 150 million tons, becoming the main channel of the new western land-sea channel and an important port for the China-Europe rail and sea-rail combined transport hub.

　　The reporter recently visited the Qinzhou Port Terminal and saw that cranes and vehicles in the port operation area were operating at full capacity, and the cargo yard was filled with a large number of containers waiting to be shipped, creating a busy scene of a large southern port.

　　According to Wang Xiaoxiao, deputy manager of the comprehensive department of Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Container Terminal Co., Ltd., in the past two years, Qinzhou Port has added more than 216,000 square meters of storage yard area, and designated supervision sites for inbound fruits and meat have been put into use one after another.

The sea-rail combined transport train covers more than 10 provinces including Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Hunan, Gansu, etc. The foreign trade routes go directly to ports such as Ho Chi Minh, Haiphong, Singapore, Laem Chaban, Jakarta, and Hong Kong liners "daily flights" and Singapore public barges also continue. encryption.

　　Xianghai Economic Agglomeration Area is gradually emerging

　　In the Huayi Qinzhou Chemical New Material Integration Base, the first phase of the project with an investment of about 16.2 billion yuan has just been put into operation in June this year. Hundreds of workers are working intensively and orderly in the intelligent chemical factory.

　　Huang Rong, general manager of Guangxi Huayi Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd., introduced that the company produces acetic acid and other products, which are in great demand in the ASEAN and European and American markets.

The production base is set up in the Qinzhou Port area. The transportation of raw materials and finished products can be completed at the wharf beside the factory. The logistics is convenient and the cost is low, which greatly improves the market competitiveness.

　　Similar to Huayi Company, Singapore's GLYKEN Group, one of the world's largest bird's nest producers, also chose to settle in the Qinzhou Port area.

The company’s Qinzhou project department leader Yu Tichao introduced that since the decision to invest in the Qinzhou Port area, the company has spent less than 7 months to complete plant design and equipment installation, and successfully trial-produced bird’s nest peptide products at the beginning of this year, with monthly output. Nearly 100,000 boxes.

　　With the settlement of a large number of advantageous industrial projects such as green chemicals, bird's nest, equipment manufacturing, electronic information, and new materials, the growth of the port industry economy has become a bright spot for the development of the Qinzhou Port area.

　　Mo Fuwen said that in the future, the Qinzhou Port area will make efforts to promote industrial cooperation with ASEAN, build a world-class green high-end chemical and new material industry cluster for ASEAN, and accelerate the establishment of a new energy vehicle and marine engineering equipment manufacturing base for ASEAN.

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