Tianjin strives to do 5 articles on rivers, seas, harbors, western-style buildings, and small towns-the new consumer city is setting sail

  "Tianjin will thoroughly implement the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, build a central and multi-supported business district pattern, complete five articles on rivers, seas, ports, foreign buildings, and small towns, and create a development oriented towards Northeast Asia and radiating Russia. And a characteristic international consumption center city in Central and Eastern Europe.” said Wang Xu, deputy mayor of Tianjin.

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  A century-old building, the fragrance of coffee.

  The flagship store of Starbucks Zhenxuan located in Jinjie, Tianjin. It is located in a century-old building-the former office building of Zhejiang Industrial Bank in Tianjin. With the theme of "Taste the best coffee and reminisce about a century of time", it has become an online celebrity check-in for visiting Jinjie and enjoying Tianjin. land.

  Here not only provides a variety of coffee and tea, but also furnishes and displays various facilities of the original Tianjin Zhejiang Industrial Bank when it was open.

"It feels very relaxing to come here. While savoring pure coffee, while experiencing modern Chinese history, I feel like traveling through different time and space," said Jiao Yan, a resident of Xiqing District, Tianjin.

Over the past two years, the Starbucks Premium flagship store has been visited continuously every day.

  Look at Tianjin in modern history.

Western-style building culture and century-old architecture are the cultural heritage and commercial accumulation of Tianjin. While paying attention to inheritance and continuity, it needs the organic integration of tradition and innovation.

  Shen Lei, director of the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce, introduced that Tianjin will build an international commercial center with Haihe as the axis to carry the core functions of an international consumption center city.

Jin Street, which has a century-old history, will become a landmark business district that demonstrates international influence; Tianjin will also simultaneously promote the upgrading and transformation of commercial streets in commercial districts from Laochengxiang to Guwenhua Street, build a multi-point support structure, and accelerate the creation of water-based recreational activities. Three Jincheng consumer business cards of foreign-style house culture and jelly delicacies.

  Only by adapting measures to local conditions to develop "business card boutique" and characteristic economy can the city's fashion vitality be demonstrated, and the international consumption center city can show its individuality.

  In July this year, at the second "Nezha Sports Festival" in Hexi District, Tianjin, cage football, basketball, beach volleyball and other competitions attracted more than 5000 players from Tianjin, Beijing, Hebei, Henan and other provinces and cities, and the passenger flow reached 107. Ten thousand person-times; sports festival sales reached 23,190,700 yuan, with an average daily sales of 527,100 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.8%.

  Li Kemin, director of the Tianjin Sports Bureau, introduced that Tianjin has cultivated a number of unique brand events with Tianjin characteristics and built a "1+10+100" event system, that is, 1 top international competitive sports event and 10 international and domestic high-level events will be held. Events, 100 influential domestic events will be held, and a metropolis of sports events will be built "to Tianjin".

  At present, foreign-style houses culture, sports competitions, exhibition economy and other characteristic economies are becoming a new bright spot for Tianjin to release its consumption potential and cultivate and build an international consumption center city.

Expand opening

  At the just-concluded 105th National Sugar and Wine Trade Fair, red wines from different countries attracted the most attention.

As a cross-border trade agent, Tianjin Dongjiang International Trade Co., Ltd. joined hands with customers such as Italian wineries to tour 7 hotels including Shangri-La and Yanyuan.

  Wang Cunyu, manager of the trade service department of Tianjin Dongjiang International Trade Co., Ltd., told reporters: “At present, Dongjiang International Trade has sold nearly 1,000 imported goods in more than 10 categories such as red wine and milk powder, mainly for northern China. So far this year, sales have exceeded 1.8. 100 million yuan."

  It should be noted that in fostering and constructing an international consumption center city, "international" is the direction, consumption is the core, and the center is the key.

How to cultivate and build?

  Tianjin’s answer is to build a more open platform, gather international consumption resources, and enhance the attractiveness and cohesion of the city; while in the context of buying the world and selling the world, cultivating and building an international consumption center city will accelerate the formation of domestic and international market connectivity, industry integration, A virtuous circle of innovation and interconnection of rules.

  Tianjin has policy advantages such as system innovation in the pilot free trade zone and comprehensive pilot projects for expanding the opening up of the service industry. It has implemented 487 system innovation measures and replicated and promoted 38 experience cases.

Through a deeper opening up, Tianjin will attract more businessmen to come to Tianjin for development.

  According to Shen Lei, Tianjin will focus on imported cars and top international brands to create a bonded exhibition and sales complex.

At the same time, promote the construction of a comprehensive pilot zone for China (Tianjin) cross-border e-commerce to enhance export incubation functions and overseas warehouse distribution guarantee capabilities.

By the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Tianjin will build 10 cross-border e-commerce innovation pilot zones, deploy 40 overseas warehouses, and double the cross-border e-commerce import and export volume.

  In the context of "manufacturing a city", cultivating and building an international consumption center city will stabilize the industrial chain and supply chain, promote the upgrading of Tianjin's manufacturing industry, and enter the international market.

  Statistics in the third quarter of this year showed that Tianjin’s main export commodities continued to grow year-on-year, with electronic components reaching 23.75 billion yuan, an increase of 38.4%; exports of medical materials and drugs increased by 150.8%.

  In the future, Tianjin will focus on the high-end and branding of products in the manufacturing fields of food, bicycles, watches, etc., and create competitive products with influential domestic and foreign consumer markets.

Carry out the action of "polishing the golden signs of Jinnong High-quality Products" to cultivate domestic and internationally well-known Tianjin product brands.

Traffic first

  Cultivating and building an international consumption center city must not only stimulate the economy and promote consumption, but also enhance the sense of gain and happiness of the general public, and meet the people's growing demand for a better life.

  In the "Implementation Plan for Tianjin Cultivation and Construction of an International Consumption Center City" issued by Tianjin, it is clearly proposed to create a consumption environment of international standards, to build a free and convenient system environment for international consumption, and to create a new pattern of regional consumption linkage development.

  Improve the quality of consumption and traffic first.

At present, there are 6 rail transit operating lines in Tianjin, with a total operating mileage of 232 kilometers, forming a networked operation pattern covering the central city area and connecting Tianjin and Binhai cities.

The share rate of rail transit in the public transportation in the central city reaches 33%, and the backbone role has initially appeared.

  The "Implementation Plan" proposes that Tianjin Rail Line Z2, Jinjing City (Suburb) Railway (Airport Line) and other lines will be connected to Tianjin Binhai International Airport, strengthening the multi-channel between the airport and the "Jinbin Twin City" and the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Tianjin) Quick contact.

Simultaneously promote the construction of metro lines M4, M7, M8, M10, and M11 in the central urban area and lines B1, Z2, and Z4 in the Binhai New Area.

  Regarding the airport, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Tianjin will have 300 airport routes and an annual passenger throughput of more than 31 million passengers, forming a half-hour commuting circle between Beijing, Tianjin and Xiong, and a one-hour to two-hour traffic circle for major cities in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. .

  In terms of consumption convenience, Tianjin will provide visa processing convenience for entry personnel participating in international exhibitions and competitions.

Make good use of the "144-hour transit visa exemption" policy.

Promote the facilitation of customs clearance for cruise passengers, increase self-service inspection channels, implement intelligent transformation of verification stations, simplify border inspection procedures for cruise passengers, and implement a fast customs clearance model for homeport cruise passengers.

  In terms of regional consumption linkage, Tianjin will accelerate the construction of an international shipping hub in the north, build a global, convenient and efficient container transportation network, build a hinterland transportation network that connects the "Three Norths" and the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, and enhance the ability to distribute and allocate consumer goods .

  According to Zhao Ge, Director of Tianjin Customs, Tianjin Customs is actively constructing a "smart platform for collecting and diverting ports", which is a new service initiative launched with the goal of breaking through the pain points and blocking points in the customs clearance process of port logistics and realizing the goal of reducing fees and increasing efficiency for enterprises.

At present, through business models such as "direct delivery at the ship's side" and "direct loading at arrival", Tianjin's import container delivery time can be reduced to 1.5 hours at the shortest.

From January to September this year, 17.65% of the imported container cargo in Tianjin Port passed through the "ship-side direct pick-up" rapid customs clearance, and a total of 141,900 containers were picked up, a year-on-year increase of 30.81%.

80% of the sea-rail combined transit cargo carried by the China-Europe Express trains sent from Tianjin Port has applied "direct lift by the ship", and the preparation time has been reduced to the shortest one day.

  In the future, Tianjin will "draw a blueprint to the end" and accelerate the cultivation and construction of an international consumption center city.

An international consumer city will appear on the coast of Bohai Sea.

(Economic Daily News reporter Shang Rui)