China News Agency, Xinjiang Kashgar, January 16 (Reporter Zhu Jingchao) The reporter learned from the Xinjiang Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone (hereinafter referred to as the Comprehensive Bonded Zone) on the 16th that the import and export trade volume of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone will exceed 4.6 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2021. ), an increase of more than 5 times year-on-year.
The comprehensive protection zone was officially closed and operated in 2015.
According to Ma Haitao, director of the Management Committee of the Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone, since 2019, the Comprehensive Bonded Zone has strengthened investment in software and hardware, and built a number of workshops and warehouses, bringing the company's activity and increasing its output value and benefits.
Kashgar has "five ports linking eight countries, all the way to Europe and Asia", and the geographical advantage of opening to the west is obvious.
The local government has set up a "consolidation and transportation" center in the comprehensive protection zone to improve service levels, reduce corporate costs, and optimize the customs clearance environment.
Kashgar Customs has more than 40 key customs officers to handle customs declaration, inspection and other procedures for enterprises, and enterprises complete goods assembly and customs clearance here.
In addition to optimizing the business environment, business innovation is also the driving force for the comprehensive protection zone to achieve contrarian growth under the epidemic prevention and control situation.
Ma Haitao said that in February 2021, the Kashgar "Special Zone" introduced a number of measures to focus on supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce import and export business.
In response to the demands of enterprises and the needs of overseas consumers, the Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone has continuously innovated its foreign trade formats from “B to C” to setting up overseas warehouses, and cross-border e-commerce has shown explosive growth. worth 370 million yuan.
Chen Chang, head of Xinjiang Zhihe International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd., said that the company's department stores and daily necessities are mainly exported to Tajikistan, and business will be on the rise in 2021.
"Thanks to the facilitation of customs clearance, the new year is off to a good start." (End)