China News Service, Qingdao, August 18 (Zhongxin Finance reporter Zuo Yukun) Ocean is the most distinctive urban characteristic and biggest advantage of Qingdao, Shandong Province.

Today, this coastal city has already moved towards a new development pattern of injecting new kinetic energy, surging new vitality, and grabbing new tracks. The commercial layout is constantly being upgraded, new consumer formats are constantly emerging, and companies with the world's top strengths are emerging one after another.

　　On August 16th and 17th, the interview group for the online theme event of "Ports Develop Thousands of Miles" came to Qingdao and visited the "new business cards" of the two island cities.

China-Japan-Korea Consumer Zone E-commerce Experience Center.

Photo by Chinanews reporter Zuo Yukun

　Looking at foreign trade, cross-border e-commerce "Amoy" the world

　　In the first half of 2022, the total import and export value of Shandong Province was 1.57 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17%. The three indicators of import and export, export and import growth outperformed the national average. The total value of foreign trade import and export in May and June continued to refresh history record.

The E-commerce Experience Center in the China-Japan-Korea Consumer Zone on the west coast of Qingdao is a microcosm of the contrarian growth of Shandong's imports and exports.

　　Cross-border e-commerce provides a more convenient and affordable option for consumers to purchase foreign products under the epidemic.

Thanks to the special geographical advantage of being adjacent to Japan and South Korea, Qingdao Dagang is the only port in northern my country that has both Japan and South Korea container liner routes. The China-Japan-South Korea Consumption Zone came into being.

　　"After consumers place an order for cross-border e-commerce goods, the customs will conduct an online review. After the review, our cross-border goods will be shipped from the bonded warehouse, couriered to the consumer's home, or directly delivered to our experience center for pickup. In the area, consumers can pick it up.” Jiang Nan, president of the Bonded Logistics Center in Qingdao West Coast New Area, said that bonded stockpiling can help reduce the procurement and logistics costs of enterprises, greatly reduce the consumption cost and time of consumers, and become the main source of import business for cross-border e-commerce enterprises. Important choice.

　　Cross-border consumption, which often takes ten or even dozens of days to complete, has become as fast as domestic express delivery here.

Relying on the construction of the China-Japan-Korea Consumer Zone E-commerce Experience Center based on the bonded logistics center, it has become the first cross-border e-commerce experience center in Shandong to realize the new retail model of "front store, back warehouse + online and offline dual integration". You can experience overseas products of the same style, quality and price as overseas.

Products displayed in the E-commerce Experience Center of the China-Japan-Korea Consumer Zone.

Photo by Chinanews reporter Zuo Yukun

　　According to Jiangnan, the bonded logistics center has become the main front for the development of the cross-border e-commerce industry in provinces and cities, attracting companies such as Vipshop, JD.com, and Douyin to settle in.

Since the customs closure operation in September 2019, the cumulative trade volume has reached more than 13 billion yuan, the platform order volume has reached more than 20 million orders, and the radiation has driven more than 2,500 jobs.

　　The location advantage and bonded stocking policy make Qingdao the best choice for cross-border e-commerce "going north", and a cross-border e-commerce industry ecosystem covering cross-border e-commerce enterprises, service providers and derivative industries is becoming clearer day by day.

In 2021, Qingdao has achieved a cross-border e-commerce import and export volume of over 30 billion yuan, an increase of nearly five times in six years.

　　The vigorous development of cross-border e-commerce not only promotes the development of Shandong's foreign trade, but also brings a large number of foreign high-quality goods to stimulate the domestic demand market.

In the first half of the year, Shandong Province imported 49.1 billion yuan of consumer goods, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%.

The province's online retail sales reached 287.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.7%; the online retail sales of physical goods reached 252.34 billion yuan, an increase of 26.0%.

　　Looking at innovation, small seaweed "creates" a big industry

　　How can a city do a good job in a big article on "Engagement on the Ocean"?

For a business, maybe it starts with a small seaweed.

　　In the exhibition hall of Qingdao Mingyue Seaweed Group Company, there are a wide variety of food, skin care products, medical dressings and biological fertilizers made of seaweed.

Through the extraction of active substances and intensive processing, the seaweed all over the ocean has become a treasure here, and the essence of the seaweed is sodium alginate.

　　The application of sodium alginate in the processing of meat products can reduce the amount of animal fat by about 50%, forming a healthy and low-fat feature; adding sodium alginate to medical dressings can avoid adhesion to the wound, and the patient will not be changed Pain in gauze... These are just one of the functions of sodium alginate, which has a broader development scene in the field of general health.

Ultrapure sodium alginate.

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　　In the Seaweed Science and Technology Museum of Mingyue Seaweed Group, there is a white powder that can sell for more than 1,000 yuan per gram.

According to reports, this is sodium alginate, a natural polymer material extracted from natural seaweed, which can be used to develop high-end medical devices for the treatment of major national diseases such as tumors, diabetes, and heart failure, and has gradually entered clinical trials and applications.

　　Sodium alginate is expensive because the purity of the material meets the stringent requirements for in vivo implantation applications.

In the past, in terms of ultra-purity sodium alginate technology, there were standards and no products in my country, and the medical level relied on imports.

In 2020, Mingyue Seaweed broke the foreign market monopoly for more than 30 years and became the second company in the world with the ability to generate ultra-purity sodium alginate.

　　At present, the designed production capacity of ultra-pure sodium alginate production line is 2 kilograms per batch, and the annual production capacity is 200 kilograms, which can meet the application needs of 1 million products such as tumor embolization preparations and in vivo drug sustained-release preparations, and the direct economic benefits can reach 200 million yuan. , to drive the downstream alginate plant intervention products tens of billions of market.

　　In addition, Mingyue Seaweed's main product, alginate, has a domestic and international market share of more than 40% and 30% respectively.

　　"One seaweed makes a big health industry" is the representative of Qingdao's empowerment of marine industry with technological innovation.

It is understood that Qingdao is the earliest city in my country to carry out comprehensive utilization of seaweed. Over the years, many industrial, edible and pharmaceutical products made from seaweed are the first in China.

　　Marine biomedicine is one of the 100 billion yuan industrial clusters that Qingdao has made key breakthroughs.

With the proposal of the goal of "leading modern marine city", Qingdao is showing greater determination to seek power from the blue and vitality from the ocean, so as to strive for the first place.

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