(Go to the grassroots level in the Spring Festival) Sichuan enterprises "fight" for the Spring Festival: rushing to rush to the sea during the Spring Festival to grab orders
Chinanews.com, Chengdu, February 4th (Shanpeng) Butter is boiling in the big pot, and the hot pot is fragrant in the air. In the production workshop of Sichuan Bashan Yuwei Food Co., Ltd., spicy and delicious hot pot is being boiled in big pots Primer.
The boiled bottom material will be sent to Malaysia in batches after filling, cooling, shaping, packaging and other links.
Since December last year, commercial departments at all levels in Sichuan have organized commercial charter flights for foreign trade companies to go overseas to "grab" orders and expand markets, and have achieved remarkable results.
With the optimization and adjustment of China's epidemic prevention and control policies and the market recovery, many interviewed export-oriented enterprises in Sichuan expressed "full confidence in future development."
"Fighting" the Chinese New Year: no work during the Spring Festival holiday
This year's Spring Festival, from the production workshop where the order is being made, to the project construction site where the construction is being accelerated, many Sichuan enterprises will not stop working during the Spring Festival, rushing to meet the construction period and keep the progress.
After the optimization and adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control policy, many hydropower stations at home and abroad have started equipment renewal and basic maintenance.
Wang Xianhong, chairman of Sichuan Guozhong Power Generation Equipment Co., Ltd., keenly "smelled" potential market opportunities.
Before the Spring Festival holiday, many orders came to Wang Xianhong.
In order to catch up with the construction period, more than 30 skilled workers of the company did not rest during the Spring Festival holiday. After a hasty reunion meal at home, they rushed back to the workshop to continue working overtime.
Sichuan Bazhong hot pot base is exported to Malaysia.
Photo courtesy of the interviewed companies
In the company's production workshop, more than 30 skilled workers are busy on the production line. More than a dozen huge turbine runners have been formed, and one of the turbine runners sent to Guatemala has entered the shovel grinding process.
"This runner will be installed in a medium-to-large hydropower station in Guatemala. This hydropower station affects the electricity consumption of about 100,000 local people." Wang Xianhong said that the turbine is equivalent to the "engine" of the hydropower station, and the runner is the core component of the turbine. .
China has mastered a number of cutting-edge technologies for hydropower generation, improving the efficiency of runners and reducing power generation losses, and has been recognized by many foreign customers.
"Although enterprises 'going overseas' face a lot of competition, I am still optimistic about the prospect of this industry's 'going overseas'." Wang Xianhong analyzed that, on the one hand, there are still many hydropower stations to be built in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and other places, which means A large number of production orders for hydro turbines, generators and other power generation equipment; on the other hand, China has a rich reserve of talents for hydropower station maintenance. In the future, it can provide maintenance or repair services for foreign hydropower stations through service trade. A professional team went to Georgia to carry out equipment maintenance for a local hydropower station." Wang Xianhong revealed.
Expand cooperation: open up new overseas markets
After the Spring Festival holiday, a number of Sichuan companies have accelerated their efforts to link overseas resources to strive for more opportunities for business cooperation.
After the import and export volume of foreign trade exceeded 1 trillion yuan for the first time last year, Sichuan is looking forward to a greater leap forward in foreign trade.
Recently, Zhou Jie, vice president of Sichuan Bashan Yuwei Food Co., Ltd., has to make one or two transoceanic phone calls with potential overseas customers every day.
This spring, the company's production line is running at full capacity.
In December last year, the company signed an export order of more than US$6 million for hot pot bottom ingredients with a Malaysian distributor. The first batch of products was successfully shipped to Malaysia not long ago and was well received.
"Sichuan Bazhong is rich in peppers and green peppercorns. The hot pot base has an authentic taste and high quality. We are optimistic about the prospects of hot pot in Southeast Asian countries, and this year we will open up markets such as Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar." Zhou Jie said.
In a high-end office building on Forte Financial Island in Chengdu, Sichuan, Huang Xiang, chairman of Sichuan Luhai Yungang Development Group Co., Ltd., and his colleagues are sorting out their plans for "going overseas" for the new year.
This year, the company will focus on markets such as South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe to help more "Made in Sichuan" products enter the local distribution system.
In December last year, Sichuan Luhaiyungang Development Group Co., Ltd. and the French supermarket giant Casino Group signed a 1.5 billion euro cross-border international trade cooperation agreement in Paris.
"This year we are confident to expand the scale of cooperation and achieve the annual business expansion target." Huang Xiang said that he will actively explore alternative products in the sub-categories of European consumer goods, and make greater efforts to promote "Sichuan goods out of Sichuan".
During the Spring Festival, the company focused on planning the import and export business for the whole year: connecting with partners and upstream and downstream enterprises, arranging bank credit, building a supply chain system, and agreeing on the logistics organization method.
These basic preparations are related to the development of import and export trade throughout the year.
Talking about the future: exports are expected to grow steadily
It is understood that in order to stabilize foreign trade, this year Sichuan will support enterprises to stabilize orders and expand markets, and organize enterprises to go overseas in a normalized manner.
At the same time, implement the cultivation project of thousands of key foreign trade enterprises, and vigorously develop new business models and models such as cross-border e-commerce, market procurement, and bonded maintenance.
"Sichuan's products that have been successfully 'going overseas' are more capable of expanding on a large scale, because these products have been proven by the market." Huang Xiang believes that to make "Sichuan goods out of Sichuan" bigger, we must not only provide supply chain and industrial chain services, but also It is also necessary to provide assistance in terms of funds, logistics, and overseas support.
For raw materials or semi-finished products produced locally in Sichuan, Huang Xiang said that it is necessary to increase production and manufacturing capabilities to obtain high added value of commodities.
At the same time, the recruitment of market entities such as freight forwarding, supply chain finance, customs clearance platforms, and intelligent sorting warehouses will be accelerated to provide a carrier for "Sichuan goods to go out of Sichuan".
Sheng Yi, a researcher at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, predicted that Sichuan's exports will maintain steady growth this year, among which, export-oriented industries related to personnel mobility, such as cross-border tourism; industries related to emerging industries, such as new energy batteries, photovoltaics, new energy vehicles ; and industries related to China Railway Express, aviation logistics, and e-commerce will show rapid growth.
"At the same time, we must also see that the international trade and investment environment is undergoing great changes. As an inland region, Sichuan has many opportunities and potentials to open up to the outside world, but there are also constraints. In particular, Sichuan, which accounts for a large proportion In processing trade, the competitive advantage has been weakened, and the growth rate of new large-scale export enterprises is relatively slow.” Sheng Yi suggested that the export-oriented economy should be taken as an important starting point for Sichuan’s development, and enterprises with export capabilities should be introduced and established in Sichuan. Cultivate new export entities among existing enterprises, promote more engineering contracting enterprises and service enterprises to "go global", and take strong measures to address the difficulties faced by existing export enterprises.
Deng Fuhua, assistant dean and researcher at the Comprehensive Research Institute of China (Sichuan) Pilot Free Trade Zone of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, believes that Sichuan's foreign trade will maintain a good growth momentum this year under a series of incentives such as the government's group to "grab" orders overseas.
He said that while stabilizing foreign trade, it is necessary to stabilize the basic market of the manufacturing industry, build a modern industrial system, highlight Sichuan's characteristics, and build a solid foundation for the real economy; seize development opportunities such as cross-border e-commerce and digital trade, and enhance the export-oriented nature of the private economy. The degree of participation and contribution in the economy will expand the breadth and depth of Sichuan's foreign trade.
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