Chinanews.com, Jinan, September 15 (Reporter Li Xin) The Shandong special event for Taiwanese enterprises to expand domestic sales was held in Jinan on the 15th, 114 Shandong enterprises and 102 Taiwanese enterprises matched supply and demand online.

  This matchmaking meeting was co-sponsored by the Cross-Strait Economic and Trade Exchange Association, the National Taiwan Enterprise Federation, the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce, and the Shandong Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office.

The event adopts a combination of online live broadcast promotion and corporate online negotiation and docking to help Taiwanese enterprises expand the domestic market.

On September 15, the Shandong Special Session of the Online Promotion Matchmaking Meeting for Taiwanese-funded Enterprises to Expand Domestic Sales was held in Jinan.

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  Cao Fengwei, the second-level inspector of the Department of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce, said at the main venue in Shandong that at present, the mainland's business environment continues to improve, and the huge market of 1.4 billion people will provide broad space for the development of Taiwan-funded enterprises.

"We support Taiwan-funded enterprises to expand the domestic market, deepen the development of cross-strait economic integration, and actively integrate into a new development pattern that takes the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promote each other."

  The special event in Shandong for the online promotion matchmaking event for Taiwanese-funded enterprises to expand domestic sales is the second in this series.

Yuan Ye, deputy director of the Economic Affairs Bureau of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that after communicating with enterprises on both sides of the strait, the areas of this matchup are food, daily consumer goods and mechanical and electrical products.

The matchmaking conference provides the most direct and effective communication method for enterprises on both sides of the strait, and will become an important platform for cross-strait enterprise exchanges.

"It is hoped that Taiwanese-funded enterprises will make full use of the opportunities of domestic consumption in the mainland to expand the market."

On September 15, the Shandong Special Session of the Online Promotion Matchmaking Meeting for Taiwanese-funded Enterprises to Expand Domestic Sales was held in Jinan.

The event adopts a combination of online live broadcast promotion and corporate online negotiation and docking to help Taiwanese enterprises expand the domestic market.

Photo by Li Xin

  Dou Yushuo, deputy director of the General Office of the Shandong Provincial Government, said that the exchanges between Shandong and Taiwan are profound, and Shandong is currently expanding its opening to the outside world and creating a new highland for opening up.

Taiwanese compatriots and Taiwanese enterprises are welcome to invest in Shandong and jointly promote the high-quality development of Shandong's economy.

  Zhang Xinzheng, vice chairman of the National Taiwan Enterprise Federation, who has invested in Shandong for nearly 30 years, said that seven years ago, his company began to explore export sales to domestic sales, and therefore withstood the impact of the epidemic.

"In the mainland investment layout, we must fully consider the characteristics of the mainland market and consumer tastes." Zhang Xinzheng believes that the current mainland market is stable, the economy is expected to recover quickly, people's demand and purchasing power are rising, and the consumption potential is huge. Taiwanese companies should seize the opportunities in the mainland market. Adjust the sales direction according to market changes and respond to shocks.

On that day, Taiwanese-funded enterprises expanded their domestic sales online promotion matchmaking event in Shandong, with a total of 38,300 viewers. A total of more than 400 effective matches were facilitated, and an intention to sign a contract amount of nearly 400 million yuan was reached.

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  According to Yin Xiaomin, deputy director of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Shandong Province, from January to June 2020, Shandong Province has approved 63 new Taiwan-funded projects with a contracted Taiwanese investment of US$302 million, and actual use of Taiwanese investment of US$194 million, a year-on-year increase of 289%; Trade volume was 18.59 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of 14.8%, Shandong’s exports to Taiwan were 6.59 billion yuan, an increase of 7.2%, and imports from Taiwan were 12 billion yuan, an increase of 19.3%.

  At the scene of the day, 3 land-based companies and 7 Taiwanese companies made live broadcasts, and many heads of mainland and Taiwan companies who attended the meeting positively commented on the event.

Lin Mingfu, head of the Taiwanese enterprise Guangyun Agricultural Biotechnology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., which has been inherited for a hundred years, said that Taiwanese enterprises will feel warm to Taiwanese enterprises and reflect the intentions of relevant mainland departments.

The opportunities in the mainland market will provide a stage for the development of Taiwanese enterprises.

  The series of activities for Taiwan-funded enterprises to expand domestic sales are pragmatic measures to implement the CPC Central Committee's overall planning of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development decisions and deployments, and to help Taiwanese enterprises integrate into a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycle mutual promotion.

It is reported that the total number of viewers of the live broadcast promotion activity that day was 38,300, and a total of more than 400 effective matches were facilitated, and the agreement reached an amount of nearly 400 million yuan.

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