China News Service, Changsha, May 14 (Reporter Fu Yu) In early summer, the long and far-reaching sound of the siren floated over the Changsha North Freight Station, and the “Steel Camel Fleet” of China-Europe Express trains full of “Xiang-brand” products continued to move towards. all around the world.
The Changsha Xingang Wharf, which is located in the north of Changsha city and has global logistics, constantly has goods coming in and out, and it is a busy scene.
The bustling sea and land freight channels are just a microcosm of Changsha's accelerating integration into the world economic and trade system.
Statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, the main indicators of Changsha's open economy have grown in an all-round way. On the new journey of pursuing the dream of "opening up highlands in inland areas to lead cities", it has achieved a high-quality "good start" for the open economy.
Changsha was rated as "2020 China's Most Attractive City for Investment" and "2020 China's Top Ten Most Satisfied Cities for Foreign Investment".
Photo courtesy of Changsha Municipal Bureau of Commerce
Open and start again, chasing new heights of dreams
Changsha, the capital of the central province, which does not rely on the sea or along the border, and is deep inland, has been exploring how to get rid of location constraints and develop a higher level of open economy.
In recent years, as Hunan has adopted "innovation to lead, opening up" and "three highs and four new" as its overall strategy for leading economic and social development, Changsha, as the "leading goose", is heading up the wind, with a more open attitude and higher goals. Embrace the world actively.
The 14th Five-Year Plan of Changsha proposes that in the next five years, Changsha will accelerate the improvement of the level of opening up, focus on the pilot reform of the free trade zone, form innovative achievements with international competitiveness in investment, trade, finance and other fields, and fully release the free trade zone system. To achieve a high-level “bringing in” and “going out” with high-level opening dividends, and to achieve breakthroughs in building a leading city in the reform and opening up of inland areas.
At the beginning of this year, the "Changsha City's Three-Year Action Plan for Opening Up Highlands in Inland Areas (2021-2023)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which created a new pattern of opening up for Changsha City, was released, proposing to implement the opening strategy docking, China (Hunan) “Seven major actions” including the construction of Changsha area of the Pilot Trade Zone, the improvement of quality and efficiency of foreign trade, the construction of a national comprehensive transportation hub, the “bringing in” of high-quality projects, the “going out” of superior production capacity, and the optimization of an open environment to promote the construction of a comprehensive and broad The new pattern of opening up to the outside world in different fields and at multiple levels has turned Changsha into a leading city in the opening up of inland areas.
After reorganizing the outfit and starting again, we are aiming for the goal of "the total import and export volume of foreign trade will be among the top five capital cities in the central and western regions by 2023". What is the confidence of Changsha?
A set of data shows Changsha's "confidence": During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, Changsha's foreign trade import and export volume has tripled in five years, and its dependence on foreign trade has risen to 19.35% in 2020.
In terms of open channel expansion, Changsha has opened 13 international freight routes.
China-Europe Express (Changsha) has achieved substantial growth and successfully ranked first in the country, among which the Minsk line has become the star line of the national express.
In terms of open platform construction, Changsha has also achieved many new breakthroughs, such as the approval of five national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases and the official inauguration of the Changsha area of the China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, injecting strong impetus into a higher level of opening up.
What's more worth mentioning is that in 2020, under the influence of the global epidemic and economic downward pressure, Changsha's foreign trade has stabilized its basic market and handed over a hard-won transcript. The city's total import and export growth rate is 15.5 higher than that of the country. Percentage points.
The person in charge of the Changsha Municipal Bureau of Commerce stated that, on the basis of the medium-to-high-speed development in recent years, Changsha has put forward the goal of striving for the advanced position.
For example, the gap between Changsha's total foreign trade import and export volume and Wuhan and Hefei is gradually narrowing, and strive to catch up within three years, and gradually approach the GDP ranking among provincial capital cities.
Recently, Zoomlion Earthmoving Machinery delivered 100 sets of products to Southeast Asia in batches.
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Business environment releases "strong magnetism" in attracting investment
Last month, the AEON Mall Changsha County Tea Pond Project, invested and constructed by AEON Mall, the core enterprise of AEON Group, the largest retail group in Asia, was signed in Changsha.
This is AEON Mall's first shopping mall in Hunan, with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan.
It is reported that the project intends to build a large-scale commercial facility integrating general department stores, supermarkets, cinemas, various specialty stores, catering, entertainment, and cultural and educational formats. After it is fully completed and put into production, it is expected to have annual sales of more than 1 billion yuan.
Hashimoto Tatsuhisa, director and general manager of Aeon Mall (China) Investment Co., Ltd., also revealed that it plans to open at least five shopping malls in Changsha in the future.
Changsha is continuing to become the "sweet and pastry" favored by foreign investors.
Last year, under the influence of the global epidemic and economic downward pressure, the actual use of foreign capital in Changsha continued to “contrary the trend” with an increase of 14.3%.
This year, the “good” situation continued to be stabilized. In the first quarter, the actual use of foreign capital was US$582 million, accounting for 86.06% of Hunan’s total, an increase of 129.85% year-on-year.
The degree of foreign investment activity is an important indicator of a business environment in a place.
In recent years, Changsha has regarded optimizing the business environment as the “number one project” to promote high-quality development. It has continued to carry out “speeding up administrative efficiency, reducing costs in the real economy, and entrepreneurial rights” based on the “dual benchmarking” and “long indicator” system. Four special actions on protection and policy implementation.
"What we thought was completely impossible was realized in Changsha!" When talking about the smooth commissioning of Dai Xiang's 6 million personalized wheels project, project leader Li Dejun praised.
From the start of construction in December last year to the start of production on March 31 this year, the project created a miracle of construction in the same industry in 93 days, thanks to the initiative of the Wangcheng Economic Development Zone to "operate" and "win" business.
In terms of project approval, the park implements a "one-stop" service to achieve one-time notification, one-time delivery, and one-time approval; business backbones of planning, quality and safety, and environmental protection departments actively come to the door and intervene in advance to save time to the greatest extent , Outperformed the market.
The improvement of Changsha's business environment is obvious to all.
After being awarded the title of "China's Internationalized Business Environment Construction Benchmark City" again last year, in April this year, Changsha was awarded the "2020 China's Most Attractive City for Investment" at the 2021 Global City Investment Promotion Conference held in Beijing. 2020 China's Top Ten Most Satisfied Cities for Foreign Investment".
Excellent structure adds momentum to foreign trade volume and quality
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Since the beginning of this year, the export situation of Changsha construction machinery enterprises has continued to improve, further demonstrating the charm of "Made in Changsha" to the world.
According to statistics from the Changsha Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Changsha completed 58.39 billion yuan in imports and exports in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 44.6%, 15.4 percentage points higher than the national level.
Among them, exports were 38.859 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 60.3%, 21.6 percentage points higher than the national level.
Regarding the substantial growth of Changsha's foreign trade in the first quarter, Xingsha Customs analyzed that, on the one hand, the advanced manufacturing clusters played a significant role, and at the same time, it was attributed to the “escort” of open channels and platform construction.
Accelerate the construction of three-dimensional international logistics channels by land, water and air. Relying on China-Europe freight trains, international freight routes, and land-sea combined transport, Changsha’s open tentacles continue to expand.
Take the China-Europe Express (Changsha) as an example. At present, it has opened outbound trains to Russia, Minsk, Mala, Budapest, Central Asia, ASEAN, etc., and return trains to Hamburg, Budapest, Central Asia, Russia, etc., running on a regular basis There are more than 10 routes, with 9 to 12 lines running steadily every week, building an international multimodal transport logistics network hub covering Europe, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, ASEAN and other regions.
Customs data also shows that Changsha's imports and exports of electromechanical products, computer integrated manufacturing, and optoelectronic technology continue to increase in volume, and actively seize the international high-end market.
While the traditional foreign trade structure continues to be optimized and upgraded, Changsha's emerging trade is also in full swing. For example, cross-border e-commerce continues to “blow out” and market procurement trade helps small and micro enterprises “sell the world”, which is continuously accumulating new momentum for foreign trade development.
Upgrade the platform to enhance the concentration and radiation capacity of the Changsha area of the Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone, the Huanghua Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the Jinxia Bonded Logistics Center, and the Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone; expand the main body and consolidate the open economic foundation; expand the channel to promote the creation of an airport type As a national logistics hub, build a China-Europe freight train assembly center; optimize the environment so that companies are willing to come, retain, and develop well... As the seven major actions of the "Plan" are gradually rolled out, it is foreseeable that the future world economic map will remain Lay down more wonderful Changsha imprints.
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