Guangdong's "five external linkages" have blazed a new trail for opening up to the outside world

Rio Tinto overseas markets, create a magnetic field to attract investment, and strengthen the internal and external circulation link

Guangdong's "five external linkages" have blazed a new trail for opening up to the outside world

At the 4nd China Shantou (Chenghai) International Toys and Gifts Fair held in early April, a variety of original toys from spaceship models to ship arrays attracted people to linger. "Local enterprises signed intentional orders of 22.20 billion yuan with buyers in more than 108 countries around the world, and the on-site turnover reached 30 billion yuan, exceeding expectations!" Wang Jianfeng, executive vice president of Chenghai Toy Association, said.

Previously, Wang Jianfeng accompanied the Guangdong 1,000-person foreign trade delegation to Hong Kong to participate in the exhibition, and launched the "first shot" of grabbing orders in the New Year. "Now in addition to grasping production, everyone is also non-stop preparing for the Canton Fair that opens on the weekend, and strive to win a few more big orders!" He was looking forward to it.

The Second Plenary Session of the 1th Provincial Party Committee pointed out that it is necessary to optimize the layout of opening up to the outside world and do a good job in the combination of foreign trade, foreign investment, outsourcing, foreign economic cooperation, and foreign intelligence. The economic work conference of the provincial party committee held in January this year made it clear that it is necessary to promote the stable scale and excellent structure of foreign trade, the expansion of foreign capital stock stability, outsourcing to improve quality and efficiency, the optimization of foreign economic layout, and the introduction of talents by foreign intelligence. The provincial high-quality development conference held in the Lunar New Year once again emphasized that we should adhere to the "five external linkages" and constantly create a new pattern of opening up.

Since the beginning of this year, from the first group of "Guangdong Trade Global" to the "Year of Investment in China" investment promotion activities held in Guangdong, from the successive visits of political dignitaries from many countries to major projects such as CSPC and ExxonMobil to make new breakthroughs, the open Guangdong is focusing on playing a good combination of "five external linkages" to better serve the overall situation, cope with changes, open up new situations, and drive modernization with high-level opening up.

●Nanfang Daily reporter Xiao Wenge, Tang Yabing, Chen Xiao

Speed up the construction of a strong province in trade

Create a hub area for resource gathering

At present, the workshop production line of Shunde Galanz is fully open. "We are optimistic about the momentum this year. Since last year, the Group's foreign trade team has visited more than 100 countries and regions to understand the changes in the market, not only signed a large number of orders, but also reached sustainable strategic cooperation for more than 5 years. Zou Nengji, vice president of Guangdong Galanz Group, said.

Walking into Guangdong Didu New Energy Co., Ltd. located in Chang'an Town, Dongguan, the production workshop is busy, and the warehouse is neatly stacked with packaged products waiting for export. "Delivery capacity and delivery speed are important factors for us to seize the international market. In the first two months of this year, we exported more than 40 batches of products worth nearly $700 million. Zeng Qinghou, the company's manager, said.

By accelerating the promotion of foreign trade to stabilize the scale and excellent structure, Guangdong has made every effort to stabilize the global market share.

"Foreign trade should grab orders, grasp imports, vigorously develop new business forms, and strive to achieve a total of 8.5 trillion yuan this year, an increase of 3%." Zhang Jinsong, director of the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, said.

On February 2, 21 BYD Tang EV vehicles successfully completed customs clearance procedures and departed from Yantian Port in Shenzhen for Oslo, Norway. This year, represented by the "new three things" of electricity, optics and lithium, products with high technology, high added value and leading green transformation have become new growth points for Guangdong's exports. In the first two months, Guangdong's exports of electric manned vehicles, solar cells and lithium batteries increased by 150.2 times, 15.4% and 93.7% respectively.

In a few days, the offline exhibition of the "China's No. 1 Exhibition" Canton Fair will restart the curtain, which is a special and important event to fully resume offline exhibitions after the implementation of the "Category B and B Management" policy for epidemic prevention and control. According to Bai Ming, a member of the Degree Committee of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, this year's Canton Fair has fully resumed offline exhibitions for the first time in three years, and the scale is better than before, which will bring strong confidence to stabilize foreign trade and stabilize enterprises.

Zhang Jinsong said that this year, Guangdong will not only hold the offline exhibition of the Canton Fair, organize 242 overseas exhibitions of "Guangdong Trade Global" throughout the year, drive 1,6 enterprises to go overseas to seize orders, and at the same time, will build import bases around <> types of important products to create a hub area where high-end resources and factors gather.

The Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs combined with the actual situation of Guangdong's foreign trade and customs work, issued measures for customs in the province to support the high-level opening up and high-quality development of Guangdong Province, and continuously improved the level of cross-border trade facilitation by optimizing import inspection and quarantine, deepening the reform of customs clearance operations, and building smart ports.

Continue to improve the quality of foreign capital utilization

Create a strong gravitational field

Zhanjiang East Sea Island, sea breeze hunting. On March 3, BASF Guangdong broke ground on a new production complex at the Verbund site. Since the first plant of the project was officially put into operation last year, the construction of this major foreign-funded project with a total investment of more than 13 billion euros has been further accelerated.

On the east bank of the Pearl River estuary, BASF announced on March 3 that it will build a second production line at its Daya Bay site in Huizhou to expand its polymer dispersion production capacity, with the new line scheduled to be operational in 15.

In recent years, Guangdong has continued to build a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class business environment, successively issued the "Ten Foreign Investment Rules" and its revised version and other policies and measures, and took the lead in promulgating the first local regulations on the protection of foreign investment rights and interests in the country, continuing to build a strong gravitational field for attracting investment, improving the quality and level of Guangdong's use of foreign capital, and attracting a number of multinational companies to land and develop high-quality large-scale projects.

On March 3, Saudi National Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and the Guangdong provincial government signed a memorandum of cooperation in Beijing. As the world's largest crude oil producer, Saudi Aramco will strengthen cooperation with Guangdong in petrochemicals, hydrogen energy and ammonia energy. On March 26, CSPC Huizhou Phase III ethylene project preliminary investment agreement was officially signed in Beijing, officially entering the substantive promotion stage of this major national foreign-funded project with a total investment of more than 3 billion yuan.

"Hyundai Motor's HTWO plant in Huangpu, Guangzhou, is about to be completed and put into operation in the first half of the year, which is Hyundai's world's first overseas hydrogen fuel cell system R&D, production and sales base." At the "Year of Investing in China" Guangdong promotion event held on March 3, Li Hyuk-chan, President of Hyundai Motor Group (China), believed that Guangdong not only has industrial advantages in new energy and ICT, but also provides equal development opportunities for foreign companies.

From the Pearl River Delta to eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong, from advanced manufacturing to modern service industries, foreign-funded large projects are like "seeds" that have taken root and sprouted in Guangdong, a hot land for investment. From January to February this year, Guangdong actually utilized 1.2 billion yuan of foreign capital, and 244,4 foreign-invested enterprises were newly established, a significant increase of 2159% over the same period last year.

In March this year, the provincial government issued a number of policies and measures to promote the high-quality development of investment promotion, further highlighting the strategic position and role of investment promotion, clearly defining investment promotion as a "number one project", continuing to make overall arrangements for special incentive funds for foreign investment, and supporting the development of enterprises with real money.

Outsourcing, foreign economics, and foreign wisdom work together

Create inner and outer loop link points

On the banks of the Amazon River in Manaus, Brazil, the autumn sun is shining. At the Gree (Brazil) S.p.A. production base, Ronnie, the head of the factory's production department, counts the completion of the production plan every working day. It has the most advanced air-conditioning production line in Brazil and introduced a quality management system from the Guangdong headquarters. As a Guangdong enterprise that set up factories earlier to "go to sea", Gree has established a number of overseas production bases, and innovative products, technical specifications and manufacturing standards are favored by more and more countries.

In recent years, Guangdong has vigorously promoted outsourcing to improve quality and efficiency, optimize the layout of foreign economic development, and attract talents to the world, focusing on improving the quality and level of internal and external circulation.

In February this year, the integrated circuit software upgrade service center of Dongguan Humen Port Comprehensive Free Trade Zone was officially put into operation after completing the equipment commissioning stage, which greatly facilitated related enterprises. "After obtaining the qualification of international service outsourcing business, all integrated circuits that need to be upgraded and burned can be completed in the comprehensive insurance zone, and there is no need to ship them overseas for upgrades, and the time is compressed from the original 2-7 days to 14-1 days, saving 2% of logistics costs." Wen Jinbo, general manager of Dongguan Lianyida Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., a pilot unit, said.

As a representative of Guangdong enterprises "going out", Guangdong Agricultural Reclamation Group Company has 37 rubber processing plants, including 26 overseas, with a rubber processing capacity of 150.130 million tons, including 20.<> million tons overseas, and is the main raw material supplier of Michelin, Bridgestone and other top <> well-known tire enterprises in the world. Feng Tong, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Guangdong Agricultural Reclamation, said that he will unswervingly implement the "going out" development strategy and continuously explore the markets of Africa, America and Southeast Asia.

In terms of foreign intelligence, Guangdong adheres to the combination of attracting investment and technology, and introduces a group of overseas high-level talents, high-skilled craftsmen and leading innovation and entrepreneurship teams that lead cutting-edge scientific and technological innovation and industrial transformation. "Guangdong is a major economic province in China, and we hope to combine the advantages of Israel and China to help Guangdong train more engineers and scientists." David Gershoney, executive vice president of Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who won the first "Guangdong Friendship Award", said.

Wei Jianguo, vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said that in the face of both international and domestic opportunities, as a strategic hub, economic and trade cooperation center and important engine of the "Belt and Road" construction, Guangdong should steadily expand institutional opening up and build itself into a link point for internal and external circulation by deeply promoting the "five external linkages".

-Case

Wang Jing, head of the comprehensive business section of Foshan Customs Office in Shunde:

With the construction of "smart customs", serve the high-quality development of foreign investment and foreign trade

On April 4, 7 export containers equipped with electric ovens, microwave ovens, dishwashers and other household appliances departed from Shunde Beijiao Terminal after customs clearance procedures, and were transported to Nansha Port through inland river barges in the mode of "Bay Area One Port Connect", and then loaded on international container ships and sent directly overseas.

"With Nansha Port, which is rich in international route resources, and a number of Pearl River inland terminals with sufficient supply as feeder ports, the 'Bay Area One Port Connect' forms a port group pattern of 'two ports like one port', providing foreign trade enterprises with more efficient and convenient cross-border logistics channels." Wang Jing, head of the comprehensive business section of Foshan Customs Office in Shunde, said that the local customs has further promoted the construction of "smart customs", created a first-class port business environment, served the high-quality development of various enterprises such as foreign trade and foreign investment, and helped to play a good combination of "five foreign linkages".

Nanfang Daily: The foreign trade situation in the first quarter of this year has attracted much attention, Foshan is an important foreign trade town, how can the customs ensure and promote the high-quality development of foreign trade?

Wang Jing: In order to timely grasp and solve the difficulties of production, operation and customs clearance of enterprises one by one, we have implemented the system of "contact enterprises with customs chiefs" and "zero problems", especially focusing on local key industries such as prepared vegetables, robots, and jewelry industries, and carrying out special investigations and studies to form comprehensive service plans.

In terms of ensuring the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain, we continue to promote the construction of "smart customs", and reforms such as "online appointment customs clearance" and "mobile remote supervision" have provided enterprises with more convenient and efficient full-process "online customs" services, helping enterprises reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Nanfang Daily: For foreign trade enterprises, the level of cross-border trade facilitation is closely related to product competitiveness. How to improve customs clearance efficiency by optimizing services?

Wang Jing: Taking Shunde's jewelry industry as an example, as the "characteristic industrial base of China's jewelry and jade jewelry", Shunde has more than 100 jewelry enterprises such as Chow Tai Fook and Zhou Shengsheng, most of which are Hong Kong-funded enterprises. In view of the characteristics of imported jewelry processing raw materials from Hong Kong and finished products exported to Hong Kong, we innovatively adopt the supervision mode of "remote entry and territorial inspection" to support enterprises to use self-used bonded warehouses to carry out "diamond sorting" business, effectively helping enterprises to enhance the added value of products and improve competitiveness.

Nanfang Daily: What work needs to be strengthened in helping enterprises "go global" and helping the construction of high-level opening up platforms?

Wang Jing: When enterprises "go global", they must have a full understanding of the local market, regulations, environment, etc., and at the same time practice their internal skills.

On the one hand, we deepen the publicity and cultivation of AEO advanced certification enterprises, and "one-on-one" accurately cultivate key enterprises such as "specialized, specialized and new" and new formats. Enterprises obtaining AEO certification is equivalent to obtaining the "golden brand" of international trade, and can enjoy a number of import and export customs clearance facilities in more than 30 countries and regions in the world that have implemented AEO mutual recognition.

On the other hand, in order to improve the ability of enterprises to cope with risks, we strengthen the collection and release of international trade and investment environment information and trade friction early warning information, and rely on the home appliance evaluation base of China's WTO/TBT-SPS National Notification and Consultation Center to carry out personalized customized services for technical trade measures information to help enterprises respond to technical trade measures.

road map

January 1

●The provincial high-quality development conference proposed that it is necessary to play a good combination of "five external linkages", further optimize the layout of opening up, and continuously improve the quality and level of internal and external circulation

● Foreign trade continues to stabilize the scale and excellent structure, build a number of trillion-level and 100-billion-level export industrial clusters, and lay out and build a number of important product import bases

● Foreign capital continued to stabilize the stock and expand incrementally, and vigorously implemented the special action of attracting investment in the manufacturing industry

●Outsourcing continues to improve quality and efficiency, and strives to cultivate a number of leading service outsourcing enterprises

●Foreign economic cooperation will continue to optimize the layout and promote the linkage development of trade and two-way investment

●Foreign intelligence continues to attract talents around the world and introduce more "external brains" to Guangdong for innovation and entrepreneurship

January 3

●"Several Measures for Promoting the Stable Growth of Foreign Trade in Guangdong Province" proposes to comprehensively smooth trade channels, comprehensively support enterprises to grab orders, increase financial support, optimize the structure of market entities, optimize the structure of foreign trade industry, strengthen new formats and new momentum, and stabilize the development of processing trade

January 3

●Several Policies and Measures for Promoting the High-quality Development of Investment Promotion in Guangdong Province was released, which put forward 5 specific measures in five important aspects, including strengthening the overall coordination of investment promotion, improving the quality of domestic and foreign investment attraction around industrial development, building a branded investment promotion activity platform, strengthening investment promotion policy support, and further optimizing the business environment

(Nanfang Daily)