Jinhua, 4 Apr (Zhongxin Net) -- During the "May Day" holiday, many overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese compatriots walked on their way home, recounting their hometowns, visiting and investigating, and looking for business opportunities.
From April 4th to May 30st, the first New Era Vibrant Overseas Chinese Hometown City Conference with the theme of "New Era New Jinhua New 'Overseas Chinese' Liang" was held in Jindong District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, where nearly 5 overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese from Europe, South America, Central Asia and other places visited Jindong New Industrial City and beautiful countryside to experience the pulse of China's new economic development and the new appearance of rural development, and seek new opportunities for cooperation.
Jinhua City is located in the "heart of Zhejiang", although not coastal, the local efforts to turn inland open development into the biggest feature and advantage - the city has now developed into a national land transportation main hub, relying on Yixinou, Yiyongzhou, cross-border e-commerce and other open channels, and has established trade relations with 233 countries and regions. On the road of opening up, tens of thousands of overseas Chinese and Chinese have kept walking. The city now has 5,4 overseas Chinese in 131 countries.
Overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese inspected the major infrastructure projects of Jinyi Lake Science and Technology Innovation Intelligent Manufacturing Platform. Photo courtesy of the organizer
In the heart of Zhejiang, Jindong is a "field full of hope". As the fifth provincial-level new area in Zhejiang Province, Jindong is not only a cultural city full of villagers, giving birth to cultural celebrities such as people's musician Shi Guangnan, poet Ai Qing and new village sages, but also a vibrant emerging city, cultivating three leading industries of information and innovation and video hardware industry, high-end equipment manufacturing industry, new energy vehicles and their upstream and downstream industries.
On the 30th, overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese took the Jinyi East Rail Transit and entered the Jinyi Comprehensive Bonded Zone with the "four major formats" of bulk commodities, bonded processing, cold chain logistics and cross-border commodity new retail as the main development industries.
Walking in, I saw tall logistics and warehousing spaces lined up on the roadside, containers containing goods that were about to be sent to the whole country and even the world, and digital machinery and equipment running non-stop. In the first quarter of this year, the trade momentum of Jinyi Comprehensive Bonded Zone reached a new high, with the total import and export volume exceeding 100 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 50%.
Jiang Wenzhao, secretary general of the Guangxi Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, came up with the idea of win-win cross-border e-commerce cooperation between the two places, "The executive director unit of the Guangxi Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce has created a China-ASEAN characteristic commodity gathering center, with 17 related theme pavilions, which also involves cross-border e-commerce business, so come and take a look with the mentality of exchange and learning, hoping to create cooperation opportunities for the two places in the future and achieve complementary advantages." ”
After leaving the Jinyi Comprehensive Protection Zone, overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese visited the major infrastructure project of Jinyi Lake Science and Technology Innovation Intelligent Manufacturing Platform with a total investment of 62.10 billion yuan and the Newton NWTN New Energy Vehicle Headquarters Project with an annual output of <>,<> units. In this spring of competition, everyone has felt the hot development of new industries and new economies such as intelligent manufacturing and new energy.
Bergamot e-commerce live broadcast in Kitayamaguchi Village. Photo courtesy of the organizer
"Jinhua Jindong has great prospects for future development." Chi Zhuxiang, vice chairman of the German Chinese Federation and deputy general manager of Dehua Shunermei Arts and Crafts Co., Ltd., said that he hoped that through this activity, he would unite overseas Chinese hearts and gather overseas Chinese strength to spread the good Jinhua story to the world, "I am engaged in ceramic trade, and Jinhua's superior business environment also makes me constantly think about whether there are suitable projects to land here." ”
Greeting the spring sun, all the way north, to the North Mountain Pass Village in Chisong Town, overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese could not help but slow down their pace and feel the slow life in the countryside.
Located in the "hometown of Chinese bergamot", Beishankou Village has a long history of bergamot cultivation. "Surrounded by a clear stream of poetry, fragrant Buddha fruit winding paths." According to legend, the Northern Song poet Su Dongpo Jiu Mu Jinhua Buddha Hand came to the foot of Beishan to see it, and happily wrote poems to show praise.
Now with the "opening advantage" at the doorstep, Beishankou Village has caught the e-commerce express train and set up a "common wealth workshop" to lead more villagers to achieve common prosperity, and last year the output value of the village's Buddhist hand industry exceeded 8000 million yuan, and the per capita disposable income of villagers exceeded 6,<> yuan.
"This is my first time in Jinhua Jindong, and I can feel that the city is open and outgoing, the industry is rich and vibrant, and the countryside is beautiful and desirable." For Hu Zhengrong, director of the Institute of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and dean of the School of Journalism and Communication of the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the young and ancient Jinhua is like a window that allows overseas Chinese to perceive China's new achievements in development.
This inspection trip also surprised many Jinhua travelers. "My hometown has changed so much, and this trip has gained a lot." Wang Guangde, executive vice president of the Zhejiang Chamber of International Commerce in Australia, was born in Yiwu, and has known since he was a child that Jinhua Buddha Hand is very famous, and after this inspection, he deeply felt that traditional industries are being reborn through new formats such as live streaming e-commerce. He said that he will rely on overseas resources and strive to promote Jinhua's characteristic industries and development models to all over the world, so that more people can understand Jinhua and China.
It is reported that the first conference of vibrant overseas Chinese cities in the new era was guided by China News Service and the United Front Work Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC (Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office), sponsored by the Jinhua Municipal Party Committee of the CPC, the Jinhua Municipal People's Government, the Zhejiang Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, China News, the China Overseas Chinese Network, the Zhejiang Branch of the China News Service, and the World Chinese Media Cooperation Alliance, and undertaken by the United Front Work Department of the Jinhua Municipal Committee of the CPC, the Jindong District Committee of the CPC Jinhua City, and the Jindong District People's Government of Jinhua City. (End)