Anhui goods marketed "One Belt, One Road"

The 2,000th China-European train from Hefei is about to depart at the Hefei North Station Logistics Base on December 8. Photo by Zhou Mu, Xinhua News Agency

On December 6, the China Pavilion of Expo 2020 in Dubai and China's Anhui Province started the same day in Dubai, UAE, to showcase the achievements of Anhui's participation in the "Belt and Road" construction and its achievements in social, economic, cultural, scientific and technological aspects.

"The global Chinese language learning platform, built and operated by KU XUNFE and co-created by the Global Chinese Language Learning Alliance, represents China's smart education in the Innovation and Cooperation section of the China Pavilion at this year's Expo, allowing the world to experience the beauty of Chinese. "At the site of the event day, the staff of KDDI introduced it at the exhibition area.

"Among the 65 countries and regions along the 'One Belt and One Road', Xunfei Translator can translate languages covering 55 countries and regions; the global Chinese learning platform has been launched since October 2019, with a total of over 2 million registered users and applications covering 169 countries around the world. "The "Belt and Road" has provided a stage for China and countries along the route to communicate on an equal footing, said Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of KDDI. In the future, KDDI will continue to help make cross-language communication barrier-free, deepen "One Belt, One Road" international cooperation and let more countries hear China's voice. "At present, Anhui Province is in a critical period of building an influential source of scientific and technological innovation, a gathering place for new industries, a new high ground for reform and opening up, and a comprehensive green transformation zone for economic and social development. We expect and believe that the open and beautiful Anhui Province will be able to publicise and promote Anhui in an all-round, multi-level and broad field through the big stage of the Expo, and tell the Anhui chapter of the China story. " said Zhang Shenfeng, Vice President of CCPIT.

When the world has openness and cooperation, distance is no longer far away. Today, countries and regions along the Belt and Road, including the UAE, are important areas for international economic and trade cooperation in Anhui. From January to October this year, Anhui's import and export, foreign investment and foreign investment with countries and regions along the Belt and Road increased by 45.9%, 71.9% and 99% respectively, of which, the import and export with the UAE was US$1.01 billion, an increase of 69.8%.

"This year, in order to promote economic and trade cooperation with countries and regions along the 'Belt and Road' and vigorously explore the international market, we have implemented the 'Made in Wanmei Global' series of exhibition activities and organized, in conjunction with online exhibition platform institutions 14 'one country, one exhibition' activities, including 'one belt and one road' market 7, covering Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and other countries or regions. "The relevant comrades in charge of the Department of Commerce said.

The ancient Silk Road was active with the figure of Hui merchants, promoting tea, porcelain, silk and other products to take the Eurasian market by storm. Today, Anhui has the advantages of overlapping national strategies such as the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the rise of the central region, and is the frontier of China's open development and an important force in promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road", with great potential for development and vast space for cooperation. It is committed to building a high-quality two-way opening pattern, improving an efficient open system and mechanism, and building a new highland of inland opening. Along the "One Belt and One Road", new Huizhou merchants are everywhere, becoming an important market for Anhui goods to go to sea.

Open channel, smoothly connect "one belt and one road"

Recently, a special cross-border e-commerce train loaded with Anhui local goods from Hefei China-European Railway departed from Hefei Freight North Station with a siren. The cross-border B2B export goods, with a total of 28 TEUs, mainly textile clothing and household goods, worth RMB 9.75 million, will arrive in Hamburg, Germany in about 15 days. This is the second CEB cross-border e-commerce line opened by CEB in Hefei after the first CEB cross-border e-commerce train from Hefei to Wilhelmshaven, Germany, which marks the new dynamic energy, new mileage, new industry and new channel of CEB operation, and will further promote the development of "CEB + cross-border e-commerce" mode.

It will also further promote the development of the "China-European Liner + Cross-border E-commerce" model. It will speed up the improvement of the distinctive, complementary, smooth and safe land corridors and optimize the layout of the sea to provide strong support for the smooth domestic and international "double circulation". The continuous widening of the market along the "Belt and Road" is attributed to the construction of the open channel, of which the most representative one is the China-Europe Classical Train, which has basically achieved normal operation since its opening in 2014, becoming a major artery on land for Anhui enterprises to explore the market along the "Belt and Road". It has become the land artery for Anhui enterprises to develop markets along the "Belt and Road". Since this year, even under the influence of factors such as severe epidemic situation and tight line plan, Hefei China-European Liner still insists on full axle, full load and full load operation, building up a strong linkage of international logistics channel, realizing the full line of five major ports such as Erenhot and Alashankou, and opening a "double line two-way" route of Central Europe to and from + Central Asia to and from " route.

From January to the end of October 2021, Hefei China-European Liner opened 69 international lines, covering 14 countries and 57 site cities. Which this year respectively added 4 countries, 22 sites.

"Affected by the epidemic, Europe's consumption habits to accelerate the migration to the line. The China-Europe Class train has formed a strong logistics network in Eurasia, and the company hopes to develop overseas markets with the help of this new China-Europe Class train route. It is expected to ship four special cross-border e-commerce trains per month. " said Lu Zhang Yan, general manager of Anhui Sea Cow Import and Export Trade Co.

"From January to October this year, Hefei China-European Liner shipped a total of 545 columns, a total of 44,600 TEUs, the value of 11.2 billion yuan, an increase of 13.31%, 13.5% and 11.25%, respectively, the annual shipment of China-European Liner is expected to exceed 600 columns. "Hefei Customs is responsible for the relevant comrades said.

Not long ago, full of 30 containers, weighing 580 tons of Huangshan green tea, by tea special train, from Hefei North Station, sailing to the largest city in Central Asia, Uzbekistan, the capital of Tashkent. Through the China-European train, Huangshan green tea to accelerate the fragrance of the "land silk road", enterprise transportation costs also dropped significantly.

Promote the "Belt and Road" construction needs to give full play to the comparative advantages of domestic regions, through the establishment of various platforms and carriers, the implementation of a more proactive open strategy to enhance the overall level of open economy. Up to now, Hefei Xinqiao Airport has opened five freight routes Hefei-Chicago, Hefei-Hanoi, Hefei-London, Hefei-Shenzhen and Hefei-Beijing.

Trade facilitation, smooth travel "one belt and one road"

"I heard that export products for processing can also sign the certificate of origin, how can our company apply for it? "Mr. Li, the person in charge of Guande (Si County) apparel, recently consulted the "Certificate of Origin WeChat Small Classroom" created by the Suzhou Customs online. Under the precise guidance of Suzhou Customs, the company successfully applied for the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Preferential Certificate of Origin (FORM E Certificate of Origin).

In view of the reality that our products have long been subject to the "graduation clause" of the European Union and the tariff reduction of the GSP certificate in European countries is weakening, Suizhou Customs, through "small classes" and offline training and lectures, compared the tariff concessions of various regional free trade agreements, the cumulative value of origin and other visa rules, reminded and guided enterprises to follow the situation of regional economic integration, adjust their business strategies, focus on the layout of countries along the "Belt and Road" and emerging markets such as South Korea and Australia, gradually take the route of diversified markets, make good use of the FTA policies, avoid risks and continue to enjoy tariff reduction preferences.

To smooth trade along the Belt and Road, we need to enhance trade facilitation. We need to expand tripartite or multi-party market cooperation and develop international production capacity cooperation.

"As a company focusing on new technology development, many materials are urgently required in order to rush R&D progress, and product output also needs to be sent out for testing and data collection urgently, requiring an efficient material transfer rate. Customs vigorously implement the 'four from a simple' reform since, we handle business time from the original 2 days to 3 days, to achieve a second to accept, seconds to file, seconds to complete. "Recently, Kong Jie, general manager of Hefei View End Display Co., Ltd, said that up to now, the total value of the enterprise's import and export is 89.602 million yuan, an increase of 688.7%.

"Trade exchanges continue to expand, the growth engine power to enhance, investment cooperation continues to deepen, the release of major projects to drive the effect is more prominent. "The relevant comrades in charge of the Department of Commerce said that the "Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation will move forward in the exploration, in the innovation of development, in the mutual benefit of growth.