The “15th Five-Year Plan” has begun, and China’s foreign trade is off to a good start.
According to data from the General Administration of Customs, my country’s total import and export value of goods trade from January to February this year was 7.73 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.3%; of which exports were 4.62 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. The scale of foreign trade has steadily increased and the structure has continued to be optimized, laying a solid foundation for high-quality development throughout the year.
This achievement is due to the continued expansion of the foreign trade “circle of friends” and the coordinated efforts of traditional and emerging markets. my country’s imports and exports to the EU, ASEAN and countries co-building the “Belt and Road” have all achieved an increase of about 20%.
As the main force in foreign trade, private enterprises have become the core driver of growth with their hard-core strength and innovative vitality. This not only confirms the precise effectiveness of the policy of stabilizing foreign trade, but also demonstrates the confidence of China’s manufacturing globalization.
Private leaders go to sea to speed up, and AD Shares wins Kenya’s benchmark cooperation.
As a leading private enterprise in the plastic pipe industry, its production and sales volume have ranked first among domestic A-share listed plastic pipe companies for many years, and its export volume has ranked first in the national industry for many years. It is a vivid epitome of China’s manufacturing going overseas.
Recently, AD has received another good news: 7,500 kilometers away in Kenya, ERA AD drip irrigation belts have successfully won the cooperation of Davis & Shirtliff (hereinafter referred to as D&S), a local water treatment and energy benchmark company, and AD pipelines have taken a further step in taking root in the core agricultural market of East Africa.
D&S has been deeply involved in the industry for nearly 80 years. It is the largest water treatment and solar energy solution provider in East Africa. Its business covers 11 African countries, with nearly 120 branches and a complete localized service network.
According to the cooperation agreement, the D&S Kenya project will use AD drip irrigation belts on a large area.
This strategic cooperation with ERA AD is a strong alliance between the two parties in product technology and market channels, and will jointly bring better solutions and service experience to the East African market.
Talk directly to the pain points of East African agriculture and solve development problems with precise drip irrigation.
Kenya is the agricultural center of East Africa, with more than 70% of the agricultural population. However, the level of agricultural modernization is low, with shortcomings such as backward irrigation facilities, low water resource utilization, and poor product adaptability. Coupled with the complex terrain and harsh climate, conventional irrigation products are difficult to adapt to.
AD Drip Irrigation Belt’s successful breakthrough was precisely to address local pain points and create an exclusive solution adapted to local working conditions.
In response to Kenya’s rugged terrain and inconvenient construction and transportation problems, AD drip irrigation tape adopts a lightweight and flexible design. It is flexible and lightweight, which greatly reduces transportation and construction costs and improves laying efficiency. To deal with the environment of high temperature, strong sunshine and bird intrusion, the two-color double-layer PE model is equipped with an inner layer of temperature-controlled sun protection and an outer layer of reflective anti-bird dual protection to avoid equipment damage and ensure long-term operation. The reinforced version strengthens the structural toughness and can resist soil settlement, trampling and rolling deformation, and is perfectly suitable for complex local planting scenes.
The water-saving performance of the product is also outstanding: the water head loss in the water outlet hole is almost zero, and the water inlet filter has a self-cleaning function. Combined with ultra-high-precision water flow uniformity, it greatly improves water resource utilization and reduces operation and maintenance costs. It provides precision irrigation support for Kenyan agriculture and helps local irrigation transform to high standards and automation.
Extreme precision creates core competitiveness, and the full-category matrix adapts to global needs.
ERA AD drip irrigation belts and supporting products are based on the needs of different planting scenarios, climates and working conditions around the world to create a full-category product matrix that can cover cash crops such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, and Chinese medicinal materials, and is suitable for various irrigation scenarios such as greenhouses, fields, gardens, orchards, etc., to meet diversified planting needs.
Excellent performance comes from precision and intelligent manufacturing capabilities.
AD has built a complete drip irrigation belt product system, covering multiple pipe diameters, wall thicknesses, flow rates, and process types. It has tens of thousands of standardized specifications and can accurately match various planting needs.
Relying on high-speed fully automatic production lines and intelligent control systems, the company controls production parameters in real time to ensure that the product water flow deviation coefficient reaches high industry standards.
Intelligent production creates ultimate precision: taking 0.16mm wall thickness products as an example, the international standard error is ±0.02mm. AD strictly controls the error to ±0.005mm, which is only 1/4 of the international standard.
The high precision not only enables lightweight and easy laying, but also reduces water flow friction and improves irrigation uniformity. The subtle process upgrades directly help people’s livelihood and engineering projects reduce costs and increase efficiency, demonstrating the hard-core quality of Made in China.
After more than 20 years of deep cultivation in Africa, China-Africa cooperation in promoting agriculture has yielded fruitful results.
Agricultural cooperation is a key area of China-Africa cooperation. Under the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, my country is fully promoting the “Partnership Action to Promote Agriculture and Benefit People” to help modernize Africa’s agriculture.
This cooperation between AD and D&S is a vivid epitome of practical agricultural cooperation between China and Africa, and is also a concrete practice of China’s agricultural intelligent manufacturing to empower the development of Africa.
Africa is one of AD’s core markets for foreign trade. In 2019, it registered and established a wholly-owned subsidiary “Yongkong Industrial Africa Co., Ltd.” in Kenya to achieve localized operations and localized expansion and open up the last mile of overseas services.
AD’s years of hard work have yielded fruitful results. A large number of benchmark projects have been launched in Africa, such as the Presidential Palace of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ministry of National Defense of Kenya, Leila Odinga International Stadium (Talanta Stadium), the Kenya Commercial Bank Headquarters, the Nairobi Expressway, the Uma Dam, and the Moroccan New Energy Project. The application of AD products has also expanded from single water supply and drainage to multiple fields such as municipal administration, agriculture, and fire protection, providing diversified services for the construction of African pipeline networks.
African mainstream media once published an article praising China’s smart agriculture experience as a reference for Africa’s development and helping to improve local food security and development resilience.
In the future, AD Shares will rely on technological innovation and global service network to continue to deepen agricultural intelligent manufacturing, empower global agricultural modernization with high-quality Made in China, polish the business card of Made in China, and inject new momentum into the high-quality development of China-Africa cooperation and foreign trade.
