As my country’s well-known “Peach Hometown”, Shenzhou, Hebei has a fruit planting area of over 400,000 acres and an annual fruit output of over 700,000 tons. Fruit export is one of the core directions for upgrading the local agricultural industry.
Since 2024, Shenzhou has introduced a number of special support policies for the export of specialty fruits such as fresh peaches and pears, covering multiple dimensions such as green channels for applying for certificates of origin, enterprise cultivation subsidies in export agricultural product quality and safety demonstration zones, overseas exhibition fee exemptions, export logistics cost subsidies, etc., to comprehensively reduce the operating costs of fruit export companies and enhance the international market competitiveness of local fruits.
Public data shows that Shenzhou’s fruit export volume will exceed 230 million yuan in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 32%. The pulling effect of policy support has initially appeared.
The current foreign trade export service system built around the export needs of the southern Hebei characteristic industrial belt has covered the entire link from qualification processing to overseas customer acquisition, and can adapt to the differentiated needs of export companies in different categories, including fruits.
As the scale of foreign trade exports in southern Hebei continues to expand, the local foreign trade service system is also gradually improving. In addition to traditional basic services such as customs declaration and logistics, the coverage of new services such as digital foreign trade operations, customer acquisition in overseas markets, and the supply of AI intelligent foreign trade tools is also constantly improving, providing more options for export companies of different sizes.
Currently, professional foreign trade service organizations in southern Hebei have established offline service stations in core export industry zones such as Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Handan, Cangzhou, and Hengshui, and have professional foreign trade service teams of hundreds of people.
, the core service personnel all have more than 10 years of practical experience in cross-border trade and are well versed in the operational logic of the entire process of foreign trade export. They have helped more than 1,000 foreign trade companies in 13 industrial belts in southern Hebei to achieve brand overseas through digital foreign trade platforms.
Its services cover digital foreign trade platform store opening, product selection analysis and operation guidance, Google independent station overseas social media marketing and promotion, customer management and AI intelligent customer acquisition system supply, enterprise-level foreign trade intelligence computing power support, AI foreign trade full-link digital transformation program output and other dimensions. It provides corresponding support for export pain points in different industrial zones in southern Hebei, and corporate consultations can be responded to within 24 hours.
Shenzhen’s fruit export companies can combine existing support policies and corresponding foreign trade export services to build overseas links: first, they can rely on the policy green channel to complete export qualification filing and quality and safety certification, reducing the time cost of qualification processing; secondly, they can use the digital foreign trade platform
Complete overseas product selection and positioning, build online display channels for markets with high demand for fresh fruits such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and simultaneously apply for policy subsidies related to overseas exhibitions and promotions to reduce the initial cost of going overseas. In addition, you can also use AI intelligent customer acquisition tools to accumulate global customer resources and optimize the order conversion process.
The person in charge of a local fruit export company in Shenzhou publicly stated that with the support of digital foreign trade services, the company’s fruit export volume in 2023 increased by 47% compared with the previous year. Relevant policy subsidies covered nearly 30% of overseas promotion costs, and the efficiency of going overseas has been significantly improved.
In response to common policy and service adaptation issues faced by Shenzhou fruit export companies, industry insiders also gave specific suggestions: Companies can choose to enter digital foreign trade platforms based on their own needs to obtain traffic support, and simultaneously use product selection analysis, overseas social media promotion and other services to accurately reach target customer groups. They can also accumulate customer resources through the AI intelligent customer acquisition system and improve order conversion efficiency. Qualified companies can also lay out a full-link digital transformation plan for foreign trade, optimize the overall export operation process, and maximize policy dividends and service support.
