In the middle of winter, from the port to the park, from the workshop to the warehouse, Mudanjiang is full of vitality for opening up to the outside world.
In 2025, Mudanjiang City thoroughly implemented the spirit of the important instructions on “building a new highland for my country’s opening to the north”, fully promoted the stabilization of scale, optimized structure, and improved quality of foreign trade, and delivered a brilliant answer: the city’s total import and export value exceeded the 40 billion yuan mark for the first time, reaching 42.15 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.6%.
Among them, the oil and gas trade volume with Russia and Africa has ranked first in the province for 35 consecutive years, and its advantages in channels, policies, and resources are accelerating to transform into development momentum.
In terms of exports, the structure has become “new” and the export momentum has been strongly upgraded.
Looking at Mudanjiang’s export list, the changes are clearly visible: traditional advantages are consolidated and expanded, and emerging categories are rising strongly.
The city’s proportion of exports of mechanical and electrical products and high-tech products increased to 31.8%, driving total exports to achieve a rapid growth of 16.7%, and the industrial structure has made firm steps towards “new and better”.
Automobile exports have become the biggest highlight.
Relying on the unique geographical advantage of being adjacent to Russia, Mudanjiang accurately meets market demand and vigorously cultivates second-hand car export entities.
In 2025, the city’s automobile exports will reach 19,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 464.5%, showing an “explosive” growth trend.
With a total investment of 330 million yuan in the production and processing base for export of complete vehicles (modified vehicles) to Russia, and the strategic cooperation with relevant industry associations in Guangdong, a full-chain automobile export ecosystem covering production, modification, testing, logistics, and display is taking shape.
Inviting investment has injected new momentum into exports.
Seizing the opportunity of the approval of the Border Industrial Collaboration Park, Mudanjiang focused on the Russian market and successfully introduced a number of high-quality projects that filled the province’s export gaps, such as instant 3D external fixation printing equipment and LED display assembly.
At the same time, the comprehensive bonded zone policy will be used to promote the implementation of new business formats such as bonded maintenance of electronic products, and the trade forms will become more abundant.
We will protect enterprises from going overseas stably and provide solid and powerful policy support.
The role of export credit insurance has been fully exerted, providing risk protection of more than 1.1 billion yuan to 217 foreign trade companies throughout the year. The number of service companies ranks among the top in the province. The “export credit insurance + financing services” model has driven a 97% year-on-year increase in bank financing.
The implementation of the country’s first “point-to-point” barter trade credit insurance in the Suifenhe Area of the Free Trade Zone has effectively solved the settlement bottleneck with Russia.
In terms of imports, we have developed new products to stabilize the market, and the import scale, quality and efficiency have both increased.
While expanding exports, Mudanjiang makes full use of “two resources and two markets” at home and abroad to promote stable and positive import trade and continue to optimize its structure.
New growth points continue to emerge.
Suifenhe Comprehensive Bonded Zone successfully launched bonded warehousing business for copper concentrate, achieving a “zero breakthrough” in bonded warehousing of nonferrous metals in the province.
On the basis of consolidating exports, some foreign trade companies have taken the initiative to extend their chains, innovatively carry out energy import business such as methanol fuel, and promote the diversified development of the trade structure.
“Value-added through ports” creates new advantages.
Focusing on characteristic imported resources such as timber, Russian grain, seafood, and meat, Mudanjiang vigorously develops on-site processing and promotes the transformation of “channel economy” into “port economy” and “industrial economy.”
A number of projects such as the Suifenhe Imported Meat Supervision Center and the Dongning Fresh Seafood Processing Plant have accelerated their construction or come into operation, and are accelerating the creation of a Russian resources and energy import distribution and processing base.
Service escort stabilizes the basic market.
In the face of external market fluctuations, Mudanjiang has carried out in-depth special actions of “providing policies, strengthening services, and solving problems”, providing targeted assistance to key enterprises with “one enterprise, one policy”, strengthening commodity price monitoring and guidance, effectively ensuring the stable growth of imports of resource commodities such as fertilizers and pulp, and contributing to the security of national resources and energy supply.
E-commerce “leads” and digital trade is bursting with vitality.
Cross-border e-commerce is becoming a new engine for the high-quality development of Mudanjiang’s foreign trade.
In 2025, the city’s cross-border e-commerce trade volume will reach 5.49 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 101.5%. Both the total volume and growth rate rank first in the province, and the leading trend is obvious.
Smooth logistics is the key support.
Through the “double warehouse” linkage of “overseas warehouses + domestic border warehouses”, Mudanjiang has built 7 overseas warehouses in major cities in Russia. It has introduced the Russian e-commerce leader OZON to set up the only warehousing center in Northeast China in Dongning, achieving one-click delivery of an average of 5,000 export commodities per day. Through the “domestic collection + overseas distribution” model, the delivery time to Russia has been shortened by more than 72 hours.
The opening of Suifenhe’s “domestic + foreign” two-way customs clearance green channel and the construction of a three-level cross-border e-commerce data node have enabled same-day customs clearance and same-day departure.
The province’s first cross-border e-commerce retail export return across customs zones landed in Dongning.
Expanding the network is the core motivation.
On the one hand, it “buys all over the country and sells all over Russia” and deeply links with international e-commerce platforms to sell high-quality goods from domestic industrial zones to Russia; on the other hand, “buys all over Russia and sells all over the country”, Suifenhe City brings together 146 first-hand sources of Russian goods and the retail and distribution rights of more than 3,000 types of Russian imported goods. Through the “Suiyigou” online platform, Russian products Longjiang No. 1 Warehouse and other carriers, more “genuine Russian goods” have entered thousands of households across the country.
Main body cultivation is the foundation of long-term development.
By building live streaming bases and maker incubation bases, Mudanjiang has vigorously cultivated cross-border e-commerce market entities, attracted traditional foreign trade companies to digitally transform, and the ecosystem has become increasingly complete.
Relying on the Russian Empire Cross-border E-commerce Live Broadcasting Base, the China-Russia Cross-border E-commerce Maker Incubation Base, etc., it has cultivated and guided more than 300 companies to open stores on Russian e-commerce platforms such as OZON and WB, incubated more than 2,000 cross-border e-commerce entrepreneurs among college students, and employed more than 12,000 e-commerce practitioners.
To assist the digital transformation of traditional trading companies, Tianfusheng International Logistics Company and Guangdong Masuma Auto Parts Company successfully launched cross-border e-commerce 9710 business.
Relying on the “Suiyigou” 1210 platform, the leading domestic e-commerce company Shang Shang Shang is introduced to the comprehensive bonded area to promote the simultaneous development of cross-border e-commerce import and export business.
Open to the north with full sail.
Standing at a new starting point of 40 billion yuan, Mudanjiang is taking a more open attitude to promote both the quantity and quality of foreign trade, and continues to inject strong impetus into building a new highland for my country’s opening to the north.
