In the first quarter of this year, Yueyang City made precise efforts and implemented targeted policies, relying on the guidance of foreign trade enterprises and precise policy empowerment to promote a substantial growth in foreign trade exports of a number of traditional industries, bucking the trend and achieving an “acceleration” of development.
In the Hunan Bide Biochemical Technology production workshop in Linxiang High-tech Zone, the automated production line is operating at full capacity.
The company’s main herbicide products are widely used in agricultural production. They can effectively control weeds in fields and reduce the amount of pesticides. They are environmentally friendly and practical, and help improve the quality and efficiency of agriculture.
The company adheres to the two-wheel drive of technological innovation and large-scale production, continues to increase investment in research and development, optimizes production processes, effectively reduces production costs, and firmly adheres to high-purity and high-performance standards for products, forming dual advantages in quality and price. The cost-effectiveness of its products ranks among the best in the world, and is exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.
In the first quarter of this year, the company’s export volume reached US$7.498 million.
Huang Hongming, deputy general manager of Hunan Bide Biochemical Technology Co., Ltd., said: “Our foreign trade exports have been able to achieve substantial growth this year, mainly due to the precise assistance provided by the Customs and the Bureau of Commerce in logistics support, which effectively solved the problems of high export transportation costs and slow timeliness for enterprises, and improved the international competitiveness of our products.”
In the Hunan Xiu Shen Tang biotechnology workshop, the grapefruit juice processing production line is running at full speed. Honey grapefruit tea, double grapefruit juice and other products are being rushed to be packed and shipped to the European market.
In March this year, the company took advantage of Yueyang County’s newly introduced exhibition subsidy policy to participate in an agricultural exhibition in Belgium. With its deep-processed products of high-quality specialty agricultural products, the company successfully won an overseas order of 6 million yuan.
Yi Jing, foreign trade manager of Hunan Xiushentang Biotechnology, said: “This policy has effectively reduced our marketing costs, and also allowed us to concentrate on expanding the market and have more confidence in future development.”
In view of the strong willingness of enterprises to participate in the exhibition, but some of the expenses have not reached the provincial and municipal subsidies.
To solve the practical problem of applying the threshold, the Yueyang County Commercial Grain Bureau, in conjunction with finance, the Council for the Promotion of International Trade and other departments, quickly issued policies to provide county-level financial support of up to 50,000 yuan to enterprises that do not meet the superior subsidy standards, accurately filling the blind spots in policy coverage, and effectively helping enterprises expand markets, grab orders, reduce burdens and increase efficiency.
Feng Ying, Party Secretary of the Yueyang County Commercial and Grain Bureau, said: “Foreign trade is an important yardstick for measuring the outward orientation of a county’s economy. Next, we will continue to work hard to help companies go to sea and build a precise, systematic and efficient service system so that more Yueyang County products can be famous and sell well in the international market.”
In the first quarter of this year, Chenglingji Port continued to optimize route layout, improve customs clearance efficiency, and smooth foreign trade logistics channels.
Up to now, a total of 290 flights have been launched to Shanghai Waigaoqiao, Yangshan Port and ASEAN, Australia, Japan and South Korea and other countries and regions, making the route network more complete and the accessibility more powerful.
Port freight volume has steadily increased. In the first quarter, the container throughput was 164,780 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 1.25%; of which foreign trade containers were 60,399 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 16.76%; the total import and export freight volume was 3.942687 tons, a year-on-year increase of 18.68%.
